Central Oregon businesses partner with climate nonprofit for Earth Day – KTVZ

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Nonprofit 350 Deschutes focuses on addressing local weather points in and round Central Oregon.

Three Bend companies are partnering with 350 Deschutes this 12 months for Earth Day: Repair and Repeat, Bend Brewing Firm and the Seashore Hut Deli.

Repair and Repeat will donate 20% of the day’s proceeds on April sixteenth.

On Earth Day, which is Saturday, April twenty second, Bend Brewing Firm will donate a greenback for each beer offered and Seashore Hut Deli will donate 20% of its lunch proceeds.

I spoke with the 350 Deschutes marketing campaign coordinator concerning the significance of commemorating Earth Day on a neighborhood stage.

“I feel it is actually essential to additionally deal with our local people,” Satya Austin-Opper stated. “Particularly as a result of right here in Bend, we’re positively feeling the results of local weather change by means of drought and wildfires. So it is positively essential to deal with these impacts and the way our local people is impacted.”

“Earth Day creates a number of curiosity and celebration for the Earth, however that is work that we’re doing 12 months spherical,” she added. “So hopefully individuals will take that pleasure and need to proceed to be concerned.”

Greater than 100 nonprofits and greater than 300 companies have come collectively to help Earth Day Oregon this 12 months. The annual effort from Earth Day Oregon has facilitated greater than $700,000 since its inception in 2019. This 12 months’s purpose is a further $500,000.