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Beyond Toxics has dedicated staff and a committed Board of Directors, but we couldn’t do the work we do in Oregon without the generous help of community members like you!

Ways You Can Make a Difference

1) BECOME INFORMED

Learn more about the issues that matter to you. See our new page listing important resources to help you make informed decisions about the environmental health issues that matter most to you. (see our Beyond Toxics Fact Sheet)

We are involved in several campaigns across these main issue areas:

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3) JOBS and INTERNSHIPS WITH BEYOND TOXICS

NEW: Environmental Justice and Community Outreach Manager (posted 4/20/13) – open until filled | Starting date: mid-May, or negotiable

We have created new internship opportunities, which are more structured than volunteering. See the Internship and Volunteer page for a current listing with descriptions.

4) VOLUNTEER WITH BEYOND TOXICS

Interested in volunteering? Many of our events depend on a wide variety of dedicated, generous volunteers from our community. If this sounds like fun, we welcome your involvement! Please visit our Volunteer page to see how you can get nvolved. Or, email us directly: volunteers@beyondtoxics.org

On Sunday, April 28th, join us at Tsunami Books for 2 hours of poetry reading to benefit Beyond Toxics. Featuring…Donna Henderson, author of The Eddy Fence (Airlie Press, 2009) and Oregon Book Award finalist Sara Burant, author of Verge (Finishing Line Press, 2012), with introductions by host Carter McKenzie.

WHERE: Tsunami Books in South Eugene (2585 Willamette St. / Eugene, OR 97401) - google map
WHEN: Sunday, April 28 from 4-6 pm.
Call us if you’d like more information: 541-465-8860.
COST: $10 suggested donation

A raffle will be held to win a gift certificate to Capper’s Framing and several broadsides of the poets’ work will be available for sale.

These featured Oregon poets offer works of deep attention to the natural world and to our place in it. Whether in praise of the forces of nature or in elegy from environmental devastation, their poems rise out of protest against indifference to and appropriation of our resources and communities.Through precise and luminous language driven by the willingness to witness both the beauty of the natural world and the damage that threatens it, each poet offers in distinctive ways a new capacity for inhabitance. These are poems rooted in fierce gratitude for what sustains us all.

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Donna Henderson is the author of The Eddy Fence (Airlie Press, 2009) and three collections of poetry and is an Oregon Book Award finalist. Donna is also a founding member and editor of Airlie Press.

 

 

Sara Burant’s chapbook, Verge (Finishing Line Press) was published in 2012. Originally from Wisconsin, she has lived in Eugene for 30 years.

 

 

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