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The Way Forward about SAGE and Regenerative Conversations

September 6, 2024

Our Executive Director, Steve Higgs, was interviewed for the podcast The Way Forward about SAGE and Regenerative Conversations.  Special thanks to the team at The Way Forward for hosting us for this meaningful conversation! You can check out the interview here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/39-generational-equity-sparking-change-across-generations/id1651941803?i=1000666645601

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Give Forward Story – Alanya Abou-Elmajd

August 23, 2024

She’s giving forward by spotlighting the climate impacts of fast fashion and offering solutions.  Alanya Abou-Elmajd (she/her) is a recent graduate of Beaverton’s Westview High School. Her passion for climate activism came from seeing the Climate Clock in New York in 2020. After reading more about it, she realized the…

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Give Forward Story – Dr. S. Renee Mitchell

August 16, 2024

She’s giving forward by creating communities for Black youth that empower, engage, and promote healing. Research documents that Black teenagers are the most prodigiously traumatized adolescent group because of racism they experience in schools and in society.  As a SAGE Legacy Fellow, Dr. S. Renee Mitchell worked with partners to…

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Give Forward Story – Captain Peter Wilcox

August 16, 2024

He’s giving forward by taking on the marine climate crisis, one ecosystem at a time. When Captain Peter Wilcox was a freshman in college, he selected an ecology course as his only elective. This new look at science — one that focused on whole systems and respecting all the Earth’s…

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We are SAGE staff at a 2019 event

Keeping Light Alive – Connecting through SAGE

May 5, 2020

COVID-19 has affected our lives in so many ways, shed enormous light on the health and social disparities among different communities, and shown us that the SAGE mission is as important as ever. Connection during this time, however difficult, and mostly virtual, is critical in keeping our minds and spirits…

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Visiting SAGE Dr. Sylvia Earle

SAGE Features Hero for the Planet, Dr. Sylvia Earle

January 16, 2019

Visiting SAGE Dr. Earle spoke in Portland about the world’s oceans as the source of all life, why they’re in peril from pollution, over-use and climate change, and how we can be a part of an all-out effort to save them.

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"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

- Frederick Douglass