Individual Workshops (Environment)

Looking for a unique way to spend an afternoon? Consider attending one of the many fun and informative workshops offered by DC-area organizations and businesses. All of the organizations below offer individual, standalong classes (or aka workshops), many of which are free!

Anacostia Watershed Society

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The Anacostia Watershed Society (AWS) is a nonprofit organization seeking to return the Anacostia to a swimmable and fishable river, in keeping with the Clean Water Act, for all to enjoy. AWS fulfills this commitment by engaging people in direct action to restore the river through our advocacy, stewardship, education, and recreation programs.

Anacostia Watershed Society

Anacostia Watershed Society - Specific Information on Individual Workshops

Audubon Naturalist Society

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Audubon Naturalist Society (ANS) is a membership-based nonprofit organization that provides environmental education for all ages and advocates on behalf of clean water, rural lands, and smart transportation in the DC metro area.

Audubon Naturalist Society

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Capital Bee Care LLC

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Capitol Bee CARE is a multifaceted enterprise dedicated to honeybee research, colony establishment and management, and consulting on the care, management, propagation of honeybees.

Capital Bee Care LLC

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Casey Trees

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Casey Trees is a non-profit in Washington, DC dedicated to restoring, protecting and enhancing the tree canopy of the nation’s capital.

Casey Trees

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Community Forklift

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Community Forklift is a nonprofit reuse warehouse for home improvement supplies. We pick up donations of unwanted and salvaged building materials throughout the metro DC region. Then, we make the building materials available to the public at low cost, and provide vintage materials for restoring old homes. We also offer public education about reuse and green living, and distribute free supplies to local nonprofits and neighbors in need.

Community Forklift

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DPR Urban Garden Division

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DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.

DPR Urban Garden Division

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Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)

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The Institute’s mission is to provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. To this end, ILSR works with citizens, activists, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design systems, policies and enterprises that meet local or regional needs; to maximize human, material, natural and financial resources; and to ensure that the benefits of these systems and resources accrue to all local citizens.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)

Int’l Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) – DC Chapter

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Our Nation’s Capital sits at the intersection of world-renowned academia, dynamic international development, and government relations at the highest levels. The Greater Washington DC Chapter of the ISSP takes advantage of this confluence of knowledge and experience by engaging the myriad sustainability professionals in a variety of educational and professional development programs and activities.

Int’l Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) – DC Chapter

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Matt’s Habitats

Matts Habitats offers nature walks with a focus on identification of wild plants and edible plants and fungi and
garden installation using songbird and butterfly attracting native plants and vegetable and fruit producing plants. Available for consulting, designing, and installations.

Matt’s Habitats

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Science and Technology Training Library

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Through this webinar portal you can stay up-to-date with the latest research and industry practices in forestry, conservation, bioenergy, climate change and natural resources.

Science and Technology Training Library

TreeStewards of Arlington & Alexandria

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The TreeStewards of Arlington and Alexandria take a love of trees and put it into action by training volunteers and organizing events to improve our urban forests and make our community brighter. We educate our neighbors on tree care, provide direct assistance, and act as effective advocates for our local tree canopy.

TreeStewards of Arlington & Alexandria

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UMD Extension

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University of Maryland Extension (UME) is a statewide, non-formal education system within the college of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

UMD Extension

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University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)

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The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.

University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)

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Virginia Native Plant Society: Potowmack Chapter

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VNPS supports restoration, conservation, and rescue projects, provides education, and helps individuals and groups to find and plant native plants. The Potowmack chapter is the largest VNPS chapter, representing over 400 members in the counties of Arlington and Fairfax; cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, and Falls Church.

Virginia Native Plant Society: Potowmack Chapter

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Washington Parks and People

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Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.

Washington Parks and People

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