2026 Youth Environmental Summit

4/11/26(1-4PM) 

@ Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge          

NGI X Sunset Climate Club X Westview Climate Change Club X  Mountainside Climate Club x Friends of Tualatin

This year’s Youth Environmental Summit at the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge, planned by members of local high school climate clubs, Friends of the refuge, and NGI. Get excited for a fun afternoon full of mingling, interactive activities, and inspiring speakers!

2025 Youth Environmental Summit

4/26/24(1-4PM) 

@ Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge          

NGI X Sunset Climate Club X Westview Climate Change Club X Friends of Tualatin

This year’s Youth Environmental Summit at the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge, planned by members at Sunset and Westview climate clubs, Friends of the refuge, and NGI. Get excited for a jam-packed afternoon full of mingling, interactive activities, and inspiring speakers!

XRchive: (Hi)stories and Visions of Block 14 at Lone Fir Cemetery
10/11-12/24, 12/21/24 (2-5pm)        @ block 14,   lone fir cemetery

CETI X NGI

The people buried here were primarily Chinese immigrants and their families—laborers and railroad workers—whose role in building this city remains unacknowledged, whose stories were erased, and whose bodies were interred with no visible headstones or marking. A hundred years ago, many of the men were disinterred and sent to China but some of the women and children’s bodies remained—another forced displacement and family separation. 

CETI, in collaboration with a broad and diverse community of participants and partners, will create a series of immersive and interactive experiences using emerging technologies and the creative imagination and fragmented memories of a collective of artists, technologists, storytellers, and community members, to tell the stories of these Chinese communities so integral to the creation of our city; to acknowledge, to remember, and to celebrate their contributions. We will center the voices and stories of the communities involved and collaborate with and draw upon the work done already in planning a potential physical memorial and use these ideas as inspiration. 

Caring for Ourselves, caring for our planet: 2024 Youth environmental Conservation Summit
4/27/2024 (1-4 pm) @ Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge

NGI x Friends of Tualatin x Five Oaks x Westview Climate Change Club  x Sunset Climate Club: 

Join us for a youth-driven event focusing on the future of environmental conservation event! We're inviting a plethora of changemaker resources, speakers, workshops, hands-on events, initiatives, corporate sponsors, and industry leaders for a jam-packed summit engaging with Pacific Northwest youth seeking a future of environmental impact. Check out our flyers and get stoked for the event!

Reconnecting with Roots 2023:  Youth Environmental Conservation Summit

4/15/2023 (1-5 pm) @ Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge

NGI x Friends of Tualatin x USFWS x Sherwood Green Team x Sunset Climate Club: 

Join us for a youth-driven event focusing on the future of environmental conservation! We're inviting a wide variety of speakers, workshops, and hands-on activities for a jam-packed summit engaging with Pacific Northwest youth seeking a future of environmental impact. Check out our flyer, and RSVP Below!

2022 XRchive Series:Exploring Sustainability and Historical Culture
12/6/2022

CETI x NGI: Through XR experiences, we will infuse the Portland landscape with vivid experiences that challenge and subvert systems and symbols of power, inspiring conversations in place around a reimagined future for Portland. These might include videos, sound bytes, depictions of under-represented characters, hazy memories, and imagined futures, wielding these powerful new technologies as an engine for collective memory and imagination.

With XR technologies such as augmented reality, combined with the pervasiveness of hand-held devices, it is easier than ever to create community building experiences that are both accessible, sustainable, and educational. There is also limitless potential for interactivity, making such experiences even more engaging.

NGI and our partners will collaborate with local communities to create poignant and powerful XR experiences of memory and imagination. We focus on two main sets of experiences emphasizing themes of migrations and displacements, of social and systemic injustice/exclusion/racism/erasure, and of future possibility surrounding our natural environments. They are:

• Places, communities, culture, memories, and future vision of the Albina region in N/NE Portland;

• A virtual memorial/meditation/reflection amongst previously unmarked graves for Chinese immigrant railroad workers in SE Portland.

Environmental Justice Roundtable with the East Portland Resilience CoalitioN (MK II):
10/15/2022

NGI x EPRC: Join us in a roundtable discussion of actionable climate items, climate education content planning, and community unity to engage marginalized communities of East Portland in creating lasting impact in the fight for climate justice.

NGI x United Nations Speaker Series: THe Future of Sustainable Fashion
10/7/22 (10-11 AM PST)

Hosted by NextGen Innovators and the United Nations Environmental Programme! 

Please welcome speaker Maëlys Nizan from the UN. Maëlys Nizan is a Partnerships, Communication and Knowledge Management Analyst at UN Environment Programme based in Paris. She works on international sustainable development, effective storytelling & communication that nourish the global community, and bringing innovative solutions to face current environmental challenges especially along the lines of textiles and the future of fashion!

Join in on the link attached!

Environmental Justice Roundtable with the East Portland Resilience CoalitioN:
9/28/2022

NGI x EPRC: Join us in a roundtable discussion of integrating climate education, grassroots environmental movements, and collaborative efforts to engage marginalized communities of East Portland in creating lasting impact in the fight for climate justice.