Dead Week events

There are no more general meetings this term. They will start up again next term. Next newsletter will include the new day and time. The two campaigns do have some upcoming meetings:

The Learning Garden group is meeting Thursday, March 12 at 6:30 pm in SMSU 258.

Take Back the Tap group is meeting Wednesday, March 11 and Friday, March 13 from 10:00 to 12:00 in SMSU 2nd floor lounge.

Permaculture Design Presentations
March 12th and 19th
4:00 - 6:30 pm
SMSU 338

Environmental Club members are invited to attend the final site design presentations for for graduating students of Toby Hemengway's Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Certification Course. Presentations include site designs for PSU President Wim Wiewel's home, a horse facility, the Oregon Food Bank, the Learning Gardens and a home residence.

Toby Hemenway is the author of the first major North American book on permaculture, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, and an adjunct professor at Portland State University. He is also Scholar in Residence at Pacific University.
For more information about the course, click here.

Karen Coulter - "The Rights of Property vs. Equal Rights"
Friday, March 13, 4 - 6 pm
Food For Thought, SMSU basement

Students for Unity & Environmental Club present:
Karen Coulter, Director of Blue Mountain Biodiversity Project, lecturing on her work with POCLAD and the rights of property versus equal rights.

PSU jobs for sustainability
Check out these great opportunities and become part of PSU's sustainability team!

1. Sustainability & Marketing Internship
   PSU Dining Services
   Hours/Week: 6 - 10 (negotiable)
   Salary: $9/hour
   
   
2. Student Marketing and Education Outreach Specialist
   PSU Recycles
   Wage Scale: $12.00/hour
   Hours: 15/week
   Job Length: Spring Term 2009-Spring Term 2010
   (apply before 4:00 pm Friday, March 13th, 2009)
   
   
3. Student Recycler
   PSU Recycles
   Wage Scale: Starting at $8.55 per hour, with a $0.25 raise after 3 months and each successive working year anniversary.
   (apply before 4:00 pm Friday, March 13th, 2009)

Volunteer for Sustainability
There are many ways to fulfill volunteer hours for a class, expand your resume and help make PSU more sustainable! If you are interested in any of these opportunities, contact Heather Spalding at 503-725-8951 or hspaldin@pdx.edu.
Volunteer opportunities for sustainability at PSU

Volunteer Tasks

* Create promotional fliers and brochures
* Translate sustainability brochures into other languages
* Create sustainability cartoons for promotional materials
* Create sustainability-themed thank-you cards
* Compile news articles
* Write EcoWiki articles
- Interview people from around campus about sustainability issues
- Interview green teams
- Add jobs, volunteer opportunities, scholarships and internships
* Hang paper = trees stickers in bathrooms or organize a work party
* Post light switch stickers around campus or organize a work party
* Work with the Environmental Club's Take Back the Tap campaign
* Create and implement your own project!
* Data entry
* Be a PSU Recycles Crew Member by shadowing the team for a day.
* Staff the PSU office supply reuse room.
* Help out the day of an event.
* Write poems about recycling.
* Work with a PSU Recycles! staff member.
* Help coordinate one of PSU Recycles! large yearly events
- RecycleMania
- Chuck it for Charity
- PSU garage sale
- Move-out
* Hang posters on bulletin boards
* Collect recyclables put them in the correct bins.
* Distribute flyers and posters to academic departments
* Chalk the boards of classrooms, sidewalks, and lecture halls.
* Help Staff the outreach tables on campus
- Includes discussing recycling on campus
- Handing out brochures and outreach materials to raise awareness
- Engaging with the public about sustainability issues

The sky is the limit! If you have another idea, the Sustainability Office can help you raise awareness about issues not listed here.