April Rain showers
We have a meeting today, Monday, April 13 at 5:00 pm in SMSU 229.
We also have a new Learning Garden Research Coordinator! His name is David, he's a graduate student here at PSU. He's had several years of experience creating, maintaining, and teaching in Learning Gardens. David will be helping us research and develop the Learning Garden.
Water Awareness Week was awesome - tons of Klean Kanteens sold!
Earth Day Fair volunteer opportunities
The Environmental Club is hosting an Earth Day Fair on Wednesday, April 22 from 11 to 3. We have invited a ton of sustainability groups to table with us in the Park Blocks.
We need some help with:
* getting donations for a raffle
* being at the tables. We have 4 tables that are Environmental Club related. If you can spare an hour, 2 hours, or even more, sit at the table & help interested students! All the tables will be next to each other, so you won't be alone!
o Take Back the Tap
o Starting your own vegetable starters & Learning Garden table
o Letters to your legislator table
o Environmental Club & "To reduce my footprint, I will..." poster
* helping us create a giant poster & pieces of paper for people to write on
PSU's Learning Garden forum
11:30 am - 1:00 pm, Tuesday, April 14
SMSU rm 298
What: A panel of experts will share their experiences and answer questions about garden-based education. Afterwards, audience members will be able to share their ideas for PSU's Campus Learning Garden.
Why: In the effort to create an on-campus PSU Learning Garden, we want to give PSU administrators and students a chance to learn and plan with the professionals - those with experience creating and sustaining a Learning Garden.
The Environmental Club and ASPSU have been working on creating a Learning Garden on the PSU campus. The garden will provide hands-on experience with urban agriculture and will be used as an educational tool by classes and student groups. Local food production will be a central theme of the Learning Garden.
The Environmental Club was recently awarded a small grant through the Miller Gift and the Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices and has hired a graduate student to begin the development of a Learning Garden program. This forum will bring together experts, students, and decision-makers and will guide the next steps in the creation of a Learning Garden.
We'd like you to attend because students are the main benefactors of a Learning Garden. We have invited several administrators who are key in the decision to allow a Learning Garden - this is their chance to learn why a Learning Garden is so great and address their concerns. As students, this is also our chance to learn the benefits of a Learning Garden, ask questions, and provide ideas, but most of all, this is a chance to show our support of a Learning Garden to the administration.
Please email any questions to PJ Houser of the Environmental Club, ecpsu@pdx.edu
Focus the Nation - townhall at PSU
Friday, April 17th, starts at 6 pm. Show up as early as 5 pm.
PSU's Hoffman Hall
Join Town Hall participants Senator Jeff Merkley (via video message), Congressman Earl Blumenaeur, Representative Ben Cannon, Representative Jules Bailey, Mayor Sam Adams, and Commissioner Jeff Cogen for an examination of current federal and local climate policy, and how it translates to the Portland/Metro area.
Mayor Sam Adams will release the Multnomah County Climate Action Plan for the first time to the public, and we will be the first people to provide feedback, raise questions, and insert our value bases into this city-wide document!
Interested in asking a question to the reps who will be there? There will be opportunities to develop an idea of the question that you want to ask ahead of time, and also time to develop questions at the town hall. We suggest that you:
1) Identify a topic area of interest you feel passionate about (for example... know of any state policy up for vote? got a sweet idea for how the city can improve their waste reduction? are you working on a sweet campus project/ or do you have ideas for uniting the state's climate needs with centers of education?)
2) Write it down
3) Bring it to the town hall, listen to the dialogue that's happening and customize it on the spot if necessary to make it as relevant as possible to the conversation.
Power Down for the Planet - sign the pledge!
Have you signed the pledge at http://www.powerdownfortheplanet.org/pledge? If you are interested in helping put out the word, email Kelli at.
Addicted to Plastic - documentary
7 pm, Tuesday, April 21
SMSU 296
Hot Lips Pizza and Soda Provided!
"The truth is, only about 5% of all plastic actually gets recycled." Ian Connacher
"From early plastic like bakelite, now a collectible, to plastic water bottles, the use of plastic is pervasive. The cheapest, strongest, most ubiquitous material ever invented, that might be quietly poisoning us," states Connacher, in this point-of-view documentary that takes him to 12 countries, five continents, and to the middle of the Pacific Ocean where plastic debris accumulates. Through interviews and expert views, he offers possible solutions to recycling, toxicity, and biodegradation. At the forefront of Addicted to Plastic (2008) is how we might rethink future consumption and production of plastic. A wake-up call becomes a call for change for the rest of us. http://www.crypticmoth.com
This program is sponsored by SLECL.
Oregon State Board of Higher Education - Sustainability Initiatives Committee
Oregon is a place where sustainability is a core value and its university system puts knowledge, example and experience at the service of the state, student and the larger world but not without your help. The Board’s Sustainability Initiatives Committee is charged to lead a collaborative effort that sets the system and its institutions on a course to become a recognized international leader in sustainability.
The Committee needs your help to prepare for a system-wide workshop on May 27 that will engage students, faculty and staff in developing an action plan. The first step is to assess how well positioned we are now to grasp the opportunity. We invite (and need) your help in answering three basic questions framed around a draft vision and goals:
What does your campus do now that helps us reach our vision?
What else could your campus do?
What is needed, what barriers need to be overcome to reach our vision?
Go on-line to post answers and comment by May 8: http://www.ous.edu/state_board/workgroups/sust/blog.php
David Yaden
Chair, Sustainability Initiative Committee
Oregon State Board of Higher Education
Please send any questions to:
Bridget Burns
Policy and Research Associate
Oregon University System
541.760.4090
Seriously, register now for SPROG - Youth Grassroots Organizing Training
The SSC's Student Environmental Leadership Trainings, are week-long peer-to-peer training programs led by the nation's top youth organizers. Develop your grassroots organizing and leadership skills, network and bond with fellow students, engage in fun activities and enjoy tasty vegetarian cooking (the low carbon diet for the climate). Not only will you come away changed, you'll have the skills and confidence to be a force for change!
* Oregon: August 16-23
* Washington State: June 21-28
COST: It looks like PSU will be able to send students for free. So register away!
It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring... Wake up!
We also have a new Learning Garden Research Coordinator! His name is David, he's a graduate student here at PSU. He's had several years of experience creating, maintaining, and teaching in Learning Gardens. David will be helping us research and develop the Learning Garden.
Water Awareness Week was awesome - tons of Klean Kanteens sold!
Earth Day Fair volunteer opportunities
The Environmental Club is hosting an Earth Day Fair on Wednesday, April 22 from 11 to 3. We have invited a ton of sustainability groups to table with us in the Park Blocks.
We need some help with:
* getting donations for a raffle
* being at the tables. We have 4 tables that are Environmental Club related. If you can spare an hour, 2 hours, or even more, sit at the table & help interested students! All the tables will be next to each other, so you won't be alone!
o Take Back the Tap
o Starting your own vegetable starters & Learning Garden table
o Letters to your legislator table
o Environmental Club & "To reduce my footprint, I will..." poster
* helping us create a giant poster & pieces of paper for people to write on
PSU's Learning Garden forum
11:30 am - 1:00 pm, Tuesday, April 14
SMSU rm 298
What: A panel of experts will share their experiences and answer questions about garden-based education. Afterwards, audience members will be able to share their ideas for PSU's Campus Learning Garden.
Why: In the effort to create an on-campus PSU Learning Garden, we want to give PSU administrators and students a chance to learn and plan with the professionals - those with experience creating and sustaining a Learning Garden.
The Environmental Club and ASPSU have been working on creating a Learning Garden on the PSU campus. The garden will provide hands-on experience with urban agriculture and will be used as an educational tool by classes and student groups. Local food production will be a central theme of the Learning Garden.
The Environmental Club was recently awarded a small grant through the Miller Gift and the Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices and has hired a graduate student to begin the development of a Learning Garden program. This forum will bring together experts, students, and decision-makers and will guide the next steps in the creation of a Learning Garden.
We'd like you to attend because students are the main benefactors of a Learning Garden. We have invited several administrators who are key in the decision to allow a Learning Garden - this is their chance to learn why a Learning Garden is so great and address their concerns. As students, this is also our chance to learn the benefits of a Learning Garden, ask questions, and provide ideas, but most of all, this is a chance to show our support of a Learning Garden to the administration.
Please email any questions to PJ Houser of the Environmental Club, ecpsu@pdx.edu
Focus the Nation - townhall at PSU
Friday, April 17th, starts at 6 pm. Show up as early as 5 pm.
PSU's Hoffman Hall
Join Town Hall participants Senator Jeff Merkley (via video message), Congressman Earl Blumenaeur, Representative Ben Cannon, Representative Jules Bailey, Mayor Sam Adams, and Commissioner Jeff Cogen for an examination of current federal and local climate policy, and how it translates to the Portland/Metro area.
Mayor Sam Adams will release the Multnomah County Climate Action Plan for the first time to the public, and we will be the first people to provide feedback, raise questions, and insert our value bases into this city-wide document!
Interested in asking a question to the reps who will be there? There will be opportunities to develop an idea of the question that you want to ask ahead of time, and also time to develop questions at the town hall. We suggest that you:
1) Identify a topic area of interest you feel passionate about (for example... know of any state policy up for vote? got a sweet idea for how the city can improve their waste reduction? are you working on a sweet campus project/ or do you have ideas for uniting the state's climate needs with centers of education?)
2) Write it down
3) Bring it to the town hall, listen to the dialogue that's happening and customize it on the spot if necessary to make it as relevant as possible to the conversation.
Power Down for the Planet - sign the pledge!
Have you signed the pledge at http://www.powerdownfortheplanet.org/pledge? If you are interested in helping put out the word, email Kelli at
Addicted to Plastic - documentary
7 pm, Tuesday, April 21
SMSU 296
Hot Lips Pizza and Soda Provided!
"The truth is, only about 5% of all plastic actually gets recycled." Ian Connacher
"From early plastic like bakelite, now a collectible, to plastic water bottles, the use of plastic is pervasive. The cheapest, strongest, most ubiquitous material ever invented, that might be quietly poisoning us," states Connacher, in this point-of-view documentary that takes him to 12 countries, five continents, and to the middle of the Pacific Ocean where plastic debris accumulates. Through interviews and expert views, he offers possible solutions to recycling, toxicity, and biodegradation. At the forefront of Addicted to Plastic (2008) is how we might rethink future consumption and production of plastic. A wake-up call becomes a call for change for the rest of us. http://www.crypticmoth.com
This program is sponsored by SLECL.
Oregon State Board of Higher Education - Sustainability Initiatives Committee
Oregon is a place where sustainability is a core value and its university system puts knowledge, example and experience at the service of the state, student and the larger world but not without your help. The Board’s Sustainability Initiatives Committee is charged to lead a collaborative effort that sets the system and its institutions on a course to become a recognized international leader in sustainability.
The Committee needs your help to prepare for a system-wide workshop on May 27 that will engage students, faculty and staff in developing an action plan. The first step is to assess how well positioned we are now to grasp the opportunity. We invite (and need) your help in answering three basic questions framed around a draft vision and goals:
What does your campus do now that helps us reach our vision?
What else could your campus do?
What is needed, what barriers need to be overcome to reach our vision?
Go on-line to post answers and comment by May 8: http://www.ous.edu/state_board/workgroups/sust/blog.php
David Yaden
Chair, Sustainability Initiative Committee
Oregon State Board of Higher Education
Please send any questions to:
Bridget Burns
Policy and Research Associate
Oregon University System
541.760.4090
Seriously, register now for SPROG - Youth Grassroots Organizing Training
The SSC's Student Environmental Leadership Trainings, are week-long peer-to-peer training programs led by the nation's top youth organizers. Develop your grassroots organizing and leadership skills, network and bond with fellow students, engage in fun activities and enjoy tasty vegetarian cooking (the low carbon diet for the climate). Not only will you come away changed, you'll have the skills and confidence to be a force for change!
* Oregon: August 16-23
* Washington State: June 21-28
COST: It looks like PSU will be able to send students for free. So register away!
It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring... Wake up!
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