Environmental Club members& supporters,
Hope everybody had a good Halloween! We have ameeting this Thursday at 4:30 pm in the GreenSpace and a volunteeractivity with SOLV this Saturday, Nov 7. Bring a shirt, sweatshirt,or tote bag - or your pillow case - to silkscreen this Thursday.
EnvironmentalClub events:
Environmental Club meeting - silkscreening!
Thursday, Nov5, 2009
4:30 - 6 pm
GreenSpace, Smith 28
Bring: a shirt/sweatshirt/tote bag to silkscreen
How do we make a difference and measure the change? At our meeting,we'll spend some time trying to answer this question. We'll alsoannounce upcoming events - like movie night this Friday and the SOLVcleanup this Saturday! Finally, we'll be doing some silkscreening withthe Environmental Club logo (bring some clothes!) and playing someecological Pictionary.
Movie night - Kilowatt-Ours
Friday, Nov 6, 2009
5:30 - 7:30 pm
Meet in the GreenSpace, SMSU 28, before moving to bigger room.Destination will be posted on the door for latecomers.
Come getinformed about energy-efficiency and find intelligent people!
Kilowatt Ours is a timely,solutions-oriented look at one of America’s most pressing environmentalchallenges. Award-winning film Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-EnergizeAmerica is a timely, solutions-oriented look at one of America’smost pressing environmental challenges: energy.
Filmmaker Jeff Barrie offers hope as he turns the camera on himself andasks, “How can I make a difference?” In his journey Barrie explores thesource of our electricity and the problems caused by energy productionincluding mountain top removal, childhood asthma and global warming.Along the way he encounters individuals, businesses, organizations, andcommunities who are leading the way, using energy conservation,efficiency and renewable, green power all while saving money and theenvironment.
This often amusing and always inspiring story shows, “You can easilymake a difference and here’s how!”
Volunteer with Environmental Club and SOLV - Polishthe Pearl
Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Start at Urban Grind, 911 NW 14th Ave
Environmental Club is helping SOLV with one of their activities.Come join Lisa and I (PJ)! Sign up at our meeting this Thursday orRSVP to ecpsu@pdx.edu.
Meeting Location: Volunteers will meet at Urban Grind for somewake-upcoffee! Theleaders will be visibly at a table.
ProjectActivities: At Urban Grind, volunteers will form teams to cleanlitterfrom thestreets. Volunteers will be briefed on safety and techniques.Activities include litter pickup. Afterwards there will be a mealandraffle at Blitz Pearl.
Coordinator: Alison Wallisch
Contact Email: alison@nwnw.org
Contact Phone Number: 503-823-4265
Plugging in with the Environmental Club
Interested in...
Campusevents:
National Sustainability Education Week: Educating forCitizen-Leadership
Presented by Students for Leadership in Ecology, Culture &Learning and the US Partnership for Decade for Education forSustainable Development
November 9th through the 13th has been named National SustainabilityEducation Week (NSEW) - a week in which educators, schools, students,colleges and community members are asked to participate in learningopportunities focused around sustainability leadership.
PSU's Students for Leadership in Ecology, Culture & Learning(SLECL), with its many partners, has planned a week's worth of eventsfocused around sustainability education and leadership.
For the most up-to-date information, as rooms and times could change,and additional event details, please visit:
http://www.wiserearth.org/group/slecl
Garbage To Gold: Talk on Zero WasteManagement & Sustainable Living
Thursday, Nov 5, 2009
4 - 5:30 pm (overlaps Environmental Club meeting)
Parson's Gallery - Urban Building, 2nd Floor
Association for India's Development (AID) Portland Chapter presents:
Garbage To Gold - Talk on Zero Waste Management & SustainableLiving by India's Leading Environmental activist C. Srinivasan fromVellore, Tamil Nadu.
How do you recycle 100% of rural & urban garbage sustainably whilegenerating employment & revenue? Come and listen to C. Srinivasan(President & Founder of Exnora Green Cross). He will discuss howthe three most easily available resources - sunlight, human power &waste - can bring millions of dollars in direct & indirectrevenue to us. Srinivasan's Waste Management model has been recognizedas "2008 best practices in waste management" by UNICEF.
More information on his work can be found at http://www.zerowastemanagement.org.
For more information contact:
Kartik Gopal, kartik.gopal@intel.com, 612 386 2974
or
PSU Recycle, recycles@pdx.edu, 503 725 4300
Visit AID to learn more about us at http://www.aidindia.org
Communityevents:
Water for Life: Congressman Earl Blumenauer Lecture
Monday, November 9, 2009
12:00–1:30 PM
MultnomahAthletic Club, 1849 SW Salmon St., Portland, OR 97205
Today, one-fifth of theworld’s population lacks reliable sources of clean water andsanitation. In some cases the available water is polluted; in manyothers there is simply too little of it. This crisis is hard for thoseof us in the water-rich Pacific Northwest to grasp. But imagine if youhad to walk for two hours to a well and back, carrying a heavy bucket,just to have water for drinking and cooking.
Are there reasons other than the obvious humanitarian ones forOregonians to care about the availability of clean water for familiestens of thousands of miles away? Is there any relationship between ourprofligate use of water resources and others’ need for water? Is this aproblem that can be solved with foreign aid alone?
Congressman Blumenauer has long championed the cause of water for all.He sponsored the “Water for the Poor Act” which became law in 2005,introduced the Water for the World Act earlier this year and wassuccessful in bringing an extra $25 million in federal funding toprovide the world’s poorest people with access to clean water andsanitation.
A lifelong resident of Portland, Oregon, Congressman Earl Blumenauerhas devoted his entire career to public service. After serving in theOregon Legislature, on the Multnomah County Commission, and on PortlandCity Council, he was elected to Congress in 1996. He served on both theInternational Relations Committee and the Transportation andInfrastructure Committees, until joining the exclusive Ways and MeansCommittee and the Budget Committee in 2007. He holds an undergraduatedegree and a law degree from Lewis and Clark College in Portland.
Register at www.worldoregon.orgor call us at 503.274.7488
$30 for members, $35 for non members, $5 to audit
PLEASE NOTE: Tickets will not be mailed for this event. PRE-PAIDREGISTRATION REQUIRED. Price includes program and lunch
If you are not currently a World Affairs Council of Oregon Member, youmay sign-up now by visiting our membership page.
The MundusNow! Bene-Fest ¡Si, Importa!For Environmental Justice in South America Today
MundusNow! needs creativeand passionate assistance from those curious or already deeplyconcerned about Environmental Justice in South America Today, to ensurethat the, ¡Si, Importa! Festival is a success this May.
We are a young non-profit called MundusNow!, seeking collaborativeassistance with the organization of an informative, four night long,multi-media festival called, The MundusNow! Bene-Fest ¡Si, Importa!For Environmental Justice in South America Today. All issuesshared through documentary film screenings, guest speakers’presentations, and inter-active discussions, invite direct involvementfrom the community to investigate current socio-political movementsaffecting the health and livelihoods of the environment and peopleacross the diverse regions composing South America. We hope to promoteawareness, inspire active support and participation regarding momentoustransformations and solutions in South America today.
MundusNow! works as agents for positive and sustainable social changethrough the collaborative commitment with all kinds of grass roots,governmental, non-governmental and international organizations. We arededicated to communicating their concerns, allocating knowledgeableassistance, and joining diverse efforts working to achieve commonsolutions for healthy social and ecological environments in SouthAmerica.
For those ready tobe apart of the Festival, send us an e-mail at: contact@mundusnow.org, byFriday (we will be meeting next week.)
Are we there yet?
PJ Houser
Portland State University
Environmental Club coordinator
Campus Sustainability Office Assistant
Check out our updated website at http://eclub.groups.pdx.edu
Also, check out the EcoWiki at http://www.ecowiki.pdx.edu/
Hope everybody had a good Halloween! We have ameeting this Thursday at 4:30 pm in the GreenSpace and a volunteeractivity with SOLV this Saturday, Nov 7. Bring a shirt, sweatshirt,or tote bag - or your pillow case - to silkscreen this Thursday.
EnvironmentalClub events:
Environmental Club meeting - silkscreening!
Thursday, Nov5, 2009
4:30 - 6 pm
GreenSpace, Smith 28
Bring: a shirt/sweatshirt/tote bag to silkscreen
How do we make a difference and measure the change? At our meeting,we'll spend some time trying to answer this question. We'll alsoannounce upcoming events - like movie night this Friday and the SOLVcleanup this Saturday! Finally, we'll be doing some silkscreening withthe Environmental Club logo (bring some clothes!) and playing someecological Pictionary.
Movie night - Kilowatt-Ours
Friday, Nov 6, 2009
5:30 - 7:30 pm
Meet in the GreenSpace, SMSU 28, before moving to bigger room.Destination will be posted on the door for latecomers.
Come getinformed about energy-efficiency and find intelligent people!
Kilowatt Ours is a timely,solutions-oriented look at one of America’s most pressing environmentalchallenges. Award-winning film Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-EnergizeAmerica is a timely, solutions-oriented look at one of America’smost pressing environmental challenges: energy.
Filmmaker Jeff Barrie offers hope as he turns the camera on himself andasks, “How can I make a difference?” In his journey Barrie explores thesource of our electricity and the problems caused by energy productionincluding mountain top removal, childhood asthma and global warming.Along the way he encounters individuals, businesses, organizations, andcommunities who are leading the way, using energy conservation,efficiency and renewable, green power all while saving money and theenvironment.
This often amusing and always inspiring story shows, “You can easilymake a difference and here’s how!”
Volunteer with Environmental Club and SOLV - Polishthe Pearl
Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Start at Urban Grind, 911 NW 14th Ave
Environmental Club is helping SOLV with one of their activities.Come join Lisa and I (PJ)! Sign up at our meeting this Thursday orRSVP to ecpsu@pdx.edu.
Meeting Location: Volunteers will meet at Urban Grind for somewake-upcoffee! Theleaders will be visibly at a table.
ProjectActivities: At Urban Grind, volunteers will form teams to cleanlitterfrom thestreets. Volunteers will be briefed on safety and techniques.Activities include litter pickup. Afterwards there will be a mealandraffle at Blitz Pearl.
Coordinator: Alison Wallisch
Contact Email: alison@nwnw.org
Contact Phone Number: 503-823-4265
Plugging in with the Environmental Club
Interested in...
- Take Back the Tap? ContactLisa Meersman at ecpsu.redwood@gmail.com ORjust come to our nextmeeting!
- Recycling andcomposting on campus? Contact Honore Depew at honoredepew@gmail.com.Thereare plenty of opportunities to make surecomposting and recycling are fully utilized at events and throughoutcampus.
- Gardening activities,indoors and outdoors? Workshops will be starting in November.
- Energy efficiency?Contact David Nokovic in Sustainability Leadership Center at dnokovic@gmail.com
- Climatechange? Contact Jesse Boudart in Cascade Climate Network at boudartj@pdx.eduOR contact Jenny Bedell-Stiles at Sierra StudentCoalition at jenny@ssc.org
- Environmental law? Staytuned for future workshops in collaboration with the Pre-Law Society!
Campusevents:
National Sustainability Education Week: Educating forCitizen-Leadership
Presented by Students for Leadership in Ecology, Culture &Learning and the US Partnership for Decade for Education forSustainable Development
November 9th through the 13th has been named National SustainabilityEducation Week (NSEW) - a week in which educators, schools, students,colleges and community members are asked to participate in learningopportunities focused around sustainability leadership.
PSU's Students for Leadership in Ecology, Culture & Learning(SLECL), with its many partners, has planned a week's worth of eventsfocused around sustainability education and leadership.
- Monday 11/9
- NationalSustainability Education Week Kick-off: Leaders of the Next Generation
SMSU 228, 1:30-3:30pm, free - Purpose Party forNational Sustainability Education Week
Trebol (4835 N Albina), 5:30-8:30pm - Tuesday 11/10
- Diversity & SocialSustainability Student Dialogue Forum
SMSU 294, 11-12:30pm, free, students only - Leading Change Workshop
SMSU 327, 1-3:30pm, suggested donation $5-20 - InFARMation
Roots (1520 SE 7th), 5:30-8pm, 21+ - ExploringInterconnectedness in a Complex World: Films from Global Oneness Project
SMSU 236, 7-9:30pm, free - Wednesday 11/11
- Permaculture Field trip
Learning Gardens Laboratory (6801 SE 60th), 2-5pm, free - West African DanceClass
Ivy School (4212 NE Prescott), 6-7:30pm, suggested donation $10-15 - West African Drum Class
Ivy School (4212 NE Prescott), 7:30-9pm, $15 - Thursday 11/12
- Exploring Leadership,Service & International Education
SMSU 294, 10-11:30am, free - Look Up and See GreenOpen House
URBN 4th Floor Terrace, 3:30-6:30pm, free - Wild & ScenicEnvironmental Film Festival
Bagdad Theater (SE 37th/Hawthorne), doors at 5:30, event at 7pm, , $8& 21+ - Friday 11/13
- Social Sustainabilityand Social Work Colloquium
UCB 485, 1-3pm, free - Community Celebration
Hot Lips (2211 Se Hawthorne), 4:30pm - Saturday 11/14
- Awakening the Dreamer:Changing the Dream Symposium
Unity of Beaverton Church, (12650 SW 5th), 10- 2:30pm, suggesteddonation $10 - Relationships Matter:Supporting Transitions from Prison to Community and Releasing the RealWealth of Portland
MACE Center (126 NE Alberta), 2-5pm, free
For the most up-to-date information, as rooms and times could change,and additional event details, please visit:
http://www.wiserearth.org/group/slecl
Garbage To Gold: Talk on Zero WasteManagement & Sustainable Living
Thursday, Nov 5, 2009
4 - 5:30 pm (overlaps Environmental Club meeting)
Parson's Gallery - Urban Building, 2nd Floor
Association for India's Development (AID) Portland Chapter presents:
Garbage To Gold - Talk on Zero Waste Management & SustainableLiving by India's Leading Environmental activist C. Srinivasan fromVellore, Tamil Nadu.
How do you recycle 100% of rural & urban garbage sustainably whilegenerating employment & revenue? Come and listen to C. Srinivasan(President & Founder of Exnora Green Cross). He will discuss howthe three most easily available resources - sunlight, human power &waste - can bring millions of dollars in direct & indirectrevenue to us. Srinivasan's Waste Management model has been recognizedas "2008 best practices in waste management" by UNICEF.
More information on his work can be found at http://www.zerowastemanagement.org.
For more information contact:
Kartik Gopal, kartik.gopal@intel.com, 612 386 2974
or
PSU Recycle, recycles@pdx.edu, 503 725 4300
Visit AID to learn more about us at http://www.aidindia.org
Communityevents:
Water for Life: Congressman Earl Blumenauer Lecture
Monday, November 9, 2009
12:00–1:30 PM
MultnomahAthletic Club, 1849 SW Salmon St., Portland, OR 97205
Today, one-fifth of theworld’s population lacks reliable sources of clean water andsanitation. In some cases the available water is polluted; in manyothers there is simply too little of it. This crisis is hard for thoseof us in the water-rich Pacific Northwest to grasp. But imagine if youhad to walk for two hours to a well and back, carrying a heavy bucket,just to have water for drinking and cooking.
Are there reasons other than the obvious humanitarian ones forOregonians to care about the availability of clean water for familiestens of thousands of miles away? Is there any relationship between ourprofligate use of water resources and others’ need for water? Is this aproblem that can be solved with foreign aid alone?
Congressman Blumenauer has long championed the cause of water for all.He sponsored the “Water for the Poor Act” which became law in 2005,introduced the Water for the World Act earlier this year and wassuccessful in bringing an extra $25 million in federal funding toprovide the world’s poorest people with access to clean water andsanitation.
A lifelong resident of Portland, Oregon, Congressman Earl Blumenauerhas devoted his entire career to public service. After serving in theOregon Legislature, on the Multnomah County Commission, and on PortlandCity Council, he was elected to Congress in 1996. He served on both theInternational Relations Committee and the Transportation andInfrastructure Committees, until joining the exclusive Ways and MeansCommittee and the Budget Committee in 2007. He holds an undergraduatedegree and a law degree from Lewis and Clark College in Portland.
Register at www.worldoregon.orgor call us at 503.274.7488
$30 for members, $35 for non members, $5 to audit
PLEASE NOTE: Tickets will not be mailed for this event. PRE-PAIDREGISTRATION REQUIRED. Price includes program and lunch
If you are not currently a World Affairs Council of Oregon Member, youmay sign-up now by visiting our membership page.
The MundusNow! Bene-Fest ¡Si, Importa!For Environmental Justice in South America Today
MundusNow! needs creativeand passionate assistance from those curious or already deeplyconcerned about Environmental Justice in South America Today, to ensurethat the, ¡Si, Importa! Festival is a success this May.
We are a young non-profit called MundusNow!, seeking collaborativeassistance with the organization of an informative, four night long,multi-media festival called, The MundusNow! Bene-Fest ¡Si, Importa!For Environmental Justice in South America Today. All issuesshared through documentary film screenings, guest speakers’presentations, and inter-active discussions, invite direct involvementfrom the community to investigate current socio-political movementsaffecting the health and livelihoods of the environment and peopleacross the diverse regions composing South America. We hope to promoteawareness, inspire active support and participation regarding momentoustransformations and solutions in South America today.
MundusNow! works as agents for positive and sustainable social changethrough the collaborative commitment with all kinds of grass roots,governmental, non-governmental and international organizations. We arededicated to communicating their concerns, allocating knowledgeableassistance, and joining diverse efforts working to achieve commonsolutions for healthy social and ecological environments in SouthAmerica.
For those ready tobe apart of the Festival, send us an e-mail at: contact@mundusnow.org, byFriday (we will be meeting next week.)
Are we there yet?
PJ Houser
Portland State University
Environmental Club coordinator
Campus Sustainability Office Assistant
Check out our updated website at http://eclub.groups.pdx.edu
Also, check out the EcoWiki at http://www.ecowiki.pdx.edu/
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