Environmental Club members& supporters,
Last week's meeting revealed some amazing Pictionaryskills, along with some insights into how we can make a tangible andpositive difference. Afterwards, I noticed a few silk screened shirtshanging about in the GreenSpace - now there's a positive difference.Clearly, our meetings are the place to be! Next one is in a week!
Environmental Club events:
Environmental Club meeting: Food Awarenesspotluck-style!
Thursday, Nov 19, 2009
4:30 - 6 pm
SMSU 294
Bring: food, recipes, and food systems knowledge
This meeting's theme is food awareness. First, we'll spend some timeplanning Winter Term's Water Awareness Week. We need your input to makeit awesome. Last year, we had a movie night, some tabling selling KleanKanteens, a tap vs. bottled water comparison, and a Portland WaterBureau speaker. Then we'll jump into the food - maybe literally. Let'sshare some food (bring something to share) and our recipes while wediscuss sustainability in food systems.
Gardening for Small Spaces part 1 - Mossing Pots Party
Thur, Nov 12
5:30 pm
GreenSpace, SMSU 28
Do you ever sit there at night, unable to fall asleep? Overwhelmed withthis feeling that something is missing from your life, something is outof place, or lacking? Well, it may be from a complete lack of groovyplants in your small space. Come check out the Environmental Club'sGardening for Small Spaces series this Thursday Nov. 12th in theGreenspace.
We will be mossing pots, so you'll need a few things:
-A terra cotta pot, about 6.5 inches or less. Can be found at FredMeyer or Portland Nursery for less than $2.
-yogurt as a growth medium
-tray for your pot to fit into for a couple of weeks while it sits andbecomes beautiful!
This will be the kick off event, and next time we will be plantingsmall air filtering plants for your small space in those pots. Consideryourself invited.
Please RSVP, but if you forget, show up anyways!
Plugging in with the Environmental Club
Interested in...
Campusevents:
PSUBAC (Bicycle Advocacy Collective) Saturday coffeerides
Sat, Nov 14, 21, 28, etc
11 am
meet in front of Millar Library
Fun coffee rides, relaxed pace, exploring the city around us, not toolong, rain or shine or puddles falling from the sky...
As said by coordinator Tim K.:
So, you know that scene from Star Wars where Han has to explain thelittle rough up in the detention block and no matter how polite orpassive he is the stormtrooper on the other end doesn't believe him andinstead asks him for explanations and his operating number? Yeah, Iknow, great scene. All he wants to do is save the princess, bringpeace to the universe, and entertain the crap out of the audience butnooooo, the empire instead requires mass amounts of pointlessinformation only to say "you can't do that!" Yeah...Thank you forlistening. In other news, WE BE RIDIN'...
Start the day off right andkickback with the BAC! Meet at 11 out front of the Millar and GO! I'llbethere, all your friends will be there, and everyone you've ever wantedto know will be there. SO BE THERE!
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
Look UP and SeeGreen's Open House
Thur, Nov 12
4 pm - 6 pm
4th floorof the Urban Center Building
Look UP and See Green is a student driven, collaborative initiative tolead the Portland Metropolitan Region in sustainability. Last year,this project created a sustainable, community gathering place on the4th floor of the Urban Center Building by bringing together studentgroups and local professionals to implement ideas of rainwatercollection strategies, utilization of our rooftops for growing food anda university wide discussion on sustainability initiatives. As thepotential of creating an Ecological District on campus gains momentumthe Urban Terrace presents a community gathering place and exhibitionspace for student led sustainability projects for all of PSU.
The Look UP and See Green team would like to invite the campuscommunity to the terrace for an open house where we will be compilingideas for the 2009-10 projects. Come join us for food and music andcontribute your visions of both PSU and the future of this space. Thecelebration will be between 4:00 and 6:00 so be sure to drop by!
FYI, rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains,
PJ Houser
Portland State University
Environmental Club coordinator
Campus Sustainability Office Assistant
Last week's meeting revealed some amazing Pictionaryskills, along with some insights into how we can make a tangible andpositive difference. Afterwards, I noticed a few silk screened shirtshanging about in the GreenSpace - now there's a positive difference.Clearly, our meetings are the place to be! Next one is in a week!
Environmental Club events:
Environmental Club meeting: Food Awarenesspotluck-style!
Thursday, Nov 19, 2009
4:30 - 6 pm
SMSU 294
Bring: food, recipes, and food systems knowledge
This meeting's theme is food awareness. First, we'll spend some timeplanning Winter Term's Water Awareness Week. We need your input to makeit awesome. Last year, we had a movie night, some tabling selling KleanKanteens, a tap vs. bottled water comparison, and a Portland WaterBureau speaker. Then we'll jump into the food - maybe literally. Let'sshare some food (bring something to share) and our recipes while wediscuss sustainability in food systems.
Gardening for Small Spaces part 1 - Mossing Pots Party
Thur, Nov 12
5:30 pm
GreenSpace, SMSU 28
Do you ever sit there at night, unable to fall asleep? Overwhelmed withthis feeling that something is missing from your life, something is outof place, or lacking? Well, it may be from a complete lack of groovyplants in your small space. Come check out the Environmental Club'sGardening for Small Spaces series this Thursday Nov. 12th in theGreenspace.
We will be mossing pots, so you'll need a few things:
-A terra cotta pot, about 6.5 inches or less. Can be found at FredMeyer or Portland Nursery for less than $2.
-yogurt as a growth medium
-tray for your pot to fit into for a couple of weeks while it sits andbecomes beautiful!
This will be the kick off event, and next time we will be plantingsmall air filtering plants for your small space in those pots. Consideryourself invited.
Please RSVP, but if you forget, show up anyways!
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
- Stopping 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:
PSUBAC (Bicycle Advocacy Collective) Saturday coffeerides
Sat, Nov 14, 21, 28, etc
11 am
meet in front of Millar Library
Fun coffee rides, relaxed pace, exploring the city around us, not toolong, rain or shine or puddles falling from the sky...
As said by coordinator Tim K.:
So, you know that scene from Star Wars where Han has to explain thelittle rough up in the detention block and no matter how polite orpassive he is the stormtrooper on the other end doesn't believe him andinstead asks him for explanations and his operating number? Yeah, Iknow, great scene. All he wants to do is save the princess, bringpeace to the universe, and entertain the crap out of the audience butnooooo, the empire instead requires mass amounts of pointlessinformation only to say "you can't do that!" Yeah...Thank you forlistening. In other news, WE BE RIDIN'...
Start the day off right andkickback with the BAC! Meet at 11 out front of the Millar and GO! I'llbethere, all your friends will be there, and everyone you've ever wantedto know will be there. SO BE THERE!
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.
- 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
Look UP and SeeGreen's Open House
Thur, Nov 12
4 pm - 6 pm
4th floorof the Urban Center Building
Look UP and See Green is a student driven, collaborative initiative tolead the Portland Metropolitan Region in sustainability. Last year,this project created a sustainable, community gathering place on the4th floor of the Urban Center Building by bringing together studentgroups and local professionals to implement ideas of rainwatercollection strategies, utilization of our rooftops for growing food anda university wide discussion on sustainability initiatives. As thepotential of creating an Ecological District on campus gains momentumthe Urban Terrace presents a community gathering place and exhibitionspace for student led sustainability projects for all of PSU.
The Look UP and See Green team would like to invite the campuscommunity to the terrace for an open house where we will be compilingideas for the 2009-10 projects. Come join us for food and music andcontribute your visions of both PSU and the future of this space. Thecelebration will be between 4:00 and 6:00 so be sure to drop by!
FYI, rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains,
PJ Houser
Portland State University
Environmental Club coordinator
Campus Sustainability Office Assistant
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