Environmental Club members & supporters,
Welcome to the middle of the term! What an exciting time with midterms, projects, sleep deprivation, and... your friends in the Environmental Club! This last weekend, the Environmental Club did a tree planting up in Kenton. This week, we have a meeting with a guest speaker from Food and Water Watch. Hope you can make it!
Environmental Club events:
Environmental Club meeting THIS WEEK
Thursday, Feb 11th
4:30 - 6:00 pm
SMSU 326
Julia DeGraw from Food and Water Watch will be visiting.We'll also be sending Obama & some Congress members a few notes about the "clean" nuclear energy, coal, and offshore drilling mentioned in the State of the Union. Perhaps we can also have a handstand contest...
Plugging in for Sustainability
Interested in...
Campus events:
Community Saturday coffee rides
Sat, Feb 13th
11 am - 1 pm-ish
meet in front of Millar Library
Ride bikes! Socialize and drink coffee! Join our friends from PSUBAC and others for the weekly Saturday coffee ride. Leaves from PSU Millar Library at 11am, ride to two coffee shops within 5 miles and hang out. Always good company and lots of fun. Rain or shine.
Career Information Day Panel: Careers in Sustainability
Wed, Feb 17th
1 pm
SMSU 3rd floor ballroom
Plan to attend the 22nd annual Career Information Day on Wednesday, February 17 from 11:00 to 3:00 in the SMSU 3rd floor Ballroom. Students will be able to meet with representatives from over 60 organizations to learn about various career opportunities. You may also attend a panel discussion at 1:00 to learn about Careers in Sustainability: Food & Food Systems.
Miller Grant Student Sustainability Travel and Conference Awards
The Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices (CSP2) is pleased to announce the Miller Grant Student Sustainability Travel and Conference Awards - Round III for the 2009-2010 Academic Year. It is the intent of the CSP2 to recognize outstanding work of PSU undergraduate and graduate students in the area of sustainability and contribute to their professional development by helping to fund their travel to distant places for scholarly purposes.
Round III of funding will cover travel between April 1, 2010 through June 15, 2010. Applications are due March 2, 2010 by 5:00pm.
Instructions and Applications can be found here: http://www.pdx.edu/sustainability/research-funding-and-opportunities.
Community events:
Confluence: Water & Justice symposium at University of Portland
Fri - Sun, Mar 26 - 28, 2010
University of Portland
The University of Portland is holding a symposium, bringing together some of the nation's leading experts to examine various perspectives on water, including environmental justice, protection , science, theology, business, history, law, and the Native American perspective.
The Confluences: Water & Justice symposium opens Friday afternoon, March 26, with a lecture and cruise on the Willamette River followed by a screening of The Water Front, a documentary film on water rights in Michigan. Afterward, director Liz Miller answers questions.
On Saturday, March 27, and Sunday, March 28, over twenty experts share their expertise in concurrent sessions. Most sessions pair speakers of different viewpoints to promote discussions.
Maude Barlow - author, activist, and senior adviser on water to the president of the UN General Assembly - gives the keynote address on Saturday night.
Conference registration for Confluences: Water & Justice is free. Tickets for Maude Barlow's keynote are $10 per person; free for ILLAHEE season ticket holders, conference hosts and sponsors, and University of Portland faculty, staff, and students.
More soup & vitamin C please,
PJ Houser
Portland State University
Environmental Club coordinator
Campus Sustainability Office Assistant
Welcome to the middle of the term! What an exciting time with midterms, projects, sleep deprivation, and... your friends in the Environmental Club! This last weekend, the Environmental Club did a tree planting up in Kenton. This week, we have a meeting with a guest speaker from Food and Water Watch. Hope you can make it!
Environmental Club events:
Environmental Club meeting THIS WEEK
Thursday, Feb 11th
4:30 - 6:00 pm
SMSU 326
Julia DeGraw from Food and Water Watch will be visiting.We'll also be sending Obama & some Congress members a few notes about the "clean" nuclear energy, coal, and offshore drilling mentioned in the State of the Union. Perhaps we can also have a handstand contest...
Plugging in for Sustainability
Interested in...
- Take Back the Tap? Contact Lisa Meersman at
ecpsu.redwood@gmail.com OR just come to our next meeting! - Recycling and composting on campus? Contact Honore Depew at honoredepew@gmail.com. There are plenty of opportunities to make sure composting and recycling are fully utilized at events and throughout campus.
- Energy efficiency? Contact Kelly Larson in the Sustainability Office at klar@pdx.edu
- Community service? Stay tuned or contact Hanna Davis at ecpsu.cedar@gmail.com for SOLV events.
- Local food? Contact Hanna Davis at ecpsu.cedar@gmail.com to help compile a seasonal, local, & sustainable Portland cookbook.
- Bikes? Sign up for the [bikes] email list and keep up-to-date on all bike-related events
Campus events:
Community Saturday coffee rides
Sat, Feb 13th
11 am - 1 pm-ish
meet in front of Millar Library
Ride bikes! Socialize and drink coffee! Join our friends from PSUBAC and others for the weekly Saturday coffee ride. Leaves from PSU Millar Library at 11am, ride to two coffee shops within 5 miles and hang out. Always good company and lots of fun. Rain or shine.
Career Information Day Panel: Careers in Sustainability
Wed, Feb 17th
1 pm
SMSU 3rd floor ballroom
Plan to attend the 22nd annual Career Information Day on Wednesday, February 17 from 11:00 to 3:00 in the SMSU 3rd floor Ballroom. Students will be able to meet with representatives from over 60 organizations to learn about various career opportunities. You may also attend a panel discussion at 1:00 to learn about Careers in Sustainability: Food & Food Systems.
Miller Grant Student Sustainability Travel and Conference Awards
The Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices (CSP2) is pleased to announce the Miller Grant Student Sustainability Travel and Conference Awards - Round III for the 2009-2010 Academic Year. It is the intent of the CSP2 to recognize outstanding work of PSU undergraduate and graduate students in the area of sustainability and contribute to their professional development by helping to fund their travel to distant places for scholarly purposes.
Round III of funding will cover travel between April 1, 2010 through June 15, 2010. Applications are due March 2, 2010 by 5:00pm.
Instructions and Applications can be found here: http://www.pdx.edu/sustainability/research-funding-and-opportunities.
Community events:
Confluence: Water & Justice symposium at University of Portland
Fri - Sun, Mar 26 - 28, 2010
The University of Portland is holding a symposium, bringing together some of the nation's leading experts to examine various perspectives on water, including environmental justice, protection , science, theology, business, history, law, and the Native American perspective.
The Confluences: Water & Justice symposium opens Friday afternoon, March 26, with a lecture and cruise on the Willamette River followed by a screening of The Water Front, a documentary film on water rights in Michigan. Afterward, director Liz Miller answers questions.
On Saturday, March 27, and Sunday, March 28, over twenty experts share their expertise in concurrent sessions. Most sessions pair speakers of different viewpoints to promote discussions.
Maude Barlow - author, activist, and senior adviser on water to the president of the UN General Assembly - gives the keynote address on Saturday night.
Conference registration for Confluences: Water & Justice is free. Tickets for Maude Barlow's keynote are $10 per person; free for ILLAHEE season ticket holders, conference hosts and sponsors, and University of Portland faculty, staff, and students.
More soup & vitamin C please,
PJ Houser
Portland State University
Environmental Club coordinator
Campus Sustainability Office Assistant
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