Happy Spring PoE Community!
Come kick start Earth Month with a nice local pint and some stimulating conversation with the PoE community! The Spring PoE Community Drinks event will be held at Big Time Brewery & Alehouse on April 11th from 6:30pm –8:00pm. Big Time is All Ages until 8:00PM so everyone can join in the fun.
Please help us plan a better event by replying via the Evite link below.
http://new.evite.com/l/6GV5SH5ZJK
We hope to see you there!
*job* City of Redmond – Communications Specialist
Under the supervision of the Chief Communications Officer, this position will work in collaboration with team members in the Office of Communications and other City departments to perform a variety of integrated news, media and public relations functions in support of broad City wide priorities, initiatives and specific projects, as well as targeted outreach campaigns.
When: Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Time: 3:00-7:00pm
Where: HUB Ballrooms
Dress Code: Business Casual
For a complete list of attending employers, visit us online at http://careers.uw.edu/Students/Spring-Career-Fair#Employers .
Also, check out http://careers.uw.edu/Students/Spring-Career-Fair for information on appropriate dress, how to spruce up your resume, and what to expect, so don’t miss out!
ALSO: To spruce up your resume before the Career Fair, join us for at ResumeFest!
This event is prepared just for you to get your resume reviewed by our Career Center counselors or Peer Advisors for 15 minutes. Come early, as it’s on a first come first served basis, and sign up starts in the Career Center at 8:00am
RESUMEFEST
WHEN: April 15th, 2013
TIME: 8:15am-4:30pm
WHERE: Mary Gates Hall, Room 134 (The Career Center)
WHAT TO BRING: A hard copy of your resume
SIGHN UP: Sign up in the Career Center at 8:00am. First come first serve basis.
The Book Club meetings are starting again! This quarter they will be Wednesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm in the PoE Commons.
The first book of the quarter: ’The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture’ by Wendell Berry
This books explores the idea of good farming as a cultural development and the importance of our connection to earth. Gain insight into how culture and agriculture affects us.
First meeting is this week! Anyone is welcome! To hit the ground running, please read through the first two chapters.
Register NOW for the College of the Environment Lecture: Walker-Ames Scholar Peter Brewer
The College of the Environment and the School of Oceanography invite you a lecture featuring renowned ocean chemist and Walker-Ames Scholar, Peter Brewer. Hear him discuss the implications a changing climates has on the oceans in his talk titled: Common sense chemistry and a true tipping point for climate right off our shores.
Planning for Agriculture in the Puget Sound
One of PoE’s Environgmental Management Graduate students is working with the American Farmland Trust to host a conference on regional food systems planing and policy-making. If you are interested in volunteering or attending at a reduced rate please contact Ele Watts at ele.watts@gmail.com.
Planning for Agriculture in the Puget Sound Region
Join elected officials, planners, and food system advocates at a conference on planning for the future of local farms and food in the Puget Sound region. We’ll explore a wide range of planning and policy tools we can use to support and strengthen our region’s local farms and food system. Leaders from throughout the U.S. will present what has worked in their communities, and we’ll have the opportunitiy to discuss food and farm initiatives with our local counterparts.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Conference 8:30am-5pm
Drinks and networking 5-7pm
The Center for Urban Horticulture at the University of Washington
3501 NE 41st Street, Seattle, WA 98105
JSIS 478 F Sustainability & Global Business – Spots open for PoE Students!
Spring 2013 JSIS 478 F, Sustainability and Global Business
Jeffrey Leinaweaver
TTh 10:30-12:20
Business and commerce have tremendous impact on the health of our environment and our society. Globalization of economic activities has created transnational corporations with tremendous power and influence. However, this era of great prosperity also has come with a great cost. Human activities are pushing well beyond the limits of what natural systems can sustain. The current system of commerce is demonstrably and inherently unsustainable. This course will look at concepts of sustainability in the context of global business. At the end of the course, students will have a thorough understanding of what sustainable choices are available to individuals, communities, and organizations. They will be able to evaluate strategies and trade-offs necessary for the transformation to a more sustainable and equitable global society. They will gain familiarity with systems thinking approaches and global implications of sustainable business challenges and solutions. Perhaps most importantly, they will have a defined context of what sustainability means in which to ground their position on these critical issues. Two weekly lectures, case studies and readings, emphasis on class presentations and team projects. This section for UW students will meet concurrently with another section for visiting international students in the Thematic Studies Abroad program.
College of the Environment Student Meeting Fund
Spring Quarter Deadline: April 17, 2013
The College of the Environment (CoEnv) supports undergraduate, Masters, and PhD students in furthering their careers, and in particular in connecting students to networking opportunities afforded by the presentation of their original work in meeting venues. CoEnv supports two types of student attendance at meetings:
· Individual Travel to Meetings:
Maximums of $500 for North American travel and $750 for international travel; one per student per degree career; we anticipate making about 15 awards annually. The award amounts are modest to enable CoEnv to provide funding to a greater number of students. Students are expected to seek and receive funding from other sources, and students who do so will receive funding priority.
· Student-Organized Meetings:
Maximum of $1,500 or 20% of total expenditures, whichever is smaller; one per organization annually; maximum of 4 awards given out annually.
Want more info? Check on this link!
Join PoE for another round of Brown Bag Lunches! This quarter will be full of really great speakers, including our very own Megan Styles kicking off the series. See you there!