Last week as part of the ENVIR 100 course, peer TA Samantha Zwicker led her students on a tour of Yesler Swamp. Samantha is part of the Yesler Swamp Student Restoration Team at UW. Check out the blog or PoE website to find more cool courses and organizations like this so that you can get involved too!
Info on the ENVIR 100 course: click here!
Info on Yesler Swamp: click here!
ENVIR 495A
Professor Richard Block (blockr@uw.edu).
MWF: 11:30-12:30, Condon Hall 139.
VLPA (can perhaps be taken for “W” credit with approval of instructor)
Modernity’s unprecedented assertion of human rights has been an equally unprecedented disaster for our fellow creatures. Never before have humans so systematically slaughtered and tortured the other animals on the planet in service of their own needs. To boot, human-caused global warming threatens the survival of as much as 65 percent of the known species on the planet. How is it that we have come to be at war with our animal nature?
Course format: Lecture and discussion
What You Can Expect to Learn in This Class:
Seattle Tilth inspires and educates people to grow food organically, conserve natural resources and support local food systems in order to cultivate a healthy urban environment and community.
Join Seattle Tilth and PoE to learn, grow, and EAT at the PoE UW Combined Fund Drive bake sale!
Seattle Tilth representatives will be there to talk to students and staff about classes, the organization, and fun volunteer opportunities. Come down to grab a brownie and talk about the amazing work Seattle Tilth is doing in the area.
Wednesday, November 14th, 11:00AM – 1:30PM, Wallace Hall
The course listings for Winter 2013 that can fulfill required Perspective and Experiences classes have finally been posted. You can find the link to the page here.
[national study experience]: Study in the Southwest!
Wild Rockies Field Institute is now accepting applications for their spring field study opportunity. The course runs from March 25th- May 24th. For more information see their website: http://wrfi.net/courses/colorado-plateau.html
CREDITS: 15 total (NEW COURSE ADDED for 2013- Native American Studies 395)
o Environmental Studies 395: Field Studies in Human/Ecological Communities & Public Lands Issues; Section: Public Land Issues of the Colorado Plateau (3 credits)
o Environmental Studies 395: Field Studies in Human/Ecological Communities & Public Lands Issues; Section: Environment and Culture of the Colorado Plateau (3 credits)
o Science 395: Natural History of the Colorado Plateau (3 credits)
o Geography 347: Geography of the Colorado Plateau (3 credits)
o Native American Studies 395: Indians of the American Southwest- Relationships with the Land (3 credits)
Kenai Watershed Forum’s summer 2013 environmental internship
opportunities are primarily geared towards undergraduate students but
also open to graduate students. The Kenai Watershed Forum (KWF) is a
non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining the health of the
watersheds on the Kenai Peninsula in south central Alaska. Every
year, KWF selects several highly-motivated students from top
university programs and provides them with a one of a kind learning
experience working on critical environmental projects. Interns are
expected to work 10-12 weeks, typically from mid to late May to mid
August, although start and end dates are a bit flexible to accommodate
different academic calendars. The deadline for submission of applications is December 7,
2012. Any questions may be directed to Bill Garthwaite +1.907.260.5449 ext.
1209 or bill@kenaiwatershed.org. 
PoE Book Club meets today! Don’t worry if you haven’t read the book. We welcome all to come for good conversation, coffee, and tea.
Meets regularly on Fridays at 1230-130 in the PoE Commons, Wallace Hall
The current (first) book: ‘Blessed Unrest: How the world’s largest movement came into being and why no one saw it coming’ Paul Hawken 2007
Come join PoE for their contribution to the UW Combined Fund Drive! PoE has chosen for their featured charity organization to be Seattle Tilth. To learn more about the organization, visit their website – seattletilth.org Seattle Tilth representatives will be at the sale to talk about the organization as well as available volunteer and course opportunities for students.
When: November 14th, 2012 from 11:00AM – 1:30PM
Where: John Wallace Hall
Why: What better way to donate than to eat baked goods, hang out with other PoE students/staff, and learn about Seattle Tilth?!
Make sure to stop by!!
Join an Environmental Book Club with free coffee:
Fridays at 1230-130 in the PoE Commons, Wallace Hall
Don’t join a different one. The goal is to read literature that is influential to the environmental movement and develop environmental perspectives that are in tune with whatever you think the environmental movement should really look like, and your ability to fight apathy accordingly. Envir post docs and students collectively winnow out ideas to create succinct environmental perspectives/arguments/essays/ethics or anything. Participation is more essential than being up to speed with the reading.
The current (first) book: ‘Blessed Unrest: How the world’s largest movement came into being and why no one saw it coming’ Paul Hawken 2007
Please read the recruitment letter if you’re interested, and for more details.
Robsm2@uw.edu