Looking for Perspectives & Experience courses?

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The PoE website is going through some technical difficulties and we haven’t been able to post the Perspective and Experiences classes for Winter 2013 – sorry about that! If you are looking for some fun and exciting courses to fill your requirements, you can check out the link HERE to see what is available next quarter. 

Also, make sure to look at the PoE instructor profiles to see how some of your teachers got involved in their course subjects!

The website will be updated as soon as possible, sorry for the delay.

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UW GIS Day Student Project Competition – Extended Deadline, Modified Requirement and Bigger Prizes!

There is still time to register for the student project competition at the UW GIS Day event on November 14th 2012 – the deadline for project submissions has been extended to November 1st 2012!

In addition, the prize amounts have been generously increased to $150 for first place, $125 for second and $100 for third.  Lastly, for those who might have trouble being at their presentation during the scheduled time of 11-12, don’t let that stop you from registering: though it’s preferable if you can be there to talk about your fine work, you’ll still be eligible for the competition even if you can’t.

See the GIS Day website for further details and to register or email Steven Walters at swalt826@u.washington.edu with questions.

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– Students Evan Sawyers-Rouse (left) and Duncan Clauson, talk with Sen Maria Cantwell (center) and Sen. Patty Murray.


PoE in the News!

A team of PoE graduate students was featured on NPR and UW Today for their work examining the impacts of smart grid technology in the UW dorms. The students are all part of the Environmental Management program and are completing the work for their Keystone project. 

Rainy Day+Great Book=PoE Bookclub!!!!

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TODAY!!!

12:30PM

PoE COMMONS

Don’t worry if you haven’t read the book, we welcome everyone to join!!

Great discussion, warm tea, and lovely people.

Hope to see you there!

More info about the PoE Bookclub:

Join an Environmental Book Club with free coffee:
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 first book: ‘Blessed Unrest: How the world’s largest movement came into being and why no one saw it coming’ Paul Hawken 2007 
Friday, 1230-130 PoE Commons Wallace Hall

Please read the recruitment letter if you’re interested, and for more details.

Robsm2@uw.edu

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Apply for a scholarship to study abroad in Denmark!

  • Summer scholarship: $2500
  • Academic year scholarship: $9000

Application deadline: January 15th, 2013 

Applications can be submitted on the website: www.be.washington.edu/scandesign/

Info Sessions will be held in Schmitz 459 at 12:00pm on these dates:

  • Friday Oct. 26th 
  • Friday Nov. 2nd 
  • Friday Nov. 16th 
  • Friday Jan. 11th 

Full Flyer here!

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Benaroya Hall
Wednesday Nov. 7th 2012
7:30 – 10:30 PM

Deirdre Cybele Smith from 350.org is offering free tickets for students, faculty and staff who are interested in the upcoming divestment campaign to attend McKibben & Crew’s “Do the Math” tour! She’s working to connect student environmental and climate action groups to the event – to make sure they know about it, are welcome, and get inspired for real change, not climate change. 

Contact Deirdre at deirdre@350.org if you or anyone you know might be interested!

Town Hall’s link to the event

Learn more about the tour

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Do you want to have a lasting impact on your campus and in the world? Are you passionate about poverty-related issues?

Apply to start a Nourish International chapter on your campus today! Join the student movement to address global poverty through social entrepreneurship. Nourish International is currently located on 28 U.S. college campuses and are now accepting applications to expand.

Visit the website to learn more about Nourish’s model of engaging students and empowering communities. Act now – applications are being reviewed as they are submitted!

Learn more about Nourish International @ www.nourish.org

[internship] Intern with companies to help clean up Hanford

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Come join the fight to clean up the Hanford site in Richland, WA by interning this summer with a coalition of different organizations! These intern programs allow students to obtain real world experience in their field of study and each intern is assigned a mentor that works with the student during the entire internship. All internships are paid and salaries range with experience ($18 to $32 an hour). There is an expected 60 to 70 internships available. Read below to learn what each organization is responsible for.

Department of Energy (DOE) oversees the projects associated with cleaning up the reactors, soil, groundwater, solid waste burial sites, and also manages the demolition of facilities, and the disposition of the remaining plutonium left on the site.

Mission Support Alliance (MSA) is responsible for services such as safeguards and security, environmental integration, site infrastructure and utilities, site business management, information resources and content management and portfolio management.

Washington Closure Hanford (WCH) is responsible for remediation and restoration including decommissioning and demolition of buildings and ground water remediation

Washington RIver Protection Solutions (WRPS) is responsible for developing new systems and technology that will help remove waste and sludge from old storage tanks.


To learn more…

For more information or to apply to the program, visit www.anrinterns.com

Students can also contact Jessica Esparza at 509-946-1725 or jessicae@anrgroupinc.com

Or check out the flyer here!

[course]: ENVIR 495 A: Literature, Culture, and the Environment: The Human Animal

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This course can fulfill the ‘human and social dimensions’ requirement of either the Environmental Studies major or minor

The Human Animal: German 298, Clit 298, Envir 495, and English 365.

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? Has it always been that way or is it something about how humans have come to view themselves in the wake of the Enlightenment and its civilizing processes that now threatens the very survival of our fellow creatures. These are the questions that will frame discussions in this course. We will pursue a loose historical trajectory, beginning with antiquity, to consider how previous ages have understood their relations with the animal kingdom. We will be also interested in how privileging the human has led to the dehumanization and slaughter of so-called lesser humans. Finally, we will consider the role of the human, if any, at the end of days when, according. to the Book of Isiah, the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat.

Course format:  Lecture and discussion

Course requrements:  Two short essays and a final longer essay (It may be possible to take the course for “W”credit.).

Readings include:  Ovid, The Metamorphosis (excerpts); Aristotle (excerpts various works); essays from Montaigne and Descartes; H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau; Herman Melville, “The Whiteness of the Whale” from Moby Dick;  Virginia Woolf, Flush; Edward Albee, The Goat; and Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, We Three (a graphic novel); King Kong (the movie).  On occasion we will also consider selected chapters from The Old Testament.

What You Can Expect to Learn in This Class:

How the current environmental crisis can be traced to our changed relations with the animal kingdom;

How to historicize texts and refuse naturalizing the present;

How to read closely and compose a coherent and cogent essay based on those readings.

[event]: Green Kent Day

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Check out the upcoming event – promoted in part by a PoE student interning for Forterra!

What are you doing this Saturday? Register for Green Kent Day!

Join the mayor of Kent and hundreds of volunteers for a tree planting extravaganza to celebrate the first annual Green Kent Day on Saturday, October

27th! This event will take place at Morrill Meadows Park and the Green River Natural Resources Area and will include yummy food and a great chance to get involved in celebrating your local green spaces!  Tree planting starts at 9 am and ends at noon with a barbeque at the Morrill Meadows site. Bring your friends, family, and neighbors and don’t forget to register for this exciting event!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR GREEN KENT DAY!