*job**internship* TWO opportunities with Mountains to Sound Greenway

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*job**internship* TWO opportunities with Mountains to Sound Greenway

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Trails Project Coordinator: The Trails Project Coordinator is a full-time, permanent position with the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust’s Land Stewardship Program. The program coordinates trail crews, contractors and extensive community involvement in these on-the-ground efforts.

The Trails Project Coordinator will assist in developing and implementing multiple trail construction projects and an expanding trail maintenance program, which is integrated with federal, state and local agencies who manage these public lands. The position will include direct field supervision of projects, tracking of field results, operation of trail equipment, preparing trail surveys, and completing trail designs. In addition to on the ground work, this position will play an integral role in the “trail experience” throughout the landscape; developing a voice for the trail system.

Events and Outreach Intern: The Events and Outreach Intern is a multi-faceted position within the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust. This position will be responsible for supporting Greenway Trust outreach activities and events, as well as providing administrative support to the Trust in Communications and Development.

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REMINDER – PoE Community Drinks Social in the heart of Ballard at the ’Urban Family Public House’ this Thursday, 1/26 from 7:30 ~ whenever! Come meet PoE students, alumni, and others. 21+

[event]: Capstone Information Session

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Everything you wanted to know about the PoE Capstone*
*but were afraid to ask

PoE Commons (ACC 012)
Tuesday, Februrary 7
3:30 ~ 4:30 

Please join us for an information session all about the Environmental Studies Capstone experience. Intrepid capstone instructor P. Sean McDonald will be on hand to help answer all of your capstone related questions. Are you thinking about starting your capstone this spring? Did you start the major this year, and you want to find out what the capstone is all about? Are you interested in learning what goes into capstone projects abroad? Honors capstone projects?

All questions will be answered!

Announcing the winners of the PoE Cookie Cookoff!

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1st Place: The Sassy Salty Chocolate Chip Cookie
by Tikvah Weiner (PoE Admin)

If you’re curious to see what the 1st place Sassy Salty Chocolate Chip Cookie is all about, be sure to check out the “read more” link below to find the recipe. 

2nd place: The Wookie Cookie and The Best Molasses Cookie Ever
by Joe Kobayashi (PoE Undergraduate Program Coordinator) and Giulia Anderson (PoE Undergrad – Junior), respectively (a tie!)

Congratulations to the bakers of these awesome cookies!

If you missed the Cookie Cook-off, do not fear! In honor of January 23rd National Pie Day PoE will be hosting a pie cookoff on Wednesday, February 8th from 12-1pm in the PoE Commons.

The rules are simple. Bring any kind of pie you like – sweet, savory, chicken pot pie, cream pie, vegetable pie (ever had sweet potato pie??), pie with streusel topping, betty crocker crisscrossed pie, ice cream pie, fruit pie – whatever you desire. Come up with a clever name for your pie and we will put it to the test.

The cookoff will only work if we have lots and lots of judges!! We need lots of people to sample the fare and vote. So don’t worry if you have don’t own a pie tin and have never turned on your oven. We need everyone there! If you’re new to baking there are some great pie recipes on this baking blog.

Click here to get the 1st Place recipe!

Sassy Salty Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
  • 3 ½ cups (17 ounces) all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 ½ teaspoons coarse sea salt, plus additional salt for sprinkling lightly on cookies
  • 2 ½ sticks (10 ounces) unsalted butter
  • 1 2/3 cups (10 ounces) lightly packed light brown sugar
  • 1 cup (8 ounces) granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 18 to 20 ounces bittersweet chocolate, cut into large chip-size chunks (I recommend chocolate with at least 60% cacao content and prefer Scharffen Berger or Callebaut.) **I used one bag of bittersweet choc chips**
Directions
  1. Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl. Set aside.
  2. Using a stand mixer with a paddle attachment or an electric hand mixer, cream butter and sugars together until lightened, 3 to 5 minutes.
  3. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Stir in vanilla.
  4. Add flour mixture, blending at lowest speed until just combined.
  5. Drop chocolate pieces in and mix in gently, by hand.
  6. Wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate for 1 to 24 hours.
  7. Preheat convection oven to 325˚F. If convection is not available, preheat conventional oven to 350˚F.
  8. Roll dough into 1 ½-inch balls and place 2 inches apart on a sheet pan lined with a silpat liner or parchment paper.
  9. Sprinkle just a few grains of salt on each ball of dough and bake until cookies are golden around the edges and cooked through, but still soft, 12-15 minutes (on the longer side for conventional ovens).
  10. Let the cookies cool for 3 to 5 minutes on the pan. They are best eaten when warm. If they will not be eaten right away, transfer the cookies to a wire rack and cool further before storing.

Environmental Career Apprenticeship Program

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The Sierra Club is now accepting applications for the the 2012 Environmental Apprenticeship program!

The online application and essay are due Friday, February 24, 2012. All required supplemental materials (transcript, letters of recommendation) are due Friday, March 9, 2012.

Click here to apply!


Sierra Club’s Environmental Apprenticeship is a training program to cultivate future leaders in environmental advocacy. This program is designed for recent college graduates who are interested in legislation, media, and community outreach as a means of promoting green initiatives. Consider this your starting point for an environmental career course, helping you transition from your college experience into the non-profit working world.

An Apprenticeship is a full-time, 6 month paid staff position based in one of our offices around the country. Past work locations have included San Francisco, CA; Washington, DC; Minneapolis, MN; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA, and Austin, TX. Location placements for the chosen 2012 Apprentices will be based on the Conservation Department’s campaign or program needs, as well as the chosen candidates’ individual experiences and skills. Location placements occur after all final Apprenticeship candidates have been chosen.

[event] Art Exhibition: Particles on the Wall

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Join Nick Thorp from WPSR and INND/Toxipedia for the opening reception of the latest installation of Particles on the Wall at the University of Washington in Seattle, in Odegaard Undergraduate Library.

The artist forum will begin at 7:30 in Room 220, January 6th. The exhibit will continue through March 29th.

                                 

The program provides a unique opportunity to hear from artists, poets, and scientists who have been inspired by Hanford to create a wide variety of art. From poetry readings, to discussions on the inspirations for their art and their impressions on Hanford, the panel of artists will shed a new and interesting light on the site that created the bomb dropped on Nagasaki and is now the most contaminated place in the Western Hemisphere.

Come see the exhibit and follow the event on facebook! 

Exploration Seminar in Peru!

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Interested in an ecological and cultural exploration throughout eastern Peru? Join Ursula Valdez and Tim Bill in an Exploration Seminar in Peru this year! 

Information Seminar: 27 Jan 2012, PAA A023D (Kincaid Basement 2-5 PM)

Click here for the seminar website! 

Applications are open! Click here to apply! 

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[event] – A Conversation with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson

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A Conversation with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson

Wednesday, January 25th

4:00-5:00 PM

Fisheries 102

Wednesday, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will visit the University of Washington’s College of the Environment to discuss current EPA policies and “Jobs for the Future Green Economy.”  This “Town Hall”-style event, held on the University’s Seattle campus, is a part of Administrator Jackson’s ongoing efforts to speak with Americans across the country, especially students, about EPA’s work to protect people’s health and the environment and support job growth.

Admission to the event is free and open to the public.

More about Lisa Jackson at: http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/administrator.html