PoE is hiring a TA for ENVIR 100 in Winter Quarter 2013!
Each T.A. will lead three sections total. (Sections meet on either Thursdays or Fridays.) Each TA will also assist the instructors with mentoring the 3 undergraduate Peer TAs, who will each lead one discussion section. 

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
Today we will be discussing the short article: The Embers and the Stars, a philosophical inquiry into the moral sense of nature. 

Name: Samantha Zwicker
Class Standing: Senior
Major: Environmental Studies
Minors: Restoration Ecology, Environmental Science and Resource Management
Capstone Internship: Research Intern for the Woodland Park Zoo and WDFW
Capstone Project: Planning for Recovery: The Biology, Conservation, and Restoration of the Western Pond Turtle (Actinemys marmorata)
The development of my Capstone experience involved the collaboration between members of the Woodland Park Zoo and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. 

If anyone wants to go the 5:30pm showing on Friday, Nov. 16th send an email to poe@uw.edu. I’m planning on attending! – Tikvah, PoE Administrator 

Landmark Theatres & Submarine Entertainment
are proud to present the Exclusive Seattle Engagement of “CHASING ICE”…
Acclaimed National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. 

Winter 2013 course offering
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.   

Training will take place on Fridays from 9am-3pm, February 8 to May 3, 2013 at the Lewis Creek Visitor Center.  Ideal candidates for the program have an enthusiasm for learning, experience working in small groups and experience in natural resource sciences.  

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. 

Thank you to everyone who came out to the PoE Bake Sale today! We raised almost $200 and had a great time with Seattle Tilth. 

Sign up for a wild Alaskan summer of field studies and research with the Tatoosh School!
The Tatoosh School is a not for profit field school with offices in Portland, Oregon and classrooms in the towns, oceans, and forests of Alaska’s Inside Passage.