message from ‘the front desk’
***Hi all,
I want to let you know that we’re rolling out an exciting new feature in the PoE Environmental Technology Lab!I’m installing Windows 7 Partitions and ArcGIS software onto the iMacs in the lab – perfect for GIS students fed up with the Sherman Lab (like me)!Unfortunately, you cannot access the “S” drive that work is usually saved on in the Sherman Lab, so if you want to bring your GIS lab project down here, you’ll need to take the whole folder that your project is in via flash drive to our lab.To access the Windows 7 operating system, just restart computers with the dualboot sticker and select the Windows logo on startup using the arrow keys.-Drew***  

FOOD JUSTICE: A SOCIAL MOVEMENT TAKES ROOT
Join us for a dialogue with Food Justice co-author Robert Gottlieb
Monday May 23, 7:00 PM
Architecture Hall 147
What is food justice? How would we define it? 

Creating Sustainable Campus Food Systems:
Student research on food, agriculture, and sustainability at the University of Washington
Friday, June 3
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Wallace Hall, POE Commons(formerly the Academic Computing Center)3737 Brooklyn Ave NE
Students in POE’s Sustainability Studio spent this quarter researching options for creating more sustainable food systems on campus! 

What You Need to Know About the New Husky Card 

American Water Works Association and Water Environment Federation (AWWA-WEF)Speakers Forum: Storm Water
6:00 PM Thursday, May 12Johnson Hall Room 075
Panelists from:
CH2MHillKing County Water & Land ResourcesSeattle Public UtilitiesWashington Stormwater CenterNW Space and Naval Warfare System  

A Summer 2011 internship!I am recruiting students interested in a peer instructor role with a summer field course for 35 students from Keio University in Japan. The course is “Humans and the Environment in the Northwest Bioregion” and will run from 8/5 to 8/24.   

The student organization, College Greens UW, is holding its 2nd annual three-part film/speaker series dedicated to issues of environmental and social justice. The first event (with The Economics of Happiness and speaker Joanna Wright) was a great success and we’re excited about the next two! 

Autumn Quarter 2011 Time Schedule:http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/AUT2011/
Autumn Quarter 2011 Registration Dates (begins April 18, 2011):http://www.washington.edu/students/reg/priorau11.html
Please review environmental studies major or minor requirements: Major: http://depts.washington.edu/poeweb/students/requirements.html Minor: http://depts.washington.edu/poeweb/students/es_minor.html
Autumn Quarter 2011 Perspectives & Experiences lists are now updated:http://depts.washington.edu/poeweb/students/perspexp.html
ENVIR 490 (pre-capstone seminar): For students who will beginning the capstone series (490-491-492), we are offering the pre-capstone seminar in Autumn 2011.  

North and East King County Job Fair 

Why have Tibetans become environmentalists? How do Tibetan conceptions of nature differ from Western ones? The UW Program on the Environment presents Shielding the Mountains, a narrative on the Tibetan environmental culture and conservation movements, that illustrates these questions and explores the necessity behind protecting our precious environments.