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UW Dawg Daze Thrift Swap
Join us THIS FRIDAY from 2 – 6PM down in Wallace Hall for an exciting Dawg Daze event in partnership with PoE RSO SPORES! Bring your unwanted clothing items to participate in a thrift swap and enjoy light refreshments.
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Seattle REconomy Tool Sale
Tool Sale @ NE Seattle Tool Library (9/21): All Offers Accepted!
Seattle REconomy is hosting a Tool Sale at the NE Seattle Tool Library (NESTL) on September 21st from 9am–3pm! This event is free and open to the community.
Apply Now: Assistant Teaching Professor, Environmental Studies
The University of Washington Program on the Environment (PoE) invites applications for 2 faculty positions at the level of Assistant Teaching Professor in any field of Environmental Studies. These positions may teach courses in at least one of the following areas:
Bioregional natural history
International socio-ecological issues
Quantitative and qualitative data analysis
Environmental justice
Positions are full-time (100% FTE) over a 9-month service period with additional possible summer teaching.
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Reuse Seattle Volunteer Opportunity
Are you interested in supporting reuse efforts in Seattle? Look no further!
Reuse Seattle is a City of Seattle initiative, partnering with community events throughout the city to
pilot reusable dishware.
UW CELE Center Student Job Opportunity: Communications Assistant
Position available: CEC Communications Assistant
Department: UAA, Community Engagement and Leadership Education (CELE) Center
Hours: 12-15 hours per week, flexible with student’s schedule
Compensation: $19.97 per hour
Work Study Job Number: CELE02
Undergraduate Academic Affairs (UAA) shapes, advances, and stewards a world-class
undergraduate academic experience for students at the University of Washington.

Bloomberg Green Festival -- Students attend free!
Bloomberg Green Festival is a global collaboration between innovators, policymakers, entrepreneurs, artists, activists, musicians and more, to explore new solutions spanning the entire climate spectrum.
Headquartered at our Seattle Center campus, the festival will cover four themes vital to creating practical, collective change: Technology and Innovation, The Climate Economy, Greener Living and Green Policy.

ENVIR 480 Student Project Highlight
Students from the Spring 2024 offering of ENVIR 480, Sustainability Consulting Practicum, hit it out of the park last week with their presentation on super-gas user conversion to electric vehicles!
In ENVIR 480, students are split into teams and paired with local Seattle organizations — often either businesses or nonprofits — to work on a client project that advances sustainability in the respective sector.
Congratulations 2024 Scholarship Recipients!
Ava Vaughan, Program on the Environment Undergraduate Scholarship
Ava is pursuing a dual degree in business and environmental studies with a minor in nutrition. She grew up on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington and spent most of her life on Dabob Bay.
Volunteer at the 2024 Greater & Greener Conference
Seattle Parks and Recreation is hosting this year’s Greater & Greener Conference in Seattle, from June 21 to June 25 – and we are in need of additional volunteers!
What is Greater & Greener 2024?

Volunteer with SER - Tikvah's Garden Restoration Site
Tikvah’s Garden is a charismatic bioswale of native plants outside of the Fishery Sciences Building, which has undergone restoration led by the UW Program on the Environment. After some recent blackberry invasion, they reached out to the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) to collaborate and have decided to take on the challenge.
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