“March to 70” RecycleMania Planning Committee positions open for winter quarter!

Purpose of the “March to 70” RecycleMania Planning Committee
The objective of the RecycleMania Student Planning Committee is to help UW rise in the rankings in the 2014 RecycleMania competition by engaging the campus community to recycle and compost more and send less waste to the landfill during the competition period.  

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Recent technology has allowed oil companies to extract oil from tar sands and shale deposits, in Canada and U.S. The risks are wide ranging: from oil spills along rail, marine, and pipeline routes to explosions to train traffic congestion to increased carbon emissions to degradation of habitat.  

Attend the following event this Thursday, November 21at 6:30pm in the Architecture Hall Room 147:
Steven Handel: “Dreams and Nightmares of Urban Restoration Ecology”
Small patches of native habitat in urban and suburban areas can supply ecological services, public amenities that are sustainable with relatively low maintenance costs. 

Interested in studying in Denmark and exploring it’s unique political, social, geographic, design, and planning context? 
Looking for funding to help support your experience….

The 2014-15 UW Scan|Design Fellowships are for you. 

Sports and Sustainability- Nothing in common? Think again.
This Fall Quarter, Program on Environment ENVIR 480 students initiated innovative projects to help ramp up Husky “Green Team” efforts.Please join us on Tuesday November 26th, 2013 for their community presentation and hear about their innovative efforts to evaluate and support sustainability by Husky Athletics.  

University of Colorado, Boulder.
A PhD or MS position available beginning fall 2014 in the Environmental Studies Program (http://envs.colorado.edu) with two years of funding guaranteed to develop a dissertation/thesis related to the CAFOR project (see below for project description). 

Position: PhD Assistantship; Three years of funding available (research and teaching assistantship) with a goal of securing project funding for the duration of the students’ program.
 
Project background: Dr. Christine Vatovec has funding available for one doctoral-level student to conduct environmental health social science research that is related to medical care.  

Recent technology has allowed oil companies to extract oil from tar sands and shale deposits, in Canada and U.S. The risks are wide ranging: from oil spills along rail, marine, and pipeline routes to explosions to train traffic congestion to increased carbon emissions to degradation of habitat.  

This course examines the earth’s past for evidence of extreme climate conditions in order to better understand possible future climate changes. Conditions that occurred during the Neo-Proterozoic (Snowball Earth: 750 to 550 million years ago), the Cretaceous Hothouse (100 million years ago, and Pleistocene Icehouse (1 million years ago) will be compared to the Present Day Greenhouse climate.