CLOSING DATE: 11/30/2012SALARY: $12.77 – $16.18 Hourly, depending upon level of educationLOCATION: King Street Center – 201 S Jackson St, SeattleDIVISION: Department of Natural Resources & Parks – Recycling and Environmental Services Division
Background:The King County Solid Waste Division plans, develops and implements a variety of waste reduction and recycling programs that target residents, businesses and schools. 

Check out this petition calling on President Young to go fossil-free.

UW can divest their investments from the fossil fuels that threaten our future. But they need to hear from us – especially students – to do it.  

Pipeline Project’s seminars this winter allow students to tutor for credit in conjunction with attending seminars that explore a wide variety of issues and topics in the field of education.  
Interested students can contact peichial@uw.edu. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.