[event] – Film Screening about Legendary Environmentalist

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The Burke Museum is proud to present the Seattle premiere of Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for our Time.  This is the first documentary film produced about the legendary environmentalist highlighting his extraordinary career and his lasting legacy that continues to inspire projects that connect people and land.  Green Fire is more than a documentary about the great conservationist Aldo Leopold.  It portrays how Leopold’s vision of a community that cares about both people and land—his call for a land ethic—ties together a wide range of modern conservation concerns and offers inspiration and insight for the future.

Thanks to generous support from the College of the Environment, tickets are FREE for UW students.  Preregistration is required.  We anticipate a sell-out crowd so tell your students to get their tickets by October 5 to ensure availability.  

When: October 18, 2011, 7 pm
Where: Neptune Theatre
Tickets are FREE for UW students with RSVP.
General public tickets are $5.  To purchase tickets visit Seattle Theatre Group (service charges apply)

For more information about the film visit the Burke’s website.

 

[event] – 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, Friday, 5/20

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*We encourage ALL undergraduates to check out the undergraduate research symposium.  You could be presenting your capstone project or other research projects here next year*!

Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our undergraduates next Friday, May 20th from 12pm-5pm at the 14th Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium.  This year, over 900 students will be presenting their work in poster and oral presentation sessions in Mary Gates Hall (with a few additional sessions in Johnson Hall and Meany Studio Theatre).

The Online Proceedings (including event schedule, presenter and mentor search tools, and abstracts) is now available on our website: https://expo.uw.edu/expo/apply/231/proceedings where you can find individual students by name, major, mentor name, or mentor department.

[event] – ‘Food Justice’ dialogue and book talk

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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? Is there a food justice movement?

When we talk about today’s food system, food injustices are ubiquitous. It’s where workers in the fields, the meat processing plants, or the restaurant industry face hazardous and exploitative conditions. It’s in the low-income neighborhoods that lack supermarkets but abound in fast food franchises. And it’s with our food products that sometimes resemble more of a high calorie chemical mash than a wholesome and healthy product. Opposing these unjust conditions, a food justice movement has taken root, seeking to transform the food system, from field to table. Robert Gottlieb, co-author of the new book, Food Justice, will talk about the strengths and the challenges facing these new and dynamic food justice groups and their organizing efforts, the emerging new politics around food, and the efforts to transform the very language and understanding about food, from how food is grown to why eating has become a political act.

Robert Gottlieb is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. He is the author of a dozen books, including most recently Food Justice (with Anupama Joshi, MIT Press). He has been researching and organizing around food system issues for more than two decades and is a long-time social and environmental justice activist and historian of social movements.

 

Sponsored by the Community Alliance for Global Justice  and the UW Department of Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments

[event] Common Spaces NW

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[event] Common Spaces NW

Common Spaces Northwest began from an idea: what sort of incredible fusion of prowess and flowering of community can happen if we just got people together to talk? What kind of concepts or changes can we inspire? So often the barriers between activism, theory, and feeling are so high–Common Spaces Northwest seeks to bring them down and open this conversation to everyone who wants to participate, everyone who’s concerned with these problems. Join us this weekend at Common Spaces NW and get this conversation started!