Make sure to stop by and support your fellow PoE students at the Autumn 2013 Capstone Symposium! For more information on the specific events and presenters, click here
You’re Invited to:
The PoE Holiday Party!
When: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 5:30 PM
Where: PoE Commons, Wallace Hall, Suite 012
We hope you can join us to celebrate the holidays, the end of the quarter, and the end of the Autumn 2013 Capstone Symposium with PoE faculty, staff, students, and alumni. The event is a potluck, so please bring a dish, snacks, or treats to share. PoE will provide drinks (wine, beer, and non-alcoholic drinks) and utensils. This event is kid-friendly, so please bring family members of all ages.
Feeling festive? Come wearing your ugliest (or is that best?) holiday sweater.
Awards from the Capstone Symposium will be announced, and there may even some live holiday music.
RSVP is managed through a Facebook event, so please let us know if you will be attending. Click here:
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. Ten new proposals have emerged in just the last year to ship crude oil by train to Northwest refineries and port terminals.
Join us on Tuesday, November 19th, to learn more about these oil transport proposals, the risks they pose to Washington, what protections and safeguards are currently in place, and what gaps need to be addressed to reduce the risk of oil spills.
Free Public Forum: Risky Business: How oil transport threatens Washington’s health, economy, and waters
When: Tuesday, November 19, 2013. Program 6:30-8:30pm. Doors open at 6:00 pm, snacks and beverages.
Where: Center for Urban Horticulture at University of Washington, 3501 NE 41st St., Seattle
Partner organizations: Washington Environmental Council, Citizens for a Healthy Bay, Columbia Riverkeeper, Earthjustice, Forest Ethics, Friends of the Earth, FRIENDS of the San Juans, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, Sightline Institute, and Surfrider Foundation.
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. We have designed and tested a series of plantings in urban areas (parks, landfills, and brownfields) that attempt to restore ecological connections between fragmented and degraded remnant habitats.
Restoration designs for the new Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York and the Orange County Great Park in California includes meshing restored habitat complexity with civic needs. These types of ecological solutions may be relevant to many urban landscape architecture designs. Early collaboration of ecologists with landscape architects, planners, and civil engineers, is needed for these plans to succeed. Building this link with the design community will be necessary to advance urban restoration practice.
Biography:
Professor Steven Handel of Rutgers University is a restoration ecologist studying the potential for improvement of habitats, biodiversity, and ecoservices in urban areas. His scientific background is in plant population ecology and plant-animal interactions. He has collaborated with landscape architects on the application of ecology to the design of urban parks, and spoken about these issues internationally. He is an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow of the Ecological Society of America and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves as Editor of Ecological Restoration. He was awarded “Honorary Membership” to the American Society of Landscape Architects for “nationally or internationally significant achievements” important to that profession. In 2011, he received the Theodore Sperry Award by the Society for Ecological Restoration International for “pioneering work in the restoration of urban areas.” The Sperry Award, given only every other year, is the highest research award for ecological restoration in the world. Handel received his B.A. from Columbia College and Ph.D. from Cornell University, in the Field of Ecology and Evolution.
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.
What: Community Presentation and Q&A
Time: Tuesday November 26th: presentation from 11:00am-11:50am, followed by a reception with light snacks and refreshments until 12:20pm.
Place: Assembly Room, Hec Edmundson (Meet in arena at 10:55 to be escorted to room if needed)
Topics include: Athlete Engagement in Locker Room Waste Diversion, Local Food at Husky Stadium, Carbon Footprinting and Offsetting of Game Day Travel, and Fan Outreach and Education
Partners include: Husky Athletics, UW Recycling, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability Office, Green Sports Alliance and more.
For more information, please email the instructor Megan Horst at horstm@uw.edu.
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. Ten new proposals have emerged in just the last year to ship crude oil by train to Northwest refineries and port terminals.
Join us on Tuesday, November 19th, to learn more about these oil transport proposals, the risks they pose to Washington, what protections and safeguards are currently in place, and what gaps need to be addressed to reduce the risk of oil spills.
Free Public Forum: Risky Business: How oil transport threatens Washington’s health, economy, and waters
When: Tuesday, November 19, 2013. Program 6:30-8:30pm. Doors open at 6:00 pm, snacks and beverages.
Where: Center for Urban Horticulture at University of Washington, 3501 NE 41st St., Seattle
Partner organizations: Washington Environmental Council, Citizens for a Healthy Bay, Columbia Riverkeeper, Earthjustice, Forest Ethics, Friends of the Earth, FRIENDS of the San Juans, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, Sightline Institute, and Surfrider Foundation.
Note: Early registration discounts are available until midnight tonight ($95 adult, $40 youth under 24) and volunteer opportunities are still available for those who cannot afford to attend. We would really love to have your energy and expertise with us next weekend so that we can work together toward our shared goals in the Northwest.
The PoE Community Drinks social is this Thursday, October 17th at 6:30pm. The gathering is at Café Solstice, located at4116 The Ave, Seattle, WA 98105 (On the Ave next to Shultzy’s).
The whole POE community is invited: alumni, students, faculty, and staff. Join the PoE Alumni board, tell anyone in the PoE community that you know, and come with a friend that may have an interest in the program!
Bard College’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability will be hosting a series of online information sessions this fall.
The sessions will be held on the second Thursday at 7pm and the second Saturday at 1pm, October through May. All attendees receive a $65 application fee waiver!
Upcoming Information Sessions
Thurs. October 10th at 7pm
Sat. October 12th at 1pm
Sat. November 9th at 1pm
Thurs. November 14th at 7pm
No pre-registration is required. Join as a “guest” five minutes before at https://bard.adobeconnect.com/gpswebinar.