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Happy Holidays from all of us at UW Environmental Studies! Holiday cheer courtesy of the WholeU Carolers including Julie Johnston and Megan Horst!

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Online tool lets Washington residents calculate carbon tax impacts | UW Today

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Online tool lets Washington residents calculate carbon tax impacts | UW Today

University of Washington computer scientists have partnered with members of theCarbon Washington grassroots campaign to create an online tool that lets residents calculate how a state carbon tax swap proposed by the organization would impact them financially.

The calculator offers information users can’t find elsewhere and is meant to be a neutral, unbiased tool.

Environmental Studies Majors in the News

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We have some pretty amazing students in this major. Two of them have recently been in the news!
 
Angela Feng is a senior major in Environmental Studies and an active leader in both the SAGE club and the UW Earth Club. She is at the moment literally the ‘poster child’ of the College of the Environment with a front page profile. Read more about her, and what she shares in common with Macklemore here.
Alexa Ramos is another senior in our major who worked on wetlands mitigation at Paine Field in Mukilteo over the summer for her Capstone project. Read her profile in the latest newsletter from Paine Field here.
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​Congrats to Angela and Alexa for profile on your great work!

The Hot New Frontier of Energy Research Is Human Behavior | Science | WIRED

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The Hot New Frontier of Energy Research Is Human Behavior | Science | WIRED

When it comes to discussions about energy and climate, the focus is nearly always on technology. We wonder whether coal can be cleaned and solar panels made efficient, if there might be a breakthrough in algae biofuels or carbon storage. In short, we think about about hardware. Yet another area of innovation, traditionally unglamorous and overlooked, is experiencing a boom in research attention: human nature.

[news]: UW Today: Decline of natural history troubling for science, society

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[news]: UW Today: Decline of natural history troubling for science, society

http://www.washington.edu/news/2014/03/26/decline-of-natural-history-troubling-for-science-society/

Find out more about what ENVIR 280 teachers Josh Tewksbury and Tim Billo have been up to! ENVIR 280 is an introductory natural history course, and is offered annually in spring quarter. This year we will be offering another section of this popular course in autumn 2014.

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The International, a news website that features articles from a variety of sources on issues of public interest, is currently looking for reporters of environmental topics at the University of Washington! Interns are provided with training on how to write for the online environment while maintaining high journalistic standards, a skill that proves invaluable for anyone who may want to break into journalism or write a blog in the future. 

The International is a small, but dedicated team that works toward furthering global understanding of issues through focused investigative journalism. The team has always been quite young, with most of the team in their twenties, they have established a very high standing for themselves. The goal is not to shape what people think, but carefully nourish a more perspicacious approach towards consuming the news. They are an independent company. 

To dig deeper into what The International is and offers, take a look at their editorial policy found here: http://www.theinternational.org/EP

The internships descriptions and application processing is available here: http://www.theinternational.org/opportunities