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 Sustainable
Idaho: The GreenHows Series |
| In Fall 2006,
the Sustainable Idaho Initiative began presenting a series of brown-bag lunch
conversations relating to sustainability and its implementation at the University of
Idaho. Additional sessions will be announced as they are scheduled.
If you are interested in originating a discussion, please contact
Rosemary Streatfeild
in the Environmental Science Program Office. |
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Spring 2008
FOCUS THE NATION
EVENTS!
RESCHEDULED FOR LEAP
DAY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, SAME TIME, SAME PLACE! Join us on Thursday,
January 31, 2008, noon - 2:00, in the Commons Whitewater Room, to view The
2% Solution, followed by participant discussion.
Focus The Nation has been developed over the past year
as a national teach-in on global warming solutions to culminate on January
31 with hundreds of educational events taking place all over the U.S. The
State of Idaho has its very own coordinator, Laura Westwood (email
laura@focusthenation.org for information about
events in Idaho). Contact Rosemary Streatfeild at
streatf@uidaho.edu
for more information.
Other events on and
around campus include:
On Wednesday, January
30, from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m., a Webcast that focuses on the solution to Global
Warming will be shown in LSS 277. Contact Nick Hubof at
nhubof@vandals.uidaho.edu.
On Wednesday, January
30, at 5:30 p.m., a round table discussion will take place in the Shop Crit
Room adjacent to the College of Art and Architecture. This will feature
Architecture professors, other faculty and students who will share their
thoughts and lead discussions on Climate Change and our possible responses
to the problem. Contact Nick Hubof at
nhubof@vandals.uidaho.edu.
2) On
Thursday, January 31st at 6:00 p.m. a
forum, Obstacles to Combating Climate Change and How to Overcome Them,
will take place at Mikey’s in
down town Moscow. This event has been organized by Laura Milewski of the
Palouse-Clearwater Environmental. Panelists are Kenton Bird (UI Director of
the School of Journalism and Mass Media) on Media, Heather Truelove (WSU
graduate student) on Denial, and Fritz Fiedler (UI professor of Civil
Engineering) on Technology. The forum will be followed by a raffle
and showing of the documentary Revolution Green: A True Story of
Biodiesel in America. For more information, contact Laura at
laura@pcei.org.
3) In
addition, screenings
of the Architecture 2030 (http://www.architecture2030.org/)
Webcast in UI architecture classes on January 30th and 31st. For more information, contact Nick
Hubof at
nhubof@vandals.uidaho.edu.
4) Participation
in the Face-It (http://www.architecture2030.org/faceit/index.php)
architectural challenge. Contact Nick Hubof at
nhubof@vandals.uidaho.edu
if you would like to participate. |
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Fall 2007
Thursday, 11/30: A Tour
of the UI Steam Plant, Michael Lyngholm, Manager, and Scott Smith,
Foreman, noon - 1:30 p.m., UI Steam Plant.
Thursday, 11/1: Going
Climate Neutral: A look at UI's current emissions and profile of a reduction
plan, Darin Saul, UI Sustainability Coordinator, and Tom Nagawiecki,
EnvS graduate student, noon - 1:30 p.m., Education 419.
Thursday, 10/11:
Presentations by PIs of the Spring 2007 funded projects, Jodi
Johnson-Maynard, Chris Dixon & student team, Maria Jankowska & Ben Hunter,
Gundars Rudzitis & student team, Max Dakins, noon - 1:30 p.m., Education
419. |
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Spring 2007
Wednesday, 4/11:
Market-based
Approaches to Reducing Green House Gases (GHGs),
Terry Grieb, Associate
Professor of Finance,
College of Business and Economics, noon - 1:30 p.m., Michael Boardroom in
Albertson Building, Room 311.
Thursday, 3/22:
Economic Impacts of
Global Warming in the Pacific Northwest,
Eban Goodstein, Professor of Economics,
Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. "Afternoon Tea," Aurora Room,
UI Commons.
Thursday, 2/1:
The University of
Idaho Organic Farm and Sustainable Food Systems,
Jodi Johnson-Maynard,
Assistant Professor of Soil Science,
College of Agriculture, and the Soil Stewards, noon - 1:30 p.m.,
Ag Biotech Interaction Room |
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Fall 2006
Tuesday,
11/28:
A Carbon-Neutral McCall Field Campus: An
Interdisciplinary Design Project,
Bruce Haglund, Professor of Architecture,
and
Rula Awwad-Rafferty, Associate Professor of Interior Design,
College of Art & Architecture, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.,
Shop Crit Room.
Friday, 11/10:
Schrödinger’s Salmon: The Spatial and Temporal
Challenges of Sustainability,
Joseph E. Taylor III, Canada Research Chair in History and Geography at Simon
Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.,
noon - 1:30 p.m.,
Education 419.
Friday, 10/13:
Greening the Campus through Greening the Curriculum:
Lessons Learned,
Dr. Paul Rowland,
Dean, College of Education,
noon - 1:30 p.m.,
Education 419. |
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