“Our Freshwater Future” Thursday, 9/19 presentation by Sandra Postel in the WSU CUB auditorium and 7 pm. She is a TEDx presenter. Details at http://environment.wsu.edu/lanelecture – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufQggKQ5u1Q.
We have finalized arrangements for a Nez Perce megaload blockaders benefit concert at the Unitarian Church in Moscow and will bring our plans to the Tribal Activist Meeting tonight (Sept. 5). The Friday, September 20, tentative performance schedule sees the Moscow Volunteer Peace Band (Fritz Knorr contact) marching from Friendship Square/(downtown loop?) at 6:30 pm, Jeanne McHale and the Threat Level Purple Singers playing at 7 pm, the Galactic Tofu Farmers (Chris Norden and Leontina Hormel contacts) taking the stage at 8 or 8:30 pm, and Undiscovered Country (Tom Drake contact) performing at 9:30 or 10 pm. For further information, contact Helen Yost at wild.idaho.rising.tide@gmail.com.
Draw the Line: Momentum has been gathering to have a forceful presence in support of the nation-wide “Draw the Line” campaign by 350.org to send a message that we oppose the Keystone XL pipeline – a decision by Obama is imminent. We will be doing photo petitions with an artificial pipeline both individually and in groups with as many people as possible, writing messages on a white board. We are engaging student groups from WSU and UI. There are ways you can help – let me know if you are willing.
Here is the link to our events:
http://act.350.org/event/draw_the_line/search/?akid=3543.591886.3aVyce&rd=1&t=3&zip=99163.
Draw the Line: Momentum has been gathering to have a forceful presence in support of the nation-wide “Draw the Line” campaign by 350.org to send a message that we oppose the Keystone XL pipeline – a decision by Obama is imminent. We will be doing photo petitions with an artificial pipeline both individually and in groups with as many people as possible, writing messages on a white board. We are engaging student groups from WSU and UI. There are ways you can help – let me know if you are willing.
Here is the link to our events:
http://act.350.org/event/draw_the_line/search/?akid=3543.591886.3aVyce&rd=1&t=3&zip=99163.
Elaine Alvey, a native of Kentucky, will give a presentation on “Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia”. She will discuss the process and impacts of mountain top removal for coal. Elaine is a WSU graduate student in the college of education. As an undergraduate at the University of Kentucky she explored the relationship between the coal industry and public education in Appalachia. This presentation is at 7 pm on Monday, September 23rd in room 103 of the Menard Law Building on the University of Idaho campus, with free parking nearby. The event is sponsored by the UI Environmental Law Society and the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition.
Spokane and Tri-Cities rallies co-coordinated with Occupy Spokane at the Millennium Bulk (coal export) Terminals Longview public scoping hearings (9/17 Cowlitz Expo Center in Longview, 9/25 Spokane Convention Center in Spokane, 10/1 The Trac Center in Pasco, 10/9 Clark County Fairgrounds in Vancouver, 10/17 Tacoma Convention Center in Tacoma)
The scoping period for the environmental review process is Aug. 16 to Nov. 18. During this period, comments to assist in a decision of what impacts to analyze in an environmental impact statement (EIS) will be gathered. During the scoping period there will be multiple ways for the public to submit comments, including online, by mail, by email and at public scoping meetings.
More information at Washington State Department of Ecology
Regional Rising Tide strategy summit (Bellingham, Washington location and dates TBA)
“Our Liquid Asset”
Toyoko Tsukuda, Emeritus of University of New Mexico, School Medicine, Albuquerque and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, at Cornell University Medical College, New York, Postdoctoral fellow at Yale University Medical School, New Haven CT and at Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland WA will be giving a presentation at Washington State University on Thursday, October 3rd at 3:00pm in CUE 202.
Topics of Toyoko Tsukuda’s presentation:
- What do you know about GE organisms?
- What is the impact of GEO in our lives?
- What are the new studies telling us?
This presentation is brought to you by the Washington State University Environmental Science Club.
Sponsored by Friends of the Moscow Library. She recently published a book on this subject. PESC tried to set up a presentation from her back at the beginning of this year but conflicts got in the way. Her talk should be interesting and perhaps controversial because she presents climate change from the perspective of geologic history. Flyer about E. Kirsten Peters talk, “The Whole Story of Climate Change.”
While the recent work of climate scientists has added
greatly to our understanding of the fragility of climate, the
public rarely hears from geologists— even though
geologists have been studying climate change for almost
200 years. The typical American has the impression that
climate would be stable if it weren’t for industrialization and
the production of greenhouse gases from smokestacks and
cars. However, geologic history reveals a ceaselessly
changing climate going back millions of years before the
modern economy.
As The Whole Story of Climate explains, several long, cold
spells have been punctuated by short, warm ones. We are,
in fact, currently living in one of the short, warm periods
that the Earth has seen many times before. There is even a
serious hypothesis worth exploring that if it weren’t for the
greenhouse gases created for millennia by agriculture we
would today be headed back into a time of bitterly cold
temperatures worthy of the mastodons and mammoths
many of us read about as children.
Elsa Kirsten Peters grew up in Pullman. She was a geology major
at Princeton and earned her PhD in geology at Harvard. She has
taught undergraduate geology at WSU and is the author of several
books, as well as the syndicated “Rock Doc” newspaper column.
She has also published murder mysteries under the pen name
Irene Allen.
On October 16 between 5 and 7 pm, in the Music Building Auditorium Room 110 on the Spokane Falls Community College campus, 3410 West Fort George Wright Drive in Spokane, Governor Inslee and Washington state legislators from the Climate Legislative and Executive Workgroup (CLEW) will be holding a public hearing for open discussions about climate policy actions.
http://climatesolutions.org/events/climate-action-hearing-in-spokane
Open to the public. Please email Carole Wells for an agenda.
This fall, 10,000+ youth leaders will converge in Pittsburgh, PA to fight for our future.
Together we’ll build the movement to fight fracking, divest from fossil fuels, build a clean energy future, and stop the climate crisis.
Power Shift 2013 will take place October 18 – 21st in Pittsburgh, PA.
TIME TBA — Save the date: On Saturday, October 19, IRAGE, WIRT, and allies around the world are staging another Global Frackdown! See the WIRT website for more information.
