WHAT: The University of Idaho Sustainability Center is hosting an interdisciplinary, student-led panel discussion on the future of food entitled, “Feeding the Future”.
DETAILS: Students from International Studies, Agricultural Economics, Bioregional Planning, and Business will discuss complex food systems issues in a panel discussion hosted and moderated by the University of Idaho Sustainability Center. Topics will range from the value of sustainable agriculture practices to finding the balance between using acreage for biofuels versus food production. Audience members will have the opportunity to participate in the discussion with questions, and pizza will be provided for attendees. The diverse viewpoints and backgrounds of the student panelists will provide an opportunity to learn about the importance of finding collaborative solutions to global food issues.
WHERE: University of Idaho Commons, Crest Room, 4th Floor
UIdaho students will be presenting “Present and Future Concerns Regarding the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act”. Five posters that will be presented during the input session ranging from: wilderness’ influence on the arts to fire in wilderness areas. However, the majority of the public session will be a group discussion. Their goal is to collect public input about the Wilderness Act for Dr. Laninga and graduate student. Students are doing a team project entitled “Engaging the Public in Wilderness Discussions” as part of Dr. Tammi Laninga’s course on “Public Involvement in Natural Resource Management”.
Emily Hunter is an environmental author and filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada. Born into the environmental movement, her father was the late Robert Hunter, first president of Greenpeace and her mother, Bobbi Hunter, the first woman to save a whale by blocking a harpoonist at sea. For nearly a decade Emily has reported from the frontlines of global environmental campaigns, from the Sea Shepherd ships saving save whales in Antarctica to the rainforest of Borneo waging a media battle against the palm oil industry.
Markese W. Bryant is a 2012 Echoing Green Black Male Achievement Fellow. In 2010, Markese was selected as a winner in a nationwide business plan competition called “Energy, Economy and Innovation” at Morehouse College. After graduation, Markese joined the Green For All to build and manage the College Ambassador Program, which focused on fostering young, green-economy champions at fifteen Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Through this program, Markese played an integral role in organizing the largest delegation of African American college students to attend any Power Shift conference to date. Markese also partnered with Green For All to release a music video entitled “The Dream Reborn”, which garnered over 32,000 views on youtube.com and won 2nd place in the Environmental Protection Agency nationwide video contest. Markese will be coming to WSU to talk about diversifying the sustainability movement and making environmental education available to everyone regardless of their background. For more information about Markese and his mission visit his non-profits webpage: fightforlight.org
Please come celebrate all that Earth provides on April 22nd at the biggest Earth Day Fair ever on WashingtonState University’s Terrell Mall. This year there will be at least 25 Washington and Idaho community groups and WSU student groups that are involved in the sustainability of Earth tabling on The Mall. In addition to all the conscious groups that will be tabling and informing students, faculty, staff, and the public community of their sustainability-related mission, there will be an open-microphone for anyone to freely speak about the environment, other open-mic entertainment, and free “Earth Week 2014”: sustainable coffee mugs, magnets, t-shirts, and drawstring bags for visiting some of the Earth Day Fair group tables and learning about what they are all about. There will be many opportunities to get involved in the conservation, preservation, and restoration of Earth through the 25 groups that will be there. The WSU Earth Day Fair is sponsored by the ASWSU Environmental Sustainability Alliance and WSU Environmental Science Club. We truly hope to see there!
Time and location – TBA
On April 3rd in Boise, journalist and Idaho Magazine managing editor Steve Bunk will launch his new book “Goliath Staggered.” The book “follows the rise, growth, and triumph of the people’s movement to prevent major oil companies from transforming Highway 12’s federally protected Wild and Scenic River corridor through northern Idaho into a high-and-wide industrial thoroughfare.”
Book signing party: Moscow: April 23rd, 7 p.m., at BookPeople, 521 S. Main, 208-882-2669. Event sponsors: Friends of the Clearwater and Wild Idaho Rising Tide.
“YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY” Episodes 2 & 3, this Monday, 7 pm
As this is short notice, please spread the word !!!!!
[You are invited to join our meeting to brainstorm about these showings tomorrow, Sunday at 3pm at BookPeople at the table in the back.]
Epsiode 2: End of the Woods: Deforesting Indonesia. Plus, elite firefighters battle a new breed of fire.
Episode 3: The Surge (or Rising Tide): A skeptical Congressman and Superstorm Sandy. Collecting key climate data.
***Folks who want to see Episode 1, Dry Season: Globetrotting docu-series on the impact of climate change, can still see it for free at YouTube and http://
The schedule for all 8 remaining episodes of “Years of Living Dangerously” below:
All screenings are at 7pm
- Monday 4/28- Episode 2 & 3
- Monday 5/5 “bye” week
- Monday 5/12- Episode 4
- Monday 5/19- Episode 5
- Tuesday 5/27- Episode 6
- Monday 6/2- Episode 7
- Monday 6/9- Episode 8
- Monday 6/16- Episode 9
For further information on this series:
http://
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
http://www.sho.com/sho/years-
Facebook Sites for this series:
Rachel Clark’s site, co-organizer, strongly recommended
https://www.facebook.com/
The YEARS official FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/
PESC Facebook site:
https://www.facebook.com/
On Wednesday April 30, FOC and Save Our Wild Salmon are co-sponsoring the documentary DamNation, which takes a critical look at the dam building era of the 20th Century and the efforts to decommission dams and recover native fish and aquatic ecosystems in the 21st Century. The film starts 7 pm at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre,508 S. Main Street, Moscow. Watch the trailer.
“YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY” Episodes 2 & 3, this Monday, 7 pm
As this is short notice, please spread the word !!!!!
[You are invited to join our meeting to brainstorm about these showings tomorrow, Sunday at 3pm at BookPeople at the table in the back.]
Epsiode 2: End of the Woods: Deforesting Indonesia. Plus, elite firefighters battle a new breed of fire.
Episode 3: The Surge (or Rising Tide): A skeptical Congressman and Superstorm Sandy. Collecting key climate data.
***Folks who want to see Episode 1, Dry Season: Globetrotting docu-series on the impact of climate change, can still see it for free at YouTube and http://
The schedule for all 8 remaining episodes of “Years of Living Dangerously” below:
All screenings are at 7pm
- Monday 4/28- Episode 2 & 3
- Monday 5/5 “bye” week
- Monday 5/12- Episode 4
- Monday 5/19- Episode 5
- Tuesday 5/27- Episode 6
- Monday 6/2- Episode 7
- Monday 6/9- Episode 8
- Monday 6/16- Episode 9
For further information on this series:
http://
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
http://www.sho.com/sho/years-
Facebook Sites for this series:
Rachel Clark’s site, co-organizer, strongly recommended
https://www.facebook.com/
The YEARS official FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/
PESC Facebook site:
https://www.facebook.com/
Please find attached a draft agenda for our meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) at 5:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse (downstairs), 420 E 2nd St, Moscow. We will be serving pizza early during the meeting.
If you can listen to the national CCL call in advance of the meeting here, that will be helpful but is not essential. I found Jay Butera’s story particularly inspiring.
For each month’s call, CCL prepares an action sheet here for the month. Writing members of congress is the top action this month, and I will bring materials so that we can generate letters and postcards to our members of congress during the meeting (time permitting).
Please try to arrive promptly. We will need to finish before 7:00 pm, as many of us will be participating in the planning session (7 pm in Fiske Room, 1912 Center) for community activities to complement the Years of Living Dangerously series showing at the Kenworthy.
