This will include the PESC group and another group presenting waste/recycling and consumption.
from Helen Yost – “Two more Sunshine Oilsands wastewater evaporators could traverse U.S. Highway 12 between 10 pm and 5:30 am next Monday and Tuesday night, December 3 and 4.” “Join monitoring and protesting carpools provisioned with video and still cameras, audio recorders, and notebooks, converging and departing the corner of Second and Washington Street in Moscow, at 9 pm on Monday and Tuesday evening, December 3 and 4, and possibly other following weeknights influenced by impending rain and snow.” Contact: Helen Yost at wild.idaho.rising.tide@gmail.com.
Additional speakers may begin earlier. This is a unique opportunity to provide your input to the Army Corps of Engineers on what topics should be evaluated in an environmental impact statement. If you are able to go and need a ride, let Helen Yost know by tomorrow (Monday) evening: wild.idaho.rising.tide@gmail.
And from Helen Yost: “Most of the information and links about both the proposed Boardman and Bellingham coal ports and their public processes is included in this previous WIRT email message, now posted on the front of the WIRT website: http://wildidahorisingtide.
from Helen Yost – “Two more Sunshine Oilsands wastewater evaporators could traverse U.S. Highway 12 between 10 pm and 5:30 am next Monday and Tuesday night, December 3 and 4.” “Join monitoring and protesting carpools provisioned with video and still cameras, audio recorders, and notebooks, converging and departing the corner of Second and Washington Street in Moscow, at 9 pm on Monday and Tuesday evening, December 3 and 4, and possibly other following weeknights influenced by impending rain and snow.” Contact: Helen Yost at wild.idaho.rising.tide@gmail.com.
David Montgomery, author of “Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations” will give the keynote address for the CSANR (Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources) celebration at WSU. I strongly recommend this: he has an incredible story about the significance of soil, impact on past civilizations and predicted future impact. At 5:20pm at Ensminger Pavilion on the WSU campus. Pat has the PDF announcement for all the events at the celebration and a map to the Pavilion – let him know if you’d like them.
Kirsten Peter’s book signing at Bookpeople of Moscow this Saturday 11 am-noon. “The Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless Change” by WSU faculty member E. Kirsten Peters: Focus on adapting vs. eliminating.
PESC Monthly Meeting.
Palouse Transition meeting Wednesday at 5:30 pm at UUCP Church basement. We will begin to establish working groups at that time, so please try to attend as we really need all the help we can get to start making things happen. Possible groups: Generational / Food-producer vs. consumer (growing-processing) / Energy / Waste / Education / Youth / local economics / Water / Transportation / Local government-Political / Transition Town process
This group is re-forming and will meet at this time.
This meeting is for all interested in the US95 realignment from Thorncreek Road to Moscow
This public meeting is being organized to discuss the US95 realignment from Thorncreek Road to Moscow. It is sponsored by PESC, PRDC, and other concerned citizens. It will be followed by an onsite visit of the area through which the new highway (4-lane with median strip) will pass. Meeting will be at 12:00 p.m.
PESC Monthly Meeting.
Public hearing organized by the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD). So far as I know, there is not a schedule of events.
See video at: http://us95thorncreek.com/
According to the ITD web site, http://us95thorncreek.com/schedule-2/public-hearing/
“At the public hearing, you will have the opportunity to:
- Provide written comments or give verbal testimony to a public hearing officer about the DEIS.
- Give comments during the open-microphone sessions held at 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
- Speak with the environmental and technical experts who conducted studies for the document.
- Learn about the alternatives that were evaluated and their benefits and impacts.
- Look at maps for each of the alternatives analyzed in the DEIS.”
“When the Law is on Their Side: What Communities are Doing Differently to Change the Game against Corporate Domination”
Moscow again welcomes Kai Huschke of Envision Spokane and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (http://www.celdf.org/) in Spokane, as he offers a public presentation on Friday, February 1, entitled When the Law is on Their Side: What Communities are Doing Differently to Change the Game against Corporate Domination. His 7 pm talk will describe the legal background and necessity of some of the 150 community bills of rights codified by cities and counties as local “declarations of independence” from harmful corporate activities and government facilitation. On Saturday morning, February 2, between 9 am and 12:30 pm, Kai will lead a meeting of bill advancing coalition leaders through Moving from What We Can Get to What We Want for Moscow and Latah County. Together, we will explore the regulatory world and the evolution of corporate-shaped/state-supported legal doctrines, internationally enacted rights of nature, and effective, pro-active community rights and state-level organizing for critical issues in the region and state. Several local conservation and human rights organizations will host both events in the 1912 Center Fiske Room, 412 East Third Street in Moscow. READ MORE…
“When the Law is on Their Side: What Communities are Doing Differently to Change the Game against Corporate Domination”
Moving Away from What We Can Get to What We Want for Moscow and Latah County and designing a local community bill of rights, ideally informed by Kai’s Friday talk.
Moscow again welcomes Kai Huschke of Envision Spokane and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (http://www.celdf.org/) in Spokane, as he offers a public presentation on Friday, February 1, entitled When the Law is on Their Side: What Communities are Doing Differently to Change the Game against Corporate Domination. His 7 pm talk will describe the legal background and necessity of some of the 150 community bills of rights codified by cities and counties as local “declarations of independence” from harmful corporate activities and government facilitation. On Saturday morning, February 2, between 9 am and 12:30 pm, Kai will lead a meeting of bill advancing coalition leaders through Moving from What We Can Get to What We Want for Moscow and Latah County. Together, we will explore the regulatory world and the evolution of corporate-shaped/state-supported legal doctrines, internationally enacted rights of nature, and effective, pro-active community rights and state-level organizing for critical issues in the region and state. Several local conservation and human rights organizations will host both events in the 1912 Center Fiske Room, 412 East Third Street in Moscow. READ MORE…
