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2008-01-28 11:30

WCC Focus the Nation on Sustainability Week

Submitted Sat, 2008-01-19 16:55 — DavidM

Whatcom Community College Joins Over 1000 Other Colleges and Universities to Celebrate "Focus the Nation (on Sustainability) Week"

Some event highlights:

The Elephants in Our Living Room: Why Energy Decline and Climate Change Force Us to Plan for Sustainability by John Rawlins
1/28 11:30-1:30 PM Heiner Center, Room 209

FILM FESTIVAL 1/29 10:00-4:30 PM Heiner Center Theater
Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture, and the 1/29 10:00-11:00 AM Heiner Center Theater
The Ecological Footprint: Accounting for a Small Planet 1/29 11:30-12:00 PM Heiner Center Theater
The End of Suburbia 1/29 12:30-2:00 PM Heiner Center Theater
Global Warming: The Signs and Science 1/29 2:00-3:00 PM Heiner Center Theater
Seattle: The Future is Now 1/29 3:30-4:30 PM Heiner Center Theater

Webcast: The 2% Solution - Join Stanford University climate scientist, Stephen Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins and green jobs pioneer Van Jones and youth climate leaders, for a discussion of global warming solutions. Audiences can weigh in with cell phone voting. Our goal is 10,000 screenings—and a change in the course of history. 1/30 4:45-6:30 PM Heiner Center, Rooms 208 & 209

Sustainable Living in Bellingham By Mayor Dan Pike
1/30 7:00 PM Heiner Center Theater

An Inconvenient Truth, Slide Presentation by Scott Slaba
1/31 1:00-2:00 PM Syre Student Center Auditorium

An Inconvenient Truth, Film and Post-film Discussion
1/31 7:00-10:00 PM Syre Student Center Auditorium

More info: Whatcom Community College will participate in the nationwide celebration Focus the Nation Week, an unprecedented teach-in on global warming solutions and sustainability. Numerous events have been scheduled for the week of January 28th through February 1st, including educational and awareness raising presentations, a film festival, an interactive webcast, and a speech and Q&A session by newly elected Mayor, Dan Pike. All events are open and free to the public.

Focus the Nation is a national teach-in engaging millions of students and citizens with political leaders and decision makers about Global Warming Solutions. More than just that one day, Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America is an extraordinary educational initiative, involving over a thousand colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, faith groups, civic organizations and businesses. Focus the Nation is a catalyzing force helping shift the national conversation about global warming towards a determination to face this challenge.

For additional information about Focus the Nation, please visit http://www.focusthenation.org. Download the attachment for a full schedule of events at WCC. Details regarding these local events and activities can be referred to Courtenay Chadwell-Gatz, co-chair of Whatcom Community College’s Sustainability Committee, at (360) 676-2170, ext. 3426. See email link below

Driving directions:
http://www.whatcom.ctc.edu/content/AboutItem.phtml?art=43

Campus Map:
http://www.whatcom.ctc.edu/content/AboutItem.phtml?art=39

Event title:
WCC Focus the Nation on Sustainability Week

Start:
2008-01-28 11:30 (Calendar)

End:
2008-01-31 22:00

Event Website:
http://www.whatcom.ctc.edu/content/BulletinItem.phtml?art=216

Contact Email:
cchadwel@whatcom.ctc.edu

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2008-01-28 00:00

WWU “Focus the Nation” Panel Discussion Series

Submitted Fri, 2008-01-25 23:15 — DavidM

WWU “Focus the Nation” Panel Discussion Series: Panel Discussions

Monday, January 28th
12:00 – Tipping Points: Climate, Politics, Economics, Viking Union 464

  • Can We Predict Global Climate Change?: Andy Bunn Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Huxley College, WWU.
  • The Social Impacts of Global Climate Change: Rabel Burdge Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology and Huxley College of the Environment, WWU.
  • Historical and Modern Views of Large Scale Movements and Their Ramifications: Hart Hodges Assistant Professor in the Center for Economic and Business Research, Department of Economics.

6:00pm – The Addiction to Fossil : Alternative Fuels, Peak Oil, Public Transportation, Science Lecture 110

  • Civic engagement in a post-carbon age: Woodring Professor, Victor Nolet
  • Technology and practicality of electric and bio fuel vehicles: VRI Director and engineering professor Eric C. Leonhardt
  • Alternative transportation and the challenges of moving away from one person per car: Smart Trips Program Coordinator Susan Horst

Tuesday, January 29th
12:00 – Food and the Future, Viking Union 464

  • Fred Berman from the USDA Small Farms Program
  • Sustainable Business/Restaurant Ethics: Leah Peterson Director of Sustainability Programs for the Colophon
  • AgroEcology, Sustainable agriculture, and food security : Gigi Berardi-Allaway Chair of the Environmental Studies Department and the Interim Director, Institute for Global and Community Resilience
  • A Local and Commercial Perspective on Food: Chris Kenny Sodexho Director of Operations

6:00pm – Developing Nations and Climate Change: What About China, Science Lecture 110

  • Kristen Paris – Associate Professor in Political Science WWU
  • Ken Cousins – Visiting Professor in Political Science WWU

Wednesday, January 30th
-Prospect, Response, and initiatives.

12:00 – Climate Change and Local hazards, Viking Union 464

  • Rebekah Green – Research Associate for the Institute for Global and Community Resilience
  • Tiffany Isaacs – Field Organizer for Washington State Public Interest Research Group

6:00pm – Faith and Climate, Science Lecture 110

  • Staff member of Restoring Eden, Western graduate: Ali Illyn
  • A Jewish Perspective: Rabbi Levi Backman with the Bellingham Chabad Center
  • Campus Christian Fellowship: Jonathan Lytle Our Moral Future: Prof. Religious Studies

Event title:
WWU “Focus the Nation” Panel Discussion Series

Start:
2008-01-28 00:00 (Calendar)

End:
2008-01-30 19:00

Location:

Location(s)

High St. Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA, 98225
United States

See map: Google Maps

Contact Email:
as.earth@wwu.edu

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2008-01-16 18:15

Circles for Women

Submitted Sun, 2007-12-30 22:05 — bgilday

Circles of Women
New evening group begins Jan. 16, 6:15 -9:00 PM
Facilitator, Barbara Gilday, 676-0765, www.BarbaraGilday.com

Purpose:
 To connect with others at a deep level, share our stories, learn and practice tools for positive transitions and more fulfilling futures.

Principles:
 We all have the wisdom within to deal with whatever we are experiencing.
 Being listened to deeply, allows our higher self and wisdom to surface.
 A small group of caring souls, provides a container for healthy, holistic process

Process:
 Using the process called, Appreciative Inquiry, we will focus on the values and strengths we have brought to the best times of our
lives. From that awareness, we will turn & look at our futures & begin to look at our possibilities in new ways.

Event title:
Circles for Women

Start:
2008-01-16 18:15 (Calendar)

End:
2008-03-05 21:00

Location:

Location(s)

Bellingham, WA, 98225
United States

See map: Google Maps

Event Website:
http://www.bellinghambizeview.com/page/show/203

Contact Email:
journeys@nas.com

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2008-01-10 19:00

Running On Empty film series

Submitted Tue, 2008-01-08 17:53 — MaureenL

FYI - The Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1920, rue Baile, is presenting a series of free documentary films in association with its exhibition "Sorry, Out of Gas". The three remaining films are listed below.

Running On Empty
A series of documentary films considering society’s addiction to oil and possible cures.

Thursdays at 7 pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Free admission

10 January
Escape from Suburbia
2007, 95 min.

17 January
The Power of Community: How Cuba survived Peak Oil
2006, 53 min.

31 January
Design E2
2006, 90 min.

Event title:
Running On Empty film series

Start:
2008-01-10 19:00 (Calendar)

End:
2008-01-31 19:00

Event Website:
http://www.cca.qc.ca

Contact Email:
communication@cca.qc.ca