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Check out the Wisescape exhibit and other conservation information at the exhibit booth! The City will be at the Latah County Fairgrounds to answer questions, provide literature and show off the latest water saving programs.
Check out the Wisescape exhibit and other conservation information at the exhibit booth! The City will be at the Latah County Fairgrounds to answer questions, provide literature and show off the latest water saving programs.
Check out the Wisescape exhibit and other conservation information at the exhibit booth! The City will be at the Latah County Fairgrounds to answer questions, provide literature and show off the latest water saving programs.
The City of Moscow and Avista are hosting a free admission showing of Liquid Assets from 5:30pm–8:00pm. This 90 minute documentary explores the critical role that our water infrastructure plays in protecting public health and promoting economic prosperity. The film viewing, at the Kenworthy theater, will begin with a reception and book sale of Drinking Water- A History, James Salzman. He is the keynote speaker at the October Palouse Basin Water Summit.
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.
The Hanford cleanup is costing taxpayers billions each year. We regularly hear about radioactive leaks and delays in processing waste. What’s the rest of the story? Ginger Wireman’s presentation, ‘What’s Up with Hanford Cleanup?’ will explain the current status of Hanford cleanup and the State of Washington’s role in cleanup oversight. Wireman has been a community outreach and environmental education specialist with the Washington Dept. of Ecology’s Nuclear Waste Program since 2001. She has an MS in Environmental Studies and has written and illustrated a children’s book, ‘If Wishes Had Wings’, which explores the animals and habitats of the Washington shrub steppe and Cascade Mountains through a child’s imagination. This presentation will be at 7 p.m., Tuesday, November 12, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse, 420 E. Second St., Moscow. Sponsored by Palouse Group of the Sierra Club and Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition. For further information, contact Al Poplawsky.
In celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day (Monday, October 13), the Washington State University (WSU) Clearinghouse on Native Teaching and Learning will feature the film The Lost Fish, jointly produced by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and Freshwaters Illustrated and selected for the EcoFilm Festival. Also honoring the memory of the late Elmer Crow of the Nez Perce Tribe, the movie explores the importance of the lamprey eel to the Plateau tribes and tribal actions to ensure that these ancient fish return to their native rivers and streams throughout the Columbia River Basin. Share an evening celebrating the contemporary lives of Indigenous people from our region, through this film shown on Monday, October 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm in WSU’s Cleveland Hall Room 30W. Please call 509-335-3478 with questions.
People’s Climate March: March for Climate, Jobs and Justice
We will be marching from Friendship Square in downtown Moscow to East City Park. The march will be led by Gary Dorr of the Nez Perce Tribe with other tribal members. Speaker topic: “Who Speaks for the Earth?” Drumming, Music, Speaking, Rallying. Environmental Info on How You Can Make a Difference. Info on Facebook: Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition. Sponsored by the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition and the Palouse Chapter of the Sierra Club.
View flyer for the Lori Batina Memorial Climate March and Rally
People’s Climate March/Rally: March for Climate, Jobs and Justice
We will be marching from Friendship Square in downtown Moscow to East City Park. The march will be led by Gary Dorr of the Nez Perce Tribe with other tribal members. Speaker topic: “Who Speaks for the Earth?” Drumming, Music, Speaking, Rallying. Environmental Info on How You Can Make a Difference. Info on Facebook: Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition. Sponsored by the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition and the Palouse Chapter of the Sierra Club.
View flyer for the Lori Batina Memorial Climate March and Rally