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At the next, first Wednesday of every month Liquid Forum, activists of WIRT‘s partner grassroots group, Idaho Residents Against Gas Extraction (IRAGE), will describe what is happening with and how citizens are fighting oil and gas drilling and looming fracking in Payette County. Deserving much more public attention, these processes threaten land, water, residents, agriculture, dairies, and sustainability in Idaho. Please join the discussion and enjoy music by Breakdown Boulevard (as experienced at the Community Progressive III), between 5:30 and 7:30 pm MDT on Wednesday, September 4, at the restaurant/bar Liquid, 405 South Eighth Street in Boise, Idaho.
https://www.facebook.com/events/323031004501173/
FROM WIRT: In solidarity with Nez Perce megaload blockaders, carpools are departing the WIRT Activist House at 8 am on Monday, September 9, with stops through the reservation, to rally outside and pack the 4 pm Boise federal court hearing seeking a megaload injunction. Advocates for the West will present oral arguments for suspending Idaho Transportation Department permits for Highway 12 megaloads until the Forest Service completes its megaload impact study. After the Nez Perce Tribe and Idaho Rivers United (IRU) versus the U.S. Forest Service case hearing, IRU is hosting a gathering of anti-megaload activists that evening, before we return to north central Idaho. Please contact IRU at 208-343-7481 or info@idahorivers.org if you can attend the party and call 208-301-8039 if you plan to carpool from the Moscow area. The following article and alert describe new developments in this lawsuit.
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.
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
“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.
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.
Megaloads? Tar Sands? Pipelines? Climate Change? What’s the Connection? Explore these questions with local citizens who journeyed to the tar sands of northern Alberta to join the First Nations (Native Americans) and other concerned citizens from across the continent for the Healing Walk. Led by First Nations elders and leaders, participants witnessed the scale of environmental devastation caused by tar sands mining and crude oil processing.
Six local healing walkers will share what they learned on their solidarity journey, connecting the local and regional megaloads, huge pipeline projects, impacts on people and places, and overarching climate change and moral issues. Their presentation and discussion, A Healing Walk Through the Alberta Tar Sands, will be on Saturday, December 7 from 3 to 5pm. This event is in the Arts Workshop room immediately following the Winter Market at the 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St., Moscow. Sponsored by the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition, Wild Idaho Rising Tide, Idaho Sierra Club and 350 Idaho. For further information, contact Pat Fuerst, epfuerst@frontier.com.
(from Pat Rathmann) “Our UUCP friend and law professor Anastasia Telesetsky is giving a talk on “Planet Ocean: Why the Law of the Sea Matters in 21st Century America” This Wednesday at 12 noon in the Fiske Room. I plan on going. Maybe we can get her to give an evening presentation for our group.”
“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/
“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/
“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/
“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/
We plan to meet at 12, carpool out to the Oaksdale office, with Powerpoint presentation there at 1, followed by a site visit. Since the office is limited to 25 to 30 people, we need you to sign up for this event. Please either use the “Signup Genius” site link here: http://www.signupgenius.com/