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Mr. Nikiforuk is a Calgary-based journalist/author whose work has earned numerous honors. His 2008 book “Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent” was a national best seller and winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. His most recent book is “The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude” (2012). http://andrewnikiforuk.com
Ms. Grant is the director of the Oil Sands Program at the Pembina Institute and has worked since 2006 on the environmental impacts of Canada’s oilsands development. The Pembina Institute is an Alberta-based organization that advances clean energy solutions through research, education, consulting, and advocacy. Jennifer is passionate about advancing Canada’s transition to a clean energy future. www.pembina.org
Public is invited. Please contact Pat Fuerst for more information.
The film is a powerful commentary on the Occupy Movement. Double-check showing times with the Kenworthy.
Public is invited. Please contact Pat Fuerst for more information.
Note from Brian Koepke:
“We have a conflicting event on the Terrell Mall on April 18th that will distract from what we are all trying to do, so the ASWSU Environmental Task Force and WSU Environmental Science Club would like to invite you to come on Wednesday, April 17th from 9am-3pm (any time you have available during this period would be great). I am truly sorry about the change of plans, but I hope the organizations that have already confirmed: PESC, WIRT, Palouse Transition, PPF, and the Latah Trail Foundation, can still participate in our community tabling event and, maybe, this makes it possible for other environmentally conscious groups to come. We have other WSU groups that will be out there as well.”
Nez Perce, Idle No More, WIRT, and allied activists are gratefully anticipating hearing and sharing tribal activists’ insights at a gathering at Lapwai City Park in Lapwai, Idaho. The 6 pm meeting on Tuesday, September 3, may be moved indoors to the nearby Pi-Nee-Waus Community Center if it rains. Listen to the following KRFP interview of tribal activist Julian Matthews by citizen journalist Brett Haverstick, describing the last (first) such convergence.
https://www.facebook.com/events/237676256379693/
KRFP Report from Last Meeting
Nez Perce Hold Community Meeting in Lapwai City Park on Megaloads (August 21 KRFP Evening Report, between 11:41 and 3:14)
http://radiofreemoscow.org/2013/08/20130821/
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/
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.
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.
(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.”
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