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Graham Stevens, from Navigant’s Energy Practice (and a Moscow resident), will discuss methods of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, and evaluating the costs vs. efficacy of these options. Graham’s presentation is at 7 pm in room 103 of the Menard Law Building on the University of Idaho campus, with free parking nearby. The event is sponsored by the UI Environmental Law Society and the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition.
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.
Topics will include Citizens Climate Lobby and Kathleen Dean Moore.
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.
December’s meeting will be at 1:00 p.m. – NOT noon. At the Yellow House (414 E. 2nd St. Moscow).
Agenda Items: will include: Citizens Climate Lobby update; discussion of last Saturday’s Healing Walk presentation, and how we might improve it next time; updates on UI Sustainability Center, megaloads.
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Any other upcoming events for PESC, or other environmentally-related issues?
For those of you unable to attend the Healing walk presentation last Saturday, it went pretty well but ran too long and not so smoothly. We expect to be giving it again in the near future, at UI and WSU.
Title: A Healing Walk Through the Alberta Tar Sands
— with Pizza — at the Yellow House (414 E. 2nd St. Moscow).
Draft Agenda items: [send additional items to me]
- Citizen’s Climate Lobby: plans for the opening event
- What will WE do if / when KXL is approved? What actions will WE take? Let’s talk about plans!
- Updates: WSU Earth Day Tabling April 22 11-2; Megaloads; NW Coalition for Human Rights; Budget ; April 26 “Moscow Race for Action” tagged onto community walk;
- New Business: June 22, 11a to 6p, Sustainability Fair at PCEI $100? Other new business? (See list below.)
Title: A Healing Walk Through the Alberta Tar Sands
You are invited to join local groups for the 5th and final ‘Tar Sands Healing Walk’, June 28-29 in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Inspired to heal the people and places devastated by tar sands development, the Tar Sands Healing Walk is not a rally, march, or protest, but a respectful acknowledgment of suffering due to unhealthy energy addictions. We will walk in solidarity with the First Nations (Native Americans) of Canada in this walk. A planning meeting will be held at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, May 27 at Maialina Pizzeria, 602 S Main St, Moscow. Following this, we will walk to the Kenworthy for the free showing of ‘Years of Living Dangerously’. Sponsored by Wild Idaho Rising Tide and Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition. For more information about the Healing Walk, visit http://www.healingwalk.org/ and contact Pat Fuerst, 509-339-5213, epfuerst@frontier.com.
The Palouse Land Trust and Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition are hosting the second annual trail clean up at Idler’s Rest Nature Preserve from 9am – 12 noon on June 14th. This lovely cedar grove is enjoyed by many area residents. It is owned and managed by the Palouse Land Trust, which is dependent on donations from the community to maintain the Preserve, so this is a wonderful opportunity to show how much we care about these special places. Carpoolers can meet at 8:30 at the Unitarian Church (420 E. 2nd St., Moscow). As a thank you for all your hard work a delicious Co-op lunch will be served around 11:30. Trish Heeken from the Idaho and Latah County Conservation Departments will be joining us to identify both the invasives and the native good guys. Last year she found a rare plant she had never seen before in this area. For directions or questions, email Amy Trujillo at amy.trujillo@palouselandtrust.org or Pat Rathmann. An RSVP is appreciated so we can make sure to have enough food.