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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.

Any additional agenda items?
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

Exact time TBA

Webinar: Nitrogen Management and Climate Change Mitigation in Pacific Northwest Cropping Systems 

Presented by Georgine Yorgey WSU 10:00 -11:00 a.m Webinar

URL: http://breeze.wsu.edu/csanr_series/ 

Login as a guest on April 17, 2014. Previous webinars (archived here) provided a foundation on nitrogen cycling and losses in agricultural systems, and an overview of nitrous oxide emissions in cropland agriculture. These webinars are co-produced by the Regional Approaches to Climate Change for Pacific Northwest Agriculture Project (REACCH) and WSU’s Center.

Please come celebrate all that Earth provides on April 22^nd at the biggest Earth Day Fair ever on WashingtonState University’s Terrell Mall. This year there will be at least 25 Washington and Idaho community groups and WSU student groups that are involved in the sustainability of Earth tabling on The Mall. In addition to all the conscious groups that will be tabling and informing students, faculty, staff, and the public community of their sustainability-related mission, there will be an open-microphone for anyone to freely speak about the environment, other open-mic entertainment, and free “Earth Week 2014”: sustainable coffee mugs, magnets, t-shirts, and drawstring bags for visiting some of the Earth Day Fair group tables and learning about what they are all about. There will be many opportunities to get involved in the conservation, preservation, and restoration of Earth through the 25 groups that will be there.  The WSU Earth Day Fair is sponsored by the ASWSU Environmental Sustainability Alliance and WSU Environmental Science Club. We truly hope to see there!

You are invited to join local groups for the 5^th 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.