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CA trip – Video and half-naked yuck

January 13, 2016 / Steve Scheuerell

Yes, video and clothing. Video first

If you want to check out a video camera from Media Loan (and haven’t reserved one yet) you’ll need to start by filling out the extended loan request form. The request can be accessed on line from Media Loan’s web site at https://forms.evergreen.edu/extended-loan-request

Remember that Monday is a holiday and we’ll leave before Media Loan is open Tuesday, so plan ahead.

Clothing and packing for CA. California will be cool and rainy, and likely sunny at some point. Yes, CA will be cool and rainy, and so will you if you do the half-naked thing thinking you are in sunny CA. Prep yourself with layered clothing all snug in a rain coat and footwear that can take getting wet. Have a day pack for your water bottle, food, notebook, media equipment, and small personal items. Pack a small, soft-sided/flexible bag with a few days extra clothing. Large bags will be rejected by van baggage handlers and left in Olympia. Read WordPress week 3 content, it covers more important CA info.

WA State Climate Change Symposium 1.13

January 12, 2016 / williasa

From: on behalf of Emily Dunn-Wilder [dunemi30@evergreen.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 8:50 PM
Subject: Climate Change Symposium- Please share with students!

Afternoon session is going to be totally worthwhile (hello, Nobel Laureate!) and not during class time.

TOMORROW! WEDNESDAY!

It’s Happening. What Now? Climate Change Research and Action in Washington State.

Take part in an exploration of both regional research on and regional solutions for the impacts of climate change.

What are the risks and concerns?
Who is taking action?
What is being done?

Join us Wednesday, January 13th, 2016

Full Program available HERE http://www.evergreen.edu/sustainability/docs/Program-Jan13.pdf

Campus map and directions are HERE http://www.evergreen.edu/sustainability/docs/evergreencampusmap-climatechangesymposium.pdf

10:00 am to 2:00 pm – The Longhouse

Panel discussions of:

Current Research on Regional Impacts
- Moderated by Tiffany Webb, MES
- Lara Whitely BInder, UW Climate Impacts Group
- Terrie Klinger, WA Ocean Acidification Center
Carbon Cap and Tax Policies
- Moderated by Kristin Eberhard, Sightline Institute
- Yoram Bauman, Carbon WA
- Sarah Rees, WA Dept of Ecology
- Jeff Johnson, WA State Labor Council and the Alliance for Jobs and Green Energy
Regional Solutions-based Action
- Moderated by Stephen Buxbaum, former Mayor of Olympia
- Graeme Sackrison, Thurston Climate Action Team
- Andy Suhrbier, The Pacific Shellfish Institute
- Jessica Schilke, Urban Farming at Microsoft
- Sarra Tekola, Women of Color Speak Out

2:30 pm to 5:00 pm – The Recital Hall, COM Building

Both presentations will also be streamed live at: http://www.evergreen.edu/streams/home.htm

Rhys Roth

Rhys Roth, on Sustainable Public Infrastructure

Rhys co-founded Climate Solutions in 1998, and helped it grow into the Northwest’s most important and influential nonprofit group addressing climate change. In 2013, Rhys was honored as a “Sustainability Trailblazer” by the Sustainable Path Foundation, which said Rhys has “arguably done more than anyone in this region to put the issue of climate change on the radar.”

Late in 2013, Rhys returned to his alma mater, The Evergreen State College, over 20 years after graduating with a Masters of Environmental Studies, to lead the College’s new Center for Sustainable Infrastructure to help bring innovation, new tools, and sustainability excellence to infrastructure planning and investment in the Pacific Northwest. He authored the Center’s inaugural report, “Infrastructure Crisis, Sustainable Solutions,” in November 2014.

Dr. John Byrne

John Byrne, PhD on Models of Local and Regional Action

Dr. Byrne is the Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP) and Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the University of Delaware. CEEP has been instrumental in pioneering an equity- and sustainability-based strategy for resolving conditions of socioeconomic and environmental inequality. He is also chairman of the board of the Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment (FREE), an international organization established to promote a better future based on energy, water and materials conservation, renewable energy use, environmental resilience, and sustainable livelihoods.

Dr. Byrne has contributed to Working Group III of the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1992 and shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Panel’s authors and review editors.

Resources:

CEEP – Paris Agreement: A Landmark Climate Change Policy Reached

A Polycentric Response to the Climate Change Challenge Relying on Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership. Position paper prepared by CEEP for UNFCCC COP-21, Paris, 2015

Sustainable Energy Utility: Understanding the Basics. Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment, 2013

State of Knowledge Report – Climate Change in Puget Sound. The UW Climate Impacts Group

Washington Ocean Acidification Center. Current research on the impacts of ocean acidification in Washington State marine waters.

Urban Farming at Microsoft

Pacific Shellfish Institute. Washington shellfish industry research and action.

Infrastructure Crisis, Sustainable Solutions. The Evergreen State College Center for Sustainable Infrastructure

5 Big Goals Research Program: Mapping a Transformative 2040 Infrastructure Vision. The Evergreen State College Center for Sustainable Infrastructure

Commentary on Natural history readings focused on soils (and climate)

January 10, 2016 / Abir Biswas

This week’s readings (focused on soils and climate) cover a range of topics. In general the Tuesday lecture will focus on tea growing within India within the Himalayas, Assam, and Nilgiris areas, as well as a general discussion of soils and soil development that you would expect in these regions.

Students new to the Terroir program may not have studied soils and soil development in the past– therefore the Chapin and Brady & Weil readings posted should provide some foundation. For this Tuesday, we are only asking for you to read excerpts, but they are good resources and you are encouraged to read them over the next few weeks to support discussions of soil over the quarter. Students continuing the terroir program, are asked to read the Chapin and Brady & Weil chapters last quarter– please review as needed. The additional readings posted are designed to apply concepts you have seen in Earth Sciences.

CA trip draft itinerary

January 8, 2016 / Steve Scheuerell

Download the draft CA trip draft itinerary. It has many links to background articles and sites/people that we will visit. It is a draft itinerary because forces out of our control could change things. All hotels are verbally confirmed with the managers and we await contracts from some, so again, something here could change. Welcome to group trip planning!

Happy studying up for the trip,

Steve

CA Trip Important

January 8, 2016 / Steve Scheuerell

Hi all,

Important for all students going on the CA field trip. Five actions you need to take:

If you are planning on attending the Eco Farm Conference please email both Steve scheuers@evergreen.edu and Abir biswasa@evergreen.edu to confirm this fact. We need to make sure van numbers work due to the groups being far apart during those days. Today – thanks!
Everyone on the trip should pick up a copy of Dirt The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan. paperback edition 2007 or later. ISBN 9780393329476 Online it can be found for about $10 On the trip you will be telling faculty what connections you find between the book and our field trip experiences.
Pay your tuition and student fees. Otherwise you can’t attend.
Complete the field trip waiver form that will be handed out in class next Tuesday. No form, no trip.
Consider becoming a van driver. We need a couple more students to get their Evergreen Van Driver Permit Card or we aren’t going on the trip. This is for real. Everyone should determine if they are eligible by viewing the permit info at http://www.evergreen.edu/motorpool/usepermit.htm This link and the left nav bar have all the info. This process needs to be completed early next week. If we don’t have more drivers by Thursday we will cancel the trip. Please email both Steve and Abir if you can commit to doing this so we can help you make it happen.
Smile, embrace opportunity and challenges, be well

New for Winter

December 16, 2015 / williasa

***VIEW WEEK 1 LINK TO THE RIGHT FOR CURRENT INFORMATION***

Re: GROUPS FOR THURSDAY MEDIA WORKSHOPS

Below are the Morning (Group A) and Afternoon (Group B) students for tomorrow’s media workshops. Please note that we will be meeting in the computer center (I believe Library 2617).

Students at the bottom of the list are noted as unassigned— I scheduled you all for the afternoon and I am hoping that you can form groups when we meet at the workshop (or we can assign you to a group). If your name is not on the list below, presumably because you missed class today, please email me and please attend in the morning and we’ll see what we can do to get you in a group (but please plan to maybe have to attend the afternoon media workshop if we can’t make groups).

Thursday Morning Media Workshop— GROUP A

Student   case study group #
Cummins   1
DeLao   1
Nord   1
Bender   2
Feighery   2
Jordan   2
Threatt   2
Dunn-Wilder   3
Kirchoff   3
Larson   3
Mcgrath   3
Gruett   4
Hayhoe   4
Su   4
Allen   5
Sierant   5
Snody   5
Urman   5
Burghardi   6
Cranmer   6
Lindgren   6
Cavanaugh   7
Mousseau   7
Tuchel   7
Caicedo   8
Plenty Wolf   8
Moore (new student- not sure about spelling)   8

Thursday afternoon Media Workshop— GROUP B

Student   case study group #
App   9
Freeman    9
Landrieu Murphy   9
Carouso   10
Garcia    10
Siongco   10
Carlton   11
Hantula   11
Tippy   11
Kahn   12
Lane   12
Needham   12
Wegner   12
Holtrop   13
Lattery   13
Sloan   13
Antonio   14
Dillon   14
Van Dyck   14
Welch   14
Knuckey   15
Taylor   15
Day   unassigned, Steve’s seminar
Moffett   unassigned, Steve’s seminar
Hammond   unassigned
Saunders   unassigned
Wei   unassigned
Zion   unassigned

WINTER QUARTER PREPARATION

The Academic Fair Handout for Winter Quarter provides program details as well as recommended and required readings in preparation for winter quarter. Check the academic program website week one for the Fair handout as well as Heather Paxson’s “Locating Value in Artisan Cheese: Reverse Engineering Terroir for New-World Landscapes.”

The first seminar text for winter is Sarah Beskey’s The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India. Start reading and taking good notes. Our full book list follows:

The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food And Drink. Carolyn Korsemeyer (ed)

Taste What You’re Missing. Barb Stuckey

The Darjeeling Connection. Sarah Beskey [New winter text]

A Geography of Oysters. Rowan Jacobsen [New winter text]

Consider the Oyster. MFK Fisher [New winter text]

The New Taste of Chocolate. Maricel Presilla

Recommended Resource Texts:

Understanding Earth.* John Grotzinger, Thomas H. Jordan, Frank Press, Raymond Siever. 6^th Edition. *Note that this is NOT the most recent or expensive edition

Sustainable Revolution: Permaculture in Ecovillages, Urban Farms, and Communities Worldwide. Juliana Birnbaum and Louis Fox (eds)

ECOFARM REGISTRATION

All students new to Terroir winter quarter and all able continuing students will be participating in a terroir-laden CA-based field trip during weeks 3 and 4. An option during the field trip for interested students is participation in the EcoFarm Conference near Monterey, CA 20-23 January: < www.eco-farm.org > See email below for registration details. Quad rooms will sell out quickly.

The faculty received the following change from EcoFarm regarding the registration info they provided and what we announced in class week ten. Please register ASAP for “registration, meals and quad housing” following the directions below. All students new to Terroir winter quarter are expected to participate in the CA field trip. Participation in the 3-day EcoFarm Conference is optional for all students.

From: Gabi Salazar [conference@eco-farm.org]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 6:24 PM
To: Williams, Sarah
Subject: Registration Instructions for Students!

Hello Sarah! I discussed this case with Ken our Executive Director and we will be able to offer a slightly different arrangement which we believe will greatly simplify things in the future. We would like to offer that the remaining students register with the following discount code: EVRGRN5 Please have your students enter the discount code exactly as it appears above in the discount code field at the TOP of the registration page, and press “Apply”. This will take 5% off of their registration for the full conference in a Triple/Quad. Unfortunately we are not able to offer a refund for the 5% discount to students who have already registered. Making changes in the registration and payment system is unfortunately difficult and costly for us to manage. Please let me know if you have any questions or difficulties with this process. Warmest Regards, Gabi — Gabi Salazar
Conference and Program Coordinator

Ecological Farming Association 2901 Park Avenue, Suite D-2
Soquel, CA 95073-2831
[p] 831-763-2111
[f] 831-763-2112
www.eco-farm.org

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