News
Q&A with filmmaker and FoodCorps founder Curt Ellis
Bad corn, good movies, and healthy school lunches
Re-cap: April 20th, Beyond Paper & Plastic Dialog - Incarceration
The Sustainability4All’s Beyond Paper & Plastic dialog on April 20th was both informative & inspiring. The topic was on incarceration & how it affects Black families. I had always been aware of how the legal system (including police, courts and private prisons) is prejudiced against & condemn more African-Americans than Caucasians, and how minor drug charges can turn normal people into hardened criminals and results in unfair loss of rights afforded to citizens. But I had never connected the two until this panel showed me that this was a systemic problem.
Spotlight: PSU's Upcoming Village Building Convergence Projects - get excited!
On Friday, April 27th, PSU’s Social Sustainability Taskforce (SSTF) of the Sustainability Volunteer Program met up to continue discussing project ideas for the upcoming Village Building Convergence (VBC). What is the VBC you ask? Well, in short, it is a Portland-based, week-long festival that is essentially about bringing communities together to work on neighborhood improvement and place-making projects. While the VBC is now in its 12th year, this is the first year that the PSU campus is registered as an official project site.
Earth Week Re-cap: Intercultural Sustainability Exhibition Spotlight - Slovakia Presentation
The Wolf Private Nature Reserve has an area of 21.24 hectares and is situated in Prešov region, in the Čergov Mountains. WOLF has aquired the forest from a private landowner. The amount that was necessary for buying the forest - 3.2 million Slovak crowns - was raised by the fundraising campaign "Buy Your Own Tree" and help of supporters from 19 different countries across the world. WOLF has been the owner of the forest since 1998 with no human interventions taken in this forest ever since.
Opportunities
Watershed Resource Center Internships (Application Deadline Unknown)
The Southwest Watershed Resource Center <http://wrc.swni.org> (WRC) is
currently recruiting for two Watershed Outreach Interns for summer 2012
(paid positions). Please see full job announcement for details:
http://swni.org/watershed/intern.
The WRC inspires and supports watershed stewardship in SW Portland
neighborhoods, through a partnership of Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc., City
Service Learning, Mycology, Spanish Immersion in Ecuador this Summer!
2012 Village Helix
The Village Helix is a gathering of people who are interested in the arts and crafts, science and spirituality that lie at the center of the challenge to recreate sustainable community at the village scale. We come together to learn, to teach, to share and to support each other in the quest to master old skills and new ways.
on Americorps Internship for The Intertwine & The National Park Service
on Spotlight: PSU's Upcoming Village Building Convergence Projects - get excited!
on Contemporary Native American Art Seminar at PSU, taught by Wendy Red Star