Sustainability

Event Details

• January 24 | Climate Change and You: A Town-Hall Discussion of Eco-Anxiety

  January 24 | 5 P.M. | Location: Dean Hall Lobby
  

  Hosted by Matt Altman and Lauren Nuckols

• January 31 | Sustainability Forum: Climate Action Plan

  January 31 | 3 P.M. | SURC 137

  Hosted by Jeff Bousson, Lily De Young, and Susan Kaspari

• February 6 | Good Life Community Discussion: Existentialism and Climate Anxiety

  February 6 | 6PM | Hal Holmes Community Center
  

  Hosted by Cindy Coe and Dave Schwan

• February 20 | Panel: Local Climate Effects and Adaptation

  February 20 | 5:30PM | Museum of Culture and Environ. Lobby

  Hosted by Clay Arango and Hope Amason

• March 05 | Good Life Community Discussion: Daoism and Environmentalism

  March 5 | 6-7PM | Hal Holmes Community Center
  

  Hosted by Jeff Dippmann

• April 6 | Raising Climate-Resilient Kids

  April 6 | 1PM | Location: Yakima Canyon Interpretive Center (Google Maps Location)
  

  Hosted by Kittitas Environmental Education Network (KEEN)
  

  Discover how to have age-appropriate discussions with hands-on activities for families wanting to learn how to address these complex conversations with children.

• April 16 | Intersection of Indigenous knowledge and Western science (Pacific Northwest National Labs)

  April 16 | Time 4PM | Samuelson 131 (speaker via Zoom)
  

  Speaker: Nichole Sather (biologist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

  Description: A discussion of Indigenous knowledge, its applications and relevance to challenges like climate change and food security. We’ll discuss the inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in research methods, science and federal decision-making, and barriers to developing legal, policy, and procedural protections in the context of Western-based scientific endeavors and systems.

  Registration link: https://cwu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OrHMhcBqQ5-d8XP6VcmScg

  Hosted by Jeff Dippmann

• April 23 | Sustainability Forum

  April 23 | 3 P.M. | SURC 137
  

  Hosted by Jeff Bousson, Lily De Young, and Susan Kaspari
  

• April 25 | Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series: Roy Scranton
  • Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series - Roy Scranton - Public Reading
    When: Apr 25, 2024 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
  • Register in advance for this webinar:
    https://cwu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YPqh2k43Q9WOThomsN2LbA

   

  • Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series - Roy Scranton - Craft Talk
    When: Apr 25, 2024 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
  • Register in advance for this webinar:
    https://cwu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RsOQc9iWRZqHHq5HAOjpww

  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

• April 26 | Climate Panel

  Climate Panel: 12:00-1:00pm at the Ellensburg Public Library in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Sciences, KEEN, Ellensburg Public Library, Kittitas County Regional Library Board and Ellensburg High School.

• May 21 | Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series: Maya Jewel Zeller

  Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series - Maya Jewel Zeller - Public Reading
  When: May 21, 2024 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
  Title: "out takes/ glove box : a story in fragments"
  Register in advance for this webinar:
  https://cwu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GwW0b51xQC6EC4LbCbv6RA

  
  Maya is author of out takes/ glove box, selected by Eduardo Corral as winner of the New American Poetry Prize, and co-author of Advanced Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, just out from Bloomsbury (UK) in January (2024). Her other books include the interdisciplinary collaboration, Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts, as well as the poetry collection Rust Fish, and the chapbook Yesterday, the Bees. Maya is a 2024 Washington State Artist Trust Fellow, and just returned from University of Oxford where this spring she was a visiting fellow to St. Edmund Hall. Her essay “Scavenger Panorama” received a Notable Status in Best American Essays 2023, selected by Vivian Gornick, and her memoir manuscript, “Raised by Ferns,” was runner up in the 2022 AWP Sue Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Maya teaches for Central Washington University and serves as poetry and nature writing faculty for Western Colorado University’s low-residency MFA. She lives in the Inland NW with her children.

• May 22 | Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series: Maya Jewel Zeller

  Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series - Maya Jewel Zeller - Craft Talk
  When: May 22, 2024 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
  Title: "Eco-justice & the poetics of spells."
  Register in advance for this webinar:
  https://cwu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i81fhf0fT9GPxnhyqoY7QQ