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The 2 News Wednesday, March 15, 2006 Clackamas Prii The Sustainability Project Leading towards action The project will begin April 5 and run through June 3. Each week Katie Wilson will contain a variety of speakers, News Editor subjects and media. The common theme will be sustainability. As the world progresses, more ‘We’ll have something for our people are bom and fossil fuels begin literary people and for our scien to run out Ways of living, construct tists,” said Grabill. For example, on April 19 envi ing and moving are taken for grant ronmental author Kathleen Dean ed. What is sustainability? Moore will give a reading. On Beginning Spring Term, the May 4, Dr. Robert Bass of OFT Sustainability Project will take off in will discuss renewable energy pos a term-long series of lectures, presen sibilities. « The diversity of the project is tations, readings and films which will examine possible solutions for less part of what Grabill hopes will ening human impact, while maintain make it effective. “People could ing a high quality get involved with of life. [Bass’s] program The “Our culture at Orr,” said Sustainability Grabill. “And then Project is some seems with the literary thing English to be so speakers there’s Instructor Jim materialistic. a whole other Grabill feels to issue addressed: be very impor We see caring about and tant He helped the Earth as being aware of the jumpstart the earth.” project and is a something “Besides get member of lhe to use. ” ting facts out to committee in people and just charge of it hoping that we’ll “Our culture remember to look seems to be so Jim Grabill at the earth as a materialistic,” he English Instructor living organism, said. “We see the there’s jobs and Earth as some careers there,” said thing to use.” Grabill. “There are He and things that people members of the Sustainability Committee hope to could do that could benefit the earth in the long term and be lucra change this view. “We’ve asked some speakers to tive too.” touch on two questions,” he said. “It’s not just about green tech These two questions are “What nology,” said Trevor Dodge, an can we do collectively?” and “What English instructor and a member of can we do as individuals?” the Sustainability committee. “Alot ‘We want to know what’s going of it is asking these large questions on with the Earth,” he said. “Our such as ‘How are we going to con first interest is to bring facts to the tinue doing the things we do now campus. The question about the state and do them in a way that’s more in of our planet is a huge one.” tune with how the earth works?”’ The Sustainability Project begins next term. The Print won ’t start publishing again until April 12 — the third week of Spring Term. Because several events are scheduled to happen in the first weeks of the next term, we are highlighting these events and providing a complete events calendar. APRILS TomLaugle, headofClackamas’s Environmental Safety and Health programs, will give an overview of the impact of human activities on the balance of life on our planet. Laugle teaches classes in wildland fire fighting, safe boating prac tices, environmental regulations, prevention of environmental poll- tution and reduction of hazardous substances and wastes in the envi ronment, among others. Mi Casa Es Su Casa TACHO’S KEELER LADIES ONLY only $1.50 from 9 p.m. to midnight! 515 Mollala Avenue Oregon City, Oregon 97045 K 503-655-5562 Fax: 503-557-3121 KITCHEN HOURS: Sunday to Thursday 11:00 a.m. to Midnight Friday & Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.rn. We also have carry out April 11 (Tues.), noon and 7:30 p.m. in McLoughlin Theater DR. ROBERT KEELER on “Baseline Oregon: The Eve of Euro American Settlement” April 12 (Wed.), evening, RR220. LANCE OLSEN,! experimental writer, new media will give a reading, j April 20 (Thurs.), noon, R] 220 CHARLES GOODRICH environmental poet. HOWLEY April 22 (Sat.) - all day, th Watershed Summit, with Robin Cody, Will Homyak and others April22 (Sat.)-allday, Walk of Life. « Clackamas Anthropology and Geography Instructor Robert Keeler will talk about “Baseline Oregon: The Eve of Euro-American Settlement,” in which he will describe the Oregon Country of 200 years ago, when the traditional Native American way of life was on the brink of disappearing for ever. Keeler hopes to dispel the myth of a “pristine,” fully “natural” pre-European Oregon by describing an environment touched by millennia of human interaction. Keeler will propose early-19th century Oregon as a baseline to notice the changes wrought on the land as we look for a means to a stable, sustain able future. APRIL 12 Experimental writer Lance Olsen - author of eight novels, one hyper text, four critical studies, four short story collections, a poetry chapbook and a textbook about fiction writing - will be reading from his work in the Winklesky Literary Arts Center. Olsen’s use of experimental pub lishing technologies, such as print- on-demand hypertext, is included in the Sustainability Project line-up as an example of how the publishing industry might move away from its dependence on paper and toward a more sustainable future. April 10 (Mon.), 12 to 1 p.m., RR 220 Film: “Ecological Design - Invents the Future,” with Elizabeth Howley. April 19 (Wed.), 7:30 p.m., McLoughlin Theater KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE! environmental writer, Oregonj Book Award Winner for Creative Nonfiction in 2005. I APRIL 11 Welcome Amigos April 5 (Wed.), at 12 and 7:30 p.m. in the McLoughlin Theater, TOM LAUGLE on “The Global Overview.” April 17 (Mon.), noon to 1 j p.m., RR 220. Film: “Backyar Conservation - One Yard at a Time” with Elizabeth Howley. APRIL 10 Clackamas Horticulture Department Chair Elizabeth Howley will present “Ecological Design - Inventing the Future,” a seven-time award-winning docu mentary about ecological design in the 20th century. Innovators from such diverse disciplines as anthro pology, architecture, city plan ning and biochemistry share their creative processes and thoughts on how to integrate solutions for human needs with the needs of a stable environment. Attendees are encouraged to bring a sack lunch. Events Calendar April 28 (Wed.), 7:30 p.m.l McLoughlin Theater - DR. PETER WARD ofU. of Wash author and scientist. May 4 (Thurs.), 7:30 p.m., McLoughlin Theater - DR. ROBERT BASS of OIT- j renewable energy systems. May 8 (Mon.), Sustainability Fair, Campus Central May 11 (Thurs.), 7:30 p.m. McLoughlin Theater - DR. j MARK HIXON of OSU - | marine life and global warmid May 12 (Fri.), noon to 51 p.m. PLANT SALE: in front on the Clackamas Community] College greenhouses - next to j Clairmont Hall. May 22 (Mon.), noon to 1p.m., RR 220 Film: “The Future of Life,” Edward 0. Wilson. With Elizabeth Howl] May 24 (Weds.), noon to] p.m., RR 220 - LIZ WOODY] Native Am poet June 3 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. j Water Efficient Demonstratioii Garden - next to Clairmont Ha east parking lot, with Elizabeth] Howley. OLSEN Compiled by E.E. West Clackamas Print June 3 of Life. (Sat.) - all day, Wa
