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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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