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PUBLIC HEARING: OLYMPIA’S SHORELINE MASTER PROGRAM – Your opportunity to advocate for quality access to YOUR waterfront!
Tues, Jan 22, 7pm, Olympia City Hall
CLIMATE CHANGE AND SEA LEVEL RISE, LWVTC General Meeting
Thurs, Jan 24, 6 pm Social – Speakers at 6:30; Tradition’s Café; 300 5th Ave. SW; Olympia
CHASING ICE, Documentary Film Festival
Sat, Jan 26, 5pm, Capitol Theater, 206 5th Ave. SE, Olympia
RESKILLING
Sat, Feb 2, NWEBG EcoHouse, 911 Adams Street SE, Olympia
COMMUNITY UPDATE ON CLIMATE CHANGE & SEA LEVEL RISE
Mon, Feb 4, 7pm, Olympia Center, Room B, 222 Columbia Street NW, Olympia
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND FISH: It’s not all about the clams with Squaxin Island tribe fisheries biologist Scott Steltzner
Thurs, Feb 7, 7pm, LOTT WET Science Center, 500 NE Adams, Olympia
Please see below for details.
PUBLIC HEARING: OLYMPIA’S SHORELINE MASTER PROGRAM
Tues, Jan 22, 7pm, Olympia City Hall, 601 Fourth Ave E
If citizens speak, elected officials will listen. This is your opportunity to advocate for quality access to YOUR waterfront. Please attend this hearing and support sufficient setbacks that will allow you and future generations to enjoy our wonderful waterfront!
Under the provisions of the draft, major portions of the downtown urban shoreline would have only a 30-foot setback (no build area) from the water. That often means less than twenty feet of flat land. Concerns have been raised that this is not sufficient space for the environmental, recreational, and public protection uses called for in state law, thereby harming both public and private interests. There are interests that want to build right up to the waterfront, ignoring the rising waters due to climate change and disregarding quality access for citizens. Read more here.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND SEA LEVEL RISE, LWVTC General Meeting
Thurs, Jan 24, 6 pm Social – Speakers at 6:30; Tradition’s Café; 300 5th Ave. SW; Olympia
Our speakers will be John Dodge and Nadine Romero. John Dodge, reporter for the Olympian, has long studied the permutations of change in the Budd Inlet and Capitol Lake. He will present a historical perspective on dredging and shoreline change. Nadine Romero, hydrogeologist for Thurston County Water Dept., has compiled comprehensive data on our storm-water, watersheds and groundwater resources. Between the two, we should get some strong indicators how Budd Inlet specifically, and Puget Sound, generally, will weather sea level rise in the coming years.
CHASING ICE, Documentary Film Festival
Sat, Jan 26, 5 pm, Capitol Theater, 206 5th Ave. SE, Olympia
Chasing Ice is a heartbreaking and incontrovertible substantiation of the reality of climate change and how we are killing our planet with ever-increasing speed.
National Geographic photographer James Balog was inspired by a 2005 assignment to create what he christened the Extreme Ice Survey, and in 2007 installed cameras in four geographically-separate glaciers programmed to snap one image per hour for three years, the theory being to capture changes that, while accelerating, still occur too slowly to be seen by human eyes. Upon collecting and assembling the resulting footage, Balog was shocked and horrified to see how profound the changes were over just this brief period – and by the end of this film you will be, too.
RESKILLING
Sat, Feb 2, NWEBG EcoHouse, 911 Adams Street SE, Olympia
Details to be announced at www.TransitionOlympia.org or by writing to Gita Moulton at GITAMOULTON@EARTHLINK.NET
COMMUNITY UPDATE ON CLIMATE CHANGE & SEA LEVEL RISE
Mon, Feb 4, 7 pm, Olympia Center, Room B, 222 Columbia Street NW, Olympia
The City of Olympia, along with Transition Olympia and Confronting the Climate Crisis (FOR), will host the third annual community update on climate change at the Olympia Center.
This year’s discussion will focus on Olympia-specific implications and response to climate change and sea level rise. Andy Haub, Planning and Engineering Manager with the City of Olympia, will provide an update on the City’s ongoing sea level rise work. He will also summarize a recently-released Federal study of potential sea rise rates along the Pacific Coast including Washington. Rhonda Hunter, a past Washington State coordinator of climate change planning and a local community trainer with Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps, will discuss climate change action from the State to the individual level. Ample time will be provided for comments and questions.
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND FISH
Thurs, Feb 7, 7 pm, LOTT WET Science Center, 500 NE Adams, Olympia
It’s not all about the clams, with Squaxin Island tribe fisheries biologist Scott Steltzner
South Sound Estuary Association presents the last in the 2012-2013“Discovery” Speakers Series. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Come early and view the LOTT WET Science Center exhibits. The event is free and open to the public. Presentation begins at 7:00 and will end by 9:00 pm
For more information, please contact Leihla at 360-888-0565 or leihla@sseacenter.org.