Office of Sustainability

Climate change is one of the most important issues of our time and modeling climate a critical part of studying climate change. Climate science involves building models, making predictions, and collecting data, and modeling climate change also involves computer science and mathematics – and might require new techniques since the problems are not only new and difficult, but computationally very demanding (i.e., requiring very fast computers or very many computers).

The Modeling Climate Change Lectures, funded by the Evergreen PLATO Royalty Fund, will bring together faculty, students, and members of the local community interested in the challenges involved in modeling climate change. Three Evergreen programs will participate:

• Energy Systems and Climate Change
• Data and Information: Quantitative Ecology
• Mathematical Order of Nature

Each program’s seminar will involve the lecture series. The lecture series will also be open on a space available basis for two or four credits to other students; graduate credit is available as well.

Lectures will be held in LH1.

Go HERE for more information.

For anyone interested in getting academic credit for work related to community sustainability, there will be a workshop at 6:30 pm Tuesday 11/17 in Primetime (A-Dorm 220).

If you have a contract in mind, this will be an opportunity to gain resources and invite collaborators to expand the scope of your project. If you’re looking for ideas, information will be provided on positions working with Evergreen staff, student groups and off-campus organizations. These include:

>Designing autonomous energy systems and rainwater harvesting for lower campus

>Research in edible forest gardening

>Graphic design and art for sustainability education and outreach

>Creating resources for edible and medicinal native plants

>Designing and producing zines for campus groups

>Creating environmental education activities for children

If you have questions or can’t make the workshop and want some resources, email Abi at RADSustainability@evergreen.edu

William R. Catton, Jr.

Author of

OVERSHOOT, The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

and BOTTLENECK, Humanity’s Impending Impasse

Will speak at the Transition Olympia Salon

Tuesday, November 17, 7 PM

Mixx 96 Meeting Room, Corner State & Washington, Downtown Olympia

Overshoot, published in 1980, analyzed humankind’s ecological predicament with extraordinary courage and insight. Years ahead of its time, it continues to be a source of inspiration to those aware of the massive threat posed by peak oil, climate change and other ecological pressures.

To learn more about Transition Olympia go to www.transitionolympia.com.