Sustainability

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Sustainability

• Spring 2009
• Class 9
• Jeff Fletcher

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Logistics

• This I Believe Revision Plans
• Original Reviews (peer and instructor) 3pts
• Your plan (bulleted list) 7 pts
• Ways of Writing Exercise (1 of the 3) 5 pts
• There is also 10 points (5 each) for doing
  reviews, but very few of you have gotten credit
  so far
• Slowing Down a bit
• This I Believe Final Version due next Monday May
  4 (not this Wed.)
• Worldchanging Essay Community due next Wed. May
  6 (not April 29)
• Business due Wed. May 13
• Product Life Cycle Video Proposal
• Portfolio Assignment
• Homepage due today (will do in mentor session)
• Foresthow was the Kauffman talk?
• Guest presenter on Wednesday
• Dani Dennenberg, Northwest Earth Institute
  (nwei.org)

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Whats an economy for?

• Director John de Graaf will screen and discuss
  his new documentary
• Thursday Evening, May 21 (MARK YOUR CALENDERS!!)
• About John de Graaf
• National coordinator of TAKE BACK YOUR TIME
  (www.timeday.org)
• Overworked, too-busy people are bad for the
  environment
• KCTS-TV, the Seattle PBS affiliate, for 24 years,
  as an independent producer of television
  documentaries.
• More than 15 of his programs have been broadcast
  in Prime Time nationally on PBS.
• He is the recipient of more than 100 regional,
  national and international awards for
  film-making, including three Emmy awards.
• He produced the popular PBS specials, RUNNING OUT
  OF TIME, an examination of overwork and time
  pressure in America, and AFFLUENZA, a humorous
  critique of American consumerism.
• His other national PBS specials include FOR
  EARTHS SAKE THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DAVID BROWER
  VISIBLE TARGET A PERSONAL MATTER GORDON
  HIRABAYASHI VS. THE UNITED STATES BEYOND
  ORGANIC ESCAPE FROM AFFLUENZA ITS UP TO US
  THE GIRAFFE PROJECT and CIRCLE OF PLENTY.

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Other Events Coming Up

• Shelter Discussion With Paul Collins, Tim
  DuRoche, John W. Haines and Ethan Seltzer
• Tuesday, April 28 (Tomorrow) 7 pm PSUs Smith
  Memorial Student Union (SMSU), Room 294
• Major Exploration Day
• Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 from 11 3pm in the
  Ballroom (SMSU 355).
• Breakout sessions related to choosing a major,
  creating an academic plan and connecting
  co-curricular experience to a future career.
• More details at http//www.pdx.edu/unst/
• Student, Conci Althouse, filmed a white
  antiracist activist from the 60s, named Karen
  Haberman Trusty in class, then created
  documentary.
• Screening Friday May 8, 630 pm at Fifth Ave.
  Cinema
• Documentary geared to motivate young people to a
  life of activism
• Free

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Groups

• Design ad campaign (or other ideas for changing
  behavior) for one sustainability increasing issue
  in Portland (choose the one you think is most
  important/doable)

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Flu Outbreak

• Recent news
• http//www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE53
  Q7FZ20090427
• http//www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/health/28docs.ht
  ml?hpw
• http//www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/health/28flu.htm
  l?_r1hp