WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS - SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

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1 WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS - SEPTEMBER 30, 2013 The Environmental Caucus facilitates creative and strategic communication across campus to advance the institutional commitment to sustainability and to promote education, research, and collaboration on the environment. Dear subscribers! Environmental Caucus is looking into Listserv expansion and would really appreciate any help in reaching new audiences. Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who can be interested in being weekly updated with a plethora of sustainability and community- building events. How to subscribe to EC List- serve? Please, send a request for one or more subscribers to environmentalcaucus@nau.edu, indicating their s. EVENTS FGSA Forestry Seminar Series WHEN: Wednesday, October 2 nd, 4pm WHERE: Room 017, Southwest Forest Science Complex (Bld 82), School of Forestry Dr. Sarah Rinkevich who works for US Fish and Wildlife Service (Southwest Region) will present an example of an interdisciplinary approach to study endangered species on Native American lands in Arizona. If you are interested in meeting with Dr. Rinkevich on Wed please contact Serra Hoagland (sjh285@nau.edu) For more details please see the flyer attached. Is Healthcare a Right? - Hot Topics Event by Research on Action ART WHEN: Wednesday, October 2 nd, 6pm WHERE: Museum of Northern Arizona Facilitator: Dr. John Devlin, NAU Franke College of Business The Research on Action (RA) ART cordially invites you everyone to the second Hot Topics Event of the semester. It's an especially hot one this week: Healthcare! The fabulous students working in this ART will offer a menu of concrete ways event

2 participants can transmute their passion on the topic at hand into action! Please come to share your important voice and explore ways you can change your community! Please see the flyer attached for more details. SEDI Green Drinks WHEN: Wednesday, October 2, 5pm 6pm WHERE: The Hotel Weatherford, The Green Room Flagstaff Green Drinks brings together people who are interested in a sustainable future for northern Arizona. We meet for food, drinks, and a different topic and presentation each month. We meet every month for food, drinks, and a different topic and presentation. Flagstaff Green Drinks is a great way to get to know your community members, and to learn about what businesses and organizations are doing in the region to further sustainability initiatives. Please join us at the next Green Drinks! For more information about SEDI Green Drinks: Official Web- site: or contact Carl Ramsey, the chair of SEDI Green Drinks Committee at carl@aeapower.com Flagstaff Water Works, Part 2: Our Water Future WHEN: Thursday, October 3, 7pm WHERE: Flagstaff City Hall Council Chambers To help answer the numerous questions surrounding our water resources, the Utility Division is in the process of developing a Water Resources Master Plan. City of Flagstaff Water Manager Erin Young will bring us a progress report and field our questions. If you are maintaining a conscious living and want to learn the story behind each sip of a tap water you are enjoying every day COME and JOIN! Number of participants is unlimited! The NAU Green Fund is Now Open For Business Proposals! WHEN: October 2,3 + See the calendar below WHERE: Cline Library, Room 200 It is that time of year again grant proposal time! The NAU Green Fund is now accepting applications for projects for the school year! For those of you

3 who don t know, each student at the Flagstaff Mountain Campus pays a five- dollar Green Fee towards what is known as the Green Fund. That money can be allocated for environmental and sustainability based projects on- campus created by students likes you! In order to apply for a Green Fund grant, you must come to one proposal workshop. See below for dates and times: September 18 - Proposal Workshop in Cline Library, Room 200 (4:30-5:30 pm) September 19 - Proposal Workshop in Cline Library, RM 200 (4:30-5:30 pm) October 2 Proposal Workshop in Cline Library, RM 200 (4:30-5:30 pm) October 3 - Proposal Work in Cline Library, RM 200 (4:30-5:30 pm) October 9-1st round of GF Applications due October 30 - Proposal Workshop in Cline Library, RM 200 (6:00-7:00 pm) November 6-2nd round of GF applications due I hope you all consider applying for a Green Fund grant and thank you for doing your part in creating a culture of sustainability! FYS Food for Thought Class Apple Harvest and Processing WHEN: Sunday, October 6, 1-4:30pm WHERE: TBA Join Rosemary Logan's FYS class and school garden members as they forage for apples. They will then be making cider and pie. All are welcome! Urban Land Stewardship Workshop Series with the Grand Canyon Trust and Terrabirds WHEN: Friday, October 4th, 1-5pm Saturday, October 5 th, 9-3pm WHERE: 2601 North Valley Road Flagstaff Two days of hands- on learning and practice in ecological design, rainwater harvesting, soil microbiology, working with native plants, and using the backyard as a simple start in making a positive impact in the world! FREE! The space is limited, register now at: kwatters@grandcanyontrust.org or call Please see the flyer attached for more details.

4 Growing Cities Urban Farm Film Screening WHEN: Friday, October 11, 3pm- 5pm WHERE: Orpheum Theatre, 15 W Aspen Avenue Flagstaff, AZ United States Dan Susman is a director of Growing Cities, documentary film that examines the role of urban farming in America and asks how much power it has to revitalize our cities and change the way we eat. Trailer: film/ Growing Cities will be screening as a part of the Flagstaff Film Festival, October 9-13 (please see the flyer attached). Join us for the screening and post- film Q&A with the filmmaker! This film will be very inspiring to everyone interested in sustainable food. Price: 10$ Bicycle rally for safe cycling in Flagstaff and NAU WHEN: Tuesday, October 15, 5:45pm WHERE: City Hall, West Aspen Street, Flagstaff Flagstaff Cycling is working on Flagstaff City support in having safe bicycle corridors part of the street transportation/utility upgrade project. In order to get their attention they are requesting that cyclists come to City Hall on Tuesday 10/15 at 5:45 pm as part of the public participation time slot. For more details please contact Joe Shannon at Joseph.Shannon@nau.edu Please see the flyer attached and check out more information on the website FlagstaffCycling.Squarespace.com Health Impact Assessment Training WHEN: Friday, October 18, 8:30am- 4:30pm WHERE: Flagstaff Aquaplex Free workshop with lunch included! HIA is a system of figuring out what the change you're going to make is going to do to the health of the community. This would be great for those interested in city planning and public health. See flyer for registration information. Earthship Arizona volunteer There is currently an Earthship being built about 2 hours away from Flagstaff. People in charge of the project would love to have a group of volunteers to come even for just a weekend. This is a wonderful way to take part in creating one of these unique buildings! Volunteers are welcome to come for the whole weekend!

5 Project info, AZ: arizona/the- lay- of- the- land/ Building info: Help harvest this year s bountiful Apple Crop WHEN: September 15 through approximately October 15 WHERE: Slide Rock State Park Share Crop Option offers volunteers the opportunity to come into the park with no entrance fee and work for your apple share, pick for a half day or more.you keep ¼ of all the apples picked and the other ¾ stays with the park. You enjoy a day in the beauty of the orchards in Oak Creek Canyon Your labor pays for your apple share. Take advantage of the Share Crop Option and enjoy the bounty of the harvest. ALSO make your calendar for Sept 21st for our Fall Festival! Come enjoy the Homestead and Agricultural History of Slide Rock State Park For more information contact Kathy Pendley Shaw at Kathypshaw85@gmail.com Garden Help at Izabel Community Garden WHEN: Tuesdays 11:30 am - 1:30 pm WHERE: Coconino Community School, Izabel Community Graden Additional help requested to work with students from Coconino High School in the Transition to Work Program. Any extra volunteers would be very appreciated! JOB OPPORTUNITIES Grand Canyon Trust Part- time AmeriCorps Position Location: Based in Flagstaff, AZ office headquarters Start date: October 1, 2013 Opening based in Flagstaff beginning October 1, 2013 assisting volunteer program staff with the coordination of their emerging Citizen Advocacy Initiative. For more information: Visit and click on Volunteer. Or contact a Volunteer Program Associate at Or volunteernow@grandcanyontrust.org

6 To Apply: Visit Youth In Action (YIA) AmeriCorps website: and click on How to Apply. For questions about the application process contact AmeriCorps YIA at or GreenPeers Internship, Fall 2013 Position: Researcher for a Social Networking Company Geared Toward Sustainability. Company: GreenPeers.Net is a start- up social networking site for sustainably minded people. Our mission is to connect sustainable people everywhere. Anyone can post a free profile on GreenPeers.Net highlighting their sustainability efforts. A user will categorize their sustainability as involving a home, school, government, or business/non- profit. Users can then search for and connect with others based on mutual topics of interest (solar panels, organic food, recycling, etc.) and/or geography. Please visit The site is live; however it is still under construction. For more information, see the flyer below.

7 FLYERS GRAND CANYON TRUST AND TERRABIRDS PRESENT! Urban Land Stewardship Workshop Series Hands-on learning and practice in: " Applying ecological design concepts " Rainwater harvesting " Soil microbiology and restoration techniques " Working with native plant palettes " Changing the world starting in your backyard Join fellow community members to help restore Grand Canyon Trust s historic homestead to a natural landscape and healthy ecosystem. Friday, October 4th 1-5pm Saturday, October 5th 9-3pm 2601 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff $Free and open to the public % We have limited space, register now! or call Kate Watters: kwatters@grandcanyontrust.org # Permaculture playing cards by Alexander Ojeda

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9 Contact Philosophy in the Public Interest: Visit: nau.edu/ppi Call: Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/nau.ppi Follow Us on Twitter: twitter.com/nau_ppi Is Health Care a Right? Date: Wednesday, October 2, :00 p.m. Location: The Museum of Northern Arizona Facilitated by: Dr. John Devlin, NAU Franke College of Business Hot Topics Café creates a forum for civil discussion about issues of contemporary concern. Philosophical analysis and compassionate engagement are the key capacities exercised by participants. Join us to learn more about the issue, and more about other people and their views. nonpartisan, and does not endorse a position with respect to any issue discussed. We recognize the value of reasoned, civil discussion, and facilitate open conversations where all points of view are welcomed.

10 Wednesday, October 2nd at 4pm Room 017, Southwest Forest Science Complex (Bld 82) School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University PRESENTS... Mexican Gray Wolves and the Western Apache Dr. Sarah Rinkevich, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Southwest Region An Interdisciplinary Approach to Study Endangered Species on Native American Lands in Arizona Photo credit: Gary Kramer / USFWS One of the most polarizing endeavors in the field of conservation biology is the restoration and management of gray wolves (Canis lupus) in North America. With the recovery of the Rocky Mountain and Great Lakes populations of gray wolves, attention is now on the struggling Mexican gray wolf (C. l. baileyi) recovery program. The Mexican gray wolf was on the brink of extinction by the time it was protected by the Endangered Species Act in 1976 when the gray wolf subspecies survived only in captivity. Other possible subspecies of gray wolves that existed in Arizona historically are now extinct. The Mexican Wolf Recovery Program has been divisive since its beginning in 1998 because of continued conflicts with cattle ranching and basic distrust of government programs by ranchers and Native American Tribes. My project combined non-invasive sampling techniques, state of the art conservation genetics, and ethnography in order to answer key questions about Mexican gray wolves on tribal lands. I used scat detection dogs to find wolf scat on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation during 2008 and I estimated the population of wolves on the reservation as well as assessed diet. I strayed from the dichotomous approach to resource management that considers natural resources and Native American culture independent of each other by investigating the cultural significance of the wolf in Apache traditional and contemporary society. I interviewed Apache elders and practitioners for a comprehensive assessment of how the wolf was viewed on the landscape prior to the reservation and how the Apache people relate to the current reintroduced wolf population. Lastly, I discuss how Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) contributes to the field of conservation biology by providing a discussion of the scientific merits of TEK, publications, and current uses. All seminars are 4:00 to 5:00 PM in Room 017 of the Southwest Forest Science Complex (Building 82) on the campus of Northern Arizona University. A reception for the speaker with food and refreshments precedes the seminar in the lounge in front of the seminar room (3:30-4:00 PM). No parking permit is needed for any vehicle with state, federal, or tribal license plates. Other persons can get a free permit from the host during the 30-minute reception before each seminar. Please contact Serra Hoagland (sjh285@nau.edu) for details.

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