Earth Week at Shoreline Community College with films and historical presentation

Edie Loyer-Nelson and faculty member Michelle Kleisath
Photo courtesy SCC

Shoreline Community College has a full slate of events for Earth Week. It started with a kick-off event featuring Edie Loyer-Nelson, a former trustee of SCC and current Duwamish tribal member, as the keynote speaker.

The theme for Earth Week is “Fostering an Ethic of Place” and events this week seek to explore our relationship with the place that Shoreline calls home, by opening our eyes to the history of our campus, examining our roles in this community, and envisioning what we can do in the future to create a more equitable, economical, and environmentally just community, with the end goal of reaching sustainability.

The college is located at 16101 Greenwood Ave N, 98133. Campus maps here. Parking information.

Wednesday, April 22

Deep Roots Community Garden Seedling Giveaway 10am

Location: North of the 2700 Building

Come to the Garden to get a free seedling, learn about the Deep Roots Garden Group, learn how to make seed starting pots from newspaper, and get information about open pollination and seed saving.

Also during this event, from 11:15am - 12:45pm, Patty Pan Cooperative will be on site with cooperatively made Free organic Grilled Veggies (with some from our own Deep Roots Garden). They'll be given away to raise awareness about the importance of locally sourced organic foods.

Soylent Green Film Showing 1:30pm

Location: PUB Quiet Dining Room

Soylent Green (1973) presents a dystopic future New York City, ravaged by overpopulation, the runaway greenhouse effect and a global food shortage. To compensate people are eating a mass produced high energy wafer called Soylent Green. The film touches on themes of environmental and ecological responsibility, power structures, and social justice in times of climate change, economic shortage, the ethics of human resources and food production. A discussion will follow the film.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Rio 2 Film Showing 12:30am

Location:  PUB Quiet Dining Room (9208)

Rio 2 (2014) is an animated film about a family of Macaws that discover their way of life is challenged by a changing world, and how illegal logging is impacting the Amazon basin. The film will be followed by a discussion led by ALAS about the impacts of deforestation and what can be done about it.

Native Plant Sale  10am

Location:  PUB Courtyard

Come support two local nurseries Go Natives Nursery and Kruckeberg Botanic Gardens that specialize in native plant habitat and the benefits that our yards and local greenbelts receive when we plant natives and remove invasive plants.

Shoreline Community College: The Land We Walk On 11:30am

Location:  PUB Quiet Dining Room (9208)

Join us as Vicki Stiles, executive director of the Shoreline Historical Museum, presents the history of the land on which Shoreline Community College now stands. Using maps and photos Ms. Stiles will bring to light some interesting information about the College areas environment.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Poisoned Waters Film Showing 12:30pm

Location: PUB Quiet Dining Room (9208)

Poisoned Waters (2009) is a "Frontline" documentary that examines the conditions that lead to water contamination and the danger contamination poses to human health. The program exposes the worsening conditions of Puget Sound and Chesapeake Bay, focusing on the threat of continued runoff from development, agriculture and industry. Q and A to follow led by Prof. Chip Dodd.