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Category: Opportunity

AmeriCorps Position – Lake City Seniors + Lake City/Northgate Senior Center Project

We are very excited to have the opportunity to bring an AmeriCorps service member onto our team this fall to help expand the Lake City Seniors program as well as start developing programming in Northgate. Now we just have to find the right candidate! This position is all about community building and empowerment of older adults and people with disabilities in the neighborhood, so someone local would be incredible but anyone with a passion and commitment to this work would help us grow it immensely.

JSIS 535 Technology, Society, and the Future – Summer 2017

JSIS 535 Technology, Society, and the Future
(2 credits)

This course explores the intersection of policy, technology and society. Technology is rapidly changing the way that humans interact with one another, markets are formed, and information is stored, shared and utilized. While technology has held and does hold great promise for being a force for both economic and social change, it also has the potential to be used in ways that threaten civil liberties, national security and data sovereignty. Private sector and civil society actors, government and military leaders, and regulators must work together to understand how new and emerging technologies will drive change across a wide range of sectors, and they must develop policies to ensure that technology is used to help improve and enrich the lives of those across the socioeconomic spectrum.

ESRM 201 Sustaining PNW Ecosystems – Summer 2017 B-term

Please consider the summer ecology course – Sustaining Pacific Northwest Ecosystems, ESRM 201, offered Summer B-term. This course is an introduction to the principles of ecology using our own Pacific Northwest ecosystems as the learning environment. Students will be exposed in the classroom, labs and field trips to basic ecological theory and northwest plant communities. There will be four field trips to locations within and outside the UW campus. The course meets I&S and NW requirements.

Contact instructor Robert Tournay, tournay@uw.edu, with any questions. See course flier below!

Online Sustainable Business Course – Autumn 2017

ESRM 320 Marketing and Management From a Sustainability Perspective
– 5 credits and NW and I&S
– No prerequisites
– Syllabus: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1117315/assignments/syllabus
– Online course

Overview
In ESRM 320, we explore two of the four primary business dimensions: marketing and human resource management. Marketing refers to promoting, pricing, and distributing new and existing products and services that are aimed at satisfying consumers’ wants, needs, and objectives. Human resource management refers to developing, managing, and motivating human capital and resources.
Sustainability refers to integrating environmental, social, and financial elements in order to meet the needs of people today without compromising Earth’s capacity to provide for future generations. Integrating these three is called the triple bottom line. In business, the bottom line refers to net income or profits because it is the last (i.e., bottom) line in a company’s income statement; profits are essential because a business is unsustainable without them. Sustaining the planet over the long term depends not on one but all three bottom lines. We will explore the meaning and importance of sustainable business practices that respect and adhere to best environmental science methods and ethical social responsibility standards. The context for this exploration will be assessing data in corporate sustainability reports.

Course Goals
ESRM 320 has two goals, which are to provide a context for 1) learning business concepts (through watching the recorded business lectures and reading the Nickels textbook) AND 2) hands on experience assessing corporate sustainability performance (through assessing GRI indicators using sustainability report information). The business learning objectives below in bold are achieved through listening to the recorded business lectures and reading the Nickels textbook (both of which are covered on the exams that comprise about 55% of the course grade) while the sustainability learning objectives underlined below are achieved through assessing GRI indicators using sustainability report information.

Learning Objectives

  • Explain marketing, human resources, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability concepts
  • Summarize how a market orientation and commitment to sustainability can enhance customer and employee satisfaction
  • Describe how consumer markets are segmented, targeted, and products positioned to satisfy individual, government, and business consumers’ wants and needs
  • Compare techniques for creating value-added products, services, and ideas; valuing environmental and social externalities and managing traditional pricing; developing distribution strategies and “greening” the supply chain; and creating and implementing promotion campaigns
  • Define managerial and leadership styles and theories of motivation, persuasion, and influence
  • Summarize the human resource process of recruiting, interviewing, hiring, training, motivating, and evaluating employees
  • Describe Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework for sustainability reporting
  • Assess GRI human rights, labor practices, product responsibility, and society indicators to measure actual sustainability performance
  • Analyze real world sustainability performance using data in corporate sustainability reports
  • Summarize and interpret sustainability performance data

    • “Change from Within” Racial Ecologies Conference – June 1-2

    CHANGE FROM WITHIN: DIVERSIFYING THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
    We are delighted to announce Change from Within, the culmination of Jasmmine Ramgotra‘s Environmental Studies capstone internship with the Center for Creative Conservation. Change from Within explores the lack of diversity in the environmental field and solutions for improvement in the cross-disciplinary format of contemporary dance. Jasmmine creates a movement-based representation of her interviews with leaders of Seattle’s environmental community. Using the interview audio as a sound score, and four dancers to communicate the message, the performance presents clear takeaways about how to create positive change on an individual level. Read more on our website.

    Thursday, June 1, 7-8pm, Olympic Sculpture Park, Paccar Pavilion, Seattle.
    This performance will be followed by an audience and collaborator discussion.
    Free with RSVP: http://seattleartmuseum.org/visit/calendar/events?EventId=56039

    Friday, June 2, 3:30-4pm, Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center, University of Washington, Seattle
    This performance is part of the Racial Ecologies Conference, and will be followed by a reception.
    Free with RSVP for the post conference reception: com.uw.edu/racialecologies

    Help keep Jasmmine’s work free and accessible for all by donating to her GoFundMe.

    RACIAL ECOLOGIES CONFERENCE
    The Racial Ecologies Conference will bring scholars from across the country together with locally based scholars and activists to exchange information and inspiration. Drawing from multiple disciplines, the conference will focus on collaborative research, on the unequal impact of environmental degradation, and on the work of communities of color to address those impacts. The conference is hosted by the UW Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity.

    Thursday, June 1, 2:30-4pm & Friday, June 2nd, 8:30am-4:30pm
    Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center, University of Washington, Seattle
    Free with RSVP: http://ccde.com.washington.edu/racialecologies/

    Recycling + Compost Coordinator at the Woodland Park Zoo – Job Opportunity

    DESCRIPTION: Coordinates and monitors the composting of animal and food waste to produce soil conditioner. Promotes and coordinates the zoo recycling program, monitors pickup and collection of recyclable materials by zoo staff and contracted vendors. Supports the Resource Conservation and Sustainability Supervisor in managing utility data, promoting and implementing the Woodland Park Zoo (WPZ) Sustainability Plan.

    READ MORE HERE: https://www.appone.com/MainInfoReq.asp?R_ID=1595629