Earth Week Reading List
Below is a list of reading materials and links related to the Earth Week lecture series, including books written by or written about Earth week speakers. Book links are provided to Amazon.com for more information.
Nena Baker, Author
Books by Nena Baker:
The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-Being
Heidi Bohan, Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Family
Heidi's Web Site
Snoqualmie Tribe Web Site
David Bowen, Municipal Liaison Manager PSE, Wild Horse Wind Farm
Puget Sound Energy
PSE: Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility
Kate Costanza, Sustainability Coordinator, MulvannyG2 Architecture
MulvannyG2 Architecture web site
Sergio Cueva-Flores, King County Director for Sen. Patty Murray
Office of Sen. Patty Murray
Nolan Curtis, Administration Section Manager - Nuclear Waste Program, Washington State Department of Ecology
Washington State Department of Ecology
WA Ecology Nuclear Waste Program
Department of Energy - History of Hanford
WHAT IS HANFORD?
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation is in south-eastern Washington. It was created in 1943 by the United States government as part of the “Manhattan Project” – our nation’s effort to build the first atomic bomb. The 586-square-mile site played an important role in our nation’s defense throughout the Cold War. However, more than 40 years of plutonium production left a legacy of contamination.Today USDOE owns and operates Hanford. It is undergoing the world’s largest environmental cleanup. This involves both chemically toxic and radioactive materials. Sixty percent of the nation's high-level radioactive wastes are stored at Hanford in old deteriorating tanks. More than 1,700 individual waste sites and 500 contaminated facilities are spread across the site. Hanford has over 180 square miles of contaminated groundwater. If not cleaned up, these wastes are a threat to the Columbia River, which forms the north and east border of the site, and is the lifeblood of the interior Pacific Northwest.
Though the groundwater at Hanford is not used directly for drinking, it discharges into the Columbia River. The Columbia provides drinking water to the 200,000 residents of Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick. More than two million people live downstream, using the river for drinking water and irrigation.
In May 1989, the USEPA, the Washington State Department of Ecology, and USDOE signed an agreement providing a framework for Hanford’s cleanup. In October 1989, Hanford was listed on Superfund’s National Priorities List. Current estimates show that actual cleanup and waste processing will continue until the mid-century. Long-term monitoring of contaminants will occur well into the future.
Lisa Dupar, Owner and Chief Creative Officer, Lisa Dupar Catering and Pomegranate Bistro
Lisa Dupar Catering and Pomegranate Bistro
Kurt Hoelting, Author, Founder/Director Inside Passage Project
Kurt's Circling Home Blog
Inside Passages
Books by Kurt Hoelting:
The Circumference of Home: One Man's Year-Long Quest for a Radically Local Life (in progress)
Dreaming of Salmon
Stan Hummel, Capital Project Supervisor, Brightwater Treatment Plant
Brightwater Treatment Project
JP Kemmick, Cascade Chapter of the Sierra Club
Sierra Club Move Beyond Coal Campaign
Dr. Ted Roush, NASA Space Scientist, Ames Research Center
Mission Web Sites for:
Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
ExoMars-Pasteur Rover
BCC Center for Liberal Arts: BCC Reads! Program
Dr. Ka-Kit Tung, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Adjunct Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington
Ka-Kit Tung's Publication List
Applied Mathematics Department at UW
Jeremy Smithson, Co-Founder/Owner, Puget Sound Solar
Puget Sound Solar Web Site
Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Family Traditional Insulation Workshop
Snoqualmie Tribe Web Site
Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Family members and ethnobotanist and native plant
specialist, Heidi Bohan, will share about the many local and natural
resources used to keep winter plankhouses warm and insulated, kept summer
shelters dry and cool, and which provided warm bedding and clothing. Work
with and learn techniques to make some of these materials yourself,
including a 'ulal' mat.
BCC Earth Week is organized by the BCC Student Science Association. For more information contact Rob Viens in the BCC Science Division at rviens@bcc.ctc.edu or (425) 564-3158.
