Earth Week 2000-2009

 

Lecture Series Speakers

• Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment - Sustainable Ecology vs. the Economy (2001)
• Amanda Alva, BCC Associated Student Government – Panel on Environmental Leadership (2008)

• Nena Baker, Author - The Body Toxic (2009)
• Tom Barry, Stream Team Program Administrator from the City of Bellevue - Urban Stream Restoration (2001)
• Heidi Bohan, Ethobotanist (with Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Family Members) - Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Family Traditional Insulation Workshop (2009)
• David Bowen, Municipal Liaison Manager PSE, Wild Horse Wind Farm - Wind energy in Washington (2009)
• Dave Bradley, Project Manager, WA State Dept. of Ecology - Lead and Arsenic Soil Contamination in Washington (2003)
• Mike Brent, Cascade Water Alliance (with Barbara Sullivan, City of Redmond, Jennifer Kaufman, City of Bellevue) – Panel Discussion on Regional Water Conservation
• Jerrilyn Brusseau, Peace Trees Vietnam (2007)
• Patricia Burgess, Water Conservation Program Administrator from the City of Bellevue - Water Shortages and Conservation (2001)

• Koben Calhoun, Built Green Coordinator– Built Green: Building a Sustainable Future (2007)
• Secret Charles, Community Outreach Consultant and Toxic Beauty Specialist, Community Coalition for Environmental Justice – The Toxic Beauty Project (2008)
• Jill Clapp-Hansen, Earth Ministry – Climate Change: A Faith-Based Call to Action (2007)
• James Colver, Alternative Fuel Car Owner - Need Gas? Make Your Own Fuel for Free! (2007)
• Megan Cornish (with Heidi Durham) - Power Piracy and the U.S. Energy Crisis (2001)
• Kate Costanza, Sustainability Coordinator, MulvannyG2 Architecture - Market Green: Green industry trends, green jobs, carbon markets and the federal stimulus package’s impact on green (2009)
• Sergio Cueva-Flores, King County Director for Sen. Patty Murray - Environmental Issues in King County (2009)
• BJ Cummings, Coordinator, Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - The Duwamish River Cleanup and Community Health (2005) / The Duwamish River Cleanup and Community Health: A Superfund Story (2003)
• Nolan Curtis, Administration Section Manager - Nuclear Waste Program, Washington State Department of Ecology - Critical Issues in Environmental Cleanup: Hanford Overview (2009)

• Katherine Davies M.A., D.Phil., Core Faculty, Environment & Community and Associate Director, Center for Creative Change, Antioch University - How much do childhood environmental diseases and disabilities cost Washington State? (2006)
• Jim Dawson , Field Coordinator for the Washington Toxics Coalition – The Environmental Cost of Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products (2008) / Panel on Environmental Leadership (2008) / Pollution in People: How Toxic Chemicals Are Contaminating Our Bodies And What You Can Do About It! (2007)
• Brian Derdowski, President of Public Interest Associates and former King County Councilman – Sensible Growth in King County (2004)
• Jim DisPeso, Policy Director, REP, America (The National Grassroots Organization of Republicans for Environmental Protection) - Fixing Global Warming -- It's Not a Burden, It's a Business Opportunity (2003)
• Heidi Durham (with Megan Cornish) - Power Piracy and the U.S. Energy Crisis (2001)
• Lisa Dupar, Owner and Chief Creative Officer, Lisa Dupar Catering and Pomegranate Bistro - Sustainable Chefs - How the Food Industry Can Support Local Farming (2009)

• Timothy Egan, Journalist/Author – The Worst Hard Time (2008)
• Envirocitizen Workshop - Power the Clean Energy Revolution (2005)

• Agnes Figueroa, Bellevue Community College - Impact of Militarism on Health and the Environment (2003)
• Jean Floten, BCC President – Panel on Environmental Leadership (2008)
• Leonard Forsman, Suquamish Tribe –  Impacts of the December 2003 Oil Spill at Jefferson Head on the Suquamish Tribal Community. (2004)
• Rich Franko, AIA , Senior Associate, Mithun Architects - Designing Sustainable Buildings in the 21st Century (2005)
• Matt Freeman-Gleeson, Co-Owner Environmental Home Center, Seattle – Green building and the environment (2006)

• Richard Gammon , University of Washington –Climate Change: Greatest Impacts in Countries Least Responsible (2007)
• Stephen Garrow, Media Instructor, BCC – Back to the Earth... Deep Ecology, Non-violence, and Peace (Immediately followed by Peace Vigil at the BCC Fountain) (2005)
• John de Graaf, Author, Activist and Film Producer - What's the Economy for, Anyway? (2007)
• Steve Gilbert, PhD, DABT, INND (Institute of Neurotoxicology & Neurological Disorders) - An Introduction to Environmental Contaminants that Cause Learning Disabilities (2009) / A Small Dose of Toxicology (2007)
• William Gold, University of Washington Bothell –Tour of the UW Bothell Wetlands (2004)
• Nancy Gonlin, Anthropology Instructor, BCC – The Collapse of the Classic Maya: An Environmental Perspective (2008) / Chocolate, the Ancient Maya, and Environmental Degradation (co-offered as part of the Center for Liberal Arts Brown Bag Luncheon series) (2005)
• Art Goss, Astronomy Instructor, BCC – Nuclear Power (2009) / The Runaway Greenhouse Effect on Venus - A Future for the Earth? (2005)
• Martha Groom, UW Bothell Professor - The Birds and the Beans (2000)

• Erick Haakenson, Owner/Manager, Jubilee Organic Farm and Philosophy Instructor, BCC - Über-organic Farming (2007) / Is organic enough? (2006)
• Mike Hanson, BCC Botany Instructor - A Bite-Sized Bite Me: Making Conscious Choices and Positive Change, One Bite at a Time (with Michael Meyer, BCC English Instructor) (2008) / Ethnobotany: People and Plants (2004) / Native Plant Identification Walk through Robinswood Park (2001)
• Denis Hayes, Founder/Head of the Earth Day Network, President/CEO of the Bullitt Foundation - Fighting for Survival: The Environmental Movement and the Human Prospect (2003)
• Hempfest, Executive Director - Hemp Alternatives (2001)
• Jane Hendricks, AIA, LMN Architects - Making Better Places: Sustainable Design in Public Buildings (2003)
• Blair Henry, J.D., Executive Director of the Northwest Council on Climate Change (with Sandy Rock, MD - BCC/Interpretive Consultations, Inc) - Climate Change, Transportation, and Public Health Effects (2002)
• Peter Holte , Habitat Stewardship Coordinator, City of Redmond – Our stormy relationship with storm water: defining issues and possible solutions (2006)
• Kurt Hoelting, Author, Founder/Director Inside Passage Project - The Circumference of Home: One Man's Year-Long Quest for a Radically Local Life (2009)
• Stan Hummel , Design Manager, King County Department of Natural Resources - Building the Brightwater Treatment System (2009)

• U.S. Representative Jay Inslee – The New Apollo Energy Program (2004)

• Mike Jackman, Bellevue Utilities Resource Conservation Manager, City of Bellevue - 2005 Drought & Regional Water Supply Issues (2005)
• Dan Jaffe, UW Bothell – Global air quality and climate: Where are we? where are we headed? (2004)
• Carol Janzen, Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc. – Sensing climate change - From the coast to the abyss (2008)
• Ken Johnson, PhD, PE, King County Department Ground Water Protection Program – GIS Tools for Hydrogeology (2003)
• JoAnn Jordan, Emergency Preparedness Education Coordinator, City of Bellevue Fire Department – Basic Earthquake Preparedness in Bellevue: How to be safe (2004)

• Jennifer Kaufman, City of Bellevue (with Barbara Sullivan, City of Redmond and Mike Brent, Cascade Water Alliance) – Panel Discussion on Regional Water Conservation (2007)
• JP Kemmick, Cascade Chapter of the Sierra Club - Moving Beyond Coal (2009)
• Theresa Koppang, King County Dept. of Natural Resources and Parks, Board Member, Cascadia Region Green Building Council - Green Building in the Pacific Northwest (2003)
• Bill Kupinse, English Professor, University of Puget Sound – Trashed! Waste, Cultural Studies, and the Future of the Planet (2008)

• Phillip Levin, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) - Biodiversity: A Crisis in Character Not Numbers (2002)
• Peter Locke, AIA, LMN Architects - Making Better Places: Sustainable Design in Public Buildings (2004)

• Jean MacGregor, Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education
  The Evergreen State College - Open Discussion on Bioregional Education (2005)
• Patty Martin, founder of Safe Food and Fertilizer – The Politics of Pollution: How Bad Decisions Hurt Good People (2008) / Wasting America: Fraud, deception and your food supply (2006) / Toxins in Feed and Fertilizer: How Waste Recycling Puts You and Your Environment at Risk (2005) / Toxic Waste in Our Food: A Personal Account (2004)
• Sara Maxwell, Marine Conservation Biology Institute - Shifting Gears: How Fishing Methods Affect Seafood Choices (2003)
• Michael Mayer, Associate Attorney, Earth Justice – The Endangered Species Act as a Catalyst for Change (2005) / Undermining the Foundations of Environmental Law (2004) / The Development of Environmental Law (2003)
• Robert McClure. Seattle PI Reporter – The Role of the Media in Maintaining the Health of Our Environment (2004)
• Michael Meyer, English Instructor, BCC – A Bite-Sized Bite Me: Making Conscious Choices and Positive Change, One Bite at a Time (with Michael Hanson, BCC Botany Instructor) (2008)
• Ken Miller, President Washington Farm Forestry Association - (with Cindy Mitchell, Washington Forest Protection Association) Forestry in Washington (2007) / Trees are the answer: how we can save and use our forests at the same time (2006)
• Cindy Mitchell, Washington Forest Protection Association (with Ken Miller, President Washington Farm Forestry Association) - Forestry in Washington (2007)
• Anindita Mitra, Founder, CREÄ Affiliates, LLC – The Next Energy Frontier: Body Fat – What the National Obesity Crisis has to do with Sustainable Transportation (2008)
• Dave Montgomery, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington – Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (2008) / King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon (Author of book of the same name) (2005)
• Elisa Murray, Communications Director, Northwest Environmental Watch– The Cascadia Scorecard: Measuring what matters in the Northwest (2004)

• Ralph Naess, Naturalist, Seattle Public Utilities - Straight from the Source: The Cedar River Watershed (2003)
• Sara Needleman-Carlton, Political Activist and former BCC Student Body President - Power of You: Activism, Volunteerism and Politics for the Planet (2009)
• NorthWest Animal Rights Network - The Perils of Factory Farming (2002) / Biodiversity, Sustainable, Feasability & Environmental Impacts of Agriculture (2001)

• Gordon Orians, University of Washington - To Market to Market to Buy Ecofish. Home Again, Home Again, Its Not Just a Wish (2002)

• Tony Paulson, Supervisory Research Hydrologist, Chief, Environmental Hydrology and Geochemistry U.S. Geological Survey – Cycling of nitrate in Lynch Cove, Hood Canal, Washington (2006)
• Russ Payne, Philosophy Instructor, BCC – Panel on Environmental Leadership (2008) / Environmental Citizenship (2007) / How to be an environmentalist without having a Holy Cow (2003)
• Mark Plunkett, Seattle Aquarium – Sustainable Seafoods: Choices for Healthy Oceans (2005)
• Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California (Author of The Botany of Desire) – The botany of desire (2006) / The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals (2006)

• Rion Ramirez , Attorney, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, member American Indian Bar Association – Economic Development and Tribal Environmental Instrests (sponsored by the Diversity Caucus) (2004)
• Representative Dave Reichert , U.S. House of Representatives, Washington State's 8th District – Protecting the environment, moving Washington forward (2006)
• Kevin Rennert, Atmospheric Science Department, University of Washington – Local impacts of Global Climate Change (2005)
• Michael Righi, Economics Instructor, BCC – Economics of Toxic Waste (2008)
• L.B. Sandy Rock, MD, MPH, BCC Environmental Instructor / Interpretive Consultations, Inc. – Safe Food, Water, Air, and Sex: Environmentalism from a Biology Instructor's Medical Viewpoint (2004) / The Rise and Fall of Mercury: Reducing Mercury in the Environment (2003) / The Growing Concern of Antibiotic Resistance (2002) / Climate Change, Transportation, and Public Health Effects (with Blair Henry, J.D.) (2002)
• Rob Rose, Bellevue Rotary Club – Disabilities, the Environment and how Students can Make a Difference Across the Globe (2008)
• Dr. Ted Roush, NASA Space Scientist, Ames Research Center - Chronicling Mars: Science Fiction and Fact (2009)
• Mary Ruckelshaus, NOAA - Recovery Planning for Threatened and Endangered Pacific Salmon (2002)
• Washington Representative Laura Ruderman – Reinvigorating Participatory Democracy (2004)
• Running-Grass, Environmental Justice Program Manager, Office of Civil Rights and Environmental Justice, EPA – Environmental Justice: Citizen Action and the Governmental Response (2006)

• Sean Schmidt, Sustainable Style Foundation – Saving the World in Style (2008)
• Bronwyn Scott, Life Science Instructor, BCC – Invasive species: what's the big deal? (2006)
• Seattle Mobilization Against the Free Trade Association of the Americas - How Free Trade Affects the Environment (2001)
• Jeanie Sedgely, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility – The Challenge of Hanford and Health: Protecting the Columbia River (2005)
• Dan Serres, Columbia River Clean Energy Coalition – Liquified Natural Gas in the Northwest: Resisting the New Fossil Fuel Future (2007)
• Kent Short, Oceanography Instructor, Bellevue Community College – Coral reefs: extinct during your lifetime? (2006)
• Dan Silver - Clean Water Initiative (2001)
• Jason Simpson, Manager of Coffee and Tea Education, Starbucks – Sustainable Coffee & Social Responsibility (2008)
• King County Executive Ron Sims – Working Together to Preserve the Environmental Legacy of King County (2003)
• Brandie Smith, Toxics Campaigner for the Washington Toxics Coalition - Creating a Toxic Free Legacy: Eliminating Persistent Pollution in WA State (2003)
• Jeremy Smithson, Founder, Puget Sound Solar – Journey to Sustainability (2009) / Basic Solar 101 (2008) / Panel on Environmental Leadership (2008) / Solar Power in the Northwest (2003) / Using Solar Power in Puget Sound (2002)
• Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Family Members (with Heidi Bohan, Ethobotanist) - Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Family Traditional Insulation Workshop (2009)
• Ellen Sollod, Artist – Creating "The American Dream" (including a field trip to Ellen's public art display on campus) (2006)
• Viki Sonntag, Research Director, Sustainable Seattle – Why Eating Local Makes a Difference (2008)
• Angela Storey, Pesticides Organizer, Washington Toxics Coalition – Health and Environmental Impacts of Urban Pesticide Use in the Puget Sound (2006)
• Mark Storey, Philosophy Instructor, BCC – Ancient China's Earth "Millennium": A Thousand Years of Ecological Concern (2009) / Akira Kurosawa and Taoist environmental ethics (2006) / Cheeseburgers in Paradise – Taoism and Environmental Ethics (2005) / A Buddhist View on Vegetarianism (2004) / Kant on Duties to Animals (2002)
• Barbara Sullivan, City of Redmond (with Jennifer Kaufman, City of Bellevue, and Mike Brent, Cascade Water Alliance) – Panel Discussion on Regional Water Conservation (2007)
• SunDance Energy - Alternative Heating Methods (2001)

• Kit Taylor , Economics Instructor, BCC – Environmental Issues in the Amazon (2007)
• Pamela Tazioli , Washington State Coordinator, Breast Cancer Fund - Pollution in People –The Connection Between our Health and our Environment (2008) / The Breast Cancer Fund Asks: What’s in Your Makeup Bag? (2007)
• Tony Tessandori, Anthropology Instructor, BCC - There's something in the water...Oh, that's just birth control pills (2009)
• James Torrence, BCC English Instructor – Punk Rock and Environmentalism (2005) / Severance: Environmentalism and Punk Rock (2004)
• Heather Trimm, Urban Bays and Toxics Program Project Coordinator, People for Puget Sound – A Toxic Chemical in your Home and in Puget Sound: Phthalate, the New Phosphate (2008)
• Jim Trombold, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility – The Challenge of Hanford and Health (2004)
• Dr. Ka-Kit Tung, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Adjunct Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington - Mathematics and Climate (2009)

• Washington Department of Transportation - Traffic, Roads and Alternative transportation in the Puget Sound (2001)
• Margaret White, Woodland Park Zoo - Conservation: What are zoo's doing? (2002)
• Kathe Winkler-Low,UW Masters of Public Administration Program (former BCC student) - Coming soon to a city near you: carbon neutrality (2009)

• David Yamaguchi, Programmer/analyst at the Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative – Saving the planet from Mount St. Helens to Tokyo (Co-author of The Orphan Tsunami) (2006)

• Jay Zischke, Fisheries Biologist from the Suquamish Tribe - Salmon Management in the 21st century - Assembly instructions advised (2002)

Film Screenings

• "Affluenza" (2006 / 2002)
• "Baraka" (2003)
• "Black Gold" (2007)
• "Blue Vinyl" (2004 / 2003)
• "Buyer Be Fair: The Promise of Product Certification" (2007)
• "China Blue" (2008)
• "A Civil Action" (2005)
• "A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil" (2008)
• "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash" (2009)
• "Day After Tomorrow" (2005)
• "E2 / Energy" (2009)
• "Energy Crossroads: A burning need to change course" (2008)
• "Erin Brockovich" (2004)
• "Escape from Affluenza" (2003)
• "Flow: For Love of Water" (2009)
• "The Future of Food" (2006)
• "Ghost Forests" (2003)
• "Gimme Green" (2008)
• "Gorillas in the Mist" (2003)
• "Grizzly Man" (2006)
• "How to Save the World: One Man, One Cow, One Planet" (2007)
• "In Debt We Trust" (2008)
• "An Inconvenient Truth" (2007)
• "King Corn" (2009)
• "Lunch with the Lorax," a viewing of Dr. Seuss' classic story "The Lorax" (2001)
• "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil " (2007)
• "Princess Mononoke" (sponsored by the BCC Genki Society) (2004)
• "Rising Waters: Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands" (2007)
• "Rivers and Tides" - Discussion led by Wendy Pickering and Carlos Trujillo (2005)
• "Shifting Baselines" (2003)
• "Trashed" (2008)
• "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of a Low Price " (2006)
• "Who Killed the Electric Car?" (2007)

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