{"id":5023,"date":"2014-03-10T14:32:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2014-03-10T14:32:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:32:13","slug":"third-climate-change-conversation-to-be-hosted-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2014\/03\/10\/third-climate-change-conversation-to-be-hosted-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Climate Change Conversation to be Hosted Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Content adapted from Debra Whigbes<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Seven Steps toward a More Sustainable Household<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Date and Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, March 11<sup>th<\/sup> at 7:00 PM<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Place: <\/strong>Corvallis-Benton County Library (645 NW Monroe)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Feeling helpless about climate change and don\u2019t know what to do?\u00a0 Consider this. Seven experts will talk about how good it can be on the path toward a low-carbon footprint.\u00a0 Each presenter will briefly outline their topic, to be followed by a break-out session where audience members can seek more information from individual experts. The following presenters will teach and inspire us about how to\u00a0make practical and meaningful changes in the areas of energy, consumption, gardening, transportation and simplifying our lives.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sustainable Consumption \u2013 Babe O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s (Eugene\u2019s Sustainability Liaison). <\/strong>Babe will focus on the front end of the consumer cycle, explaining how choices and behavior changes can make a huge difference in reducing the impact of what we buy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The New Landscape<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<strong>Owen Dell, RLA, ASLA (Landscape Architect).<\/strong> Owen will discuss home gardening and sustainable landscaping, connecting it to community, energy use, and food security.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alternative Transportation \u2013 Glencora Borradaile (OSU Assistant Professor) &amp; Michael Gretes, (Researcher, OHSU).<\/strong> This couple both have successful careers yet choose not to own a car.\u00a0 They will extol the importance, economics, the lifestyle enhancement and joy of not gaining 3,000 lbs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Simplicity \u2013 Dr. Steve Cook (OSU Senior Instructor)<\/strong>.\u00a0 Steve will explain his simple and sustainable lifestyle and will share his rewards, successes and challenges along that path.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your Ecological Home<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<strong>Skip Wenz (author of &#8220;Your Ecological Home\u201d)<\/strong>. Will give a positive vision and the future benefits for those householders who take home and apply these and other easy and sustainable changes.<strong> <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Household Energy\u2014<\/strong> <strong>Brandon Trelstad (OSU\u2019s Sustainability Coordinator)<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Will highlight the amazing energy reduction possible with informed appliance choices, with a special focus on the exciting new heat pump water heater that uses dramatically less energy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sol<\/strong><strong>ar Energy: <\/strong><strong>Julie Williams (founder of <\/strong><strong>Seeds for the Sol)<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Solar energy is the most expansive and economical shift for a long term energy source.\u00a0\u00a0<em>If we help each other transition to solar energy, today, we can stop getting ready for the apocalypse and begin our true willingness to live a fair, just, and beautiful life.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information contact Debra at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dwhigbes@gmail\">dwhigbes@gmail<\/a>, or 541-554-6979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content adapted from Debra Whigbes Seven Steps toward a More Sustainable Household Date and Time: Tuesday, March 11th at 7:00 PM Place: Corvallis-Benton County Library (645 NW Monroe) Feeling helpless about climate change and don\u2019t know what to do?\u00a0 Consider this. Seven experts will talk about how good it can be on the path toward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292117],"tags":[112,476,199175,620576],"class_list":["post-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-sustainability","tag-climate-change","tag-corvallis","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-household"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}