Evergreen State College and Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education

Ahh, E to the Fifth Power -- E-5

energy, economy, equity, ecology, and,

EDUCATION:

If Earth Day 2010 isn't about education, then there is nothing to help us understand our communities, far and wide and close and small. Globalization works for ideas, for exchange of cultures, and for mitigating environmental collapse. We need tools to make all areas and communities whole again, food secure, and alive with social justice and enviornmental justice.

One area of note: The Puget Sound

http://www.psp.wa.gov/

Serves up to 4.2 million people. It's Spokane's bioregion too. Think about it.

The Puget Sound and Georgia Basin is composed of Puget Sound and the Straits of Juan de Fuca, Georgia, Rosario, and Haro and the lands and rivers that drain into these coastal waters. Before re-named by western European explorers, these inland fjords, straits and estuaries together were known by Tribal and First Nations peoples as the Salish Sea – the traditional name for the great inland waterway stretching from Puget Sound to the Johnstone Strait. Humans have inhabited the Salish Sea for over 10,000 years, living richly from an almost indescribable bounty of salmon, berries, elk, bear, marine mammals and forest resources.

http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/project.asp?pid=62

“Bioregion is a cultural concept, really, not a scientific concept. It should be up to the people to define a bioregion rather than having it come down from the institutional scientific elite.”
Peter Berg

http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/home.asp