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BELLINGHAM –Western Washington University’s Institute for Global and Community Resilience (IGCR) is sponsoring two showings of award-winning film The Unforeseen at Bellingham’s Pickford Theater.
The film explores the sometimes-competing goals of land use, residential development, and water quality in Austin, Texas. Like the community portrayed in the film, Whatcom County is dealing with similar issues related to population growth and development. The IGCR hopes the film will inspire discussion about practical solutions to these issues in Whatcom County. The film showing comes on the last day of the City of Bellingham's Planning Academy II, a series of workshops that will guide how Bellingham will accommodate another 30,000 residents using infill residential development.
Mayor Dan Pike and IGCR’s Dr. Scott Miles will introduce the film and tie the film’s themes to Bellingham and Whatcom County. After the film, the conversation will continue at the Copper Hog, located at 1327 N State St.
What: The Unforeseen
When: Wednesday, May 28th, 2008, 7:00 pm
Encore showing at 9:30 pm (with no introduction or discussion afterwards)
Where: Pickford Theater
1416 Cornwall Ave; Bellingham, WA 98225 (360) 647-1300
On Wednesday, May 14th Dr. Rebekah Green and Gala Gulacsik, IGCR student intern, shared the results on the Southwest Washington Flooding Impact Study at the Centralia Business and Professional presentations that were held at Centralia College.
The Chronicle highlights the presentation, which includes the PowerPoint presentation.
EIIP Virtual Forum www.emforum.org Wednesday April 23, 12:00 Noon Eastern time (9 am Pacific Time)
There is going to be a live chat on the topic of new directions in EM policy on Wednesday at 9am. This would be a great opportunity to listen in to what current managers think and to get your own ideas out there. I know many people would appreciate the fresh perspective of students like you.
The EIIP is pleased to host a 'live chat' presentation and interactive group discussion on April 23, 2008 beginning at 12:00 Noon Eastern time (please convert to your local time). Our topic puts you in the position of Emergency Management Policy Advisor to the next President of the United States. What would you advise him or her? As a framework for our discussion, we will address the general policy areas highlighted in the National Homeland Security Consortium's recent white paper, Protecting Americans in the 21st Century: Imperatives for the Homeland http://www.nemaweb.org/?2253 .
Ten discussion questions http://www.emforum.org/vforum/080423.htm#QUESTIONS have been posted to stimulate the discussion and participants are encouraged to review them and prepare short responses in advance.
Our guest will be Valerie Lucus, CEM CBCP and Emergency/Continuity Manager for the University of California, Davis, a public university with a student enrollment of 30,000, and a total population of 50,000. Valerie has been in the Emergency Management/Business Continuity field for over 15 years and currently serves on IAEM’s University/College Committee and the Editorial Board. During this past December, she expressed her ideas on this topic during a radio interview.
Please make plans to join us, and as always, feel free to extend this invitation to your colleagues. Please see the Background Page http://www.emforum.org/vforum/080423.htm for related links and instructions. If this will be your first time to participate in the EIIP Virtual Forum www.emforum.org , please check your connection at least a day in advance by clicking on the Chat Login link at the top left.
April 14, 2008 -- Dr. Rebekah Green and Gala Gulacsik, IGCR intern, attended the Washington State Governor's Task Force on Recovery meeting. At the meeting, they presented preliminary findings on IGCR's study of business impacts and recovery from the December 2007 Southwest Washington floods. These findings included information on the characteristics of the flooded businesses, their risk perception and preparedness prior to the floods, the impact of the flood event on their business and how they are recovering thus far. The results were based upon the 63 businesses surveyed on February 22, 2008 by IGCR staff and Western students in the Disaster Reduction and Emergency Planning track. Further presentation of the finalized results will be presented to the business community of Lewis County in May.
March 24-28 -- Gigi Berardi will be lecturing on Food: A Crisis of Culture, Peace, and Freedom as part of the EUROMED Sustainable Connections Project at the Bellagio Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy from March 24-28, 2008. Her workshop will include principles of sustainable development, community resiliency and ways forward in regenerating agriculture, and policies, institutions, and research -- in particular, her food security index -- that enable all.
March 7-- Gigi Berardi is leading a countywide tour of five sustainable farms today in both Skagit and Whatcom counties. This is one of the field trips that were being offered in part of the Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers (WDCAG) Annual conference is being hosted by Environmental Studies Department, Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University.
Slide show presentation on edible forest gardens on Friday March 7th, 7pm at the Co-op Connections Building, 1200 N. Forest.
ESTU 497H Understanding and Communicating Risk students had the opportunity to meet with Mike Hogan of the Bellingham Port and tour the Bellingham waterfront property. Here are some photos taken by Professor Gigi Berardi of the trip. The class is preparing a risk assessment of the waterfront development.
BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University’s Institute for Global and Community Resilience, an organization within the Huxley College of the Environment, has received a $2,500 Quick Response grant from the Natural Hazard Center to research the effects of last December’s Centralia River flood on the area’s businesses.
The IGCR works with citizens, experts, and business and civic leaders to understand the characteristics of disaster risk. A team of about 10 students from the Huxley College of the Environment, led by Research Associate Rebekah Green and Assistant Professor Scott Miles, will spend at least the next three months working with the Chehalis-Centralia Chamber of Commerce to study how businesses recover in the wake of this natural disaster. read more...
January 30-- Dr. Rebekah Green spoke at the Focus the Nation climate change, which was held on WWU campus.
January 29 -- Dr. Gigi Berardi participated and presented at the “Food and the Future” Panel hosted by Western Washington University’s Associated Students Environmental Center on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at noon in the Viking Union room 464. Dr. Gigi Berardi was one of the three panalist that presented and was attended by Western students and Bellingham residents.
January 25 -- Dr. Scott Miles presented and led a discussion on "Is Environmentalism Dead?" as part of the Huxley Speaker Series at 3 pm in the Communications Facility (CF) room 120 on Friday, January 25, 2008. Following the presentation and discussion to an audience of about 70 people, which included Huxley faculty, staff, students, and Bellingham residents and government officials, Dr. Scott Miles invited everyone to bring their thoughts on down to Boundary Bay to continue the discussion.
The Institute has received a small $2500 Quick Response Grant from the Natural Hazard Center. This grant will be used to document and analyze small business disaster impact and recovery from a significant flood event in Western Washington. GIS Students Meet with City of Seattle Representatives November 2007 Monday, November 5, Dr. Scott Miles' class ESTU 401 "Applications of GIS" was paid a visit by two representatives from the City of Seattle: Phyllis Shulman, legislative assistant for Richard Conlin (chair of the Environment, Emergency Management, and Utilities Committee), and Mark Howard, strategic advisor in Seattle's Office of Emergency Management.
FEMA Region 10 Senior Management and State Homeland Security/Emergency Management Directors and their representatives from Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington held their biannual meeting at Western Washington University on October 30-31, 2007.
In August, Dr. David Neal, Director of the Center for the Study of Disasters and Extreme Events at Oklahoma State University, led two workshops on comprehensive emergency planning and historical perspectives of the field. Over a period of five days, he also carried out an independent assessment of IGCR within the context of other national emergency management and disaster research institutes.
The Institute for Global and Community Resilience (IGCR), part of Huxley College of the Environment of Western Washington University, held a roundtable on May 11, 2007 in Bellingham, WA. During the roundtable, participants discussed the emerging concept of community resilience as applied to the field of emergency management. The purpose of the roundtable was to begin to solicit feedback on the current and future projects of the IGCR and examine potential synergy with Puget Sound area practitioners, business leaders, educators and policy specialists. read more...
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