This past Friday was a big day for us at EOS. The Building Performance Inspection course was wrapping up and we had a 100% pass rate for the students taking the certification exam, including our eight AmeriCorps members taking the exam that day. In the afternoon, we were joined by US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Senator Patty Murray, and Washington state energy leaders for a roundtable discussion. The roundtable discussed possibilities for energy investments in the state, including pump hydro power, which stores excess power from wind turbines in the potential energy of water.
In recent years global warming and carbon footprints have been a hot topic in the news. Global warming is “an increase in the earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution” (http://www.mdbc.gov.au/subs/The_River/glossary.html), and a carbon footprint is “the total set of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product (UK Carbon Trust 2008).
To celebrate the United Way of King County's 17th Annual Day of Caring this past Friday, the EOS AmeriCorps Sustainability team joined forces with Notre Dame Seattle AmeriCorps members for a restoration work party. The Volunteers worked in the Maple School Natural Area removing invasive English Ivy and Blackberry, then finished up the day mulching their respective zones in preparation for planting new plants. November 7th, Green Seattle Day, the volunteers will be returning to plant native species in the zones that have been previously mulched.
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Pacific Salmonids: Spawning Habitat Restoration
Boat Electrofishing: Principles and Practices
Backpack Electrofishing: Principles and Practices
Control and Management of Non-Native Invasive Fish
Boat-Backpack Electrofishing: Principles and Practices
Habitat Restoration Webinar Series: Planning and Implementing a Successful Restoration Plan
Collecting and Handling of Water Samples for Trace Metal Analysis
Environmental Forensics in Water Resources
Fundamental Contaminant Chemistry in Soil and Groundwater
Emerging Contaminants Workshop
Environmental Forensics-Site Characterization and Remediation
Comprehensive Environmental Sampling: Methodology, Practice, and Analysis
PFOS, PFAS, PFOA, and Emerging Contaminants
Chemistry Laboratory Techniques for the Chemist and Technician - A Comprehensive Review
Facilitation Skills For Environmental Professionals
Persuasive Communication and Presentation of Environmental Projects
Collaborative Negotiation Skills for Environmental Professionals
Conflict Resolution Skills for Environmental Professionals
Collaborative Negotiations and Conflict Management for Environmental Professionals
Effective Speaking When The Heat is On
Lean and Six Sigma for Environmental Professionals: Full Series Webinar Recording
Public Relations and Collaboration Challenges Intensive
Facilitating Online and Remote Meetings-Webinar RECORDED
Facilitation Skills and Collaborative Negotiation Training for Environmental Professionals
Managing Difficult Workplace Conversations
17½ Tips To Improve Your In-Person and Conference Call Meetings
Lean Thinking: Process Management Made Easy
Citizen Science Best Practices
Persuasive Online and Written Presentations: When Information is Not Enough
Oregon Erosion and Sediment Control 1200-C Permit Webinar
Tribal Environmental Regulation and Jurisdiction
Introduction to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
Model Toxics Control Act: An Introduction
New Approaches and Implementation Methods for Municipal Stormwater Management
NEPA: The Law, Logic, and Language of the National Environmental Policy Act
Industrial Stormwater Management Workshop
Advanced NEPA-An intensive one-day seminar with solutions to the most difficult NEPA problems
Natural Resource Damage Assessment Workshop
Writing a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP)
NEPA: Writing and Evaluating an EIS or EA/FONSI
The Complete Legislative History of NEPA
Introduction To The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Principles of Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Environmental Field Programs
Introduction to Aquatic Toxicology
Planning and Preparing an Ecological Risk Assessment
New Approaches in Remediation of Contaminated Sediments
Brownfield Site Restoration and Remediation
Groundwater Contamination and Remediation: Principles and Practices
Ecological Risk Assessment-An Introduction: Webinar
Ecological Risk Assessment: Advanced Webinar
Assessing Contaminants in Subsistence Resources
Ecological Risk Assessment Series: Introduction and Advanced RECORDED
Establishing and Demonstrating Compliance with Sediment Cleanup Standards
ArcGIS PRO: Geoprocessing-Advanced Techniques for Environmental Applications
ArcGIS PRO: An Introduction to Environmental Applications
Visualizing and Analyzing Environmental Data with R
Advanced GIS Techniques for Fisheries Data Management and Analysis
Basic Statistics for Environmental Professionals
Microsoft Access Part 1: Introduction to Building Environmental Databases-WEBINAR
Microsoft Access Part 2: Creating Efficient Workflows and Custom Tools-WEBINAR
Microsoft Excel Up to Speed Part 1: Shortcuts, Functions, and Charts WEBINAR-RECORDED
Microsoft Excel Up to Speed Part 2: Analysis and Visual Basic Programming WEBINAR RECORDED
Microsoft Excel Up to Speed Parts 1 and 2
Microsoft Access Webinar Parts 1 and 2
Introduction to Environmental Applications with ArcGIS PRO
Evaluating Data Quality for Decision Making
CESCL: Certified Erosion and Sediment Control Lead Training
EPA's New Unified Guidance: Statistical Analysis of Groundwater Monitoring Data
Achieving Water Quality Standards Through Contaminant Trackdown Studies
CESCL: Erosion and Sediment Control Lead Training 2-Day in Oregon
Waters of the United States Webinar-Recorded
Chemically Contaminated Drinking Water in the U.S.
Wetlands: Science and Regulatory Management
Chemically Contaminated Drinking Water in the U.S.-FREE DEMO RECORDING
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