Annual Themes Earth Week 2000-2013 Themes
| Year | Theme |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Living in a Changing Climate |
| 2012 | Living Local |
| 2011 | Environmental and Social Justice |
| 2010 | Food, the Environment and You |
| 2009 | Energy and Society |
| 2008 | Environmental Health and Toxicology |
| 2000-2007 | Various daily themes |
Lecture, Series, and Speakers – Earth Week 2000-2013
| Speaker | Occupation | Organization | Presentation | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rod Agassiz | Faculty/Counselor | Bellevue College | Why be a vegetarian? | 2010 |
| Dan Albert | Associate ASLA, LEED AP | Civesca LLC | Vertical farming and the future of food | 2011 |
| Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment | Sustainable Ecology vs. the Economy | 2001 | ||
| Simone Alin | NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory | Ocean acidification and Washington’s coastal ecosystems | 2013 | |
| Amanda Alva | Bellevue College Associated Student Government | Panel on Environmental Leadership | 2008 | |
| César Arizmendi | , Architectural Consultant | Arizmendia EcoDesign | Sustainability careers & jobs panel | 2011 |
| Nena Baker | Author | The Body Toxic | 2009 | |
| Seth Ballhorn | Sierra Club | Moving beyond coal: Why and how PSE should quit the coal habit | 2013 | |
| Tom Barry | Stream Team Program Administrator | City of Bellevue | Urban Stream Restoration | 2001 |
| Yoram Bauman | UW Instructor | Author and Stand-Up Economist | Comedy, economics and climate change | 2013 |
| Yoram Bauman | UW Instructor | Author and Stand-Up Economist | The comedy of economics and climate change | 2011 |
| Bellevue College Debate Club | This house believes all food should be grown organically | 2010 | ||
| Ted Bernard | Professor, Author | Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, Ohio University (author of Hope and Hard Times) | Communities of hope on an imperiled planet | 2010 |
| Heidi Bohan | Ethobotanist | Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Family | Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Family Traditional Insulation Workshop | 2009 |
| David Bowen | Municipal Liaison Manager | PSE, Wild Horse Wind Farm | Wind energy in Washington | 2009 |
| Mike Brent (1), Barbara Sullivan (2), Jennifer Kaufman (3) | Cascade Water Alliance (1), City of Redmond (2), City of Bellevue (3) | Panel Discussion on Regional Water Conservation | ||
| Jerrilyn Brusseau | Peace Trees Vietnam | 2007 | ||
| Patricia Burgess | Water Conservation Program Administrator | City of Bellevue | Water Shortages and Conservation | 2001 |
| Koben Calhoun | Built Green Coordinator | Built Green | Building a Sustainable Future | 2007 |
| Trina Carlstrom (1), Trenten Huntington (2) | Microsoft (1), Sustainable Business Consulting (2) | The sustainable business case | 2012 | |
| Vera Chang | Bon Appétit Management Company | The story behind the food | 2011 | |
| 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 and 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 |
| Langdon Cook | Wild Food Forager and Author of “Fat of the Land” | Wild foods of the Pacific Northwest: From woods to plate | 2010 | |
| Sergio Cueva-Flores | King County Director for Senator Patty Murray | Environmental Issues in King County | 2009 | |
| BJ Cummings | Coordinator | Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition | The Duwamish River Cleanup and Community Health | 2005 |
| BJ Cummings | Coordinator | Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition | 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., Doctorates in Philosophy | Core Faculty, Environment & Community and Associate Director | Center for Creative Change, Antioch University | The environmental health movement: How an emerging social movement is transforming the way Americans think about the environment | 2011 |
| Katherine Davies M.A., Doctorates in Philosophy | 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 | Washington Toxics Coalition | The Environmental Cost of Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products | 2008 |
| Jim Dawson | Field Coordinator | Washington Toxics Coalition | Panel on Environmental Leadership | 2008 |
| Jim Dawson | Field Coordinator | Washington Toxics Coalition | / Pollution in People: How Toxic Chemicals Are Contaminating Our Bodies And What You Can Do About It! | 2007 |
| John de Graaf | Author, Activist and Film Producer | What’s the Economy for, Anyway? | 2007 | |
| John de Graaf | Author, Activist and Film Producer | Sustainable Happiness | 2013 | |
| Brian Derdowski | President | 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 |
| Chris Dixon | Anthropology Instructor | Bellevue College | Food and the ancient Maya | 2010 |
| Abigail Doerr (1), Nicole Keenan (2) | Washington BUS (1), Washington Environmental Council (2) | Engaging in the politics of our environment | 2012 | |
| 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 | ||
| Shannon Fenster | Nutrition Instructor | Bellevue College | What goes in, must come out: A nutrition approach to behavior | 2010 |
| Agnes Figueroa | Bellevue College | Impact of Militarism on Health and the Environment | 2003 | |
| Scott Fintel with Ed Price | Microsoft | Virtual is Green: Solving big problems through games | 2013 | |
| Paul Fischer | University of Washington Forestry Department | Carbon credits and conscientious forestry in the Pacific Northwest | 2013 | |
| Jean Floten | Bellevue College President | Bellevue College | Panel on Environmental Leadership | 2008 |
| Let Me Decide” Campaign Panel | Food and Water Watch | Campaign to label genetically modified food | 2013 | |
| 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 |
| Eric Corey Freed | Sustainable Urban Planer and Architect, Author of “Green Building for Dummies | Organic architecture | 2010 | |
| Matt Freeman-Gleeson | Co-Owner | Environmental Home Center | Green building and the environment | 2006 |
| Christina Gallegos | Board Co-Chair | Community Coalition for Environmental Justice | Food justice in Seattle | 2011 |
| Richard Gammon | University of Washington | Climate Change: Greatest Impacts in Countries Least Responsible | 2007 | |
| Andrea Gargas | Director | Symbiology, Inc | Emerging disease: White nose syndrome causing massive declines of North American bat populations | 2011 |
| Andrea Gargas | Director | Symbiology, Inc | This is what democracy looks like: Eyewitness from the front line of the Wisconsin labor uprising | 2011 |
| Stephen Garrow | Media Instructor | Bellevue College | Back to the Earth… Deep Ecology, Non-violence | 2005 |
| Stephen Garrow | Media Instructor | Bellevue College | Peace Vigil at the Bellevue College Fountain | 2005 |
| Tom Giardino | Valve Software Corporation | Virtual is Green: Solving the world’s problems with virtual possibilities | 2013 | |
| Deric Gruen | Sustainability Coordinator | Bellevue College | Spinning the globe, adventures in the Middle-East, Africa and Latin America by bicycle | 2011 |
| Steve Gilbert, PhD, DABT | INND (Institute of Neurotoxicology & Neurological Disorders) | An Introduction to Environmental Contaminants that Cause Learning Disabilities | 2009 | |
| Steve Gilbert, PhD, DABT | INND (Institute of Neurotoxicology & Neurological Disorders) | A Small Dose of Toxicology | 2007 | |
| William Gold | University of Washington Bothell | Tour of the UW Bothell Wetlands | 2004 | |
| Nancy Gonlin | Anthropology Instructor | Bellevue College | Climate change and ancient cultures | 2013 |
| Nancy Gonlin | Anthropology Instructor | Bellevue College | The Collapse of the Classic Maya: An Environmental Perspective | 2008 |
| Nancy Gonlin | Anthropology Instructor | Bellevue College | 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 | Bellevue College | Nuclear Power | 2009 |
| Art Goss | Astronomy Instructor | Bellevue College | The Runaway Greenhouse Effect on Venus – A Future for the Earth? | 2005 |
| Martha Groom | Professor | UW Bothell | The Birds and the Beans | 2000 |
| Deric Gruen | Sustainability Coordinator | Bellevue College | Sustainability @ Bellevue College | 2012 |
| Erick Haakenson | Owner/Manager (1) Philosophy Instructor (2) | Jubilee Organic Farm, Bellevue College | Über-organic Farming | 2007 |
| Erick Haakenson | Owner/Manager (1) Philosophy Instructor (2) | Jubilee Organic Farm, Bellevue College | Is organic enough? | 2006 |
| Dan Hallack with Teresa McClane-Jaswal and Fabienne Mouton | BC Center for Career Connections | What’s the Buzz About Sustainability Careers & Jobs? | 2010 | |
| Mike Hanson (1) with Michael Meyer (2) | Botany Instructor (1) English Instructor (2) | Bellevue College | Food and Climate Change | 2013 |
| Mike Hanson (1) with Michael Meyer (2) | Botany Instructor (1) English Instructor (2) | Bellevue College | Eating Local | 2012 |
| Mike Hanson (1) with Michael Meyer (2) | Botany Instructor (1) English Instructor (2) | Bellevue College | Food rebellions | 2011 |
| Mike Hanson (1) with Michael Meyer (2) | Botany Instructor (1) English Instructor (2) | Bellevue College | Reading food labels: Inert, inane and imperative ingredients | 2010 |
| Mike Hanson (1) with Michael Meyer (2) | Botany Instructor (1) English Instructor (2) | Bellevue College | A Bite-Sized Bite Me: Making Conscious Choices and Positive Change, One Bite at a Time | 2008 |
| Mike Hanson (1) with Michael Meyer (2) | Botany Instructor (1) English Instructor (2) | Bellevue College | Ethnobotany: People and Plants | 2004 |
| Mike Hanson | Botany Instructor | Bellevue College | Native Plant Identification Walk through Robinswood Park | 2001 |
| Lauren Hartzell Nichols | University of Washington – Values and Society | Are individuals responsible for their greenhouse gas emissions? | 2013 | |
| Tung Heffernan | Former BC Student | UW Biodiesel Co-operative | Biodiesel – Sustainable innovation | 2012 |
| Denis Hayes | Founder/Head (1), President/CEO | Earth Day Network (1), Bullitt Foundation (2) | Fighting for Survival: The Environmental Movement and the Human Prospect | 2003 |
| Executive Director | Hempfest | Hemp Alternatives | 2001 | |
| Jane Hendricks, AIA | LMN Architects | Making Better Places: Sustainable Design in Public Buildings | 2003 | |
| Blair Henry, J.D. (1), Sandy Rock, MD (2) | Executive Director (1) | Northwest Council on Climate Change (1), Bellevue College/Interpretive Consultations, Inc (2) | Climate Change, Transportation, and Public Health Effects | 2002 |
| Buzz Hofford (1) with Chris Maykut (2) | Food Service Director (1), Owner (2) | Bon Appetit (1), Chaco Canyon Cafe (2) | The sustainable food business | 2012 |
| 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 | Living Local in the time of climate change | 2012 |
| 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 |
| Trenten Huntington Trina Carlstrom | Sustainable Business Consulting (1), Microsoft (2) | The sustainable business case | 2012 | |
| Jay Inslee | U.S. Representative | House of Representatives | 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 | |
| Reverend Robert Jeffery | Title | Clean Greens Market | Clean Greens Farm and Market – bringing fresh produce to South Seattle through a community-based agriculture project | 2011 |
| Emma Johnson | Chair | Zero Waste Washington | Zero waste: A cradle to cradle approach | 2012 |
| Ken Johnson, PhD, PE | King County Department Ground Water Protection Program | GIS Tools for Hydrogeology | 2003 | |
| Falaah Jones | Educator | Seattle Tilth | Gardening as Community Engagement | 2012 |
| JoAnn Jordan | Emergency Preparedness Education Coordinator | City of Bellevue Fire Department | Basic Earthquake Preparedness in Bellevue: How to be safe | 2004 |
| Jennifer Kaufman (1), with Barbara Sullivan (2), Mike Brent (3) | City of Bellevue (1), City of Redmond (2), Cascade Water Alliance (3) | Panel Discussion on Regional Water Conservation | 2007 | |
| Tim Kearney | Mathematics Instructor | Bellevue College | The dark side of chocolate (film discussion) | 2012 |
| Tim Kearney | Mathematics Instructor | Bellevue College | Veganism around the globe | 2011 |
| Nicole Keenan (1), with Abigail Doerr (2) | Washington Environmental Council (1), Washington BUS (2) | Engaging in the politics of our environment | 2012 | |
| JP Kemmick | Cascade Chapter of the Sierra Club | Moving Beyond Coal | 2009 | |
| Theresa Koppang | Board Member | King County Dept. of Natural Resources and Parks, Cascadia Region Green Building Council | Green Building in the Pacific Northwest | 2003 |
| Jerry Kroon | Vice President | Damar AeroSystems | Making gold from going green | 2011 |
| Consul Takashi Kuchii | Japanese Consulate General’s Office | National parks in Japan: Conservation differences in Japan and the US | 2010 | |
| Bill Kupinse | English Professor | University of Puget Sound | Trashed! Waste, Cultural Studies, and the Future of the Planet | 2008 |
| Lon LaFlamme | Marketing and National Sales Rep | Dillanoes Coffee Roasters | Coffee with a conscience | 2012 |
| Phillip Levin | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) | Biodiversity: A Crisis in Character Not Numbers | 2002 | |
| Brad Liljequist | Office of Sustainability, City of Issaquah | Issaquah’s Z-homes: the first multifamily zero energy community in the US | 2013 | |
| Peter Locke, AIA | LMN Architects | Making Better Places: Sustainable Design in Public Buildings | 2004 | |
| Franz Lowenherz | Senior Transportation Planner | City of Bellevue | Transportation and Livable Communities | 2012 |
| Lisa Lynch | Faculty | Ecopsycology Program, Antioch University | Exploring ecopsychology and our relationship with the changing climate | 2011 |
| Jean MacGregor | Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education, The Evergreen State College | Open Discussion on Bioregional Education | 2005 | |
| Ed Mahlum | 3Tier | Avoiding catastrophic climate change by accelerating the transition to renewable energy – How you can help | 2013 | |
| Patty Martin | Founder | Safe Food and Fertilizer | The Politics of Pollution: How Bad Decisions Hurt Good People | 2008 |
| Patty Martin | Founder | Safe Food and Fertilizer | Wasting America: Fraud, deception and your food supply | 2006 |
| Patty Martin | Founder | Safe Food and Fertilizer | Toxins in Feed and Fertilizer: How Waste Recycling Puts You and Your Environment at Risk | 2005 |
| Patty Martin | Founder | Safe Food and Fertilizer | Toxic Waste in Our Food: A Personal Account | 2004 |
| Cliff Mass | UW Atmospheric Science | The Northwest impacts of global warming | 2013 | |
| 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 |
| Michael Mayer | Associate Attorney | Earth Justice | Undermining the Foundations of Environmental Law | 2004 |
| Michael Mayer | Associate Attorney | Earth Justice | The Development of Environmental Law | 2003 |
| Chris Maykut (1) with Buzz Hofford (2) | Owner (1) Food Service Director (2) | Chaco Canyon Cafe (1) Bon Appetit (2) | The sustainable food business | 2012 |
| Teresa McClane-Jaswal with Fabienne Mouton & Dan Hallack | Assistant Director | BC Center for Career Connections | What’s the Buzz About Sustainability Careers & Jobs? | 2010 |
| Robert McClure | Seattle PI Reporter | The Role of the Media in Maintaining the Health of Our Environment | 2004 | |
| Andy McShea | Chief Operating Officer | Theo Chocolate | Better science through chocolate | 2010 |
| Michael Meyer (1) with Michael Hanson (1) | English Instructor (1), Botany Instructor (2) | Bellevue College | Food and Climate Change | 2013 |
| Michael Meyer (1) with Michael Hanson (1) | English Instructor (1), Botany Instructor (2) | Bellevue College | Eating Local | 2012 |
| Michael Meyer (1) with Michael Hanson (1) | English Instructor (1), Botany Instructor (2) | Bellevue College | Food rebellions | 2011 |
| Michael Meyer (1) with Michael Hanson (1) | English Instructor (1), Botany Instructor (2) | Bellevue College | Reading food labels: Inert, inane and imperative ingredients | 2010 |
| Michael Meyer (1) with Michael Hanson (1) | English Instructor (1), Botany Instructor (2) | Bellevue College | A Bite-Sized Bite Me: Making Conscious Choices and Positive Change, One Bite at a Time | 2008 |
| Lisa Mikesell | New Media Organizer | Washington Toxics Coalition | You are what you eat, use and wear | 2012 |
| Ken Miller with Cindy Mitchell | President | Washington Farm Forestry Association | Forestry in Washington | 2007 |
| Ken Miller | President | Washington Farm Forestry Association | Trees are the answer: how we can save and use our forests at the same time | 2006 |
| Sue Miller | Biology Instructor | Bellevue College | Save the fish and eat them, too | 2010 |
| Cindy Mitchell with Ken Miller (2) | (2) 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 | |
| Dave Montgomery | Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington | King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon (Author of book of the same name) | 2005 | |
| Fabienne Mouton with Teresa McClane-Jaswal & Dan Hallack | BC Center for Career Connections | What’s the Buzz About Sustainability Careers & Jobs? | 2010 | |
| Tom Murphy | Chair Member | Department of Anthropology, Edmonds Community College | Sustainability and local knowledge: How can anthropology help solve humanity’s looming crisis? | 2011 |
| Elisa Murray | Communications Director | Northwest Environmental Watch | The Cascadia Scorecard: Measuring what matters in the Northwest | 2004 |
| Sweetwater Nannauck | Gishbuwada Activist | Idle No More movement | 2013 | |
| Ralph Naess | Naturalist | Seattle Public Utilities | Straight from the Source: The Cedar River Watershed | 2003 |
| Sara Needleman-Carlton | Political Activist and former Bellevue College Student Body President | Power of You: Activism, Volunteerism and Politics for the Planet | 2009 | |
| Daniel Noonan | Physicians for Social Responsibility | Washington’s nuclear history through art and science | 2013 | |
| NorthWest Animal Rights Network | The Perils of Factory Farming | 2002 | ||
| NorthWest Animal Rights Network | 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 | |
| Barb Oswald | Disability Resource Center, Bellevue College | Food allergies, immune system responses, and treatment | 2010 | |
| Chi Pak | Senior Manager of Sustainability | T-Mobile | Sustainability at T-Mobile | 2012 |
| Nathan Palmer-Royston | Product Developer | Theo Chocolate | Fair trade and chocolate | 2011 |
| 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 | Bellevue College | Panel on Environmental Leadership | 2008 |
| Russ Payne | Philosophy Instructor | Bellevue College | Environmental Citizenship | 2007 |
| Russ Payne | Philosophy Instructor | Bellevue College | 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, Author of The Botany of Desire | Journalism at the University of California | The botany of desire | 2006 |
| Michael Pollan | Knight Professor, Author of The Botany of Desire | Journalism at the University of California | The omnivore’s dilemma : a natural history of four meals | 2006 |
| Ed Price with Scott Fintel | Microsoft | Virtual is Green: Solving big problems through games | 2013 | |
| Rion Ramirez | Attorney, Member | Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, American Indian Bar Association | Economic Development and Tribal Environmental Instrests (sponsored by the Diversity Caucus) | 2004 |
| James Rasmussen | Coordinator | Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition/Technical Advisory Group | Home: Living in the Duwamish Superfund Site | 2011 |
| 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 | Bellevue College | Economics of Toxic Waste | 2008 |
| L.B. Sandy Rock, MD, MPH | Environmental Instructor | Bellevue College, Interpretive Consultations, Inc | Safe Food, Water, Air, and Sex: Environmentalism from a Biology Instructor’s Medical Viewpoint | 2004 |
| L.B. Sandy Rock, MD, MPH | Environmental Instructor | Bellevue College, Interpretive Consultations, Inc | The Rise and Fall of Mercury: Reducing Mercury in the Environment | 2003 |
| L.B. Sandy Rock, MD, MPH | Environmental Instructor | Bellevue College, Interpretive Consultations, Inc | The Growing Concern of Antibiotic Resistance | 2002 |
| L.B. Sandy Rock, MD, MPH with Blair Henry, J.D. | Environmental Instructor | Bellevue College, Interpretive Consultations, Inc | Climate Change, Transportation, and Public Health Effects | 2002 |
| Keith Rose | Environmental Scientist | Environmental Protection Agency | Ambient air pollution, health effects, standards, and monitoring methods | 2011 |
| Keith Rose | Environmental Scientist | Environmental Protection Agency | Sustainability careers & jobs panel | 2011 |
| 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 | |
| Laura Ruderman | Washington Representative | Reinvigorating Participatory Democracy | 2004 | |
| Julia Ruedig | Product Manager | Blue Marble Biomaterials | Sustainability careers & jobs panel | 2011 |
| Running-Grass | Environmental Justice Program Manager | Office of Civil Rights and Environmental Justice, EPA | Environmental Justice: Citizen Action and the Governmental Response | 2006 |
| Chris Sabine | NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory | Our Evolving Understanding of Climate Change and the Global Carbon Cycle | 2013 | |
| Ivy Sager-Rosenthal | Campaign Director | Washington Toxics Coalition | You are what you eat, use, and wear: How toxic chemicals in everyday products contaminate our bodies and homes and what you can do about it | 2010 |
| Christian Sarason | Product Manager | 3tier Renewable Energy Information Services | Sustainability careers & jobs panel | 2011 |
| Ben Schiendelman | Seattle Transit Blog | Advocating for transit to slow climate change and create resilience | 2013 | |
| Sean Schmidt | Sustainable Style Foundation | Saving the World in Style | 2008 | |
| Bronwyn Scott | Life Science Instructor | Bellevue College | Hosted discussion for Unnatural causes – Is inequity making us sick? | 2010 |
| Bronwyn Scott | Life Science Instructor | Bellevue College | 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 | |
| Amanda Senft | Biology/Environmental Science Instructor | Bellevue College | Polar bears on ice floes: How climate change can lead to species extinction | 2013 |
| Amanda Senft | Biology/Environmental Science Instructor | Bellevue College | Sustainability careers & jobs panel | 2011 |
| Dan Serres | Columbia River Clean Energy Coalition | Liquified Natural Gas in the Northwest: Resisting the New Fossil Fuel Future | 2007 | |
| Lisa Shaffer | Sustainability Solutions Institute, UC San Diego | Sustainability: Living as if the future matters | 2010 | |
| Lisa Shaffer | Sustainability Solutions Institute, UC San Diego | Global weirding” – The real story of climate change | 2010 | |
| Kent Short | Oceanography Instructor | Bellevue Community College | Coral reefs: extinct during your lifetime? | 2006 |
| Martha Silano | English Instructor | Bellevue College | Host of Earth Verse: Poems of Praise, Poems of Peril – Poetry Reading | 2010 |
| Dan Silver | Clean Water Initiative | 2001 | ||
| Jason Simpson | Manager of Coffee and Tea Education | Starbucks | Sustainable Coffee & Social Responsibility | 2008 |
| Ron Sims | King County Executive | 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 |
| Jeremy Smithson | Founder | Puget Sound Solar | Basic Solar 101 | 2008 |
| Jeremy Smithson | Founder | Puget Sound Solar | Panel on Environmental Leadership | 2008 |
| Jeremy Smithson | Founder | Puget Sound Solar | Solar Power in the Northwest | 2003 |
| Jeremy Smithson | Founder | Puget Sound Solar | Using Solar Power in Puget Sound | 2002 |
| Heidi Bohan | Ethobotanist | Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Family Members | 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 |
| Lisa Stiffler | Researcher, former P-I Reporter | Sightline Institute | Curbing Puget Sound’s stormwater problems | 2010 |
| Angela Storey | Pesticides Organizer | Washington Toxics Coalition | Health and Environmental Impacts of Urban Pesticide Use in the Puget Sound | 2006 |
| Mark Storey | Philosophy Instructor | Bellevue College | Thinking fallaciously about climate change | 2013 |
| Mark Storey | Philosophy Instructor | Bellevue College | The localism of Jain ecology | 2012 |
| Mark Storey | Philosophy Instructor | Bellevue College | Naked action, social responsibility, and the environment | 2011 |
| Mark Storey | Philosophy Instructor | Bellevue College | Food and eastern philosophy | 2010 |
| Mark Storey | Philosophy Instructor | Bellevue College | Ancient China’s Earth “Millennium”: A Thousand Years of Ecological Concern | 2009 |
| Mark Storey | Philosophy Instructor | Bellevue College | Akira Kurosawa and Taoist environmental ethics | 2006 |
| Mark Storey | Philosophy Instructor | Bellevue College | Cheeseburgers in Paradise – Taoism and Environmental Ethics | 2005 |
| Mark Storey | Philosophy Instructor | Bellevue College | A Buddhist View on Vegetarianism | 2004 |
| Mark Storey | Philosophy Instructor | Bellevue College | Kant on Duties to Animals | 2002 |
| Barbara Sullivan (1) with Jennifer Kaufman (2) and Mike Brent (3) | City of Redmond (1), City of Bellevue (2), Cascade Water Alliance (3) | Panel Discussion on Regional Water Conservation | 2007 | |
| Courtney Sullivan | Education Manager | National Wildlife Federation | Sustainability careers & jobs panel | 2011 |
| SunDance Energy | Alternative Heating Methods | 2001 | ||
| Kit Taylor | Economics Instructor | Bellevue College | 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 |
| Pamela Tazioli | Washington State Coordinator | Breast Cancer Fund | The Breast Cancer Fund Asks: What’s in Your Makeup Bag? | 2007 |
| Tony Tessandori | Anthropology Instructor | Bellevue College | There’s something in the water…Oh, that’s just birth control pills | 2009 |
| Roshni Tewari | Biology Instructor | Bellevue College | Urban gardening 101 | 2010 |
| James Torrence | English Instructor | Bellevue College | Punk Rock and Environmentalism | 2005 |
| James Torrence | English Instructor | Bellevue College | 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 |
| Andrew Villeneuve | Founder and Executive Director | Northwest Progressive Institute | Get Involved! Help shape the future of the world you’ll inherit | 2012 |
| Washington Department of Transportation | Traffic, Roads and Alternative transportation in the Puget Sound | 2001 | ||
| Waziyatawin | Dakota writer, teacher, activist, and Indigenous Peoples Research Chair | Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria | Discussion of the film END:CIV | 2013 |
| Margaret White | Woodland Park Zoo | Conservation: What are zoo’s doing? | 2002 | |
| Kevin Wilhem | CEO | Sustainable Business Consulting | Return on sustainability | 2011 |
| David Williams | Author | The Seattle street-smart naturalist | 2012 | |
| Kathe Winkler-Low | UW Masters of Public Administration Program (former Bellevue College student) | UW | Coming soon to a city near you: carbon neutrality | 2009 |
| Gerald Wright | Bellevue Center Operator | Hopelink | Hunger in Bellevue | 2010 |
| Steven Wuerth | T-Mobile | Corporate sustainability | 2013 |
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| 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 | Suquamish Tribe | Salmon Management in the 21st century – Assembly instructions advised | 2002 |
Film Screenings Earth Week 2000-2013
| Film | Year Screened |
|---|---|
| Black Gold | 2007 |
| Blue Gold: World Water Wars | 2011 |
| Blue Vinyl | 2003 |
| Botany of Desire | 2010 |
| Buyer Be Fair: The Promise of Product Certification | 2011 |
| Buyer Be Fair: The Promise of Product Certification | 2007 |
| Chasing Ice | 2013 |
| China Blue | 2008 |
| A Civil Action | 2005 |
| Climate Nation | 2013 |
| Climate Refugees | 2013 |
| A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil | 2008 |
| A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash | 2009 |
| The Dark Side of Chocolate | 2012 |
| Blue Vinyl | 2004 |
| Day After Tomorrow | 2005 |
| E2 / Energy | 2009 |
| END:CIV | 2013 |
| End of the Line | 2011 |
| Energy Crossroads: A burning need to change course | 2008 |
| Erin Brockovich | 2004 |
| Escape from Affluenza | 2003 |
| Food Inc. | 2010 |
| Forks Over Knives | 2012 |
| Flow: For Love of Water | 2009 |
| The Future of Food | 2006 |
| Gasland | 2011 |
| Ghostbird | 2011 |
| Ghost Forests | 2003 |
| Gimme Green | |
| Gorillas in the Mist | 2003 |
| How to Save the World: One Man, One Cow, One Planet | 2007 |
| In Debt We Trust | 2008 |
| Ingredients | 2012 |
| An Inconvenient Truth | 2007 |
| King Corn | 2009 |
| The Lorax | 2001 |
| Poisoned Waters | 2010 |
| The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil | 2007 |
| Princess Mononoke (sponsored by the Bellevue College Genki Society) | 2004 |
| Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us | 2012 |
| The Real Dirt on Farmer John” (Independent Lens) | 2010 |
| Revenge of the Electric Car | 2012 |
| Rising Waters: Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands | 2007 |
| Grizzly Man | 2006 |
| Rivers and Tides with discussion led by Wendy Pickering and Carlos Trujillo | 2005 |
| Shifting Baselines | 2003 |
| Taking Root | 2011 |
| Tapped | 2012 |
| Trashed | 2008 |
| Unnatural Causes – Is Inequity Making Us Sick? | 2010 |
| Wal-Mart: The High Cost of a Low Price | 2006 |
| Waste Land: Un documentaire sur l‘art | 2013 |
| Who Killed the Electric Car? | 2007 |
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