PNW Tribal Climate Change Update

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Dear PNW Tribal Climate Change Network:

Please click on the following link to indicate your availability for our next conference call: http://www.doodle.com/z5g2rwew657kr67p.

Also, we have completed a draft of the Guide for Tribal Leaders on U.S. Climate Change Programs. Our goal is to distribute this at the June 2011 Intertribal Timber Council Symposium, so we would like your feedback on this as soon as possible. Please email me your comments by next Tuesday, May 24th. Initially, we had just planned to include federal agency programs, but we have also included some non-governmental resources and programs. Obviously, this is far from comprehensive, so we would like to think of this as a work in progress and have made notes in the document that we are interested in receiving edits and additional entries at any time. We can continue to update the digital document and have it posted on our website, as well others such as the Intertribal Timber Council's site and the ITEP Tribes and Climate Change website. We have received some initial feedback from a few agencies, including EPA and USGS, and plan to send the draft to other agencies for their review in the next week. Many thanks to Raj Vable, UO Graduate Student in Environmental Studies for his hard work on this document!

Other Updates and Grant Announcements:
- The Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources has posted links to presentations from the First Nations Carbon webinar series: http://www.carriersekani.ca/programs-pr ... entations/.

- I will be co-presenting on a session on Rural and Tribal Perspectives on Climate Change at the National Rural Assembly June 28 - 30 in St. Paul, MN. Also speaking are Jim Kleinschmidt with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and Melissa Cook with the Menominee Nation and Director of the Sustainable Development Institute at Menominee College. http://2011.ruralassembly.org/

- Google Earth Outreach is offering Developer Grants to nonprofits who seek funding for a "map" project. The grants will support development of projects from eligible nonprofit organizations that seek to use Google's mapping technologies in novel, cutting-edge ways to make the world a better place. Seems like a great way to get some big-picture analysis and other really-cool, broad-based social change work done. The average range of grants given will be from $10,000 to $20,000, though funding requests may be above or below this average. All the details are available at https://sites.google.com/site/developergrants/. Submissions are due on May 26.

Please let me know if you have any questions. We look forward to your feedback on the draft Tribal Leaders Guide.

Regards,
Kathy