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Bridge Meadows
11/02/2014
Derenda Schubert

Dr. Derenda Schubert tells us about Bridge Meadows, a unique and innovative solution to the current foster care crisis. Located in North Portland, Bridge Meadows is a three-generation housing community consisting of homes for adoptive families and apartments for elders 55 and older who act as surrogate grandparents and as mentors to the children who live there. Dr. Schubert is a psychologist with experience in counseling children and in creating and managing programs in foster care, mental health, and developmental disabilities.

An Appeal from the Heart
10/26/2014
Doug Matheson

Doug Matheson conducts a rotating oral reading (involving audience participants) of his essay titled "An Appeal from the Heart." Doug grew up a missionary kid in India, and was educated in Christian schools until graduate school. Despite a loving Christian indoctrination he came to realize that, when beliefs and evidence are in contradiction, personal honesty requires that we impose the evidence on our beliefs, instead of attempting to impose our beliefs on the evidence.

Portland Climate Action Report
10/19/2014
Kyle Diesner

Kyle Diesner presents an overview of how the City of Portland addresses climate change. This includes the history of efforts to date, plus  a preview of the Draft 2015 Climate Action Plan. He provides an in-depth exploration of Multnomah County’s impact on global carbon emissions. Diesner is a Policy Analyst for the City of Portland Bureau of Planning. He has been working on sustainability initiatives at the City of Portland since 2003.

Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming
10/12/2014
Gordon Fulks

Presentation by Gordon J. Fulks. He writes: “Dr. Fulks will explain how science is supposed to work and how it is failing today in the monumental climate scam. Will the science that brought us out of the Dark Ages into the modern world survive this assault on reason?” Dr. Fulks has written “Global Warming: Climate Orthodoxy Perpetuates a Hoax”. Dr. Fulks received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago.

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