Cool Mac, Slow Food of Yamhill County, and Cozine Community Cycle will be joining Yamhill Valley Peacemakers for their traditional summer get-together.  Please join us Sunday, June 28th, at 5 p.m. at Lafayette Locks Park. The covered area has been reserved, so plan to be there rain or shine! There is a small playground and lots of big trees, so arrive early to go for a stroll, explore the park, and talk with friends. This will be an opportunity to meet new people and brainstorm ideas about how to “inspire the local community to create a sustainable energy future using practical solutions while meeting the needs of current and future generations.” (our mission statement!)

The park is ½ mile east of Lafayette off 99W at the end of Locks Road. Please bring your own table service, cups, and drinking water.  YVP potlucks are traditionally vegetarian. 

See you there!

Come join us this Saturday for discussions about plans for the summer months.  We have lots of ideas, but we’d love to hear yours!

When:  Saturday, March 21, 9:30 a.m.

Where:  First Baptist Church , Bereans Room (2nd floor education building) Please enter Washington Street entrance. Up two flights of stairs (or take the elevator to 2nd floor). Turn right and look for Cool Mac signs. 

See you there!

Nathan Lewis, the George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry at the
California Institute of Technology, will present “Where in the World
Will Our Energy Come From?” Tuesday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored through
the Walter P. Dyke Endowment, honoring the Linfield alumnus and faculty
member who was known as a strong teacher, innovative scientist and
researcher, and philanthropist.

Lewis will discuss what it will take for the world to get away from
fossil fuels and switch over to renewable energy, including the
technical, political and economic hurdles that will need to be overcome
before renewable energy technologies will be widely adopted. Converting
to wind, solar thermal, solar electric, biomass, hydroelectric and
geothermal energy will not only take planning but also investment in
research and development, a variable price per unit of energy to get it
produced, and plenty of resources to create the energy sources.

Lewis has been on the faculty at Caltech since 1988. Since 1992, he has
also been the principal investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular
Materials Resource Center. He previously taught at Stanford University.
He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.

Lewis has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus
Teacher-Scholar and a Presidential Young Investigator. He received the
Fresenius Award, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, the Orton Memorial
Lecture, the Princeton Environmental Award, and the Michael Faraday
Medal of the Royal Society of Electrochemistry. He is currently the
editor-in-chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Energy &
Environmental Science. He has published over 300 papers and has
supervised approximately 60 graduate students and postdoctoral
associates. His research interests include artificial photosynthesis and
electronic noses.