Events, July – September 2018

TSO Events
July – September, 2018

Reservations are required. See our Calendar of Events and Contact Us pages for information on event time, room number, and reservations. You have a reservation only after you get a confirmation reply. Please request a reservation before the last 24 hours. Please let us know as soon as possible, and before the last 48 hours, if you must cancel.


Annual TSO Summer Picnic
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Join your friends and enjoy a great lunch with your fellow students. The Annual Summer Picnic and Meeting is a great time to socialize and have fun with your classmates.

When: Saturday, August 18, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Where:
North Bellevue Community Center
4063 148th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98007
(Just across from the VFW Hall; Click address above for map)

Menu: Buffet picnic lunch catered by Susan Megan including hamburgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, vegetables, salads, fruits, dessert, coffee, tea and water as well as vegan diet items.

Support TSO: Your $10 contribution will help defray the cost of the room rental and food.


WA Infrastructure Report Card
Thursday, August 30, 2018

ASCE Seattle Section plans to release a WA State Infrastructure Report Card late-2018. In the Infrastructure Report Card, ASCE assigns a grade based on an assessment of different types of infrastructure against the following key criteria – capacity, condition, funding, future need, operations and maintenance, public safety, resilience and innovation.

The Report Card is not a referendum on an agency or set of employees; rather, it is an assessment of how well agencies are provided resources they need to do their jobs, and how current spending is being used.

On any proposed infrastructure spending bills or initiatives, ASCE asks policy and decision makers to make Investments that provide substantial, long-term benefits to the public and the economy; consider the cost of a project over its entire lifespan (including designing, building, operating, and maintaining the infrastructure – must be taken into account), projects should be built sustainably and resiliently; leverage state, local, and private investment, and offer a balanced approach that benefits urban, suburban, and rural challenges.

About the Speaker:

Richard Fernandez, WA Infrastructure Report Card Co-Lead, is a Licensed Professional Engineer (PE in CA and WA) with 11 years of experience working in capital project delivery – focused in project and design management. Richard has played a lead role in delivering large complex interdisciplinary projects, including water and wastewater treatment plants and transmission lines, airfield facilities, and sustainable sites. He relocated to Seattle, Washington from San Diego, California in 2015.

With a passion for smart decision-making and lean principles, Richard enjoys leading sustainability practices, partnering with firms on equity and inclusion, and lean design management, Richard has brought his philosophies with him to the City of Seattle where he currently serves as a Project Manager with Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) working on the Ship Canal Water Quality Project. Prior to SPU, Richard worked with the US Department of the Navy as a civil designer, design manager, and project manager, delivering contract documents for large and complex capital projects.


Do More and Have More Fun with Your Smart Phone
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

5 Things You Want to Know:

  • The Cloud – What is It? How to get the most from it!
  • Cell data & WiFi – More, faster data . . . free!
  • Security and Privacy – Sleep tight!
  • Painless password management
  • Tips and Tricks that will help you enjoy your technology even more.

About your Trainer:

In 6 years at Apple, Paul Schmid taught 1000s to get the most from their smart phones while having fun. Before Apple, Paul had a career in training and marketing. Currently, Paul teaches marketing part-time at Sea-Tac high school.

Testimonials:

“(Paul is a) kind, patient teacher. I am 76 and was so afraid of my iPhone. Still 76 not afraid anymore.”

“Paul was excellent! He used stories to help us remember.”

“I thought of myself as a pretty adept (smart phone) user, but after one short session I learned I do have still a lot to learn.


Waste, Climate, and Politics:
What You Need to Know – As Most Is Not What It Seems!

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Philipp Schmidt-Pathmann will discuss the economic-ecologic opportunities available in managing waste through the use of state of the art technologies and integrated systems. With the need to moving towards circular economies, avoiding waste and managing the remaining waste as a resource while preventing the atmospheric release of greenhouse gases is critical for a sustainable future. With over 20 years of local, national and international experience he will take a close look at the current policies and practices that perpetuate obsolete systems impeding environmentally smart solutions.

About the Speaker:

Philipp Schmidt-Pathmann, MBA, MIS is a waste management consultant and strategist based in Washington. He and his team of international experts focus on integrated sustainable waste management systems ranging from “zero waste,” recycling, organics, thermal treatment technologies, landfilling, sewage, material and resource management, environmental and economic impacts to ocean cleanup. As part of their work they have studied and analyzed the U.S. waste management system for more than two decades.

In 1998 he founded Waste Recovery Seattle International and began exploring and developing opportunities in the waste-to-energy field. With two partners in 2008, he co-founded Green Conversion Systems dedicated to develop waste-to-energy projects, and won a prestigious contract to build a Waste –to- Energy-Resource Recovery Plant for the City of Los Angeles. Philipp founded the Zero Landfill Initiative (ZLI) – a non-profit organization – in 2012 to develop integrated waste management systems to replace landfills. By 2013 Philipp joined Neomer as a Managing Partner combining cutting-edge research and advocacy to assist public and private sector leaders to make well-informed choices in waste management. Philipp is currently the co-founder and organizer of i-Zero Waste that will integrate all aspects of waste management.

Special Guest: Dr. Richard Honor

Dr. Richard Honor will speak about his current work at a major university (out of WA) that is revealing new data on the gasses released from land-disposed sewage sludge, and how such gases contribute to GHG loads in the atmosphere. He will present some of these new findings in this presentation.


Strange Bedfellows:
America’s alliance with Saudi Arabia

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Saudi Arabia stands out as amongst the top 10 of the world’s worst abusers of human rights according to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. It is an absolute theocratic monarchy with almost no democratic attributes. Yet we, as a democratic nation, which lauds individual freedom and human rights and seeks to promote these in other nations, have established a close and cordial working relationship with this country that has existed since the early part of the 20th Century. We are a strange alliance of bedfellows. This seminar will describe the historical, economic and political context of this relationship in an effort to better understand the alignment that connects us with a partner that reflects so much of what we claim to abhor.

About the Speaker:

Dr. James Maynard, M.D., Ph.D., had a 28 year career with the Centers for Disease Control, traveled extensively abroad in the Middle East and Asia as an advisor and instructor for UN agencies, and had a second 18-year career as Senior Vice President at PATH, an agency providing technology assistance to the developing world. During these careers, he developed a keen interest in international affairs, politics and economics, advising the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He is an author on over 200 publications in refereed journals. For about nine years, he has taught many interesting and engaging TELOS classes. Our instructors page has more information about Dr. Maynard here.


A Call to Climate Action
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Presentation outline:

  • What kind of climate activist am I and how did that happen?
  • What’s at stake?
  • Challenge #1: Understanding the big three groups of climate problems.
  • Challenge #2: Accepting that there is no silver bullet, but we do have the necessary climate solutions.
  • Challenge #3: Understanding the hurdles and roadblocks to implementing solutions.
  • Challenge #4: Recognizing the opportunities at City, County, State and federal levels of government.
  • Challenge #5: Deciding how you can personally help build a safe climate future.
  • Q & A

About the Speaker:

Court Olson. Commercial buildings project management consultant. Green building expert. Well studied on green-house gas sources and reduction solutions. Long active in testifying at climate related hearings. Past legislation lobbyist for tightening state energy code. Currently active with several groups promoting climate actions, including:

  • Shift Zero — A local alliance of building industry groups, governments, and companies promoting zero net carbon emissions buildings. (PACE Task Force Chair)
  • People for Climate Action — A grass roots alliance of citizens of local cities who encourage local governments to accelerate actions that will reduce greenhouse gases. (Chair of the Bellevue PCA, and Chair of the multi-cities alliance)
  • Puget Sound Energy Technical Advisory Committee.
  • Citizens Climate Lobby, Sierra Club, 350 Eastside, Faith Action Climate Team, and several more.

A Journey in Care Giving and How to Enjoy It
Thursday, September 20, 2018

In her speech, Sandra Kay Morris not only talks about the various challenges care givers face, but shares strategies to insure a high quality of life. She helps identify what would actually mean “help” to us and how to ask for it. With wit and humor she shares stories depicting challenging caregiving situations, how they were resolved and then suggestions on implementing these lessons into our lives. Sandra Kay brings joy and inspiration with her speech, inviting you to look at your care giver role with a new focus and perhaps shifting dreary to delightful.

About the Speaker:

Sandra Kay Morris brings years of caregiving experience to her audiences with a natural talent for entertaining and inspiration. Although she considers herself a perpetual care giver, including having an Adult Family Home for nine years, she has also been a Radio Host and News Broadcaster. A published writer, her book “A Journey in Care Giving and How to Enjoy It” is slightly bio-graphical. A mother of two, Sandra Kay lives in Issaquah near her very independent 86 year old mother and works at the Issaquah Senior Center. Her love of speaking started in High School when she performed a dramatic reading, winning the Miss Issaquah Pageant!


Reservations are required. See our Calendar of Events and Contact Us pages for information on event time, room number, and reservations. You have a reservation only after you get a confirmation reply. Please request a reservation before the last 24 hours. Please let us know as soon as possible, and before the last 48 hours, if you must cancel.

 

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