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available. <br /> <br /> <br />Helen Frost was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2009. She has <br />published poetry, five “novels-in-poems” for children and young adults, anthologies, a play, and a book <br />about teaching writing. Frost has taught writing at all levels from pre-school through university. While in <br />Eugene, she will also lead a free writing workshop for adults at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 25, at the <br />Downtown Library (pre-registration required: 541-682-5450, press 2). <br /> <br />The week’s events are co-sponsored by the Young Writers Association, Lane Literary Guild, and <br />Eugene Public Library, and made possible in part by a grant from Lane Arts Council with support from <br />the City of Eugene Cultural Services Division. <br /> <br />For more information, contact the Eugene Public Library at 541-682-8316 or www.eugene-or.gov/library. <br /> <br />Preparing for the Local Effects of Climate Change <br />Tuesday, April 27, from 12 – 1 p.m., in the Tykeson Room at the Eugene Downtown Library, the City of Eugene’s Green <br />Building Program, in partnership with the Cascadia Region Green Building Council, will offer at no-cost the first <br />presentation in a series dedicated to Climate Change and the Built Environment. Senior Energy Advisor of the Climate <br />Leadership Institute (CLI), Roger Hamilton, will present findings from the 2009 CLI study, “Preparing for Climate Change <br />in the Upper Willamette River Basin in Western Oregon,” with an emphasis on providing recommendations on local <br />adaptation strategies for the built environment. <br /> <br />Hamilton has served as Governor Kitzhaber’s Advisor on Energy and Watersheds, as an <br />Oregon Public Utility Commissioner and a Klamath County Commissioner. He currently <br />serves on the Board of Directors for the Energy Trust of Oregon and consults on electric <br />transmission issues for the wind, central solar, and geothermal power industries. <br /> <br />The Climate Leadership Initiative is a social science-based global climate change research <br />and technical assistance program, whose mission is to foster the development and <br />application of innovative thinking and approaches to the complex causes and solutions to <br />global climate change. <br /> <br /> <br />American Institute of Architect (AIA) Learning Units will be available.Please walk, bike, carpool or take a bus. Feel free <br /> <br />to bring lunch. <br /> <br /> <br />For more information and to RSVP, pleasecontact Jenna Garmon at 541-682-5541 or eugene@cascadiagbc.org. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 <br />April 22, 2010 <br />