PBL Curriculum Design Lab - SNOWPACK SERIES - Net Zero Future
March 23, 9:00-12:00 Zoom 3 STEM WWU Clock Hours Gr. 6-12 All Subjects Join our ongoing PBL series analyzing systemic climate impacts on our shrinking snowpack water reserves. The Spring PBL Lab explores how we are innovating locally and globally toward a net zero water future.
Time & Location
Mar 23, 2024, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Zoom meeting
About the Event
A net zero water future is possible. It means that we learn how to rejoin nature's water cycle even as we interrupt it with our buildings, industries, farms, and personal needs to use what we receive in a 12-month period and give it back to nature as clean as we got it. How did the Bullitt Center, a six story office space in Seattle become a net zero water building? How does Valley View Middle School in Snohomish harvest all the rainwater on its rooftop to flush its toilets and irrigate its campus? How did the tiny island nation of Singapore leap from a developing country to the world’s most advanced water cycling society, capturing all of its rainwater, recycling all of its wastewater, and desalinating the seawater that surrounds it?Water we innovating?
Can we engineer our homes, apartments, and schools to achieve net zero water so that over the…