Global warming takes center stage in South Sound

•What: A Community Forum on Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest

•Who: A panel of South Sound and state lawmakers, business leaders and scientific experts on global warming will talk with residents about environmental issues.

•Where: The Washington Center for the Performing Arts, 512 Washington St. S.E., Olympia.

•When: 7 to 10:30 p.m. today

•Admission: Free

Other events

•Today: The films "The Story of Stuff" and "Climate Change: Olympia's Call to Action" will be shown at noon and 4 p.m. in Building 26, Room 105, at South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Road S.W., Olympia.

•Today: Climate-change workshops will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at The Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Parkway N.W.

•Thursday: Information booths, demonstrations and food, noon to 2 p.m. at SPSCC's Student Union Building, 2011 Mottman Road S.W., Olympia. Speaker Paul Horton of Climate Solutions will discuss possible climate-change solutions.

•Thursday: Tamra Gilbertson and Kevin Smith, researchers with Carbon Trade Watch, will give a presentation about the effects of carbon trading and offsets in third-world countries and more prosperous nations from 3 to 5 p.m. in Lecture Hall 4 at Evergreen. For more information, call 360-867-6137 or e-mail chriset@evergreen.edu.