Application Deadline: April 15, 2013
There are 12 positions available for summer collegiate internship program with Waste Management. Recycle Corps interns receive intensive training from industry experts and well-rounded exposure to many facets of the recycling and composting industry, and receive hands-on experience in the field and real-world experience as recycling educators. 

What: WSRA’S 33rd Annual Recycling Conference & Trade Show
When: Sunday, May 12 – Wednesday, May 15
Where: Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA
“Student Grant Award”: The award includes full conference registration. 

Student Internship with the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition 
CONTEXT 
The Duwamish, Seattle’s only river, has been declared by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a Superfund Site, one of the most hazardous toxic sites in the nation, and its health and future are at a critical moment. 

Salary range: $41,000-$60,000 DOE
Closing Date: February 20, 2013, 4:30pm
Permanent, full-time, with benefits
Qualifications:
This position requires a solid background in natural resources conservation, project management, urban
planning and development, education and outreach, and communications. 

Over 600 students attended the UW Environmental Career Fair to interact with nearly 40 organizations. If you attended the fair, the Environmental Career Fair Planning Team would appreciate your feedback to help them make the fair even better next year! 

For the fourth year, the UW Husky Green Award will recognize students, faculty and staff who have demonstrated leadership, initiative, and dedication to environmental stewardship and sustainability. We need your help to ensure our students, peers and faculty don’t go unrecognized!
  

After graduating from UW and the Program on the Environment program in summer of 2012, Erin Tomaras travelled down to Guatemala to act as the 2012 volunteer/research coordinator for ARCAS, a sea turtle project on the Pacific Coast. 

In Fall 2012, ENVIR 480 students supported the UW Green Laboratory Certification program by engaging in student-designed, hands-on, project-based work. Specific project topics, and some highlights, included:

A comparison between LED and non-LED growth chamber lights. 

Spring 2013 ENVIR 479 PoE Honors Seminar- 2 credits(Un)Making a Green Argument: Climate Policy and Environmental Advocacy
Last June, Rolling Stone published an essay by climate activist Bill McKibben titled “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math.”  As a piece of popular advocacy, the essay is extraordinary in its clarity of argument and power of persuasion.   

In fall 2012, the ENVIR 480 class focused on the challenging and important topic of Green Laboratories. The eleven students learned a lot about laboratories on campus, and identified both challenges and opportunities to make them more environmentally sustainable.