UW College on the Environment is now accepting proposals and applications for the 2013 George Melendez Wright Climate Change Youth Initiative (CCYI). 
Look at the descriptions of each position below, or visit ccyi.org for more information. 

Network for Business Innovation & Sustainability (NBIS) is seeking highly motivated students and professionals with strong writing and communications skills, as well as program planning and management experience.
With this, NBIS is offering the following internship opportunities:

NBIS non-Profit Leadership Internship
Program/Event Planning Marketing & Communications
By-Product Synergy NW: Pioneering innovation, economic development, and waste reduction strategies for the Puget Sound region
Administrative/Personal Assistant- Program Intern

These are unpaid internships offering students an opportunity to hone their organizational and project management skills in a business-focused environment. 

Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library is offering a Research Fellowship Program for 2013–14. The program includes short- and long-term fellowships for graduate students to support research in material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, the Atlantic World, childhood, literary culture, and many other areas of social and cultural history. 

ENVIR 480: Sustainability Studio students take on the sustainability of UW Laboratories!
Did you know laboratories use 5 to 10 times more energy per square foot than an average office building? 

Looking for an interesting course to take this winter? Do you care about the environment and ever wonder why we ought to protect it?
Envir/Phil 243: Introduction to Environmental Ethics!                           Tuesday/Thursday from 10:00-11:20AM                                                                      Discussion sections on Wednesdays and Fridays. 

Come out for the PoE Community Holiday Party!
Tuesday, December 4 from 6:30-9pmPoE Commons, Wallace Hall
There will be food, fun, and PoE friends adorned in ugly sweaters! If you can and would like to bring something for the potluck, feel free. 

Join Friends of the Cedar River Watershed to plant native trees and shrubs on the Cedar River THIS Saturday, December 1 ~ 10:00am–2:00pm.  C’mon out for a day of planting trees at King County Parks’ Cedar Grove Natural Area! 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) are offering a paid 10-week summer internship program for students who are passionate about the environment, interested in human health, and curious about how they are linked.  

Certified Erosion and Sediment Control Lead Training (CESCL)
January 15-16th

Erosion and Sediment Control Lead  Re-Certification
February 26th

For more information click here! 

Students will receive 15 credits total. Credits will fulfill Honors Core requirements (Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies). Other credits may be applicable depending on individual research projects. (Alternative credit may be available to students outside of the Honors Program; this must be arranged in advance with your departmental advisers)
Classes Offered:  
Managing the Sea: Conserving Coasts and Oceans in Peril (5 credits), Honors 220 or Envir 496
This class will satisfy the Natural Science, Policy and Decision Making Perspective Requirement
Imagining the Sea: Exploring Literature, Film, and the Environment (5 credits), Honors 394 or Comp Lit 396
This class will satisfy the Human and Social Perspective Requirement
Independent Study and Research (2-5 credits), Honors 499 or SMEA 499/600
This class will need to be approved by an instructor and the category of the perspective must be approved by a PoE Adviser.