[job]: Green Corps

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Early Winter Application Deadline: January 15th, 2015

Click here to learn more about Green Corps’ paid environmental organizing fellowship.

Green Corps is looking for college graduates who are ready to take on the biggest environmental challenges of our day.

In Green Corps’ yearlong paid program, you’ll get intensive training in the skills you need to make a difference in the world. You’ll get hands-on experience fighting to solve urgent environmental problems — global warming, deforestation, water pollution, factory farming and many others — with groups like Sierra Club and Food & Water Watch. And when you graduate from Green Corps, we’ll help you find a career with one of the nation’s leading environmental and social change groups.

For more information, read on or visithttp://www.greencorps.org.

In your year with Green Corps:

Be trained by the best: Green Corps organizers take part in trainings with leading figures in the environmental and social change movements: people like Phil Radford, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, and Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org.

Gain experience across the country: Green Corps sends organizers to jumpstart campaigns for groups such as Corporate Accountability International, Food & Water Watch, and Toxics Action Center in across the nation.

Make an impact on today’s environmental challenges: Green Corps organizers have built the campaigns that helped keep pass the first GMO labeling law; led to new laws to support clean, renewable energy; convinced major corporations to stop dumping in our oceans; and much, much more.

Get paid! Green Corps organizers earn a salary of $25,000. Organizers also have a chance to opt into our health care program. We offer paid sick days and holidays, two weeks paid vacation and a student loan repayment program for those who qualify.

Launch your career: Green Corps will help connect you to environmental and progressive groups that are looking for full-time staff to build their organizations and help them create social change and protect our environment.

The application process:
In the next few months, we‘ll invite 35 college graduates to join Green Corps in 2015 – 2016. We’re looking for people who are serious about saving the planet, people who have taken initiative on their campus or community, and people who are willing to roll up their sleeves and work for change over the long haul.

If you think you’re one of those people, visit www.greencorps.org to apply to join the 2015-2016 class of Green Corps’ Field School for Environmental Organizing.

Green Corps’ yearlong program begins in August 2015 with Introductory Classroom Training in Boston, and continues with field placements in multiple locations across the U.S. Candidates must be willing to relocate.

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Part-time, special event intern opportunity for the NW Energy Coalition

[job]: CarbonWA Campaign Coordinator (Seattle, WA)

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CarbonWA is seeking a Campaign Coordinator!

CarbonWA is a small, grassroots campaign to implement a revenue neutral carbon tax in Washington State. We believe a modest tax on carbon (coal, oil, and gas) will drive down carbon emissions while creating incentives to the development of cleaner energy options. By coupling this carbon tax with a reduction in the sales tax and other targeted reductions, we can generate broad based political support and keep families monthly tax bills about the same. You can learn more about our campaign and our policy here: http://carbonwa.org/

We are looking for 1-2 campaign coordinators to help our small team with:

-Fundraising

-Organizing

-Endorsements

-Strategic planning

-Tech Stuff

-Other stuff too

A good candidate will:

-Be awesome.

-Be skilled in working independently and with others.

-Bring something to the table – ideally experience in one or more of the categories listed above.

-NOT be overcommitted already.

-Be able to make something out of nothing.

Position Structure:

-Hours: 10-25 per week. Very flexible, and can be adjusted based on your availability

-Pay: This is a very lean operation. We may be able to offer a small stipend, but this is not a paid position in the traditional sense.

-We will gladly work with you to make this meet the needs of an academic program or required internship.

Interested? Email Kyle at Kyle@carbonwa.org with your resume, a brief cover letter, and something that makes you laugh (perhaps a joke, or a picture? Surprise me).    

[internship]: Fall internships with Environment America

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I’m writing to share a cool fall opportunity with you and ask for your help spreading the word – Environment America is looking for current college students driven to protect the environment: we’d like to invite them to intern with us this fall. We’re hiring in 20 cities including Seattle.

Environment America interns will spend their fall semester making a big difference on critical environment issues and learning a ton, while getting the experience they need to launch a career in the environmental movement after graduation.

You can read more about our internship program here: http://jobs.environmentamerica.org.

Interested candidates can complete an online application here:http://jobs.environmentamerica.org/page/amr/apply-intern-environment-america-fall.

[course]: ENVIR 480 Topic for Spring Quarter: Greening up UW’s Investments

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Spring 2013 ENVIR 480 Sustainability Studio- 5 credits

Topic:  Greening up UW’s investments

Can UW’s investments be green? Earn course credit and gain professional experience while contributing to a hot topic among universities across the country. In Spring 2013 ENVIR 480 Sustainability Studio, students will engage in applied research about the environmental and social impacts of their personal investments, as well as provide analysis and insight to a UW discussion about the topic. 

Did you know…the UW has an investment portfolio of over two billion dollars? This includes endowment investments of almost $13 million in sustainable industries and almost $200 million in sustainable forest lands. The UW encourages ethical considerations in its investing decisions, and investing in Sudan or in tobacco companies is prohibited. Should environmental impacts be considered? Meanwhile, there is discussion at UW about establishing “greener” options including a sustainability revolving loan fund  for faculty and students to research campus sustainability solutions.

In ENVIR 480, we will explore  potential green investing strategies, and their social and economic implications, for the University of Washington.  Possible questions for student research projects include:

What strategies have other institutions used to green up their portfolios?

What are the likely financial, environmental and social consequences, both pro and con, of fossil fuel divestment? (a question being pushed by Bill McKibben, see http://gofossilfree.org/)

  • What are financial implications for low-income and minority students?
  • What are the possible financial returns of a sustainability revolving loan fund?
  • How can more innovative sustainability initiatives be funded?

Students will partner with high-level financial administrators at the University of Washington, such as the Treasury Office, as well as environmental economics experts.

ENVIR 480
SLN: 13747
Class Date/time: Tues/Thurs 12:30-2:20, Wallace Hall (ACC) 120

Taught by Megan Horst, Teaching Associate in POE and pre-PhD in Urban Design and Planning

Open to all majors/no prerequisites- Only an interest in sustainability. Capped to maintain small class size. 

Fellowships with Environment America [job]

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Fellowships with Environment America [job]

Qualifications 

We are seeking recent college graduates who are ready to commit their time, skills and passion to grassroots political action on behalf of the environment. We look for smarts, academic excellence, creativity, top-notch written and verbal skills, and an eagerness to learn. We value leadership experience with campus and activist groups. 

For more information, click the link above