ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES NEWSLETTER
In this issue:
** Upcoming ES
Events: ES Lunchtime
Colloquium: Climate Campaigning at Colby
** ES
Program news: Great Jan Plan
courses!, Book Seminar: Natures Metropolis
** Campus Sustainability: Dessert and Discussion at the Green House
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** Jan Plan Funding Opportunities: Mellon and more
** Beyond Colby: Joanna Macy in
International conference on Innovating for Sustai nable Energy, Agriculture,
and F
Finance
** Jobs and Internships: Marine Related Graduate Research
Fellowships, Climate related internships, Maine Audubon, and more
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** Upcoming ES
Events: Climate
Campaigning at Colby?
Wednesday
October 12, in the Foss Private Dining Room 12 - 1
Join us at
Meg Boyle,
Climate Campaign Director
Meg will speak about the Climate Campaign and current
opportunities for students at Colby- a college with a legacy of strong climate
action- to connect with the Climate Campaign and link with other students
working on climate change initiatives from the local to national level.
The Climate Campaign is a youth-based coalition of student groups,
environmental networks, and local organizations that strives
to reduce the Northeast's contributions to global climate change by fostering
student leadership, leading successful campus- and state-level greenhouse gas
emissions reductions campaigns, and supporting the initiatives of its partner
organizations. The Climate Campaign is rooted in a system of strong state
networks led by student coordinators and on a series of annual regional and state
gatherings. Founded in 2003, the Climate Campaign is now active on
hundreds of college and university campuses across nine Northeast states. The
Climate Campaign is also a founding member of Energy Action, a North American
youth clean energy coalition based in part on the Climate Campaign model.
(ES 401 credit)
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** ES Program News
Are you staying on
the hill for Jan Plan?? Check out these great ES courses:
ES113
Women and the Environment
Three credit hours. Gail Carlson
TWRF
The diverse and
complex ways in which women and the natural
environment intersect, using the works and voices of prominent women
environmentalists and authors, including Rachel Carson and Terry Tempest
Williams. Topics include how women around the globe participate in
environmental issues, how women's participation has influenced Western science
and environmental policy, and how the physical and chemical environment
uniquely impacts women's health. An important theme of the course is that
understanding the experiences, messages, and actions of women is critical to
our approach to environmental issues today.
ES173
Environmental Law and Indian Tribes: The "Rez" and the "Hood"
Three credit hours. S. Peter Sly
M, T, W, R
Federal
environmental law often affects land use decisions. An examination of
environmental decision-making in the context of the most regulated lands in the
** Both of these
courses above will count toward the Humans
and the Environment requirements for science majors and Environmental Issues requirements for
policy majors.
Also in January, an
Environmental Ethics class in the Philosophy Department:
PL197 Environmental Ethics
MTWR
An introduction to prominent questions and themes in environmental ethics. We will begin with a study of theoretical approaches to nature, animals, and the place of human beings in the environment, including Social Ecology, Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism, and Ecopsychology. Then we will consider a number of issues that raise ethical questions in the context of environmental philosophy, such as ecojustice, consumption, globalization, economics, poverty, pollution, biodiversity, education, population, technology, place, activism, and wilderness.
Book Seminar: Natures Metropolis
STS Professor Paul Josephson is
hosting a book seminar Tuesdays at
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** Campus Sustainability
Dessert and
Discussion at the Green House
The Green House will
host Meg Boyle from the Climate Campaign http://www.climatecampaign.org/ at
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**
ES
October 18
Olin 234
Professor Liliana Andonova
will host an open discussion about graduate school. She and other ES faculty
will share their expertise and answer questions you might have as you consider
your graduate studies.
October 24
Monday, October 24,
Admissions
representatives from over 95 institutions varying in size, program specialties,
and geographic locations, will be on-hand to distribute literature, answer
questions, and provide useful information. Fields related to arts and sciences,
law, public policy, international affairs, business, medicine, and social
services will be represented.
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** Beyond Colby
NGOs between global and local: promoting sustainable forestry
in
a public lecture by Maria Tysiachniuk,
Monday, October 10,
Carnegie 225
Sponsored by the
Bates Program in Environmental Studies
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Joanna Macy Comes to
Maine Earth Institute, will bring
activist and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy to
Macy will give a
public talk, "Taking Heart in Tough Times," at the
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Global Shifts and
Regional Development: Innovating for Sustainable Energy, Agriculture, and
Finance.
http://www.acadiau.ca/academy/2005GIN/GIN2005Index.html
The
October 20-22 conference will be hosted by the
** Jan Plan Funding Opportunities: Mellon and more
Mellon Internship
Stipend
The Environmental Studies Program has been awarded a grant
by the Mellon Foundation to fund several environmental internship stipends. The
amount of money available for each stipend will depend on the nature of the
internship, the anticipated budget and financial needs of the applicant, and
the availability of other resources including the employer's ability to provide
partial compensation. Total awards will range from $600 to $3,000. Applications
should be submitted to Beth Kopp, 221 Lunder, beth.kopp@colby.edu
Check out this website (or talk to Beth) for application
criteria:
http://www.colby.edu/grants/esmellon/stipends.htm
Deadline is November 14
The Linda K. Cotter Internship Award Competition
Preference is given to unpaid internships at non-profit, humanitarian, scientific research (non-profit), or government (state, local, federal) organizations. Internships at for-profit organizations will be considered on a case by case basis. Awards for January are open to all sophomores, juniors, and seniors; summer awards are open to students completing their first year, sophomore, and junior year. Awards are need based and applicants must have a current year financial aid application at Colby. January awards range from $600-$1000. Summer awards range from $600-$2500.
Deadline is
The David Strage '82
International Internship
Provides a stipend of $1,000 to defray the
travel and/or living expenses of one Colby student pursuing an international
internship over January term. Applicants must be Juniors
in good standing with a minimum gpa of 3.5, with a
preference for students who have little international experience.
Deadline is
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GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
The National Estuarine Research Reserve Systems Graduate Research Fellowship
provides masters degree students and Ph.D. candidates with an opportunity to
conduct research of local and national significance that focuses on enhancing
coastal zone management.
Fellows conduct their research within a National Estuarine Research Reserve and
gain hands-on experience by participating in their host reserve's research and
monitoring programs.
Deadline to apply for 2006
fellowship:
Basic information:
Download flier (60 kb
PDF)
More information: Visit fellowship website
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** Jobs and Internships
Wells National Research Reserve
Internships
Unpaid internships in coastal
research and environmental education are available to students and teachers of
biology, marine biology, environmental studies, science education, and related
fields on a year-round basis. The nature and availability of the positions
changes from season to season. Often it is possible to tailor an internship to
focus on a particular area of interest. In the past, unpaid interns have worked
anywhere from 5 hours a week to 40 hours a week. Often university credits can
be received for hours.
http://www.wellsreserve.org/internships.htm
Wells National Estuarine Research
Reserve
Attn: Internships
Wells ME 04090
For more information about internships at the Wells Reserve, contact Laura Lubelczyk at 207 646-1555 x110.
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The staff at Maine Audubon
represents a diversity of professional orientations including scientific,
legal, environmental education, development, and business management. Year-round
staff are supplemented by seasonal staff, particularly
in the summer. Maine Audubon also welcomes inquiries from students in all
phases or levels of study
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Teaching Internship 2006: January-August
2006 The Chewonki Foundation
Responsibilities
The teaching intern will be
responsible for observing and learning 17 traveling natural history programs
with a goal of teaching those programs in classrooms and other public
settings. For this, some background in
natural history/sciences is helpful.
This person must enjoy teaching to student audiences of all ages, and
should additionally have a sensitivity and desire for the caring, feeding, and
handling of non-releasable and rehabilitating wild animals.
art of
weekly responsibilities, the internship requires frequent driving throughout
the State of
Lastly, the applicant should enjoy
indoor/outdoor physical labor (i.e.: building perches for raptors, animal cage
cleaning and maintenance, designing and creating teaching props for programs,
etc.).
Qualifications
A BA or BS in natural sciences,
education, or related studies is preferred; prior teaching experiences and
comfort with public speaking required.
Salary
$100/week plus room and board for
the first 5 month internship then $220/week staff position over the summer
starting
Applicants
Please send cover letter, resume
and references by
Anna Hunt, Outreach Program
Director
The Chewonki
Foundation
Phone: (207) 882-7323 FAX: (207)
882-4074
outreach@chewonki.org
THE CHEWONKI FOUNDATION
Phone: (207) 882-7323
Fax: (207) 882-4074
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Climate Action Internship - Stonyfield Farm Yogurt
Where:
Organization: Stonyfield
Farm Yogurt
Description:
Qualifications: Graduate or
upper-level Undergraduate student; excellent written and verbal communication
skills; experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint; previous experience
or knowledge of how to use the greenhouse gas calculator; database skills.
Terms: Hours depend on the
project; Fall, Winter, Spring or Summer terms;
Potential for hourly wage, stipend, college credit, or work-study.
If interested: E-mail resume and
cover letter to Amelia Ravin, Community Program
Coordinator at aravin@cleanair-coolplanet.org or call (617) 259 2011.
Please include the internship
title with your resume and cover letter and in the subject line of your email.
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Climate Neutral Sports Team
Internship - NativeEnergy
Where:
Organization: NativeEnergy
Description: Climate-Neutral
Sports Teams Internship
The intern would refine and implement
a program that helps colleges and university athletic teams/clubs calculate and
offset their CO2 emissions with renewable energy certificates (RECs) from renewable energy projects selected by NativeEnergy.
Specific tasks would include, but not be limited to the following:
* Developing a marketing plan for reaching out to college sports
programs
* Developing a list of sports team student/administrative contacts at
various colleges
* Extensive telephone & email communications with college sports
team contacts
* Assisting teams with calculating their CO2 footprints from travel,
sports facility use, etc.
* Advising teams on strategies for securing funding for their purchase
of CO2 offsets
Qualifications: Undergraduate or
graduate study, excellent written and verbal communication skills, working
knowledge of climate issues/CO2 offsets/renewable energy. Resourcefulness,
initiative, good people/sales skills . Experience with Microsoft Word, Powerpoint
and Excel necessary.
Terms: Part-time (10 hours per
week); Fall semester and/or spring semester; some
travel expenses covered;
If interested: E-mail resume and
cover letter to Amelia Ravin, Community Program
Coordinator at aravin@cleanair-coolplanet.org or call (617) 259 2011.
Please include the internship
title with your resume and cover letter and in the subject line of your email.