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ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES NEWSLETTER
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In this issue:
** Upcoming ES Events: Two ES Colloquia and a visit from Round River Conservation!
** Campus
Sustainability: Sierra Student
Coalition seeking help
** Beyond Colby: Environmental Effects of Hurricane Katrina
** Jobs and Internships: Crew leaders in the pacific northwest, eco
village in
** Upcoming ES Events:
1) Saving
The
Tuesday September 27
* We are meeting Jym in the lobby of Dana for dinner at
The Maine Woods represents the largest remaining wildland in
the eastern
timberlands are being transformed into real estate, and
public access for recreation is in jeopardy. Indeed, the largest residential
development in
each, with a focus on the proposed
2) "Mellon Interns Return
and Tell All"
Wednesday
September 28, in the Foss private dining room
12 - 1 Join us at
This season's Mellon Interns are
back from a busy summer. They will share with us the highlights from their
experiences. Sarah Kelly worked at an environmental education center
Shelbourne Farms, Rosalind Becker conducted environmental research at the New
England Aquarium. Join us for lunch and hear all about it.
3) Doug Milek, of
Round River Conservation Studies, www.roundriver.org, is a non-profit conservation research and education organization. They specialize in working with local, indigenous communities in developing and implementing holistic, landscape-scale conservation area designs using cutting edge conservation biology science while additionally providing opportunities to train local biologists and qualifying undergraduate students. Round Rivers education programs emphasize the importance of being out in the field and getting peoples hands dirty while contributing to actual conservation projects.
** Campus Sustainability
I'm an organizer with the Sierra Student Coalition, the student-run
arm of the Sierra Club, and I'm a student at
writing to you because your help is urgently needed in
next several weeks to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The fight to protect the refuge is not yet over - but its fate will be
decided this fall, and Senators Snowe and Collins of Maine are two of
the most key votes in Congress. We need to make sure they vote the
right way. The Arctic Refuge is home to diverse wildlife and the
caribou that the Gwich'in people have depended on for thousands of
years for their way of life. But whether we drill the Arctic Refuge
for oil is also a referendum on how far we will go for oil and whether
we will choose a clean energy future.
Arctic drilling has been snuck into the federal Budget that Congress
creates each year. As you are students, it is also relevant to you
that this year the Budget ALSO includes $9 billion cuts to federal
student aid programs - the largest ever - which will increase a
typical student's debt load by about $6,000.
The SSC is working hard across the country to stop this budget, save
the
please go to http://www.ssc.org/issues/arctic, sign up to join the
campaign, and download our Arctic Student Action Packet, with
background, flyers, sample letters, and ideas for tactics. You can
also sign up to recieve a free copy of the DVD documentary Oil On Ice
or Being Caribou to show at your school.
Again, that's http://www.ssc.org/issues/arctic.
Your help at
Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe is incredibly important. A
vote is expected during the last week of October, and you can join a
broad coalition across
Collins vote NO to any budget with Arctic drilling and cuts to student
aid!
Anything you can do - writing letters and letters to the editor,
making phone calls, and more - would be an enormous help. And every
student has a stake in the future of federal student aid programs.
** In the News:
Flooded Region May Yield Biggest Garbage Haul Ever
The
Street by street here, and across the entire disaster zone, debris piles are growing in size and number, monuments to the destructiveness of Hurricane Katrina and the messiness of the rebuilding.
The heaps are rising in parking lots and on front lawns and ball fields. The effect is trashing the landscape and creating landscapes of trash.
Carting off all the snapped trees, sodden carpets, moldy drywall and warped furniture will require what experts describe as the biggest garbage haul ever, enough to fill 6 million dump trucks.
And that doesn't include the tens of thousands of autos and boats headed for scrap yards.
The job won't be fast, or cheap. State and federal officials
say it could take a year to collect, burn, bury and recycle the refuse in
In the meantime, folks must live alongside the festering mounds that seem to frame every roadside view. Some piles reach almost as high as the houses that coughed them up.
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**Jobs, Internships
and Volunteer Opportunities:
NOTE: I may include
jobs or internships here that have start dates that clash with the Colby
schedule. But, if you keep a list of organizations that interest you, they may
be flexible and willing to work with you when you are thinking about Jan Plan
or summer plans!
Student Partnership Worldwide
Places are filling fast on the international health and
rural development programs run by Students Partnership Worldwide (SPW), and we
invite your students, and peers who may be interested in spending a year
volunteering overseas, to join our next Information Session on Wednesday
October 5th at
The session will be held as a FREE conference call, and
provides an opportunity for them to find out more about SPW's volunteer
programs in
As you may know, SPW offers a unique opportunity for
Americans aged 18-28 to work in partnership with our African and Asian
volunteers on 6-9 month programs in
SPW is an international NGO and registered not-for-profit
organization, established in
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Conservation Corps Crewleaders
Organization: Northwest Youth Corps
Contact: Ethan Nelson
Email: work@nwyouthcorps.org
Description: Crews live and work outdoors, often in remote and wild settings, spending 4-6 weeks completing conservation projects. Crewleaders teach an experiential-based environmental and life skills education curriculum. Crewleaders also organize and lead recreation trips when work project duties have been met.
Location:
Duration: Minimum 3 month commitment
Start Date: June 7
Compensation: $84/day Paid staff training, $2/day bonus for WFR/EMT/WEMT; food and transportation during session plus end of session bonus up to $300 for performance in education, safety, and corps member completion.
Application Procedure: Complete application (available at www.nwyouthcorps.org), attach cover letter, rιsumι, and four references, send to work@nwyouthcorps.org
Position: Urban Eco-village
community organizer
Organization: Imago,
Inc.
Contact: Jim Schenk jschenk@imagoearth.org
Description:
Community organizer to help develop an urban Eco-village. A
ENRIGHT RIDGE ECO-VILLAGE
Working to develop a model of sustainable urban living for all residents.
JOB DESCRIPTION
This is a
Organization website: www.imagoearth.org.
Location:
Duration: One year, optional second year
Start Date: November, 2005
Hours:
Compensation: This is an Americorps VISTA position (Volunteer In Service
To America) Compensation: $10,000+ per year, health insurance, and $4500
education stipend upon completion of one year service.
Application Procedure: Send cover letter and resume to: Jim Schenk at jschenk@imagoearth.org.
Let me know how you learned of this opportunity with Imago when you apply.
Thanks.
Deadline: