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ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM
NEWSLETTER
November 6, 2006
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In this
issue:
** UPCOMING ES EVENTS: ES Evening Colloquium:"Sustainable
Solutions: Entrepreneurship and
Environmental Challenges", CoSponsored by ES & ECON
** ES PROGRAM NEWS:
Mellon Funds Available for Jan Plan ES Policy majors travel to DC
** ALSO ON CAMPUS:
Watch the Election Results at the Green House, Goldfarb sponsors
Energy Forum
** BEYOND COLBY:
Tuesday is ELECTION DAY!!, Stopping the Toxic Legacy: What Babies and
Whales Are Telling Us about Chemical Pollution
** GRAD/RESEARCH PROGRAMS:
Clark University, National Geographic, Greenpeace
** JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS:
Denver Urban Gardens, Orion Magazine, Industrial Economics
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** UPCOMING ES EVENTS: ES Evening Colloquium:"Sustainable
Solutions: Entrepreneurship and
Environmental Challenges", Cosponsored by ES & ECON
Tuesday, November 7
7:00 Olin 1
Paul Hudnut, Director of Venture Development, Colorado State
“Sustainable Solutions: Entrepreneurship and Environmental
Challenges”
Co-sponsored by the Economics Department and the Environmental
Studies Program
Paul Hudnut will discuss how entrepreneurship can be a positive
force for making
significant, scaleable and sustainable environmental impacts. He
will also discuss
examples of social entrepreneurs, as well as his experience as a
founder of Envirofit
International, which was recently recognized by the Stanford
Social Innovation Review as
one of the “Top Ten” most innovative companies at creating social change.”
Paul Hudnut is director of venture development at Colorado State
University, where he
works on the commercial development of university technologies and
teaches
entrepreneurship classes at the College of Business. He is also
co-director of the CSU
Global Innovation Center for Energy, Health and Environment, a
joint effort between the
College of Engineering and College of Business. His interests
include building companies,
technology transfer, intellectual property, and applying
entrepreneurial approaches to
large global challenges to human and environmental health. Hudnut
was a senior executive
at Heska Corporation, U.S. WEST Marketing Resources and PR
Pharmaceuticals. He is a
founder and chairman of Envirofit International, Ltd. and
currently serves on the boards
of directors of CaringFamily LLC; Inviragen, LLC; and the Rotary
Club of Fort Collins.
Hudnut earned his BA from Colorado College, his law degree from
University of Virginia,
and has completed the Program for Management Development at the
Harvard Business School.
** ES PROGRAM NEWS
Mellon Funds available
The Environmental Studies Program is very lucky to have received
money from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation that can be used to provide stipends to students
who want to undertake
environmentally-related internships in the summer and over Jan
Plan. If you are
interested in applying for a Mellon internship and you meet the
following criteria,
please consider applying:
Criteria for Environmental Internship Stipends
Preference for ES majors, ES minors/concentrations
Current seniors eligible for January only
Internship should be related to environmental science or policy
coursework
Preference for students interning in humanitarian, not-for-profit,
and governmental
organizations
Applicants must be in good academic standing and be able to
demonstrate financial need
Summer internships require a minimum of 350 hours, cannot exceed
40 hours a week and must
comply with Federal wage and hour laws
Applications should include the following:
A written proposal describing the organization sponsoring the
internship, the internship
responsibilities, and the relationship of the internship to
environmental science or
policy coursework and to your future career goals;
A letter of recommendation from a Colby faculty member;
A current resume;
A budget proposal listing projected income (including wages,
stipends, family
contribution, gifts and other) and projected expenses (including
transportation, housing,
utilities, food, and other); and
A letter or other communication from the sponsoring organization
confirming the
internship.
Submit full application materials (electronic and hardcopy please)
to Beth Kopp, box 4846
(Beth.Kopp)
DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 30
http://www.colby.edu/grants/esmellon/stipends.htm
ES Policy Majors Travel to DC
(from James Cryan)
On October 20 Environmental Studies Professor Liliana Andonova and
the students in her
Environmental Policy Practicum: Poverty and Sustainable
Development class traveled to
Washington D.C. to meet with a variety of different international
institutions, including
the World Bank, the Millenium Challenge Cooperation, Jill Perry a
former Peace Corps
volunteer and now of the Center for International Education, the
World Resources
Institute and Dr. Jose Molinas, founder of Instituto Desarrollo.
These meetings helped illuminate the variety of institutions which
work at different
levels to promote international development. At each meeting the students engaged
with
the presenters in a discourse and were able to ascertain a much
greater understanding of
these types of institutions than can be garnered from the academic
literature. The group
was able to obtain advice and more information from these
institutions for their class
project which involves collaboration with the rural municipality
of Carapegua, Paraguay.
In short, the day was a very valuable experience for everyone
involved.
** ALSO ON CAMPUS:
Watch Election Returns at the Green House!
The future of our country hangs in the balance this coming
Tuesday, November 7th. Be
sure to vote (for whomever you wish), and then join Green House
residents to watch the
election returns! 8
to 11 PM.
Ann and Christopher (faculty residents) will have their apartment
and the Go-Ho lounge
TVs tuned to cable news.
We've invited the Green House residents to stop in at any time
that evening and would love to have you stop by as well. We'll have some beverages, hor
d'oeuvres, snacks, munchies, things to eat, etc., and I'll check
to see whether I can
have a fire going in the fireplace. Come and go as you please - this is a very casual,
open-ended event.
Hope to see you then and there!
No need to RSVP, just show up if you'd like to!
Goldfarb Center Conference
Energy Past, Energy Present, Energy Futures:
How does energy policy develop? How do local, state, and national
officials, industry
representatives, and citizens’ groups work
together to ensure adequate supplies of fuel
for electrical energy, transportation, heating, and other needs?
How have state officials
and local officials worked with energy suppliers to ensure the
availability of affordable
energy on a long-term basis and to promote energy efficiency? What
can be accomplished on
a local level or state level independent of national
environmental, economic, and
political desiderata? Won’t the nation – and the state
– be dependent on oil and coal
for decades to come? And what are the prospects for nuclear power
in the US? In this
symposium, invited speakers, Colby faculty, and students will
consider “Energy Present,
Energy Futures: Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power in Local and
National Mix."
full schedule:
http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/goldfarb/events/upload/energy_conference.doc
** BEYOND COLBY:
Tuesday is ELECTION DAY
VOTE!!!
Stopping the Toxic Legacy: What Babies and Whales Are Telling Us
about Chemical Pollution
NRCM TO HOST PORTLAND EVENT
On Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. join the Natural
Resources Council of Maine
in Portland to hear from world-renowned whale researcher Roger
Payne and
internationally-recognized ecologist, author, and cancer survivor
Sandra Steingraber.
Dr. Payne
<http://www.oceanalliance.org/oceanalliance/oa_rogerpayne.html>
and Dr. Steingraber
<http://www.steingraber.com/> will make the connections between our environment and our
health, and what we can do to protect both. The discussion, which
is free and open to the
public, will be held in Hannaford Auditorium at the USM Campus in
Portland.
Dr. Steingraber is an expert on the environmental links to cancer,
learning disabilities,
and reproductive health.
She is a widely
acclaimed author of several books, including Living Downstream,
and bridges the gap
between scientists and activists. She is a
Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New
York.Dr. Payne, is a
widely published whale behaviorist, known for his
co-discovery that humpback whales sing songs. He will share findings from his recent
research into toxic contamination of whales from
environmental pollution and the implications for the ocean
ecosystem upon which we all
depend. Please join us for this special presentation, followed by
questions and
discussion. Please
contact Ryan at (800) 287-2345 ext 243, email
takeaction@nrcm.org or on the web:
http://www.maineenvironment.org/steingraber_payne.asp
** GRAD PROGRAMS:
Clark University offers an interdisciplinary Environmental Science
& Policy master’s
degree program that prepares environmental professionals to work
at the intersection of
environment, technology, society, and development. Environmental
Science and Policy is
one of four programs in the Department of International
Development, Community and
Environment (IDCE), also including: International Development and
Social Change;
Community Development and Planning; and Geographic Information
Sciences for Environment
and Development.
ES&P faculty focus their teaching and research on three core
areas:
Environmental Health: How can we protect the environment and human
health from the
adverse effects of economic growth, urbanization and poverty?
Current ES&P
faculty/student research includes a multi-year NIEHS Environmental
Justice grant to
assess and strengthen health among vulnerable Worcester
communities, and a study of
radiation-induced cancers in the southwest Native Americans for
the Department of Energy.
Climate, Energy, and Sustainability: How can we assess and
mitigate climate change
impacts? What advances do we need in energy efficiency, renewable
and clean energy
technology, and energy policy? ES&P faculty are presently
researching carbon capture and
storage, alternative transportation, as well as the effects of
climate change on risk of
malaria near Lake Victoria in Kenya.
Environmental Management and Policy: What is the role of science
in policy making? How
can technology and institutions reduce the adverse environmental
impacts of economic
growth, alleviate poverty, and enhance community development?
ES&P faculty are working on
issues of corporate environmental responsibility, domestic and
international government
regulatory systems, and a National Science Foundation-sponsored
comparative study of the
Global Reporting Initiative.
ES&P graduates become highly sought after cross disciplinary
professionals, able to apply
natural and social science knowledge to policy-making and
technology choices in both
developed and developing countries.
We would appreciate your posting the attached flyers in your
departments and passing them
along to any student you believe would be interested in our
ES&P master’s degree. For
details and application: see www.clarku.edu/departments/idce or
contact Admissions, IDCE
Department, Clark University, Worcester MA 01610-1477.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OFFERS GRANTS TO YOUNG SCIENTISTS, EXPLORERS
WASHINGTON (Oct. 30, 2006)-Budding field researchers, explorers
and conservationists now
will be able to get an early start on their dreams. A Young
Explorers Grants Program,
aimed at individuals ages 18 to 25, has been launched by the
National Geographic Society,
with support from Lindblad Expeditions, the nation's pioneer in
expedition travel to
remote and locations.
Twenty-five to 50 grants
ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 will be
provided each year to a select number of young adults who apply.
Applications will be reviewed by a subcommittee of National
Geographic's existing grant-making bodies - the Committee for
Research and
Exploration, the Expeditions Council and the Conservation Trust.
Grants will be made in fields traditionally supported by National
Geographic, such as
archaeology, wildlife biology, conservation and adventure.
"Few resources are
currently available for young people who
are hungry to pursue field science and exploration, and these
grants can
mean the difference between getting to the field or not,"
said
Rebecca Martin, director of National Geographic's Expeditions
Council. "We're excited about offering first-time
opportunities to individuals who may be
the
world's next generation of field researchers, explorers and
conservationists."
Information on grant
applications is available at
;http://www.nationalgeographic.com/yeg/ .
Alison Reeves Publicity Manager Communications Division
National Geographic Society
1145 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036
Tel: (202) 857-7793; Fax: (202) 828-6679
E-mail: areeves@ngs.org
Environmental Science and Policy Program
Evolutionary and Community Ecology Course in the Amazon Rain Forest
Summer
session with Arizona State University
Arizona State University is offering a 7-unit summer course in the
Amazon Rain Forest on
May31rd-June22nd, 2006. The course will focus on Evolutionary and
Community Ecology,
entirely in the field at Estacion Jatun Sacha in Amazonian
Ecuador. Taxonomic specialties
focused in the course include, but are not limited to, reptiles,
amphibians, primates,
and plants. Part of the course will focus on lectures,
discussions, and group field
activities, and the last part will be devoted towards independent
student research
projects. There will also be free-time activities such as a tour
of the Ecuadorian
Capital, Quito, as well as whitewater rafting. A compete
description of the course and
directions on applying are found at: www.ReptileResearch.org.
Applications from
out-of-state students and sometimes non-Biology students are also
accepted, based on
space availability.
Paul Hamilton, M.A., Ph.D.
Director, Reptile Research
paul@reptileresearch.org
www.ReptileResearch.org -- Volunteering and Education
www.BiodiversityPhotography.org -- Nature Photography
phone: (520) 260-9280
fax: (815) 717-749
PO Box 1348
Tucson, AZ 85702-1348, USA
Greenpeace
I’m writing to let you know about the Greenpeace Organizing Term, an
action-filled
semester and the best hands-on training for students to become
environmental leaders.
You’ll be making an investment in your leadership skills and training
in grassroots
organizing, media, direct action, and campaign strategy. You’ll travel
abroad with
Greenpeace and join a team of incredible activists working to
protect the planet. Many
students are also able to receive class credit for the semester.
You can find more
information and apply at http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/got
“I now understand what it means to be an organizer. I can now use
all the amazing things
I’ve learned to actually make a difference.” - Charis,
University of North
Carolina-Asheville, GOT Fall ‘04
ACTION
We give you hands-on experience with a real Greenpeace campaign.
We have the best
trainers come here to our DC headquarters or our new San Francisco
office to provide all
the skills you’ll need to hit the ground and work
with a real Greenpeace campaign to
implement what you’ve learned. You’ll put your
organizing skills into action, play a
critical role in organizing on-the-ground Greenpeace events, and
make a real impact
fighting to protect America’s last
remaining forests, promoting clean energy and saving
our world’s oceans. You’ll learn how to climb, drive
Greenpeace boats, use advanced
communication equipment and practice peaceful direct action.
TRAVEL
We travel abroad for a week to meet with international Greenpeace
activists. During past
trips, students have traveled to Greenpeace headquarters in
Amsterdam, to Paris to take
part in a 500-person peace symbol, and to Germany where they
joined a 6,000-person march
in to protest of nuclear waste shipments. We give people a few
days to just relax and
explore Europe as well.
TRAINING
We provide more than 50 cutting-edge training sessions in
grassroots organizing, campaign
skills, media strategy, and direct action. America’s top
environmental leaders will
train you in everything from recruiting volunteers and developing
leaders to creating a
campaign plan.
APPLY NOW
If you are passionate, bold, smart, visionary, strategic, savvy
and ready to stand up for
the environment, join us! We are currently accepting applications
for the Spring 2007
semester in Washington DC and San Francisco. To learn more and to
apply, visit
www.greenpeaceusa.org/got
To contact program staff with questions, e-mail
got@wdc.greenpeace.org or call Samantha
Corbin 202-319-2468.
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20001
(800) 326-0959
** JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS:
Sent from Allison (Stewart) Barasz '05
Industrial Econmics Internship Posting
Dates: Jan 2007 - May
2007, maybe longer, between 15-35 hrs/week/days flexible
PAID position; rate commensurate with experience
Contact: Angela
Vitulli, Senior Associate:
avitulli@indecon.com
Position Title: National Environmental Performance Track Program
Assistant
Position Description
The National Environment Performance Track:
(http://www.epa.gov/performancetrack) is a
multi-media, US Environmental Protection Agency program to
encourage and reward
facilities that achieve beyond compliance environmental
performance. It is a voluntary
program with over 350 member facilities. Applications are accepted twice per year. Every
year, members have to report on their environmental performance as
a requirement of the
program. In addition,
members have to renew their membership every three years.
Industrial Economics, Incorporated (IEc) provides a variety of
support services to the
Performance Track program.
One of our main roles is to review applications, renewal
applications, and annual performance reports, and to follow up
with applicants and
members on their submissions to insure that information provided
is clear and accurate.
The position will be heavily focused on this review role. In addition, the program
assistant will respond to calls and e-mails received by the
Performance Track Information
Center, which IEc manages for EPA. Information Center work consists of responding to
member information requests related to reporting requirements,
online access, and the
application process, among other things.
When annual performance reports and applications have been
approved, IEc also assists EPA
to evaluate the quality of the reported data for inclusion in
EPA's annual report on
member environmental progress. In addition, we perform analysis of the Performance Track
data as well as a thorough quality control review of EPA's
analysis based on the reported
data. The position
may require work on these tasks as well.
Sample of Duties:
Review annual performance reports, applications, and renewal
applications submitted by
Performance Track member for clarity and completeness.
Conduct follow-up phone calls with Performance Track member to
improve the clarity and
completeness of annual performance reports.
Answer hotline calls and e-mails from Performance Track members
and applicants, as well
as the general public.
Conduct quality control of data submitted by Performance Track
members.
Qualifications/Requirements:
BA or BS required
Position Requirements:
" General knowledge of
environmental issues affecting industrial facilities
" Comfort with basic
quantitative operations needed to assess environmental
impacts, e.g., converting units of energy and mass, using simple
linear formulas to
derive greenhouse gas impacts, etc.
" Strong oral and written
communication skills
" Strong attention to detail
" Good customer service
disposition
The ideal candidate would also have:
" Knowledge of voluntary
pollution prevention programs
" Experience with MS Excel and
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STUDY ABROAD IN THAILAND!
PEOPLE, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
International Sustainable Development Studies Institute
(www.isdsi.org)
People, Environment and Development Program courses study
sustainable development,
ecology and culture throughout Thailand, from tribal villages to
tropical islands.
Interested? Email apply@isdsi.org for an application.
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 2007 FALL SEMESTER
Nationally recognized as a "best-practice" program, the
People, Environment and
Development program is one of the only study-abroad programs in
the world to combine
cross-cultural experiential study of culture, ecology and
sustainability with place-based
expedition learning. The classrooms for the program's unique
"Expedition Field Courses"
are the forests, islands, villages, cities, rivers, and coasts
throughout Thailand. Each
course focuses on a specific aspect of the interaction between
people, the environment
and development--learning about local solutions to global issues.
The courses maximize
student learning through deep immersion in the local cultures and
ecology, and active
learning with local communities. Students earn a semester of
academic credit while on the
program.
Fall Semester:
Foundations : Thai Language and Society (Foreign Language)
Agroecology: Social and Biological Factors in Sustainable
Agriculture (Biology/Sociology)
Political Ecology of Forests: Ethnic People and Natural Resources
(Anthropology/Ecology)
Islands, Oceans and Sustainability: Marine Protected Areas and
Reef Ecology
(Ecology/Geography)
January option (for students on fall semester):
Service Learning Internship: Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
and Development
PROGRAM DETAILS
For information on applying, including specific dates, fees and
application deadlines,
please see www.isdsi.org/apply.html.
To request an application, email apply@isdsi.org.
For further information about ISDSI and other inquiries, see
www.isdsi.org or email
info@isdsi.org.
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Position: Volunteer Coordination Assistant
Organization: Denver Urban Gardens
Contact: Dusty Martin
Email: dusty@dug.org
Description: Job Description:
The Volunteer Coordination Assistant will assist in
volunteer workday coordination, construction and
maintenance of garden sites and various garden and
office projects.
Responsibilities include:
Assist with work days including pre-day planning and coordination,
workday organization
and training volunteers;
Help to lead work days in gardens and community
farm;
Coordinate construction and maintenance of garden sites;
Help with general field work;
Assist with general office work.
Qualifications: Skills Needed:
Experience with volunteers and construction projects desired.
Interest in community gardens.
Self-motivated.
Ability to do outdoor, physically demanding work.
Comfortable in diverse settings and diverse communities.
Prefer college juniors, seniors, or graduates.
Location: Denver, CO
Duration: 4 months
Start Date: April 3, 2007
Hours: 20 hours/week
Compensation: Benefits:
Tangible results in the form of actual garden improvements.
Training in volunteer management, construction skills and work
project coordination.
Working for an organization that benefits Denver’s diverse
communities.
Possibility of stipend.
Application Procedure: Please send a cover letter and resume to
Denver Urban Gardens,
3377 Blake St, Suite 113, Denver, CO 80205 or email to
dusty@dug.org. For more
information, please look online at www.dug.org or call
303-292-9900.
Orion Magazine 2007 Editorial Intern
Organization: The Orion Society
Contact: Harlan C. Clifford
Description: Orion magazine is accepting applications for an
Editorial Internship for
2007. This is a twelve-month position, commencing in March 2007.
The Editorial Intern
will be exposed to all aspects of producing a high-quality,
bimonthly publication. The
Intern is expected to work a forty-hour week. The position pays a
stipend of $800/month.
The Orion staff is small and functions in a collaborative manner.
The Editorial Intern
will assist in basic administrative tasks such as mail management,
photocopying, the
taking of meeting minutes, fact-checking, evaluating unsolicited
submissions,
proofreading, and tracking down information. The intern may be
given responsibility for
elements of the magazine’s content if,
in the judgment of senior staff, such
responsibility is appropriate.
Qualifications: Applicants should have strong communications
skills, interest in issues
of environment and culture, and a professional interest in
publishing.
Location: Great Barrington, MA
Duration: 1 year
Start Date: March 2007
Hours: 40/wk
Compensation: Stipend of $800/month.
Application Procedure: Please become familiar with the magazine
before you apply. Visit
our website at www.orionmagazine.org. Please submit in hard copy a
rŽsumŽ, letter of
interest, three unedited writing samples and three references
(with contact information
and annotation regarding their relationship to the applicant), to
be received at Orion no
later than December 20, 2006. Address applications to:
Harlan C. Clifford
Executive Editor
Orion Magazine
187 Main Street
Great Barrington, MA 01230
Promising candidates will be contacted by phone. Please, no phone
calls or emails.
Deadline: December 20, 2006
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Beth Kopp
Coordinator, Environmental Studies Program
Colby College
4846 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8848
207.859.4846
fax 207.872.3474
Office: 221 Lunder House
bkkopp@colby.edu