Dear Environmental Studies Minors,
Please find the this week’s announcements below.
Spring Course Update
Please note the PO 531: Politics of Energy in US,
Comparative and Global Perspectives will now be offered this Spring with an
expanded unity on climate change. The course will be taught by Professor
David Deese.
On Campus Lectures and Forums
1.
The Emerging Alliance of
Religion and Ecology – 10/17
Graduate School Opportunities
1. Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
On Campus Job Opportunity and Career Services
1. Career Center Drop-Ins
2. Massachusetts Green Career Conference – 10/3
Off-Campus Lectures, Forums, and Exhibitions
1. Tide Mill Conference – 11/8-9
2. Exhibition on Climate Change at the Harvard Museum of Natural
History
3. C2C National Climate Seminar at Bard – Biweekly Events
Internship Opportunities, Off Campus Jobs, Site Visits,
and Travel Opportunities
1.
SEA Semester Preview – 9/29,
10/1, 10/2
2.
Winter Break Study Abroad –
Caribbean Ecosystems
3.
Sustainability Intern at
Massachusetts Interfaith Power and Light
4.
Green Streets Initiative
Internship
5.
Job with Telephone Outreach
Project for the Fund for the Public Interest
6.
Internship with
Environment America
7.
Study
in Belize Next Winter
8.
Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources
9.
Green
Corps Environmental Training Program
10.
Environment
Massachusetts
Best,
Kevin
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B. Kevin Brown
Graduate Assistant, Environmental Studies
617-552-2477
Devlin 213
Fall 2013 Office Hours: Monday 9:00am-1:00pm, Tuesday
10:00am-4:00pm, Wednesday 4:00-5:00pm, and Thursday 12:00-5:00pm
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Boston
College | School of Theology and Ministry
T: 617-552-6501 or 800-487-1167 www.bc.edu/stmce |
We are pleased to announce that the Fall 2014 application for admission to the Masters programs at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies is now live. You can access the application here. Please make sure to submit all of your materials no later than December 15, 2013 in order to be given full consideration for admission.
Financial Aid Update
In order to be considered for scholarships, all applicants must submit the F&ES financial aid application by February 15, 2014. U.S. students must also submit the 2014-15 FAFSA by this deadline. Applicants who submit late or incomplete applications for financial aid will not be considered for scholarship. The financial aid application will be available in mid-October.
Anyone that submits an application for admission will also
be granted access to the outside
scholarship database. This is a great resource for students looking for
additional scholarship support, and we strongly encourage you to look at this
database before you receive your admission decision!
Admission Events
The Admissions office has been busy planning the fall recruitment schedule, and we will be traveling across both North and South America in addition to hosting on-campus events. To see if we will be coming to a location near you, please visit our admission events website. New events (including information sessions in LA, Portland Austin, and Vancouver) will be posted in the coming weeks so please make sure to check back soon!
Admission Events
The Admissions office has been busy planning the fall recruitment schedule, and we will be traveling across both North and South America in addition to hosting on-campus events. To see if we will be coming to a location near you, please visit our admission events website. New events (including information sessions in LA, Portland Austin, and Vancouver) will be posted in the coming weeks so please make sure to check back soon!
As in the past, a representative
from the Career Center (Allison Reilly) will be holding drop-in hours where
students are welcome to come with questions about resumes, cover letters,
internships, job search, interviews, etc. These drop-ins are open to all, but geared
toward science, math, and tech students. This semester's science drop-ins
will take place as follows:
- Wednesdays from 1:30-2:30pm in Higgins
- Thursdays from 4:30-5:30pm in Merkert
(Please note: we also have
additional drop-in
hours in the Career Center and online for students who have conflicts with
the times above.)
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Ongoing exhibit
Developed in collaboration with the Harvard University
Center for the Environment Climate Change: Our Global Experiment will
help you separate truth from spin and provide a basis for making informed
decisions affecting the future of our planet. The exhibit offers an insider’s
look at the scientific study of climate, presenting the latest research from
renowned experts at Harvard and around the world. Get the facts, draw your own
conclusions, then take part in a unique computer simulation that allows you to
choose a course of action and see the consequences for the planet.
C2C Fellows | National Climate Seminar
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The beginning of the semester is, for me, always a time for reflection on my purpose on the planet. Witnessing local communities in collapse—from Syria to Detroit— it can be hard to hang on to Dr. King’s vision of a moral arc of the universe that bends, eventually, towards justice.
The picture on my mind is the literal arc of history:
The reconstructed arc of temperature is our best understanding of climate over the last 10,000 years. The entirety of human history is spanned in the arc, from the building of the first city to the I-pad. The red line is where the World Bank says we are headed, in the blink of an eye. Talk about a brick wall.
The definition of leadership we use here at Bard CEP is two-fold: taking people where they otherwise would not go, and inspiring others to lead in the same direction.
Where we are otherwise going is the top of that red line: 8 degrees F when my children are not much older than me. Where we need to go instead is 80% reductions in emissions globally.
So what is our purpose? How do we reengage with the moral arc of the universe? The answer is obvious: we must all lead.
Leadership requires skills that can be learned. Please help us find young people who are hungry for those skills. C2C Fellows is holding five weekend training conferences for undergrads and recent grads aspiring to sustainability leadership in business and politics.
MA (Bentley University) | October 25–27, 2013
CA (Bay Area) | November 8–10, 2013
NY (Bard College) | February 14-16, 2014
FL (University of Florida) | March, 2014
IL (Moraine Valley Community College) | April, 2014
Students can apply now. Applications are due two weeks prior to each workshop. Learn more about the benefits of becoming a Bard C2C Fellow here. Cost for the weekend trainings, including food (and lodging for those traveling more than an hour), is $30. Registration scholarships are available, and students can often apply to their student governments for travel support as well.
Next week, join us in welcoming economist Jon Koomey on The National Climate Seminar. Jon will be talking about his book Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs. The full fall schedule is below and here.
Thanks for the work you are doing.
Eban Goodstein
The beginning of the semester is, for me, always a time for reflection on my purpose on the planet. Witnessing local communities in collapse—from Syria to Detroit— it can be hard to hang on to Dr. King’s vision of a moral arc of the universe that bends, eventually, towards justice.
The picture on my mind is the literal arc of history:
The reconstructed arc of temperature is our best understanding of climate over the last 10,000 years. The entirety of human history is spanned in the arc, from the building of the first city to the I-pad. The red line is where the World Bank says we are headed, in the blink of an eye. Talk about a brick wall.
The definition of leadership we use here at Bard CEP is two-fold: taking people where they otherwise would not go, and inspiring others to lead in the same direction.
Where we are otherwise going is the top of that red line: 8 degrees F when my children are not much older than me. Where we need to go instead is 80% reductions in emissions globally.
So what is our purpose? How do we reengage with the moral arc of the universe? The answer is obvious: we must all lead.
Leadership requires skills that can be learned. Please help us find young people who are hungry for those skills. C2C Fellows is holding five weekend training conferences for undergrads and recent grads aspiring to sustainability leadership in business and politics.
MA (Bentley University) | October 25–27, 2013
CA (Bay Area) | November 8–10, 2013
NY (Bard College) | February 14-16, 2014
FL (University of Florida) | March, 2014
IL (Moraine Valley Community College) | April, 2014
Students can apply now. Applications are due two weeks prior to each workshop. Learn more about the benefits of becoming a Bard C2C Fellow here. Cost for the weekend trainings, including food (and lodging for those traveling more than an hour), is $30. Registration scholarships are available, and students can often apply to their student governments for travel support as well.
Next week, join us in welcoming economist Jon Koomey on The National Climate Seminar. Jon will be talking about his book Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs. The full fall schedule is below and here.
Thanks for the work you are doing.
Eban Goodstein
Director, Bard CEP &
Director, Bard MBA in Sustainability
National Climate Seminar | Fall 2013 Schedule
Climate Seminar calls are Wednesdays at 12pm
EST and held twice a month via conference call. Assign the calls to your
students for a chance to hear top scientists, analysts, and political leaders
discuss climate and clean energy solutions. Call
in to (712) 432-3100 up to five
minutes before each call starts and enter conference code 253385.
Have questions for the speakers? Email them beforehand or during the call to climate@bard.edu
- or listen in for the chance to ask them live!
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Topic
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Sept 4
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Robert Stone
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“Pandora’s Promise”
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Sept 18
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Jon Koomey
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“Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs”
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Oct 2
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Gretchen Hofmann
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“Latest Research on Ocean Acidification”
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Oct 16
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Jeff Goodell
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“Goodbye Miami”
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Nov 6
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Laurie Johnson
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“The Social Cost of Carbon Just Doubled”
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Nov 20
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Jorge Madrid
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“Latino Climate Leadership”
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Dec 4
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Josh Fox
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“Gasland 2 and Beyond”
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Sponsors
The National
Climate Seminar is organized and run by Bard CEP with media partner, Island Press. And
a special C2C Shoutout: check out (and support) the Tenleytown Meat Company, a new sustainable-beef-by-bike venture started by
C2C Fellow (2012) Will Mitchell.
Boston
Open Ship Events
Join
us aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer to learn more SEA Semester: Environmental
Studies in Woods Hole and at sea! We’re offering three Open Ship events in
Boston specifically for our Boston area prospective students and academic
contacts.
Walk
the teak decks, handle the lines to hoist a sail, explore the living quarters,
and visit the oceanographic research lab. Learn what it would be like to learn,
work, and live aboard for weeks on the open ocean!
SEA
Semester study abroad programs offer voyages of discovery to Europe, the
Caribbean, Polynesia, and Oceania, combining the tall ship sailing experience
of a lifetime with coursework for Boston University credit.
This
is your last chance to see the ship until she returns from Europe in 2015, so
don’t miss it! Faculty & Admissions staff will be on board to give tours
and share information. All are welcome to attend!
When?
Sunday,
Sept. 29, 3pm-6pm
Tuesday,
Oct. 1, 12pm-3pm
Wednesday,
Oct. 2, 10am-2pm
Where?
Moakley
Federal Courthouse Dock
One
Courthouse Way, Boston, MA 02210
Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (MIPL) is a
non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a religious response to
climate change by helping congregations and the public lower their carbon
footprints. We are part of a national movement active in 40 states.
The Sustainability Intern will support our CARES project
(Congregations Acting to Renew Earth’s Sustainability) in Boston, Cambridge
& Somerville. The focus of CARES is to help individuals take energy
efficiency actions that are easy to do and will save them money. It
also addresses climate justice issues – the fact that existing programs do not
adequately serve lower income people and people of color.
The key tasks are outreach and advocacy.
Outreach is primarily to recruit members of
congregations to obtain no-cost home energy assessments. Some outreach will
be directed to inviting congregations to participate in CARES; and people to
learn hands-on energy efficiency skills at 4-hour Energy Upgrade Work events.
Participants will be invited to attend leadership training in a “values based”
model of community organizing.
Advocacy . The intern will help
low-income people obtain eligibility under the Weatherization Assistance
Program, and fuel assistance programs, and document any common obstacles to
eligibility.
Required: Self confidence; multicultural
sensitivity and strong verbal skills.
Preferred: Fluency in Spanish, Haitian
Creole, Korean or another foreign language; access to a car.
Please email resumes to Vince Maraventano at: vince@mipandl.org by September
20th.
Start date: October 1, 2013.
Cambridge Upper
Schools’ Walk/Ride Day Project
September 2013 -
June 2014
PROJECT MANAGER
INTERNSHIP
JOB DESCRIPTION
Overview of Project and Role: This year, the
Green Streets Initiative, a Cambridge-based organization, is rolling out an
exciting new pilot project in the Cambridge Public Schools, aimed to increase
use of sustainable transport in the Cambridge Upper (Middle) Schools. We
will be partnering on this project with the Cambridge Public Schools’
Sustainability Manager, the Cambridge Community Development Department’s
Sustainability Planner, the Cambridge Public Health Department’s Let’s Move
Coordinator.
Participating schools will survey students twice each month,
once on a non-Walk/Ride Day and again on Walk/Ride Day, to record how students
commute on “normal” days and again on Walk/Ride Days. On the day of the first
survey, students will also watch an educational video in homeroom about
sustainable and safe ways to commute in the city. To provide an incentive
to participate, classes and whole grades will compete against each other in an
intra-school competition for the most “green commutes” on Walk/Ride Day.
The class/grade with the highest performance will be rewarded with a pizza/ice
cream party.
Here’s where the Project Manager comes in. The Project
Manager will send reminders, post flyers and promotional materials, distribute
videos, and generally organize everything involved in promoting Walk/Ride Days
at two Cambridge Upper Schools. He/she will also collaborate with our partners
and others on special events on Walk/Ride Days.
Skills Required: The ideal Project Manager candidate
will be self-motivated, flexible, and interested in promoting the benefits of
car-free travel He or she will also be an excellent written and verbal
communicator, able to create flyers, analyze data, give presentations, speak or
write to the press, and collaborate with our partners.
Hours: Average of about six hours per week, varying
week to week, assuming that the Challenge will take place in one or two of
Cambridge’s four dedicated Upper (Middle) Schools.
Duties: Here is a typical month of weekly
duties (they will vary from depending on the month):
Week 1: Gather and analyze data from the previous month
Week 2: Distribute rewards, solicit feedback
Week 3: Prepare for next Walk/Ride Day, press and notices in
local papers, social media
Week 4: Remind teachers, post flyers and banners, send video
being watched in class to parents and teachers, remind parents.
Credit/Pay: Green Streets does not currently have
funding for this position. We are open to working with interns on a volunteer
basis, for credit, or with people who may have access to other sources of
funding.
To Apply: Send letter of interest in this project and
resume to Director, Jkatzchristy@gogreenstreets.org.
Green Streets Initiative, Cambridge, MA 02140
617-299-1872 info@gogreenstreets.org
Hi, my name is Claire, and I’m the assistant director of the
Telephone Outreach Project for the Fund for the Public Interest. Today, I am
looking to hire smart, hardworking students who want to make a difference in
the world. We work with many progressive non-profit organizations, but right
now our biggest campaign is with Environment Massachusetts, fighting to protect
the Cape Cod National Seashore.
For the last 50 years, the national park system has helped
protect the Cape Cod National Seashore. However, in recent years, Congress has
cut over 10% of the parks budget, and now House leaders want to cut even more.
So Environment Massachusetts is working to protect the
National Seashore by opposing these cuts.
We can stop further budget cuts if we get our senators to
stand up for the Cape. So we need to hire callers immediately to mobilize the
public and convince our senators that the National Seashore is worth fighting
for, and that’s why I’m here today.
We are looking for students eager to join us to save the
Cape, and work on some of the most progressive environmental and public
interest issues of the day. We are hiring for part time positions in the
evening, and you can earn up to $15/hr plus bonuses and benefits. To find out
all the details on how you can join us and make a difference, you can contact
me at cdowns@fundstaff.org, apply
online at fundforthepublicinterest.org, or call us at 617-292-4823.
Since 1989, the Antioch Education Abroad Brazilian
Ecosystems: The Protection and Management of Biodiversity program has
engaged students through in-depth field studies across a variety of biomes
in Brazil. This is a Fall Semester program, with a new Summer Term option (see
schedule here). All students explore the flora, fauna, and ecological
characteristics of the Amazon
Rainforest, Atlantic Coastal Forest, and coastal marine systems, and how
environmental factors contribute to species and habitat diversity. Students
enrolled in the full semester program continue their studies in Brazil to
include advanced studies of the impact of human activities on biodiversity and
ecosystem function, a Portuguese language intensive, and an Independent Field
Internship.
Unique program features:
1. Program is led by Antioch University professor Suzanne
Kolb, PhD, who is assisted by Brazilian professors, research scientists,
and activists, who provide local expertise on current environmental issues
facing each region.
2. Fall semester students engage in a month-long
field internship, working with a Brazilian scientist or NGO for
individualized hands-on experience in their field of interest.
3. Students explore multiple ecosystems, allowing them to
compare the ecological characteristics of each, and providing a broader
understanding of ecology in Brazil.
Curriculum: The Fall Semester program offers 4
courses for 16 semester credits - Introduction to Brazilian Ecosystems;
Ecology and Protective Management of Biodiversity in Brazil; Beginning,
Intermediate, or Advanced Portuguese; Field Internship. Summer
Term students enroll in Introduction to Brazilian Ecosystems for 4
semester credits. Click
here to view detailed course descriptions. If you would like to review
syllabi for the process of approving this program, please contact
us.
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.
Read
more about our internship program here. Interested candidates can
complete an online application here.
Monique Sullivan
Recruitment Director
Environment America
(202) 461-2448
Are you searching for an opportunity to put your studies in
environmental science or ecology to work in a field setting? The
Institute for Sustainable International Studies, ISIS, is offering ecology
field courses in Belize that offer you a chance to study in the tropical
English-speaking setting of Belize and gain valuable professional and personal
experience. Belize’s rich environment, cultures and biodiversity are the
labs for these courses. About 40% of the land and sea areas of Belize are
set aside in protected areas, parks or reserves to protect its diverse flora
and fauna.
One student summarized his experience by saying: “The
field trips were the best in the Marine Ecology class. Nothing like getting
outside and experiencing first hand and being able to converse with the
locals! I learned a lot about the environments and problems in Belize and
its culture and customs.”
For the syllabi and course itineraries, click on the links
below:
Our
two week winter session runs from December 26, 2013 to January 7, 2014,
including travel days. The cost, $2,995, includes one course,
accommodations, transportation to and from the airport, field trips and
excursions, breakfasts and one transcript for transferring credit.
Airfare is not included. Students receive three (3) credits from Sacred
Heart College. The application deadline for winter is October 1st.
Our 2014 summer sessions run in June and July. There are two week
and four week programs for $2,675 and $4,225. The application deadline is
March 1st for summer 2014. Application forms are available
on the ISIS website.
The
syllabus for each course is available on the ISIS website, www.isisbelize.com, or by clicking the link above. Cynthia Reece, creece@isisbelize.com, the Program Manager for ISIS, can
respond to questions related to housing, logistics, course costs, and other
details.
The MA DOER Internship Programs seeks to provide interns
with exciting opportunities to assist DOER with implementing energy policies in
areas such as renewables, energy efficiency, alternative transportation, energy
markets, and more. The program is open to undergraduate students,
graduate students, law school students, and other individuals who are seeking
experience in the energy arena.
For more information visit: http://www.mass.gov/eea/grants-and-tech-assistance/guidance-technical-assistance/agencies-and-divisions/doer/doer-intern-program.html
Green Corps is looking
for college graduates who are ready to take on the biggest environmental
challenges of our day.
In Green Corps’ year-long paid program, you’ll get intensive training in the skills you’ll 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 and many others — with groups such as Sierra Club and Food and 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 below or visit our web site: www.greencorps.org.
Apply online today at greencorps.org/apply
Green Corps
44 Winter St, 4th Fl
Boston, MA
02108
617 747 4302
Environment Massachusetts has a number of internship
opportunities posted on their website. For more information, please visit
http://environmentmassachusetts.org/page/jobs
or contact Alison Giest, Environment Massachusetts, New England Federal Field
Associate, at agiest@environmentmassachusetts.org
or 813-215-3604.
