The following is a message from Chris Kubik, Associate Professor, Business Administration Department, Colby Sawyer College: Greetings Fair Trader! Do you have any interest in traveling to Nepal and experiencing Fair Trade in in action? Read on!! I’m writing today from Colby-Sawyer College – a fair trade college – where I am a business professor and faculty […]
Continue readingAASHE (good read/conferences/jobs) Second Nature (good watch): Sustainability Sit-Downs #11 is out. This week’s video features Wendell Brase, Administrative Vice Chancellor at University of California, Irvine, discussing discussing the true costs of inaction in the face of Climate Change. Sustainability Sit-Downs is a new Second Nature video series consisting of 12 short interviews with sustainability leaders in higher […]
Continue readingAASHE (good read/conferences/jobs) Second Nature (good watch): Sustainability Sit-Downs #11 is out. This week’s video features Wendell Brase, Administrative Vice Chancellor at University of California, Irvine, discussing discussing the true costs of inaction in the face of Climate Change. Sustainability Sit-Downs is a new Second Nature video series consisting of 12 short interviews with sustainability leaders in higher […]
Continue readingCourtesy of University of Vermont Food Systems Initiative: University of Vermont and Vermont Law School present 4th annual UVM Food Systems Summit All people deserve access to adequate, nutritious food. The complicated and provocative question for the fourth annual UVM Food Systems Summit on June 16-17 is how to provide this basic human right. Globally and in […]
Continue readingRe-post Courtesy of UVM Farmer Training Team: If this never-ending winter has you plotting your next moves in sustainable farming, you are in luck. The UVM Farmer Training Program has a few spots left for 2015! And some amazing new staff members for you to learn from. Apply now to join an incredible group of […]
Continue readingRe-post from Sara Gassman, Director of Member Support and Communications, Food Recovery Network: Fight campus food waste and community hunger! Food Recovery Network is seeking talented individuals for nine month, full-time, paid fellowships to help build, grow and maintain our movement throughout the 2015-2016 school year from our national headquarters in College Park, MD. Learn more […]
Continue readingRe-post from Katherine Sims, Executive Director, Green Mountain Farm-to-School, 194 Main Street, Suite 301, Newport, VT 05855: Green Mountain Farm-to-School, a nonprofit organization in northern Vermont, has two AmeriCorps openings: The Farm-to-School Coordinator will work with school staff to develop, implement and evaluate Farm to School program activities such as taste tests, farm field trips, nutrition education and more. […]
Continue readingRe-post from Keith Morris, Prospect Rock Permaculture: this Friday, April 3rd, 7:00 pm at the Roxy Theatre in Burlington on corner of So. Winooski and College Sts. INHABIT is a feature length documentary film about permaculture and ecological design – which features a few VT farms/ homesteads, among others from throughout the northeast and midwest. […]
Continue readingCourtesy of: Eugenia Manwelyan, Program Director, Eco Practicum: THIS SUMMER, GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY, BE INSPIRED, AND MAKE AN IMPACT Eco Practicum is seeking passionate applicants for the summer hands-on opportunity of a lifetime! Spend 2 or 4 weeks at a solar-powered environmental education center in the Catskills, two hours north of NYC, where you will: Practice a […]
Continue readingThe Betsy and Jesse Fink Foundation is bringing on two fellows to work on a variety of food waste related initiatives. One is full-time, based in Connecticut and will focus on efforts specific to Connecticut. The second is part-time, based in San Francisco and will provide support for a national study being developed that will […]
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