Internship Description Bright Blue EcoMedia March 2015 Site Description Bear Roots farm is a year-round, certified-organic, vegetable farm located in South Barre, Vermont. Bear Roots has teamed with Bright Blue EcoMedia to create educational programs that document and support their transition from a classic VT Dairy Farm to a diversified regenerative ecologically based farm. […]
Continue readingSummer job opportunities Looking for a job in Burlington? Join VPIRG’s summer outreach team! —- Make $4,000-$8,000 over the summer —- —- Travel across beautiful Vermont —- —- Build grassroots support for global warming solutions — APPLY ONLINE: www.vpirg.org/canvassjob CONTACT: students@vpirg.org or (802) 595- 2826 for more information.
The Community Sailing Center (CSC), right here in Burlington, will host an intern for the summer (May to July/August). The intern will be a primary person with whom students and community partners have first-hand contact at the CSC. Therefore, the intern must be friendly, courteous, and knowledgeable of the rules, regulations, and operations of the […]
Continue readingThe following is a job posting for ECHO: Position Title: Voices for the Lake (VFL) Project Manager Reports To: ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain (ECHO), which serves as the “backbone” organization for the project, conducted in partnership with the Center for Earth Ministry, All Souls Interfaith Gathering (CEM). FLSA Status: Exempt Position Length: Two year, grant funded […]
Continue readingSustainable Nantucket is seeking apprentices to participate in our Agricultural Apprenticeship program on Nantucket Island, off the coast of Massachusetts. Successful candidates will be paired with an island grower, or with the Farm to School Program, based on the interests and skill set of the apprentice. Apprentices will experience and participate in many aspects of small-scale farming in our sensitive island environment, from greenhouse cultivation to field planting & harvest to farm stand sales. Weekly educational apprentice meetings will be held and will include readings, discussion, field visits and hands-on application. They will participate in the Sustainable Nantucket Farmers & Artisans Market on behalf of the farms, and possibly in restaurant delivery. Apprentices will also meet once a week as a group for 2 hours on an educational project, including readings, discussion, field visits and hands-on application.
Duration of Internship: June 1 – October 10, 2015
Application Deadline:March 31, 2015
Location: Chittenden County, Vermont. Duration: May 10 – July 10. Deadline: March 15 2015 Description: Seeking 3-‐4 research technicians to assist in a study of native bee pollination of blueberry crops in Vermont. Duties include: sampling pollinator abundance, collecting bee specimens, conducting vegetation surveys, performing pollination experiments, and specimen processing and curation. Technicians will gain […]
Continue readingCheck out the latest from some awesome sustainability-related organizations around the web: AASHE (good reads/jobs/conferences) Second Nature (good watch): Sustainability Sit-Downs #6 is out. This week’s video features M. Lee Pelton, President of Emerson College, discussing higher education’s role in making a sustainability society. Sustainability Sit-Downs is a new Second Nature video series consisting of 12 short interviews […]
Continue readingCommunity Outreach Coordinator Green Mountain Farm-to-School, a nonprofit organization in northern Vermont seeks a dynamic, mission-driven local-food systems professional with strong project management and communication skills to manage our community focused programs and increase access to healthy local foods in the community. Complete job description available here. To apply, submit a resume and cover letter to jobs@gmfts.org. No […]
Continue readingThe following is a blog posting from Saint Michael’s College: Project Manager-VT EPSCoR Center for Workforce Development & Diversity About Saint Michael’s College: Saint Michael’s College delivers a compelling, world-class education in a beautiful Vermont setting. Our connected community allows students to form close relationships with each other and accomplished faculty members, providing an ideal […]
Continue readingThe following is an internship posting from the National Center for Science Education: Science Education and Activism Interns The National Center for Science Education is seeking one part-time and one-full time summer interns to work on science education activism, with a particular focus on climate change education. These are temporary positions based in Oakland, CA. […]
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