Interested in volunteering with the Winooski Valley Park District on our 27th Annual Conservation Field Day coming up on May 22nd, 2013 at the Ethan Allen Homestead in Burlington. Each spring the WVPD hosts between 200-300 fifth grade students from area schools for a fun-filled day of conservation and environmental science related activities. We are looking for […]
Continue readingGreen Mountain Farm-to-School, a nonprofit organization in northern Vermont, is hiring for AmeriCorps Farm-to-School Coordinators: The Farm-to-School Coordinator will work with school staff to develop, implement, and evaluate Farm to School educational and program activities such as taste tests, farm field trips, school gardens, nutrition education and more. Start date: August 2013. Complete job descriptions are available […]
Continue readingAll events are FREE and at the Birds of Vermont Museum. Call or email if you have any questions. Thank you!
Opening Day
Wednesday, May 1
Museum returns to summer daily hours, 10a.m. – 4p.m. Please come visit!
Volunteer Work Day
Saturday, May 4 • 9a.m. – 1:00p.m. (you can stay later!)
Help us prepare the Museum for the 2013 open season! Do windows, clean nest boxes, spruce up trails, prepare handouts, input bird data, and much more. Something for everyone, and we feed you! Please let us know you’re coming.
Exhibit Opening: Breeding Bird Atlas: Science and Art
Monday, May 6 • Exhibit: All Day; Special presentation: 6:00p.m.
Roz Renfrew of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies opens our Breeding Bird Atlas: Science and Art exhibit with a discussion of the project. The exhibit opens with the Museum; the special discussion is in the evening. Join us!
Free, donations welcome • Adults & teens
Are you planning on staying in Burlington this summer? Do you have a job yet? If not you’re in luck! The Charlotte Berry Farm is looking for summer berry enthusiasts! Please check out their website at www.charlotteberryfarm.com for job application for summer jobs picking berries, farm labor and farmstand help.
The Race for What’s Left 4/11 7:00pm in the DC, Seminar, free and open to the public. Speaker: Michael T. Klare, on “Global Resource Wars, The Race for What’s Left” 7:00-8:00pm Thursday, April 11 Silver Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM With the world facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion — the desperate hunt for supplies […]
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The Greenpeace Semester: Do you care about the environment and want to learn skills to make a real difference? During the Greenpeace Semester, you’ll learn what it takes to protect the planet and gain career experience to become an environmental leader. The program combines intensive workshops, groups projects, and real experience working on important issues in different communities, working side-by-side with Greenpeace staff.
You will:
Read articles like, “Colby College Eliminates GHG Emissions, Declares Carbon Neutrality,” “Sodexo, Real Food Challenge Sign Food Transparency Agreement,” and more by clicking here!
Film screening: Chasing Ice Followed by discussion with James Balog, photographer and founder of The Extreme Ice Survey Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College, 7:00p, Free & open to the public In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the […]
Continue readingWhat: Digging the trees at the Burlington Community Tree Nursery. There are over 100 trees we need to dig up so they can be transplanted by the City Parks Department later this month. This is the most ever we have had to plant out. We really need help getting all these dug up! When: Monday, […]
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