I recently finished a short stint interning with the Sierra Business Council in Truckee, California. With them I researched and wrote a series of advocacy white papers to help build support and form a coalition for an allocation from the proposed 2014 state water bond measures for upper watershed land …
This past week, Bard Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) first and second year students came together over dinner to both celebrate the start of a new semester and to take the opportunity to speak about a topic on everyone’s mind: the professional internship. For the second year students, having recently returned …
I remember it well. Sitting down in the classroom at Bard CEP on a crisp morning in the Winter of 2013 to a class that I found both enlightening yet simultaneously intimidating, Environmental Economics. It was the first lecture of the semester, and we were set to discuss Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES). …
MEETINGS, MEETINGS, MEETINGS…. After two months into the internship, I was already feeling comfortable in both formal and informal settings. Fall season at the World Health Organization (WHO) means a lot of meetings. I was asked to be a note-taker for the Human Biomointoring meeting and the Economics Symposium …
If you’re an active person, who cares deeply about an issue, chances are you’ve crossed paths with a non-profit, and if you’ve come in contact with a non-profit then you’ve experienced public outreach. In the 21st century of non-profit work there are multitudes of tactics used to connect with greater and …
This past summer and fall I had the pleasure of working for Save the Harbor/Save the Bay (STH/STB). STH/STB is an environmental education and policy advocacy non-profit located on Boston’s Fish Pier. During my time there, I – along with state legislators, community leaders, and Boston citizens – contributed to …
Can’t we all just get along? Let’s have both a tourist railroad and a fully accessible 38 mile trail. At first glance this sounds fantastic. Especially when compared to those trail nuts that want to rip up our historic rails and build ANOTHER trail. As always, however, the devil is …
The key lesson I learned during my internship is that public engagement with the government is realistic and necessary in environmental politics. For example, I learned that I am capable of getting a meeting with the head of the forestry department. I am welcomed to sit at the table. I …
After working as a Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) in Cameroon for over a year, I am now able to reflect on at least three main settings where I have engaged in group work. It is only through this type of work that I feel our job as rural development agents can be …
“So, how does the world work?” Each time I stepped into a lecture hall, classroom, or discussion circle, I hoped to be one step closer to answering this question. However, after graduation, I realized that I got the question all wrong. In fact, not only was it wrong, its was …
