This summer and fall I am interning at a non-profit called Save the Harbor/Save the Bay. I did not know it when I first started, but after a month of being here, I realized that this is a great environment for me. Save the Harbor/Save the Bay is an extremely …
The legend of the Gordian Knot is often used as a metaphor to describe an how an intractable problem can be solved by thinking “outside the box.” After my first month at the Sierra Nevada Alliance (Alliance), I realized that it will take some unconventional thinking to address environmental issues …
Pic taken after field work in Post, OR Being in central Oregon means being in the high desert, so there is not much rain, and most of it falls during the winter season. Additionally, wildfires pose a large threat to the area. The watershed relies on winter snowpack that turns …
No, I’m not talking about the slow, and somewhat creepy, boat ride at Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom. I use this phrase as a way of describing several of my experiences in the first month of my internship at Environment Northeast (ENE). ENE is a non-profit organization that is actively involved in …
Every year, the C2C Fellows Network sponsors a graduate from our first-round sustainability leadership workshops to attend StartingBloc’s Institute for Social Innovation in NYC. This 5-day experience promises to be “transformative…during which emerging global leaders learn to increase their impact, exponentially”. The Institute focuses on social entrepreneurship – the idea …
I work for the North Coast State Forest Coalition, out of the Oregon Chapter Sierra Club Office in Portland, Oregon In 2011, the Oregon Department of Forestry revised the State Forest Management Plan to include an increase in clear-cut targets and less old growth conservation plans. Soon thereafter, the North …
The tides of change are upon us. Nowhere is this more apparent than the actual changing tides that are starting to inundate U.S. states like Florida, threaten the safety of New Yorkers, and eat up the coastlines of states like Texas, Louisiana, and California. Although often mentioned, the impacts of …
Just four weeks into my internship with the Woodstock Land Conservancy (WLC) and I am going to have to rewrite my resume if I don’t want it to be 5 pages long. I am working with a WLC project, the Friends of the Catskill Mountain Rail Trai (FoCMRT- yes, we are …
After 9 months in the US, I was itching to get back to Mexico. Don’t get me wrong; I love the US for things that Mexico is not. But I am a Mexican, through and through. My parents come from Guadalajara, Mexico but moved over to Australia in the early …
By Serena McIntosh, CEP ‘14 Today is my one month anniversary as an intern with the NYC Department of Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Water Supply (DEP BWS). I am interning in the Working Lands Section, which is basically the section responsible for monitoring, implementing and overseeing a number of watershed …
