My internship with Grow Food Northampton (GFN) involved working on numerous and varied projects, ranging from food access, community outreach, an agricultural economics report, a local foods assessment survey, and a community garden committee. I felt that my work at GFN often related closely to my first year studies at …
Between scheduling appointments with relevant stakeholders such as local officials and NGOs, independently collecting, processing, and presenting information to my colleagues across the Atlantic, and traveling around a 120 KM region to complete these daily tasks, my internship became quite a handful. To top all of this off, the mission …
My internship at the EPA was an incredible learning experience. I was a law clerk in the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), Office of International Affairs. OECA handles enforcement of all environmental laws, especially the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The EPA’s website details the facets of OECA’s …
Happy new year! In my first blog post about my internship I said I was amazed how fast a month had already passed. Six months and many, many cartons of animal crackers later, it only feels like a few days have passed. While the original intent of my internship did …
It is hard to believe that my internship with Global Green Coalition for Resource Recovery is complete! The Coalition for Resource Recovery (CoRR) is an industry-working group working to find ways to recover the value of waste that make sense in the corporate framework and is replicable and scalable throughout …
One thing I was particularly glad of during my internship was our class discussions regarding cost-benefit analyses, since the policy world is abuzz with the term at the moment. However, I began to think hard about a dimension of CBA that had not been discussed at CEP—the timeline of the …
Working in Mexico, while at times frustrating, carried with it a sense of fulfillment that I don’t believe I could have obtained working at a similar position within the states. Relating to both language and culture, I was confronted everyday with issues that I had never encountered before. Throughout the …
This November I found myself in Vietnam to travel and visit an old friend who happens to be an environmental engineer working on bio-energy projects in developing countries. While I was in town Emily had plans to attend a conference about Asia’s bio-energy production and I decided to tag along …
During the internship period, I learned a lot both from my instructors and my life in Europe. The semi-instructor that my professor assigned me was helpful in academic research. She showed me several pathways to work on papers and pointed out several of my research habits that need modification. For …
My work at the Landscape Institute of University of Freiburg was mainly doing research in relation to Germany and the UK’s renewable energy projects at the community level. My obligation was to contribute my research on renewable energy communities to the research team, and was I expected to turn in …
