After seven months of interning at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in their New York City office, I left not only feeling confident that I obtained a new set of professional skills and connections, but also that I took my first step towards impacting state energy policy. The internship started …
The past few months have been quite exciting. Not only did I have have an amazing internship experience at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), but I was fortunate enough to be hired for a full-time position. The full-time position directly relates to work that I did …
Arriving Our group of Peace Corps (P.C.) Volunteers arrived in Cameroon on September 21st, 2012, coinciding with 50 years of P.C. partnership between the U.S. and Cameroon. Subsequently, our swearing-in ceremony as P.C. volunteers was an impressive event located in the “Palais de Congrès” in Yaoundé (the capital of the …
Potential for Green Technologies in Different Fields Posted on January 14, 2013 by Maggie Yayac As part of my master’s degree at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, I worked for Global Future Solutions (GFS) as an environmental consultant from June to November 2012. GFS researches green chemistry solutions for the oil and gas, bio-remediation, …
The past seven months at Group Mackenzie has truly been a great learning experience. The company has invested in profitable projects since the economic downturn, allowing me to accrue quite the repertoire of projects this year. At any given time during the past few months I have been working on …
After 7 months of interning at Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) in California, I have worked to organize and facilitate two dry-farming workshops, helped create a dry-farming program complete with webpages (it’s a work in progress, but check it out so far! www.caff.org/programs/dryfarm/), crafted a series of case studies, …
Interning at the NYC Parks Department left me with three take-home gifts: new connections, perspective, and an eco-friendly bag made of recyclable materials. To sum up what I learned from my five month internship would take me a while, but I’ll highlight what I found to be most important. Sharing …
Reposted from Science Progress: where science, technology, and policy meet A survey of beliefs about hydraulic fracturing for natural gas By Jordan Kincaid, MS’13, and Adam Briggle To take the survey of beliefs on fracking and technology beliefs, click here. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” for natural gas has become a lightning rod in …
http://scienceprogress.org/2012/12/technology-and-society-fracking-ideology/ As a follow up to the Science Progress article I co-authored with Dr. Adam Briggle earlier this July, we have written another short piece that again explains the subject of our study, Technology and Society: Fracking Ideology, and requests reader participation. You can find the article linked here and above. …
by LeAnne Harvey The Human Impacts Institute is a non-profit organization that uses creative approaches to bring environmental issues to the surface in communities. They motivate individuals, organizations, and communities to take action to mitigate climate change and promote sustainable lifestyles. Through experiential education, creative engagement, and collaborative partnerships they …