Hello classmates! I hope that everyone has been having a great experience with their internship thus far. I have been certainly enjoying mine! I am interning with Global Green’s Coalition for Resource Recovery. Global Green is a branch of Green Cross International, which was founded by Mikael Gorbachov to address …
This summer I was the Arctic/Renewable Energy Intern at the Northern Alaska Environmental Center located in Fairbanks, Alaska. The Northern Alaska Environmental Center is a grassroots environmental organization that “promotes conservation of the environment and sustainable resource stewardship in Interior and Arctic Alaska through education and advocacy.” I’ve spent my …
Tuuma tuuma! This is the traditional greeting in Gurune (the language I’m learning here) for a person that is busy at work, be it farming, carrying a heavy load, etc. I also think that it’s appropriate for my wonderful classmates back home busy with thesis work. For those readers not …
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Although I have been in Oaxaca for almost two months, and coming into work at the office of the Institute for Nature and Society of Oaxaca (INSO) for over 7 weeks, it does not feel as though my internship really started until about 4 weeks ago. Things in Mexico move …
Hi Everyone! Hope you’re all enjoying your summers interning! I started my internship just under a month ago so it is time to start blogging! I am working at the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries (“the Beacon Institute” or “the Institute”) as an Independent Policy Intern. What that means …
Hello from the glorious state of Maine in the summer! I am currently interning at Maine State Housing Authority (MaineHousing) and serving as the Carbon Quantification Project Manager. MaineHousing is an independent state agency that bridges public and private housing finance, combining them to benefit Maine’s low and moderate-income people. …
This summer I’m spending under the midnight sun working at the Northern Alaska Environmental Center (www.northern.org). The center is proudly the “Northernmost conservation organization” in the United States, and works tirelessly to protect the wildlands of Interior Alaska and the Alaskan Arctic. Located in Fairbanks, AK, the Northern Center, as …
Grow Food Northampton (GFN) is a non-profit organization dedicated to “promoting food security by advancing sustainable agriculture in the Northampton, Massachusetts area.” GFN is a small and relatively new organization. They began with the goal of preserving for agricultural uses a specific parcel of farmland that was going to be …