Showing posts with label Pollution. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Apply Today to be a Part of Green Corps!


Early Winter Application Deadline January 22, 2013

Green Corps is looking for college graduates who are ready to take on the biggest environmental challenges of our day.

In Green Corps’ year-long paid program, you’ll get intensive training in the skills you’ll need to make a difference in the world. You’ll get hands-on experience fighting to solve urgent environmental problems — global warming, deforestation, water pollution, factory farming and many others — with groups such as Sierra Club and Food & Water Watch. And, when you graduate from Green Corps, we’ll help you find a career with one of the nation’s leading environmental and social change groups.

For more information, read below or visit our web site: http://www.greencorps.org/findoutmore.

In your year with Green Corps:

You’ll get great training with some of the most experienced organizers in the field: Green Corps organizers take part in trainings with leading figures in the environmental and social change movements: people such as Adam Ruben, political director of MoveOn.org, and Bill McKibben, author and founder of "350.org".

You’ll get amazing experience working on environmental issues across the country: Green Corps sends organizers to jumpstart campaigns for groups such as Rainforest Action Network and Environment America in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and dozens of other places in between.

You’ll have a real impact on some of the biggest environmental problems we’re facing today: Green Corps organizers have built the campaigns that helped keep the Arctic safe from drilling, that led to new laws that support clean, renewable energy, that convinced major corporations to stop dumping in our oceans and much, much more.

You’ll even get paid: Green Corps Organizers earn a salary of $23,750. Organizers also have a chance to opt into our health care program with a pre-tax monthly salary deferral. We offer paid sick days and holidays, two weeks paid vacation and a student loan repayment program for those who qualify.

And when you graduate from the program, you’ll be ready for what comes next: Green Corps will help connect you to environmental and progressive groups that are looking for full-time staff to build their organizations and help them create social change and protect our environment.

In the next few months, we‘ll invite 35 college graduates to join Green Corps in 2013 -2014. We’re looking for people who are serious about saving the planet, people who have taken initiative on their campus or community, and people who are willing to roll up their sleeves and work for change over the long haul.

If you think you’re one of those people, visit www.greencorps.org to apply to join the 2013-2014 class of Green Corps’ Field School for Environmental Organizing.

Green Corps’ year-long program begins in August 2013 with Introductory Classroom Training in Boston, and continues with field placements in multiple locations across the U.S. Candidates must be willing to relocate.

For more information, visit www.greencorps.org or contact Aaron Myran, Recruitment Director, at jobs@greencorps.org.

Monday, October 10, 2011

"Synthetic Sea, Synthetic Me" - Tuesday, October 11 at AU

American University's Center for Environmental Filmmaking and Anna Cummins: Synthetic Sea, Synthetic Me

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 7:00pm
American University, Mary Graydon Center, Wechsler Theater
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016
 
Our oceans are becoming trashed – with plastic waste. Anna Cummins and her husband Dr. Marcus Eriksen have spent the last five years deeply immersed in the topic, sailing across 25,000 miles of ocean, building an oceangoing raft from 15,000 plastic bottles, and co-founding The 5 Gyres Institute to research plastic at sea. Join Anna to learn about their findings, and to hear her suggestions for how to solve this growing environmental threat. For additional information, please contact Chris Palmer at 202-885-3408 and palmer@american.edu.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

China/Water/Energy events on 9/15 & 9/22

The Evolution of Sulfur Dioxide Pollution Control in China's Power Sector
Date: Wednesday, September 15th, 2010, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Speakers: Xuehua Zhang, Independent Energy and Environment Consultant; Jeremy Schreifels, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Location: 5th Floor Conference Room
RSVP with your name and affiliation: cef@wilsoncenter.org

2010 is the final year of what was one of China’s “greenest” five-year plan (FYP) periods. The 11th FYP contained considerably stricter standards for SO2 and other pollutants and aggressive energy intensity standards have been touted as key in shifting the country to a more low carbon development path. However, skies over Chinese cities are still smoggy, which raises valid questions as to the effectiveness of China’s air pollution control efforts. It is often too easy for outside assessments to blame the apparent poor air quality to lack of political commitment, limited action by Chinese local governments, low quality pollution control equipment, and untrustworthy data. At this September 15th CEF meetings our speaker— Jeremy Schreifels (U.S. EPA) and Xuehua Zhang (Independent Energy and Environment Consultant)-will dig into some of the complexities of pollution control efforts in China to help us understand some major progress in SO2 emission measurement and control in the power sector with thoughts on what led to this progress.

ChokePoint: US: Understanding the Tightening Conflict between Energy and Water in the Era of Climate Change
Date: Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Speakers: J. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue, Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue, Jeffrey Fulgham, GE

Location: 5th Floor Conference Room
RSVP with your name and affiliation: cef@wilsoncenter.org

On September 22nd, 2010, J. Carl Ganter, the director of Circle of Blue <http://www.circleofblue.com/> , Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue’s senior editor, and Jeffrey J. Fulgham, chief sustainability officer and ecomagination leader at General Electric will discuss the findings of Choke Point: U.S., an exploration into the fierce contest between the nation’s growing demand for energy, and the tightening supplies of fresh water. The presentation will also look into the development of a similar project, Choke Point: China.

In undertaking Choke Point: U.S., Circle of Blue set out to understand whether the transition to a low-carbon economy would produce a penalty or a dividend for freshwater consumption in the United States. Multi-media reporters were dispatched to the coalfields of southwest Virginia, the dry plains of South Dakota, the tar sands region of Alberta, Canada, the oilfields and solar generating deserts of southern California, and the biofuel production plants in the Midwest.

The facts and insights gathered by Circle of Blue also point to a new national narrative of resource urgency. Choke Point: U.S. makes a strong case that the United States quickly needs to reconsider and realign much of its energy production policy and water management practices in order to avoid dire shortages of water and potential shortfalls in energy. None of the big energy producers or large water use sectors will be left untouched.

CEF programming, publications, and other activities are currently funded by The Blue Moon Fund, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, USAID, Vermont Law School, Western Kentucky University, Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership, U.S. Department of State, World Resources Institute, and the ENVIRON Foundation.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Internships at Toyota

TWO INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE AT TOYOTA

Note: candidates MUST be fluent in Japanese and English. Applications close April 12.

Detailed internship fliers (in Japanese) are in the mail slot on my door: Hurst 206K.

Both Gov Affairs and Envi Affairs departments are looking for two summer interns.

Requirement Outline;

Candidates must have
-Outstanding language skills in both Japanese and English. (Native level Japanese writing and reading skills are essencial.)
-Basic Exel and Word skills.
-High communication ability with others.
-Academic majors in environment, science, or engineering are prefered but not required (Candidates for Environment Department Only.)

Duties:
- Daily check on status of climate change discussion in congress and government. Then analyze the policy and direction of the new administration and congress
- Searching th latest analysis (reports, papers) of traffic improvement for CO2 reduction
- Gathering and analyzing public data to reduce CO2 from transportation
- Making the periodical report(monthly)covering the above

Thank you!!


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Yutaka Oyabu
Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
Government & Industry Affairs
601 Thirteenth St., N.W., Suite 910 South
Washington, D.C. 20005
Tel: 202-463-6968, Fax: 202-822-0928
E-mail: Yutaka_Oyabu@tma.toyota.com

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Poverty and Water Quality Talks: March 11th and 15th, 2009

Politics and Prose:
PETER SINGER
Wednesday, March 11, 7 p.m.
THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE
(Random House, $22)
The philosopher and ethicist believes that we can end world poverty now, and he offers a seven-point plan for doing so, one built on a combination of personal philanthropy, local activism, and political awareness.


Newseum:
Inside Media: Our Water Quality
Guest: Hedrick Smith
Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009
Location: Documentary Theater, Concourse Level, 2:30 p.m.
How have 35 years of the Clean Water Act impacted our environment?
Join Emmy Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Hedrick Smith for a discussion about his new documentary "Poisoned Waters," a revealing look at the fragile condition of the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound.
Smith is also an Emmy Award-winning producer/correspondent, author of several best-selling books and creator of 20 award-winning PBS prime-time specials and miniseries.
"Inside Media," produced by the Newseum and held in the Knight TV Studio, is open to the public. Seating is on a space-available basis.