What are you doing this summer? Do you want to get involved in stopping global warming and building healthier, safer communities? See below for summer opportunities from Energy Action Coalition member and ally organizations from Climate Summer: making global warming THE issue in the 2008 primaries to Mountain Justice Summer: fighting to end mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia to summer training camps around the US and Canada. If you’ve got more opportunities, please add them in the comments section below.
See you this summer!!
Ongoing Summer Internships & Opportunities
Climate Summer – May 25 – August 5 Application deadline Wed., March 28!
This summer we will awaken the conscience of our nation by calling for transformative change on the defining issues of our generation – global warming and a clean and just energy transition. The 2008 presidential nomination process in Iowa and New Hampshire provides a national platform to engage, shape, and elevate this vital public debate. The Sierra Student Coalition, the Sierra Club and partners from the Energy Action Coalition and the Carbon Coalition in Iowa and New Hampshire will do so by organizing statewide marches for change. Find out more and apply to join us at http://www.climatesummer.org/
Mountain Justice Summer
Join the movement to fight Mountaintop removal coal mining and protect the land and people of Appalachia this summer. There are volunteer opportunities in Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee from door-to-door listening projects to water testing, GIS mapping, distribution of materials and more! If you can’t come to Appalachia this summer, you can also support MJS from home.
http://www.mountainjusticesummer.org/intake.php
Campaign to Save the Environment
Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and make a difference on environmental issues? Do you want to stand up to the corporations that are compromising the integrity of our democracy? Apply for paid positions with the Campaign to Save the Environment today (http://www.jobsthatmatter.org/jtm.asp?id2=23293).
This summer, we are running campaign offices in 60 cities nationwide to raise money and recruit members for groups like the Sierra Club, Environmental Action, US PIRG, and the Human Rights Campaign. Change doesn’t just happen. It takes hard work from dedicated individuals to build grassroots organizations from the ground up.
Greenpeace internships in Washington DC and San Francisco
**to apply send resume, cover letter & writing sample to interns@wdc.greenpeace.org
Internships available with the Greenpeace actions team, Grassroots dept, Greenpeace Organizing Term, Global Warming, Forests, Oceans, or Toxics campaigns, web and comms team, and others. Many positions filled by April, but send your info anyway!
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/about/jobs/internship
Chesapeake Climate Action Network internships in Washington, DC
**to apply send resume, cover letter & (optional) writing sample to internships@chesapeakeclimate.org
Internships available with our National, State, and Campus programs. In your application please indicate your preferences.
http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org/pages/page.cfm?page_id=78
Summer Research Fellows – Sustainable Endowments Institute – June – August, 2007
To apply send resume and cover letter to mark@endowmentinstitute.org.
Paid Summer Research Fellow positions available at the Sustainable Endowments Institute office in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. Research Fellows will play a critical role in producing the 2008 College Sustainability Report Card.
http://www.endowmentinstitute.org/
Summer Trainings & Events
Chill Out: Campus Solutions to Global Warming – April 18
Join hundreds of other colleges and universities as you tune in and participate in this FREE, LIVE, and INTERACTIVE program broadcast from George Washington University! Register for this free broadcast at www.nwf.org/chillout.
Mountain Justice Summer Camp – May 20-27
Join the movement to fight Mountaintop removal coal mining and protect the land and people of Appalachia this summer. Come to the MJS Training Camp to learn about Mountaintop Removal, learn skills, meet others who will be participating in MJS from around the country, and have fun! Then stay and be part of Mountain Justice Summer volunteer opportunities in Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee from door-to-door listening projects to water testing, GIS mapping, distribution of materials and more!
http://www.mountainjusticesummer.org/intake.php
Greenpeace Organizing Term summer semester – applications due March 16, semester starts June 4
The Greenpeace Organizing Term is an action-packed semester of training and travel. Get the skills to protect the planet and get trained by the experts. You’ll learn grassroots organizing, leadership, media skills, and campaign strategy. You’ll climb, drive Greenpeace boats, and travel abroad to work with international activists. Apply online! Only a few spots are left for the Summer & Fall 2007 semesters and early applications deadline is approaching- February 28th. The semester is based in both the Washington D.C. and San Francisco Greenpeace offices. To contact program staff with questions, email got@wdc.greenpeace.org or call Diana Silbergeld at Greenpeace: 415-255-9221 x342. Summer semester starts June 4. http://www.greenpeace.org/got
Tar Sands Action Camp – June 3-8
The Action camp will be hosted by founders of Earth First!, The Ruckus Society, Rainforest Action Network, Destination Conservation and other seasoned direct action campaigners. This camp seeks to share skills, experiences and victories, build momentum and plans to take on the fossil fuel industries in Alberta, call for a clean energy future and build networks with a wide variety of people concerned with Alberta’s fossil gold rush to feed US consumption of fossil fuels!
http://www.aenweb.ca/node/1214
Change It 2007 – July 20-26
All expenses paid, including travel and housing, week-long skills training in Washington, DC. Accepted students will receive free travel to D.C. for training on campaign strategy, message development, lobbying, recruitment, and event planning. Students will travel offsite to participate in a campaign event and will emerge from the program with the skills and tools they need to become effective leaders in the environmental and social justice movements. Last year’s website: http://www.changeit06.org/ – 2007 site underway
http://www.changeit07.org/ will go live on April 10. For more info, write to changeit@wdc.greenpeace.org or call Charlie Fredrick at 202-319-2468.
Climate Summer South Carolina – August 1 – 5
We are at the very beginning stages of planning a big march in SC at the end of July hooking it into the NH and IA marches. This will be the biggest environmental march in SC history (if not the whole south). We’re going to paddle and march down the coast at the height of tourist season ending in Charleston with a huge environmental vigil! This is going to be awesome get involved (even if you don’t live in the south, we want you there!). If you are interested contact Courtney Fryxell at courtney_fryxell@lcvef.org or cfryxell@gmail.com or 202 454 4564
Energy Justice Summer-South – At the least June 20-25th
A week long training camp designed to build skills and leadership, and plug youth into anti-nuclear community organizing in the southeast. We also hope to bridge the gap between an aging generation of anti-nuclear activists and the youth of today. This is a collaboration between the Southern Energy Network, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and the Energy Justice Network. For more information, please see http://www.energyjustice.net/ejs and/or contact south[at]energyjustice.net.
Energy Justice Summer-Ohio – All summer long, concentrated in a more intensive skills and organizing camp at the end of June.
Come fight coal where coal needs fighting! Join Elisa Young and the Meigs Community Action Network in a community with the densest patch of proposed coal-fired power plants in the nation, a proposed power line, and an active coal-mining operation that is destroying people’s water and land. For more information, please see http://www.energyjustice.net/ejs and/or contact Matt – matt@energyjustice.net 215.743.4884
Bike Aid – June 11 — August 26
Join Global Exchange on their Pier to Peer Bike Aid Climate Justice trip this summer. We will traverse approximately 3,400 miles stretched over 12 states and two countries sharing with folks about how Global Warming impacts us all! $200 application fee, $4000 fundraising (sliding scale). Please see http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bikeaid/ for more information.
SSC Summer Programs (SPROGs)
June 18-24 New Hampshire
June 18-24 Iowa
June 18-24 Los Angeles, CA (preference given to local and/or minority youth, must be 18 or older for this program)
June 15-22 Washington
July 9-15 Virgina (in partnership with Chesapeake Climate Action Network)
July 16-22 Louisiana
July 23-29 New Mexico (preference given to local and/or minority youth, must be 18 or older for this program)
TBD Michigan
TBD Puerto Rico (native or fluent Spanish speakers only)
Join the Sierra Student Coalition for one of these Student Environmental Leadership Training Programs. Each week-long training session in organizing skills is led by the nation’s top student organizers. Learn to develop effective groups that can tackle serious environmental issues, and network with other activists to build your region’s student environmental movement. Then take what you’ve learned and put it to the test in your campus and community. Tuition is on a $150-$200 sliding scale, group discounts and scholarships available (NM and CA programs are free) http://www.ssc.org/sprog or contact jon@ssc.org 202.548.4592
Convergences for Climate Action!
Join Rising Tide North America and other groups as we bring together hundreds of activists working on climate change, energy, and related issues for simultaneous bi-coastal convergences for climate action this summer! The events will include workshops, strategy sessions and a post-gathering action. These convergences will be taking place in August 14th to 21st, and will be in conjunction with the UK Camp for Climate Action. Stay tuned to www.RisingTideNorthAmerica.org for more information: currently events are planned for Oregon and Southern Appalachia, and a northeast convergence may be in the works as well! The gathering will be located in an area that is being heavily impacted by the fossil fuel industry and planed in collaboration with the local activists campaigning against the developments. Contact us anytime at convergence@risingtidenorthamerica.org if you want to get involved!
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Energy Justice Summer-Florida – Late June/Early July
A week long training camp designed to for grassroots activism, mobilization of communities, a forum for opening communication between students and directly affected communities. The main focus of the training will be on addressing and fighting proposed Coal fired Power Plants in Florida in Glades(1960MW) and/or Taylor (800MW) counties.
For more info contact Jason@climateaction.net
Friday was the first round application deadline for the SSC’s AMAZING Climate Summer WV-OH Program, but don’t fret, you can still apply!
Its going to be 6-weeks of intense training, community solidarity work, service work and organizing. We’ll be in West Virginia helping organize a mountain top removal fly over with the President of the Sierra Club and another prominent figure and 3 weeks in Meigs County, OH supporting Elisa Young and the Meigs Community Action Network fight the proposed power plants, mining and sludge impoundments in their community. We’ll be doing canvassing, training and working on Elisa’s farm as well as coordinating with other Mountain Justice Summer programs and some of the most inspiring community leaders and organizers in Appalachia.
Because this is such an incredible opportunity (and I’ll be in Michigan all weekend), we’re extending the first round deadline to Tuesday April 3. Its crucial for the success of the program that everyone who is currently interested apply by this first round deadline so we can set up our leadership team and begin some of the planning for this event. Its important to us that you all have a say in what the program looks like, so the sooner you engage, the better it will be.
During the 6-weeks we will cover all of your housing, food and transportation expenses as well as the occasional movie and other fun stuff. We’ll kick off the program at the Mountain Justice Summer training in Knoxville, TN May 20-27 and then travel to Charleston and Meigs to help out community groups, learn about the true costs of coal and develop our skills as organizers and trainers.
Please go ahead and apply even if you’re not certain about your availability, just note that on the application.
Here’s the link with more info and the application, so check it out and be sure to pass it on to others in your group: http://www.ssc.org/climate/climatesummer.php
Let me know if you have any questions and please be sure to pass this opportunity on to anyone you know who would be interested!
Thanks,
Kim
–contact Kim at: kim [at] ssc.org
PS. Once you’ve been accepted into the program, you will be expected to participate in 3-5 1-hour long conference calls in April and May leading up to the program. Part of the program also requires you to commit to leading trainings based on your experiences once you return to your home areas throughout the coming year. There will be extensive training for trainers to prepare you for this. Also, you will be invited to the SSC’s National Grassroots Leadership Gathering ( a.k.a. Shindig) in New Hampshire August 6-12 (an amazing space to meet and plan with other student leaders from around the country)!
PPS. I know about student schedules, so if you’re interested but have trouble with the Monday deadline, please just let me know so we can work something out.