Monday, May 5th, 2008
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CES News
- Las Gaviotas
- CES Graduate Student Colloquium
Feature
- NNN
Internships & Opportunities
- NCSE
- Boehringer Ingelheim Career Fair
- Conservation International (CI) – Agribusiness/biofuels intern
- Beach Program
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Las Gaviotas: An Eco-Village to Reinvent the World
Tuesday 6th May 2008, lecture at 4:00pm and reception at 5:00pm
115 MacMillan Hall, 167 Thayer St.
The Center for Environmental Studies and the Environmental Change Initiative invite you to join us for a discussion with Paolo Lugari, founder of Las Gaviotas.
Las Gaviotas, founded by Paolo Lugari, is an eco-village with a twenty-three year track record of rainforest regeneration, developing more sustainable lives for the inhabitants of the Vichada region of Colombia.
In 1965, when Colombian activist Paulo Lugari was flying over the impoverished region, he mused that if people could live here they could live anywhere. The following year Lugari and a group of scientists, artists, agronomists and engineers took the 15-hour journey along a tortuous route from Bogotá to the Llanos Orientales (eastern plains) bordering Venezuela.
Today, their venture has grown to a village of 200 that generates its own energy from renewable sources and grows its own food. Inventions from Gaviotas designers—including windmills, high efficiency pumps and solar kettles—are not patented and have spread quickly to villages across the country. The pine forest they planted for income in the 80’s has become a nursery to over 200 native rainforest species and the community now sells voluntary carbon offsets, based on the carbon sequestered.
For more information, please visit The Marion Institute, Las Gaviotas at http://www.marioninstitute.org/
CES Grad Student Colloquium
Wednesday, May 7th, 3:00-6:00, UEL 106
Stormwater Utilities: National Analysis and Local Application, Laura Mulcahy
Modeling the Effect of Greenways on Water Quality in Watersheds: Case Studies from Rhode Island and Curitiba, Brazil, Jessica Hunter
Equal Opportunity Contamination? Soil toxicity in post-Katrina New Orleans, William Kern
Responses to Phthalate Exposure: Biological and Social Perspectives, Rachel Rogers
Thursday, May 8th, 3:00 – 5:00. UEL 106
Conservation Management Strategies of Ethanol Crop Production: A Brazil-US Comparison, Hazen Kazaks
Print media coverage of climate change: Why environmental organizations should care, and what they can do to effect greater coverage, Paran Quigley
The Potentials and Barriers Facing Demand-side Energy Efficiency Projects in Low-income Households under the Clean Development Mechanism, and the Way Forward, Nathaniel Manning
Friday, May 9th, 3:00 – 5:00, UEL 106
The impacts of exurban housing and past land use on avian species richness in Grafton Co, New Hampshire, William Yandik
Socio-demographic drivers of land-use change on non-industrial private forestland, Celia Reichel
Can Small Island Communities Harness Emerging Carbon Markets for Natural Resource Conservation?, Kemen Austin
Refreshments served during all sessions.
Feature_______________________
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Internships & Opportunities_______
Program Coordinator, University Membership and Development
The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) is seeking a Program Coordinator to support its strategic work in strengthening education and supporting the advancement of environmental programs on the nation's campuses. The Program coordinator will work on membership activities within NCSE's University Affiliate Program and support the development activities of the organization. The University Affiliate Program provides services to advance environmental programs at 150 member universities and colleges across the U.S.
For further information, please visit the NCSE’s website at:
http://ncseonline.org/01about/cms.cfm?id=1144
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Boehringer Ingelheim Career Fair
Presented by BioSpace.com
Thursday 8th May from 11:00am to 4:00pm
Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, MA
To pre-register, please visit:
http://careers.biospace.com/Jobs/Public/CareerReceptionDetails.aspx?RECEPTION_ID=150&source=548
You must pre-register in order to attend this event.
For this event, Boehringer Ingelheim is ONLY interviewing candidates with the following backgrounds:
· Immunology/Inflammatory Disease Research - Scientists with BS, MS, and PhD
· Medicinal Chemistry - Scientists and Principal Scientists with MS or PhD
· Cardiovascular Disease Research - Scientists and Principal Scientists with MS or PhD
· Translational Sciences - Director level with PhD experience in Systems Biology and/or Electronic Biology
· Biologics/Biomolecular Sciences - Scientists with BS or MS with experience in protein engineering
· Animal Resources - Facility Managers with BS and GLP experience
· Clinical Trial Support - Scientists with BS or MS degree in related field
At Boehringer Ingelheim, we realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in a number of ways to create a healthy working environment-meaningful work, diversity, mobility, networking and work-life balance. As part of that commitment, Boehringer Ingelheim conducts pre-employment background checks and drug screenings. Boehringer Ingelheim is an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V
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Conservation International (CI) – Agribusiness/biofuels intern
We are seeking an eager individual to provide programmatic support to the Business Practices unit of CI's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business (CELB). The position will require extensive research on environmental challenges posed by biofuels, with a particular focus on the soy industry in Brazil and the oil palm industry in Indonesia. CELB provides a forum for collaboration between the private sector and the environmental community. CELB's initiatives promote business practices that reduce industry's ecological footprint, contribute to conservation and create business benefits for participating companies.
The intern will research, analyze and report on biofuel market actors and sustainability initiatives and agronomic, economic considerations of producing biofuel crops on degraded lands, successful cases of protected area reserves within plantations and palm oil market and actors in China and India. The Intern must be a master's or undergraduate student who has completed coursework in business management and/or conservation science, natural resource management or biology
How to apply (e.g. fax, e-mail, or surface mail):
Send resume & cover letter to info@celb.org
Contact person:
Laura Johnston, Assistant Conservation Investments
Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business
2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500
Arlington, VA 22202
Main: 703-341-2400
Direct: 703.341.2490
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Beach Program Summer Internship 2008
Job Title: Beach Sampler
Department: Beach Monitoring Program
Location: Providence, RI
Pay/Hours: $9.00/hour, 35 Hours/Week
Position: (2) Full-Time Positions Available
Dates: Approximately May 19th – September 5th
The Rhode Island Department of Health Beach Monitoring Program is federally funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The Program is a public health agency that Licenses, monitors and regulates all bathing beaches for the State of Rhode Island. For the summer of 2008 the Program is seeking two college students who can fill the position of Beach Samplers. A Beach Sampler collects water samples at numerous bathing beaches and returns these samples to the State Laboratory for analysis.
For more information and to submit a resume and references, please contact:
Bonnie Blair, bonnie.blair@health.ri.gov
Amie Parris, ribeaches@health.ri.gov
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