In line with your Climate Challenge goals, Eco Hatchery provides environementally conscious organizations with a free, ready-to-go fundraising initiative that is ideal for non-profit organizations/sustainability committees. You can offer students, neighbors, family and friends a chance to help prevent global warming while they contribute to your organization at the same time. The Eco Starter Kit helps a typical homeowner reduce their annual utility bill by about $260 and cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2.5 tons per year. The emissions reductions are equivalent to replacing a mid-size sedan with a Prius hybrid! For every Eco Starter Kit sold through your organization, Eco Hatchery will contribute $10 of the Kit's price back to your organization. You can also monitor your group's progress online, using the Carbon Calculator that aggregates your group's footprint and tracks energy savings. Flyer attached.
Jobs/Opportunities
Fundraising with green mission
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In line with your Climate Challenge goals, Eco Hatchery provides environementally conscious organizations with a free, ready-to-go fundraising initiative that is ideal for non-profit organizations/sustainability committees. You can offer students, neighbors, family and friends a chance to help prevent global warming while they contribute to your organization at the same time. The Eco Starter Kit helps a typical homeowner reduce their annual utility bill by about $260 and cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2.5 tons per year. The emissions reductions are equivalent to replacing a mid-size sedan with a Prius hybrid! For every Eco Starter Kit sold through your organization, Eco Hatchery will contribute $10 of the Kit's price back to your organization. You can also monitor your group's progress online, using the Carbon Calculator that aggregates your group's footprint and tracks energy savings. Flyer attached.
Green Earth Corps
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How does the green earth corps work? Join the corps at one of the three levels listed below. You will need to make a small investment. Your fee-for-service will recover your costs in days or weeks, depending on the number of energy audits your perform . . . and the consumer will recover their costs in a matter of a few months.
LEVEL #1, METER CORPS:
Membership includes a Kill-a-Watt meter to identify and measure standby power consumption in 110/120 volt common household appliances;Additional Levels are Audit Corps and Leader Corps, please email me for specifics.
www.solarquest.us
BioTour on the Campaign Trail: bus crews and office staff
BioTour crew members operate as part of a team that travels across the United States in a vegetable oil-powered bus delivering presentations/demonstrations, coodinating with partners for events, and engaging a variety of communities on the issues of sustainability and democracy. BioTour is searching for a diverse crew with wide-ranging skills and talents including: education, public speaking, auto-mechanics, photography, web design, marketing, musical and artistic skills etc. While education and outreach are central to the BioTour program, BioTour is also looking for individuals with the attitude, skills and passion that can inspire a movement.
www.biotour.org
Future5000.com - A National Directory of Progressive Youth Organizations
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Future 5000 is like a MySpace and Yellow Pages of the progressive youth movement. With a searchable directory of over 600 clubs, projects, organizations, and businesses all over the country, Future 5000 is like the virtual backbone of the youth movement.
Use it to see who else is doing work like yours, and then share resources and make alliances.
There are so many groups doing positive work all over the country, but often in isolation and under-resourced. By connecting our work we can be a more powerful force for change. Add your organization for free today - our goal is to reach 5000.Future5000.com
http://future5000.com
Student Conservation Assocation's EarthVision Summit
EarthVision will convene the best and the brightest of young conservation leaders along with government agency directors, elected officials, corporate executives, scientists, media personalities and others to craft citizen-driven solutions to today’s environmental challenges. April 24-27, 2008
www.thesca.org
Climate Counts
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Climate Counts is a non-profit campaign that scores companies annually on the basis of their voluntary action to reverse climate change. The new Climate Counts Company Scorecard -- launched in June 2007 and available as a handy pocket guide and via a mobile phone activism program called Climate Counts On-The-Go -- helps people make climate-conscious purchasing and investing choices and encourages them to urge the world's most well-known companies to take the issue of climate change seriously.
http://www.climatecounts.org
Apply for the Climate Justice Corps!
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Send your completed application to ejccdirector@gmail.com by May 29th, 2007.
The Climate Justice Corps Fellowship Program
A subset of the Climate Justice Corps (CJC) Institute, the CJC Fellowship Program is a project of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC). It is a campaign to provide leadership development for young activists, organizers, and researchers from disproportionately affected communities and to invigorate a new constituency for climate action. CJC Fellows comprise a group of young activists and researchers who are chosen by and housed at different EJCC member organizations and affiliates during the summer. Fellows come together at the beginning of their residency for an intensive training in organizing, communications, and the health and environmental dimensions of climate justice issues. They then spend the next ten weeks learning from and working with their host organizations. Due to the start date of the internship, if students must return to campus, we will work with you to either complete your final weeks in your school state or plug into programming on your campuses. Once in the field, Fellows will, depending on the needs of their host organizations, develop strategies for grassroots actions and media events, write issue and policy briefs on key local dimensions of climate and health problems, and support existing organizing. In the year after their placement, CJC Fellows are also required to organize one direct action centered on climate justice either on their college campus or within their community.
CJC Fellows receive a taxable stipend of $2500 (about $1000 per month), travel to and from their training and host site, and a materials stipend.
Eligibility and Qualifications
CJC Fellows must be between ages 18 to 28. Applicants under the age of 18 will be considered if: 1) they have graduated high school in the spring before their internship, 2) they will turn 18 during the summer of their internship, 3) they will work in their home community with an organization with which they have a previous relationship. Although it is not a requirement, strong applicants will have experience working in communities of color and in either organizing or relevant environmental or social justice-oriented academic research. The ideal candidate will be able to quickly orient themselves to the field of climate justice and be both strategic and creative in their approach to climate justice work. Because of the leadership component of this program, applicants will be expected to demonstrate strong potential for leadership on environmental justice and climate change issues in the future.
For more information about the EJCC, CJC Fellows, or Climate Justice,
please visit our website at www.ejcc.org
Send your completed application to ejccdirector@gmail.com by May 29th, 2007.
