Archive

Archive for October, 2011

Will a ‘secret Farm Bill’ be passed this week?

October 31st, 2011 admin No comments

by Twilight Greenaway.

Last week, we wrote about the likelihood
that the $300 billion 2012 Farm Bill would take shape weeks before 2012 even begins
, in the
form of a dashed-off bill swept into the larger “super committee”-driven deficit-cutting process. As this week starts, that troubling prognosis remains.

In fact, last week, several
congressional aides told agriculture trade publication Agweek that lawmakers planned to “work through the weekend
to try to complete a Farm Bill proposal for the super committee in charge of
deficit reduction by November 1.” In other words, by tomorrow.

This might explain why the food and farming advocacy site Food Democracy
Now sent out an email this morning with the subject line “24
hours to stop the Secret Farm Bill
.” The site asked subscribers to call a short list
of senators and congressmen and tell them to say “‘No’ to the Secret Farm Bill,” because “rushing this vital piece of legislation
behind closed doors is unfair and undemocratic.”

Sustainable food advocates have been struggling to adjust to this new reality. As the Institute for Agriculture and Trade
Policy (IATP) described it last week:

No
hearings, no amendments, no debate. Under this scenario, we may have very
little idea about what is in the Farm Bill until after it has passed … It’s
hard to overstate how messed up this is. We now have an environment where
highly paid lobbyists thrive and citizen’s voices, along with real reforms,
evaporate.

Oxfam American chimed in with a list of
reasons Occupy Wall Street supporters aren’t likely to appreciate this
rushed Farm Bill:

1. It was negotiated to satisfy high powered industry lobbies that pay lots of
money to influence the Ag Committee.

2. It’s a giveaway to big industrial farms at the expense of family farmers.

3. It promotes unhealthy, unsustainable farming practices at the expense of
sustainable farming.

4. It targets conservation and nutrition programs for cuts disproportionately.

The bill’s details remain unclear, but we know it will involve $23 billion in cuts. One Republican senator from Iowa went
on record last week saying
he believed the committee would cut $15 billion
from farm subsidies and $4 billion each from conservation and nutrition. Another
House conservative told
the press
that the cuts would “reduce farm subsidies about
20 percent and cut conservation spending about 10 percent. Nutrition programs,
including food stamps, would be cut about 1 percent.”

Advocates for
sustainable and local food movements have rushed out two bills of their own, to be included in the larger Farm Bill process. The Local and Regional Food Bill would bolster support
for family farms, and
“expand new farming opportunities and rural jobs, and invest in the local
agriculture economy.” The Beginning
Farmer Bill
would help new farmers get access to capital (the lack of which
is a well-known roadblock for beginning farmers) using microloans, matched
savings accounts, and similar strategies.

Whether these additions have a chance of passing, or are simply symbolic, remains to be seen. Meanwhile, California food,
farming, conservation, and environmental groups have
been lobbying hard
to have some say in the proposed Farm Bill. But the
state—whose agricultural industry is said to produce more
than 400 different crops, employ 800,000 people and generate annual revenues
of $37.5 billion—will most likely
continue to be left out of the
discussion. One reason is that California farms don’t produce the bulk of those commodity
crops—like corn, soy, and wheat—that farm bills tend to concentrate on. 

As a reporter in the San
Francisco Chronicle
wrote:

Currently, California
receives only about 5 percent of the money set aside for farm programs despite
producing 12 percent of the country’s total agricultural revenue. And with the
proposed cuts, the state could get even less.

Given Congress’s appetite for budget-cutting, there’s no guarantee that stopping this “secret Farm Bill” from being passed, as Food Democracy Now is advocating, would produce an outcome more favorable to the good food movement. In a short article about
the Farm Bill process
, veteran agriculture reporter Philip Brasher wrote
that jamming the Farm Bill into the super committee’s deficit-reduction work might even “insulate the farm legislation from further cuts.”

If this qualifies as insulation, we don’t want to think about what exposure might look like.

Related Links:

How to feed 7 billion of us without ruining the planet

Food Studies: From trimmings to terrine

Oh man alive you will not believe what’s in the McRib






View full post on Grist.org – the latest from Grist

Office Manager/ Executive Assistant

October 31st, 2011 admin No comments

GLOBAL GREEN USA.
CA – California, Santa Monica
Global Green USA is seeking a dynamic, full-time Office Manager/ Executive Assistant for their Santa Monica headquarters office. This is a newly created position to provide support to the Chief…

Salary: $37,000-$42,000. Date posted: 10/31/2011

View full post on Great Green Careers RSS Feed

Why small cities are poised for success in an oil-starved future

October 31st, 2011 admin No comments

by Scott Carlson.

Cross-posted from Urbanite.

A couple of years ago, while I was reporting on a redevelopment plan
in Buffalo, N.Y., I met up with Robert Shibley, an architecture
professor who had long been interested in a renaissance for his
once-great Rust Belt town. Buffalo, along with cities like Utica,
Syracuse, and Rochester, had the sort of wonderful, old architecture and
infrastructure you can find across upstate New York. We agreed that it
was a shame to watch these places crumble in abandonment.

But Shibley foresaw a glorious future. With ample freshwater
(including the nearby Great Lakes), rich agricultural land, and a cool
climate, upstate New York was well positioned in a hot, thirsty, and oil-starved future. It was almost a Manifest Destiny. “It is our ecological responsibility to grow here,” he said.

Catherine Tumber would have agreed. Her excellent new book, Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World,
finds potential in many busted and booming-again cities in the
Northeast and Midwest, cities like Flint, Mich.; Muncie, Ind.;
Peoria, Ill.; and Youngstown, Ohio. She could have swept south and
also included Hagerstown, Md.; York, Pa.; and maybe even Richmond,
Va.; and Greensboro, N.C., and still stuck to her thesis.
Even my hometown of Baltimore—which might be larger but has so far avoided unchecked
sprawl—may fit into Tumber’s vision. These places, she writes, are both
big enough and small enough to manage a coming societal transition, in
which people may have to live on constrained oil supplies and rely more
on local networks for food and other goods.

Tumber’s thinking goes against the grain of urban thinkers who
contend that cities will organize themselves into giant “megaregions,”
sprawling into one another, often along interstates. (In this future, my hometown would be one node in a megalopolis that includes New York,
Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.) Megaregion futurism has its
champions among pundits and policymakers: Richard Florida shuns smaller
cities in the hinterlands with his theory of the “creative
class”—society’s Alphas, who allegedly seek out cosmopolitan cities.
Barack Obama’s $50 billion high-speed rail plan—which, for hefty ticket
prices, would connect megaregions like Miami-Tampa, San Francisco-San
Diego, and the Northeast Corridor—likewise ignores smaller cities, which
would benefit from investment in regular old rail.

The megaregion concept is a product of globalization, which values
ruthless efficiency and specialization, with most of the benefits going
to elites. But Tumber believes that globalization is a historical
anomaly, not necessarily a new world order. “Globalization relies on
cheap, long-distance transportation and industrial food production, both
highly dependent on finite reserves of oil, whose bounty is already
belied by spiking fuel prices and mounting alarm about climate change,”
she writes. Or, as put by James Howard Kunstler, the peak-oil prophet
(whom Tumber cites here and there in her book): “The world is about to
become a larger place again.”

So how do these small cities, long derided as provincial and
irrelevant, prepare for the future that Tumber sees coming? She focuses
on several broad topics:
controlling sprawl and redeveloping the suburban fringe, developing
agriculture in and around the city, reviving small-scale manufacturing,
and redesigning economic networks and school systems. All of these
topics involve interlocking policy conundrums that may be more easily
navigated in small cities, where relationships are closer and
bureaucracy less entangling.

Two of Tumber’s six chapters are devoted to agriculture. And these
sections of the book represent much of the way Tumber dissects her
book’s topics: She makes an efficient survey of the history and current
thinking around urban and suburban agriculture, but she focuses on
places and colorful characters that illustrate the challenges, which
mainly lie in policy changes.

In this section, it’s Henry Brockman, who owns a 24-acre farm in
Illinois, 20 miles between Peoria and Normal. In what seems like a win
for the globalist view, he sells his sustainably cultivated produce way
up in the wealthy north-Chicago suburb of Evanston. Why doesn’t he sell
in Peoria? Although the demand is there, the markets there allow vendors
to buy vegetables wholesale and resell them, which drives away local
growers. Policy changes informed by consumer demand could fix this,
Tumber says. In fact, a relatively small number of farms like his could
feed all of Illinois. And someday, they may need to: Most domestically
produced food is shipped from California, but Tumber points out that 86
percent of California farmland is targeted for development—and it is
threatened by the trends of climate change.

Baltimore, where I live, already has a vibrant farmers market network, and a
number of groups are working on recultivating vacant parts of the city.
Perhaps the biggest challenges here are the school systems, the
reskilling of an industrial workforce, and the support of local
businesses. The good news on that front, Tumber argues, is that
localism, which started in the 1970s mainly as a countercultural
movement, now represents a broader group of people who see globalism’s
fragility and its attacks on small businesses.

Given the popularity of the Tea Party, which claims, at least, to
look out for the little guy, localism could expand its reach even
further. Tumber points to C. Wright Mills, a sociologist who, following
World War II, concluded that small- to medium-sized cities were the best
places for small-business entrepreneurs, and that because of that
culture, these places in turn supported a more democratic environment,
with people that supported civic enterprises like libraries and arts
institutions. (By contrast, the corporatist, globalist track supported
disinvestment.) The modern localist movement, Tumber writes, “is little
understood and well worth recovering,” as it “could appeal to both
liberals and conservatives during our own era of economic upheaval and
political crisis.”

Related Links:

Mexico City’s ‘earthscraper’ would be a 1,000-foot underground building

San Diego residents push for new urban agriculture rules

Putting the wilderness back in our cities






View full post on Grist.org – the latest from Grist

System Administrative Support Specialist / PETA Foundation / Los Angeles, CA

October 31st, 2011 admin No comments

PETA Foundation/Los Angeles, CA

Position Objective:

To provide administrative IT support for PETA and its affiliates

Primary Responsibilities and Duties:

• Install, configure, and maintain the PETA Foundation's IT systems and all related systems or software

• Analyze and resolve problems associated with server hardware and software and applications software, ensuring scalability and appropriate integration with other systems

• Build, configure, and upgrade Microsoft servers and devices

• Detect, diagnose, and report Microsoft operating system–related problems on both servers and desktop systems

• Support backup or recovery procedures

• Provide support to the network team in maintaining WAN and LAN infrastructure

• Provide problem resolution for all users with hardware, software, and applications problems

• Work independently with users to understand problems, define solutions, and carry out corrections with limited supervision

• Provide after-hours and weekend phone support

• Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor

Requirements:

• Associate's degree, IT support certification, or equivalent experience

• Minimum of four years of help-desk support experience

• Minimum of three years of server and desktop administration experience

• Proven experience in setting up, administering, and troubleshooting Windows workstations and servers as well as in supporting proprietary software and peripherals under a variety of operating systems

• Demonstrated extensive knowledge of and experience with troubleshooting all Microsoft Office products

• Proficiency with Windows and Macintosh platforms

• Proven familiarity with virtual private networks and basic WAN/LAN functionality

• Proven outstanding organizational skills and the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously

• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively by phone or in person

• Proven ability to take initiative and act independently to resolve problems

• Proven ability to maintain strict confidentiality at all times

• Willingness and ability to be on call during evening and weekend hours

• Ability to lift and carry up to 50 lbs.

• Willingness and ability to travel

• Must be at least 21 years of age and have a valid U.S. driver's license, a minimum of three years of driving experience, and a satisfactory driving record

• Commitment to the objectives of the organization

Apply To Job

View full post on GreenBiz Jobs

Ask Umbra: Can toxic pollutants escape from my body fat?

October 31st, 2011 admin No comments

by Ask Umbra.

Send your question to Umbra!

Q. Dear Umbra,

If I ever manage to lose these rolls and handles, will the toxic stuff I’m storing in my fat be released? Will I get sick in the process?

Theodora S.
Angel Fire, N.M.

A. Dearest Theodora,

Yours was the closest I could find to a Halloween question this year, what with the health concerns this overindulgent holiday brings. Plus: Scary topic! Boo!

Before I proceed, the usual disclosure: I am not a health professional, nor have I ever played one (or even been in the running to play one) on TV. Please take my advice with a grain of salt, as it were, and consult your doctor for questions particular to your body.

That said: Our body fat does indeed provide a handy storage place for toxic stuff, including the industrial chemicals foisted upon us by the “conveniences” of modern society. The nasties kicking up their feet in our fat can include dioxin, PCBs, DDT, and other persistent organic pollutants—they prefer to go by their jaunty nickname, POPs. When we lose the fat, our bodies must process and excrete these frat-boy compounds, which are now happily splashing around in our bloodstream.

If all goes according to plan, our bodies will do this efficiently and effectively. However, a couple of recent studies have raised concerns that, especially in cases of rapid weight loss, this POP invasion can make a person ill or ill-feeling. So what are we to do?

Dr. Duk-Hee Lee, lead researcher of one study, suggests that we try to not become overweight in the first place. Which perhaps is why Dr. Lee works in a lab and not with people.

Other experts, including the good folks at the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), say we can help limit the POPs entering our
system by eating wisely. Because POPs loiter in animal fats of all kinds, eating less meat and dairy and more vegetables will expose us to fewer of them. (Look, vegans! Another feather in your cous-cous cap!) Eating organic can also help; see PAN’s What’s On My Food database to get an idea of how many chemicals go into conventional products.

For those who are dieting, know that water and fiber are your friends when it comes to detoxification—and crash diets are not. As always, a balanced diet and exercise go a long way.

The bigger question, dear readers, is why our bodies and our food are full of poison to begin with. The answer is long and complex, involves terms like military-industrial complex, and should inspire rage. While there is now an international ban on many POPs, which have been linked to health issues including diabetes and cancer, some countries have been slow to come around, including the good ol’ US of A. And the longer it takes to ban these chemicals, the longer they’ll be with us; they’re called “persistent” for a reason. To learn more, visit US POPs Watch or the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families alliance.

Adiposely,
Umbra

Related Links:

Regular or unleaded? Are we willing to invest in healthier homes?

Farming with a smaller footprint: Why it matters

High BPA levels in pregnant moms may change their daughters’ behavior






View full post on Grist.org – the latest from Grist

Cool energy-storage projects popping up; expect a lot more

October 30th, 2011 admin No comments

by David Roberts.

Tracking the politics of clean energy can be a surreal and dispiriting experience. D.C. is so swamped in fossil-fuel money, fossil-fuel lobbyists, and fossil-fuel-owned pols that the conventional wisdom is absurdly pessimistic about clean energy: It’s unreliable, it costs too much, it can never work, blah blah.

Meanwhile, out in the real world, costs are plunging and the intermittency problem (insofar as it’s actually a problem and not a talking point of the fossil crew) is being solved.

There are two ways to solve it: one is connecting more renewables over a wide geographic area, which generally requires more transmission lines and grid upgrade (for intriguing news on that front, see here); the other is adding energy storage, so solar and wind plants can provide power even when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. That’s what today’s post is about.

I give you the Laurel Mountain wind farm, in West Virginia:

That’s 61 1.6-MW wind turbines, for a total of 98 MW. And here is the massive bank of lithium-ion batteries that the wind farm will be connected to:

That’s the world’s largest lithium-ion battery farm — 32 MW worth of storage, courtesy of A123 Systems. The AES power company just announced yesterday that the wind/storage power system is up and running in full commercial operation. All told, it will feed 260,000 MWh a year into the power market along the Eastern seaboard. (For details, check out the full story at Forbes.)

It won’t be the world’s largest for long, though. Some time late next year, Duke Energy will switch on a 36-MW battery storage system, the world’s (new) largest, attached to the company’s 153-MW Notrees Windpower Project in west Texas. The storage system will use the proprietary dry-cell battery technology of a very cool company called Xtreme Power. The systems contain both dry-cell batteries and sophisticated power control technology, so they not only store power, they enhance grid reliability. As the CEO explained it to me a few years back, the storage system basically presents itself to the grid like a highly dispatchable power plant.

The energy-storage industry is still in its infancy. Over 99 percent of the energy storage installed globally is made up of pumped hydro, whereby surplus power is used to pump water uphill and then the water flows down, turning turbines, when spare power is needed. That’s a solid, reliable way of doing things, but its efficiency isn’t that great and it faces some geographic limitations. Tons of new and alternative technologies are coming online as we speak, though: compressed air, flywheels, molten salt, and several different kinds of batteries, including the distributed batteries in electric vehicles.

Discussions on storage often end with, “for now it’s too expensive.” In most cases, that’s true, but it’s misleading to treat the affordability question as though it’s a binary switch, as though someday storage will flip from being too expensive to affordable. Right now, some forms of storage are cost-effective in some applications given some markets and regulations and some accounting methods. (See above!)

What will happen is, that small pool of affordable storage applications will grow larger, not only because the technology will advance but because accounting methods will change (full lifecycle cost accounting over extended time periods makes storage look a lot better), regulations will change, markets will change, and the engineering culture inside power utilities will change.

All this will happen, I predict, much faster than even the most optimistic projections now have it. Even as a kind of resigned fatalism-bordering-on-nihilism has gripped the political conversation, out in the world, clever people are doing ambitious, exciting things. Don’t let politics fool you: This is an amazing time to be involved in clean energy.

Related Links:

Wind turbine with Inspector Gadget arms makes twice the power

Big wind farms cost more than small ones

Critical List: Texas drought creating baby animal shortage; Keystone XL doc on Oscar shortlist






View full post on Grist.org – the latest from Grist

Field Manager / Conservation Services Group / Peoria, IL

October 30th, 2011 admin No comments

Conservation Services Group/Peoria, IL

For more than two decades, Conservation Services Group (CSG) has helped Americans make smart energy use decisions an important part of the way they live and work. CSG designs, develops, and delivers innovative, results-driven energy efficiency, energy conservation, sustainability, and renewable energy programs. We bring our experience, expertise, creativity, and commitment to our goals of using environmentally responsible approaches in helping business and home owners lower costs, increase comfort, and improve indoor air quality; and in championing the development and use of renewable, alternative energy.

People who work at CSG say that it's a unique kind of organization – one that nurtures individual talents and inspires dedication. We share a commitment to our work and our mission. CSG has a collegial atmosphere, where people respect and encourage each other to help the environment and change the way our country uses energy. How about you; do you see yourself as a part of our team?

Position is posted for Peoria IL; however, may be able to be field based within the Ameren IL service territory.

Responsibilities:

•Manages team of 12+ Energy Specialists, in the delivery of home energy assessments and air sealing to home owners. Ensures daily schedules are met and quality standards are maintained.
•Develops and monitors performance standards to ensure client goals and program requirements are met. Develop tracking tools and reports to monitor team activities, results and follow-up requirements. Prepare monthly management and client reports as needed. Manage budget for field team. Monitor, approve and reconcile expenses and time tracking.
•Develops individual goals for Energy Specialists and manage performance. Provides training and coaching to staff to ensure consistency in skills and service delivery.
•Ensure on-site reviews are conducted by QA staff to ensure quality and employee performance standards are met. Ensure documentation is completed on site reviews.
•Interface with account managers, client representatives, contractors and homeowners as program requires. Respond to complex inquiries and resolve problems. Provide exemplary service to all constituents, promote program and CSG.
•Stays current on latest Program initiatives, policies, procedures, etc. and proposing ideas for improvement. Develops advanced technical knowledge in energy efficiency and building science.
•Develop and foster strong business relationships to promote CSG, energy efficiency and program goals.

Qualifications:
•BS/BA or equivalent business experience
•BPI certification required, Building Analyst and Shell Specialist OR equivalent weatherization certification (BPI certification required within 6 months)
•7-10 years experience in residential construction, energy efficiency measures, and residential energy auditing.
•Previous management experience
•Strong customer service and client relationship management skills and enthusiasm for energy conservation. Ability to effectively communicate technical and program concepts to contractors, consumers, and other interested people or organizations.
•Strong organizational and project management skills
•Computer proficiency, experience with Windows-based office applications required. Familiarity with computerized building energy modeling software or other residential construction software

Salary Range: Commensurate with experience

Compensation package includes paid holidays, 80% paid medical, 50% paid dental, paid life & AD&D and paid STD & LTD insurance coverage, plus employer matching retirement plan

Please apply online at: http://jobs-csg.icims.com

CSG is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Apply To Job

View full post on GreenBiz Jobs

Regular or unleaded? Are we willing to invest in healthier homes?

October 30th, 2011 admin No comments

by Greg Hanscom.

Hey, have you heard? It’s Lead Poisoning Awareness Week!

Stop.
I know what you’re thinking.

“We don’t have a ribbon,” says Beth Bingham, communications
director for the national Coalition
to End Childhood Lead Poisoning
. “We get a lot of calls from people
wondering what color ribbon they should wear. Everyone else has a ribbon or a
bracelet, but we don’t.”

Well that takes the fun out of a festive occasion.

Ah well. Lead poisoning is ugly business, anyway — a little
lead in the blood, especially during childhood, is enough to turn your brain to
mush. Exhaust from leaded gasoline has been pinpointed as one of the causes
of inner-city violence
.

The good news? “Lead poisoning is tragic, nasty, awful –
and preventable,” says Ruth Ann Norton, the coalition’s executive director. And
a hell of a lot of it has been prevented in recent decades. The United Nations
announced this week that leaded gasoline has been all
but eradicated worldwide
, resulting in $2.4
trillion in health, social, and economic benefits each year.

The Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, started in 1986 by a group of parents whose kids were poisoned, targets another source of the stuff: lead paint,
which still lingers in millions of homes. In 2009, the coalition teamed up with
the White House and government agencies to create the Green and Healthy Homes Initiative,
weaving lead abatement and other health-related work into a $5 billion,
stimulus-funded program designed to weatherize homes.

The weatherization program was famously slow to get off the ground, but to
date 500,000 homes have been patched up. And in 17 pilot communities, Green and Healthy Homes crews have also gone after mold, pests, and other nasties that trigger asthma, which tops the
list of reasons kids miss school. The result, Norton says, is gobs of money
saved on health care, particularly for low-income families for whom the
emergency room often doubles as the doctor’s office.

“Spend $1,500 to $2,100 to eliminate lead, asthma triggers,
and trip-and-fall hazards from a home, and you skip the $50-70,000 a year we spend
on Medicaid” for a single sick kid, she says.

The program has worked brilliantly,
and other cities are lining up to take part; the coalition estimates that 38 million
houses still have serious lead problems. But the stimulus funding
will dry up in March, and Congress doesn’t seem inclined to dish out
any more billions for this kind of work. “Come March, it’s going to very
painful,” Norton says. “They will have to lay off 15,000 people nationwide.”

Hear that? It’s the sound of green jobs going down the
toilet.

Even so, Green and Healthy Homes will live on, fueled by a combination of government and philanthropic dollars. And Norton and her colleagues are looking for ways to expand their work. If only they could have just a teeny slice of the money that
currently goes to Medicaid. Another possibility is creating a tool that allows
the government to invest in cleanup today, and reap the savings tomorrow.

“For every dollar invested in lead poisoning prevention,
there’s a $200 or $300 return,” Norton says. The trouble is that those savings
don’t begin to show up for 7 or 8 years, when non-lead poisoned kids have
dramatically higher reading scores than their poisoned peers. In Washington,
that’s a long time to wait for measurable returns.

But the payoffs would continue far into the future: “Third
grade reading scores are what determine the need for jail cell beds,” Norton
says.

What’s the old saying about an ounce of prevention?

Correction: The original version of this story stated that
the funding for Green and Healthy Homes would dry up in March. Not true! The
stimulus money dries up in March (thus the 15,000 jobs lost) but Green and Healthy Homes
will soldier on with non-stimulus money from the government and foundations. The initiative will need to get
creative about its funding if it wants to make more than a small a dent in the
problem, however. Apologies for the error!

Related Links:

Why does ABC News hate electric cars?

Romney attacks green jobs, ignoring the 64,000 created in his state

High BPA levels in pregnant moms may change their daughters’ behavior






View full post on Grist.org – the latest from Grist

Power the economy and grid with local solar [Infographic]

October 30th, 2011 admin No comments

Graphic/Web Design Intern / Kind Media Foundation / Los Angeles, CA

October 30th, 2011 admin No comments

Kind Media Foundation/Los Angeles, CA

Kind Media Foundation strives to be the leading media non-profit organization to support and empower meaningful social projects.

Our primary goal is to contribute to the tremendous work involved in social activism by harnessing the power of media to increase a given NPO’s awareness and online presence, engage the community, thus driving donations. In order to accomplish this we produce affordable and high-end video, print, interactive and social media.

This is an ambitious goal and for that reason, we require equally ambitious team members passionate about creating a positive change in the world. We are a young organization seeking a graphic and web design intern to help us build the Kind Media Foundation.

Internship Details
- Interns will have the opportunity to work hands-on with the company leadership and
get involved in substantive projects.
- We are looking for interns to develop identity, print, and web materials, with a strong
understanding of web 2.0.

Qualifications
- Creative and organized with a passion for socially conscious media.
- You need to own your own computer and be proficient in Illustrator and Photoshop
(CSS knowledge is a plus)
- Comfortable working independently to meet group goals.
- Ability to complete projects on deadline with little supervision
- A positive attitude and ability to thrive in dynamic small business environments

Additional Details
Time Commitment: 16-20 hours a week for 3 months. Schedule is flexible.
Location: Virtual and available tower in Hollywood.
Remuneration: This is an unpaid position.

Apply To Job

View full post on GreenBiz Jobs

Incoming search terms for the article: