Denver Food Rescue Internships

Are you looking for internship credit or volunteer time with great flexibility with a wide range of skill sets to explore in a laid back yet extremely productive environment?  Look no further!  Denver Food Rescue is a 501 c 3 nonprofit focused on reducing food waste, hunger, and increasing health equity by the redistribution of surplus produce from grocery stores to organizations that work with low-income communities that often lack access to healthy food.  They have a team of 15 weekly volunteers who deliver donated food via bicycle cargo trailers to nonprofits around the city.  

They are looking for passionate, communicative, organized, career oriented, and self-directed interns to help their small staff. Internships will vary from 5-20 hours per week.

See the opportunities below and please briefly answer the following question:  Why are you interested in Denver Food Rescue?  What will you bring to DFR?  What would you like to get from this experience?  Please attach a resume. Position open until filled.  Send to [email protected]

Community Outreach and Fundraising Intern:  Find, create, and nurture relationships with like-minded organizations, events, and businesses in order to expand DFR's impact.  Responsibilities include: Educate the community on DFR's mission and programming via event tabling and public speaking opportunities; connect with events that will supply new potential donors and stakeholders; discover fundraising opportunities both locally and online; create fundraising events.  Skills: public speaking, research, networking, event planning, and fundraising experience.
 
Marketing / Media / Communications Intern: Take on a leadership role in DFR's digital discourse.  Responsibilities include: Design promotional materials (logos, handbills, posters, graphics); write and design monthly newsletters; assist with social media communications; maintain website copy and community events calendar; create marketing campaigns and media content (with community outreach intern).  Skills:verbal and written communication, social media platforms, photography, design and website software.
 
Volunteer Outreach and Management Intern:  Help our volunteer based organization to maintain a happy volunteer crew. Responsibilities include: Assist volunteer coordinator with volunteer acquisition and retention; work with community outreach intern to create volunteer acquisition campaigns; train new volunteers; be available as a substitute for food pick up shifts; manage software  to track volunteers, shifts, and rescued food statistics; maintain bike trailer locations at rescue sites and make needed repairs.  Skills: urban cycling and bicycle repair, volunteer leadership, interpersonal communication, creative schedule management, and volunteer outreach.

New Donor and Recipient Intern:  Make Denver's food system more just and less wasteful. Responsibilities include: assist Denver Food Rescue director with appropriating new food donor resources and maintaining positive relationships with existing donors; create tools for DFR staff to increase efficiency.  Skills: Vibrant professional communication, email savvy, resourceful, program management, sales experience, systems thinker, and ability to connect non-obvious dots.  

Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research on Western
Public Lands-Applications Due October 1, 2014 at 5pm 

Announcing a new fellowship program to support undergraduate interdisciplinary research projects on western public lands. Climate change, population growth, land use change and intensification of natural resource extraction are important drivers that will influence the resilience of western public lands today and into the future. Addressing these complex management issues requires an interdisciplinary approach to these problems.

Fellowships will be awarded to 3 undergraduate students to conduct honors thesis projects on western public lands issues. Projects that are grounded in science, regulatory processes and land management policy and planning issues will be considered for funding. Undergraduates will be mentored by CU faculty with encouragement to seek out collaborations with industry and government agency experts in the fields of cultural and natural resource management.

Eligibility: Must be an undergraduate with a minimum GPA of 3.3. Preference will be given to students from the departments of Anthropology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Studies, Geography or Geology who have a demonstrated interest in cultural or natural resource management or ecosystem management. All research must be presented in an undergraduate honors thesis within a CU department. The selection committee will seek to choose students across a range of majors and disciplines. Undergraduate fellows will receive $3,000 each to conduct their research project. An additional amount (~$1000) will be awarded to send the fellows to a professional conference to present their findings.

Requirements: Research by the fellows will begin in the spring 2015 semester with the honors thesis defense scheduled for Fall 2015 or Spring 2016. Fellows will be required to meet regularly not only with their departmental thesis advisor but also with the other research fellows to enhance opportunities for collaborative and synergistic research.

Application: Please send the materials listed below to Nichole Barger at [email protected]. In the subject heading write "Western Public Lands Research - [your last name]"

1.  Curriculum vitae (CV) with expected graduation date

2.  Unofficial transcript

3.  One letter of recommendation

Summit to career success with the CU Buffs Professional Program!  Whether you're still exploring career options, or searching for internships or full-time jobs, this program has resources just for you.  Work at your own pace to explore 

CU-Boulder majors and connect the dots to your career.  Then find out what employers want, and seek out internships and jobs in areas of interest.  Completing the program makes your application stand out and lets employers know you have the skills and talent to be a CU Buffs Professional!   

More Information  

CU Buffs Professional Program Video 

SORCE and the Environmental Center are pleased to launch an innovative new student training in Fall 2014.  The Eco-Social Justice Leadership Program empowers student learning with the knowledge and skills to advance sustainability and social justice efforts.  The purpose of this program is to underscore the direct correlation of sustainability and social justice work which, in turn, creates an opportunity for student leadership and action surrounding this work on CU campus.  The program will build a community of change agents, explore questions of identity and place, heritage and inheritance, root causes of the global unraveling, and create community solutions.  You will examine individual actions and identities as well as global institutions and world views.  You will also meet with and learn from practitioners in the field- from Colorado and beyond.  

Boulder Creek Clean-Up Sponsored by ENVS Club

Saturday September 27 11am-2pm 

Meet at the bandshell at Broadway and Canyon to join the Environmental Studies Club in their endeavor to keep Boulder Creek clean by helping pick up trash, recycling, and compostable materials!  Good people and lots of fun!  This is an awesome way to get community service hours!

There will be FREE Half Fast Subs for all volunteers! Everyone is welcome to come! Invite your friends!

Stay updated with the ENVS Club on Facebook   

BP Launches Ultimate Field Trip

 An overview of the 2015 Ultimate Field Trip challenge:

The Problem

The production and processing of oil, gas and biofuels both use and produce large volumes of water.  Much of the produced water contains contaminants that must be treated before the water can be disposed.  Tightening regulations and increased demand for water in many parts of the world are resulting in 

increasing costs and risks.  The ability to reuse produced water 

or treat it more efficiently could help manage environmental and 

energy sustainability challenges.

The Challenge

Identify and develop a novel technical solution that will reduce

the amount of water utilized and/or find an effective use for water

produced from operations.

The Prize

This year's prize is a two-week field trip to Trinidad and Tobago,

where the winning teams will have the opportunity to visit a BP offshore platform, as well as a BP onshore processing facility. 

The teams will also spend time visiting sites in Tobago and the 

Pigeon Point Heritage Park. 

Students from U.S. universities are asked to register a team of

three at www.bp.com/uft/us and are required to complete a short technical quiz by October 10. 

A short list of teams will be selected and asked to send in their

competition entry to address this year's challenge.  The successful teams will progress to a campus final in November 

and December 2014.  The U.S. National Final, where teams will 

go head-to-head, will take place on April 9-10, 2015 at BP's U.S. 

headquarters in Houston. 

More information 

If interested, contact Doug Arent from NREL.  

CELL: Center for Ecological Living and Learning Study Abroad Programs

Posting of this announcement is purely for information purposes and does not constitute an endorsement of the program by ENVS or CU Boulder. Students are strongly encouraged to consult with their advisors prior to signing up for any courses offered through institutions other than CU to ensure that they will receive academic credit upon completion. 

Go beyond traditional study abroad programs. Be a part of local and global solutions to environmental, social, and economic problems.  Experience some of the world's most inspiring examples of community sustainability from organizations like Heifer International, Sustainable Harvest International, and others.  Learn experientially and through service learning opportunities that integrate classroom knowledge with real-world applications.

CELL has space available in their 2015 Spring, Fall, and Maymester programs in:  

Central America 

Iceland 

Scotland 

Conservation Biology & Practice in Brazil's Atlantic Forest Global Seminar Study Abroad Program Interest Meeting 

Tuesday, September 30, 3:30-4:15pm in UMC 247  

Earn three credits in May 2015 in Brazil's Atlantic Forest on a Global Seminar offered through Study Abroad Programs.  Obtain hands-on experience in the principles and practice of conservation biology.  Experience operational, conservation programs in the Serra do Mar Biodiversity Corridor, participate in community-based conservation solutions, and much more while earning EBIO 4100/5100 credits.  The course is designed for undergraduate and graduate students in disciplines pertinent to conservation.

Apply now for this great program!  Learn more at an Interest Meeting with the Director, Dr. Tim Kittel: Tuesday, 30 September, 3:30-4:15pm in UMC 247.

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Exploring Environmental Education: Weekly Discussion and Training Series

 The CU Environmental Center is offering a 6-hour training program for CU students to learn the principles of place-based environmental education (EE).  The 6-week series will meet once a week Oct. 6 - Nov. 10 on Mondays 12 - 1 p.m.  Please complete the simple application by Monday, Sept. 29 here.  

Living in Nature: First Boulder Rights of Nature Film Festival Featuring Films by Les Blank   

When: October 16-19, 2014
Where: Boulder Dairy Center for Performing Arts
Tickets:  Dairy Center for the Performing Arts ticket office and website
Informational Contact: Steve Jones, [email protected] 

Film Festival Movie Descriptions and Trailers 

School of the Environment and Sustainability Series 

Over the past two years, CU-Boulder has explored prospects for creating greater synergies and fostering collaboration among the many faculty and programs centered on themes in the environment and sustainability.  With commitments from the campus administration, we are moving forward with the creation of a new school that will further advance interdisciplinary scholarship, education, and community engagement in the environment and sustainability. 

This fall we are launching our inaugural colloquium series, which will feature forward thinking and inspiring examples of projects that integrate the many dimensions of environmental challenges and solutions.  The School of the Environment and Sustainability Colloquium Series will provide the CU and Boulder community with provocative and insightful conversations that provide compelling illustrations of innovative work in the environment and sustainability taking place in Boulder and elsewhere. 

The colloquium series will be held most Wednesdays this fall semester from 3-4:30 pm in the Old Main Chapel.  Light refreshments will be served from 3-3:30 pm, followed by the featured lecture and Q&A from 3:30-4:30 pm.

There is no colloquium on October 1.    

Wildlands Studies Information Session  October 2

4:00pm Ketchum 234  

The posting of this announcement is purely for information purposes and does not constitute an endorsement of the program by ENVS or CU Boulder. Students are strongly encouraged to consult with their advisors prior to signing up for any courses offered through institutions other than CU to ensure that they will receive academic credit upon completion.

Wildlands Studies field projects provide students with the opportunity to join backcountry study teams as working field associates, studying environmental impact assessment, environmental policy, geologic, climatic and topographic factors that support various habitats, and the relationships between environments and culture.  Most participants are undergraduates who join us on site from all over North America and Canada.  Each program grants 4-12 units of upper division semester credit that may transfer to the University of Colorado.  Project teams consist of 8-16 participants working with a course instructor who provides onsite instruction and directs all field study activities. 

This season students can choose among eighteen wildlife, wildland and cultural ecology field studies searching for solutions to environmental and cultural challenges.  Field studies take place in:  Yellowstone, Big Sur (California), Banff (Canada), California Channel Islands, Vancouver Island, Fiji, Belize, South Africa, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Thailand, Nepal, Indian Himalaya, Costa Rica, Panama, Australia, and New Zealand.  Information on all of our programs is available on our website: www.wildlandsstudies.com.  Our email address is [email protected]. 

Please join us at the Student Information Session for PIZZA to learn how to participate.  Event Flyer