Virginia Bolshakova, the new Director of UC Cooperative Extension for San Mateo & San Francisco Counties, is working on an exciting project that may interest the students. Selected high school volunteers can get up to 30 community service hours when then become 4-H Healthy Living Teen Ambassadors. (They don’t have to be 4-H members, although… Read More
Archives: Environmental/Outdoors
Environmental Defense Fund Internship
With world attention focused on both the environment and the economy, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is where policymakers and business leaders turn for win-win solutions. This leading green group, with programs from Boston to Beijing, has tripled in size over the past decade by focusing on strong science, uncommon partnerships and market-based approaches. You can… Read More
Students on Ice Scholarship
Talking about population growth is taboo. The world is expected to reach at least 9 billion people by the middle of the century and scientists say we’re pushing the ecosystem into a state where it can no longer support civilization, but politicians don’t talk about it. Neither do environmentalists. Human domination of Earth is so… Read More
Green Art Workshop Internship
Community Gardening Opportunity
My name is Phil Lonsdale, class of ’05. For the past six months I have been working with friends and neighbors to build a community garden in my neighborhood. We’ve already made significant progress with no budget, and the project is posted to take off now that we have been accepted into the SF Parks Alliance’s… Read More
SF Park & Rec Workreation Program
Are you a student between the ages of 14 and 18? Would you like to gain valuable work experience, earn some money, meet some new friends and have a lot of fun this summer? The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department’s Workreation Program may be your ticket to a great summer! For over fifty years, this program… Read More
Skeptics & Smog
A discussion with the Co-Founder of DeSmog Blog, Founder of Skeptical Science, and Editor of the Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media to Climate One that delves into the topic of carbon and climate change in today’s media. We will discuss how news media coverage of climate disruption sways and influences American public… Read More