POSTED: December 18, 2010 / UPDATED: February 27, 2012 NOTE: Current and past Interns and their projects are outlined at the bottom of this page. The LOCAL LIVING VENTURE (LLV) program of the Sustainable Living Project / Local Living Festival thanks our wonderful Interns, one and all, for their invaluable contributions to the success of our work in the North Country! ~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~ Currently, these specific projects have been outlined. Please do not feel limited by these options. These Internship descriptions describe our general needs. You may review this website for other items of interest or find a few items below that you could focus on specifically, or blend to create a fit to your skills and talents. Contact us about your ideas as well! SPRING, SUMMER & FALL unpaid Internships available, 5-40 hours per week. Fewer hours by arrangement.  Green Energy Home Survey Coordination Coordination of the Green Homestead Tours survey execution. Eventual monthly tours (one home per session) will result from this work. Time Commitment: 5 hour per week minimum. Please see the Home Tours page of our website.
This Intern is representing their school and school program but are also representing the Local Living Venture to local homeowners whom they are interviewing.
Send a cover letter and resume (if available) indicating your interest in this project to sustlivingproject@gmail.com. Simple Living Events Coordination Assist in coordination of the Local Living Festival 2013 to be held April 27th, 2013 to include year-round events prior to the Festival. Much of the coordination happens many months in advance. Please see last year's Local Living Festival 2011 Program at www.SustainableLivingProject.net/LocalLivingFestival
Send a cover letter and resume (if available) indicating your interest in this project to sustlivingproject@gmail.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Simple Living Project Administration
Description Please see last year's Local Living Festival 2011 Program at www.SustainableLivingProject.net/LocalLivingFestival
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Fundraiser / Grantwriter Description
Please see last year's Local Living Festival 2010 Program at www.SustainableLivingProject.net/LocalLivingFestival
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Send a cover letter and resume (if available) indicating your interest in this project to sustlivingproject@gmail.com. Graphic Art, Social Media, and Community Outreach Creation Description
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POSTED: December 18, 2010 / UPDATED: December 29, 2011 Resourceful Skills-Building Workshop Creation & Execution Skills-Building Workshops Assist the Local Living Venture in overall planning, to research and create handouts, and Description
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POSTED: December 29, 2011 / UPDATED: Mini Internships (12 - 25 hours total) Descriptions 1) Social Media Review the topics covered on the Sustainable Living Project / Local Living Festival Facebook page for content, style, and general inspiration. Research and write a compendium of complete "ready-to-go" posts for future use by the SLP on a wide variety of (categorized) sustainability issues. 2) Small-Scale Food Processing Education Committee The Value Added Institute or similar projects will have various opportunities for a student interested in learning more about local processing of locally grown foods. Exact details dependent on priorities to be established by the Small-Scale Food Processor's Assn., but there will be plenty to do! Please check in as the time draws near. 3) Skills-Building Workshops Assist the Local Living Venture in overall planning, to research and create handouts, and set-up and attend as many workshops as possible, mainly on Saturday mornings 10-noon, though some are in the evening or afternoon. For a list of possible workshops and events to be hosted by the LLV see The Big List. 4) "One Sustainable Thing" Campus Event A complete Guide will lead you through creating a fun and informative week
of "One Sustainable Thing" Pledge events for both students and faculty. Help your campus inhabitants reduce their ecological footprint each day. Encouraging people to think about a single topic per day will make them feel
empowered and help them realize that small changes in lifestyle can
create a large impact. The campaign is spelled out for you to replicate with minimum hassle and expense but maximum satisfaction
when you see other students, clubs, societies, professors,
administrators, and the college service providers all getting in to it! This project is best done as a group endeavor.
5) All About Media If you can't get the word out, it's not going to be a very big event! Learn the basics of media management, write real press releases for real events, then see them published! Strong writing skills advised. 6) All About Grant-Writing If you can't raise the money, it's not going to be a very useful event! Learn the basics of technical writing for grants and research both grant content and availability. Strong writing and research skills advised. 7) All About Feasibility Assist our SLU CBL Research Associate with research for a feasibility study regarding the upcoming Hub Agricultural Depot & Rural Resource Center. This document will be used to earn grants for the creation of a regional food system infrastructure that currently does not exist. "Local food for local people." Qualifications
POSTED: January 18, 2012 / UPDATED: February 27, 2012 ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ The Local Living Venture thanks our wonderful Interns, one and all, for their invaluable contributions to the success of our work in the North Country! Past & Current Interns: SPRING 2012 SUNY Potsdam ~ Chelsea Coons ~ Community Health Program ~ 37 hours per week Creating five new Nutritious Delicious cooking seminars as well as updating and executing a third version of the Nutritious Delicious Grains and Beans workshop. Create Resource Guides, posters, press releases, and Facebook posts relevant to the seminars. Seek community resources, mentors, presenters and sponsors for these events. Attend Logic Model training sessions and community events relevant to the project. St. Lawrence University ~ Community Based Learning (CBL) ~ 88 hour requirement each "Psychology 413" course ~ Professor Emma Ogley-Olliver Scott Houser & Will Chabot, Research Associates "The Hub" Agricultural Depot Feasibility Study, Sustainable Living Project of the North Country (SLP/NC)
FALL 2011 SUNY Potsdam ~ Alyssa Lemmerman ~ Office of Experiential Learning ~ 80 hours total Assisted the planning and implementation of the Local Living Festival 2011 ~ helped to create the six-campus Sustainability Forum, responsible for sending out dozens of presenter recruitment letters and following up on them, creating new ideas for potential workshops, researched zero-waste certifying agencies and performed various tasks relevant to this committee, local Community Supported Agriculture display research and creation, assist in administration of the on-site Welcome Tent (sign-ins, recruitment, sales, etc.) and administrative work related to the Festival. SPRING 2011 SUNY Potsdam ~ Brandi Bishop ~ Community Health Program ~ 37 hours per week Creating a campus-wide Sustainability Week event that is export-able to other campuses as well, assisting in the advancement of a "Nutritious Delicious" cooking class, attended the NOFA-NY organic agriculture conference with SLP Coordinators, created the SLP / LLF Facebook page, various administrative functions. Sponsoring SUNY Potsdam Professor: Heather Sullivan-Catlin SUNY Potsdam ~ Ian Glaser & Danny Graves ~ Sociology # Society & Environment course ~ 12 hours minimum The SLP plans to contact nearly 40 potential Home Tours sites,and then administer a survey assessing the features of each site in order to facilitate a monthly Green Home & Garden/Farm Tour program. This internship involves completing the survey (may be based on some community interviews) and organizing the potential contact list to contain all relevant information. SUNY Potsdam ~ Nate Maser ~ Sociology # Society & Environment course ~ 12 hours minimum Social media and outreach: seeking out links to useful resources that can be posted to the SLP / LLF Facebook page, writing the status post text to accompany the link, re-posting appropriate items to the Resources page of the website, assisting in creation of artwork for co-Interns projects as well. SUNY Potsdam ~ Chris Deck ~ Sociology # Society & Environment course ~ 12 hours minimum Research of up to four topics for informative text to be used in stand-alone displays. Creation of at least one display in toto. SUNY Potsdam ~ Jaimie Martineau ~ Experiential Education Intern ~ 40 hours minimum Support other SUNY Potsdam Interns with creative and beautiful artwork to enhance the outreach experiences that are developed for various Projects. St. Lawrence University ~ Community Based Learning (CBL) students "CBL 100" course ~ Professor Kara McLuckie 25 hour requirement per student ~ Lillian Donahue ~ Community Based Learning (CBL) Mentor Liaison between the three CBL students and the SLP / LLF, ensuring that communications, expectations, and "deliverables" are understood and are being met. ~ Pete Clancey ~ CBL Student ~ Charlie King ~ CBL Student Charlie and Pete are designing surveys for Professors, Administrators, Staff and Students to determine what topic-appropriate speakers may already be invited to provide discourse on campus (that the SLP and CBL students may be able to work with as well, while they are here) and what speakers the survey recipients would additionally like to see invited here. This work informs both the Local Living Festival "featured speaker" search process and the SLP's year-round workshops and events. Speakers will be contacted, with a regional bias (the closer the better) in most instances. There will be exceptions to "regionality" based on survey results. Noted climate author Jerry Jenkins was among the speakers netted for the 2011 Festival by the efforts of this internship. ~ Matt Burke ~ CBL Student Matt's project mirrors that of Charlie and Pete's but with a specific focus on Food and Community speakers as part of Professor MacLuckie's course by the same title. St. Lawrence University ~ Community Based Learning (CBL) students "A Literary Harvest" course ~ Professor Natalia Singer 25 hour requirement per student ~ Chase Fisher ~ Sam Hughes ~ Emma Rentz ~ Andrew Vance ~ Paige Veidenheimer Assist with the first ever Local Living Festival: attending organizational meetings and taking on myriad tasks as needed in the final month of preparations and assisting in various capacities on the day of the Festival, as well. Staffing the SLP / LLF booth at the Canton Farmer's Market for the month of October, interviewing shoppers and farmers about potential Workshop topics. Create and administer a survey of student interest in potential Workshop topics over 5 days of tabling events at Dana Dining Hall. Creating and facilitating a successful "Nutritious, Delicious" cooking class featuring cheap and healthy foods students can cook as their meal plans run low. All facets of Workshop creation including media. The Sustainable Living Project / Local Living Festival thanks our wonderful Interns, one and all, for their invaluable contributions to the success of our work in the North Country! | ||||||||
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