Tag: <span>C2C Fellows</span>

Training New Sustainability Leaders

By Wendee Nicole in Bioscience, an Oxford Journal As concerns over global environmental crises such as climate change intensify, programs are emerging to train the next generation of sustainability leaders from varied backgrounds, ranging from business to science. Environmental economist and educator Eban Goodstein has made training sustainability leaders his life’s …

Getting to Know: Will Mitchell

This spring, we launched an application for C3: Campus to Careers Camp, C2C Fellow’s first ever second-round professional training. Fellows were asked to explain, in a short video, why they wanted to attend further training on Social Innovation and Leadership, or Leading a Political Campaign. While we were unable to …

Getting to Know: Daniel Rich

This spring, we launched an application for C3: Campus to Careers Camp, C2C Fellow’s first ever second-round professional training. Fellows were asked to explain, in a short video, why they wanted to attend further training on Social Innovation and Leadership, or Leading a Political Campaign. While we were unable to …

The Psychology Behind Climate Denial, and What to Do About It

Written by  Caroline Hodge originally posted on April 24, 2014 at ecoaffect.org, where Caroline posted daily blog posts   Climate skepticism continues to bewilder many stakeholders working on climate solutions. Why do skeptics believe what they do? And what’s the best way to engage with them? In a recent piece in The Conversation, cognitive …

Workshop director at Bard center has global perspective

Written by Karen Maserjian Shan For the Poughkeepsie Journal As a kid, Jess Scott read works by Jane Goodall. Like the renowned primatologist, Scott imagined a career working in the field doing research. That changed once she started to study animal behavior at Bucknell University. “It turns out that what I’m …

C2C Fellows Lay Foundation for Environmental Careers During Weekend Intensive

Originally posted at: www.bard.edu on March 13, 2014 How do you get a room full of young environmentalists, budding entrepreneurs, and aspiring policymakers ready for an intensive weekend workshop at Bard College? Ask them a lot of soul-searching questions to break the ice. At this year’s Northeast Regional C2C Fellows Workshop at Bard, …

Public Relations: Environmental & Introspective?

Oh gosh, what did I get myself into? I thought as I found myself becoming a public speaking mentor for the C2C Fellowship Summit, co-organized by the Bard Center for Environmental Policy and Climate Corps Bay Area. In theory, working in a PR firm and volunteering for the Zawadisha fund …

$5,000 Scholarship for Students going into Environmental Careers

We’ve heard of  a great opportunity for C2C Fellows. If you’re like us (interested in sustainability, environmental justice and saving the world) then you should look into the Udall Scholarship: The Udall Foundation seeks future leaders from the entire spectrum of environmental fields, including policy, engineering, science, education, urban planning …

Speak Up at the EPA Hearings on Regulating Carbon Pollution

Crossposted from NRDC’s Switchboard Two weekends ago I stood in a room of over 7,000 fellow young people chanting that we believe that we will solve the climate crisis by ending our dependence on fossil fuels and transitioning immediately to 100% clean energy.  It is clear that, as a movement, we are …

On the Frontlines, Power is Shifting

by Robert Friedman Originally posted on October 22, 2013 on switchboard.nrdc.org There’s something about standing on a fracking pad or at the edge of a mountaintop removal site that changes you forever. You ask yourself how anyone could be so blinded to be removing mountains from the landscape, to be contaminating peoples’ …