Anyone who knows me well understands that I am an avid fan of the Boston-area sports teams. In the spirit of the New England Patriots advancing to their conference championship game, I find it fitting to kick off this blog with a quote from Patriots head coach, Bill Belichick: “There …
When I started my internship at Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP) back in June I was unsure of how I was going to handle my position since I went into with a limited knowledge of energy efficiency issues. Writing a report on energy efficiency resource standards is one thing, but …
I have spent my summer interning with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in the Global Gender Office (GGO) in Washington D.C. What an experience it has been! IUCN is an intergovernmental agency working to find “pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environmental and development challenges.” And gender …
C2C is a versatile acronym that means several things. It stands for Campus 2(to) Congress, Campus to City Hall, Campus to Capitol Hill — and Campus to Corporation. We use “corporation” as a catch-all for entrepreneurship at every level –starting your own business, joining the team at a small company, or …
Pic taken after field work in Post, OR Being in central Oregon means being in the high desert, so there is not much rain, and most of it falls during the winter season. Additionally, wildfires pose a large threat to the area. The watershed relies on winter snowpack that turns …
No, I’m not talking about the slow, and somewhat creepy, boat ride at Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom. I use this phrase as a way of describing several of my experiences in the first month of my internship at Environment Northeast (ENE). ENE is a non-profit organization that is actively involved in …
I work for the North Coast State Forest Coalition, out of the Oregon Chapter Sierra Club Office in Portland, Oregon In 2011, the Oregon Department of Forestry revised the State Forest Management Plan to include an increase in clear-cut targets and less old growth conservation plans. Soon thereafter, the North …
The tides of change are upon us. Nowhere is this more apparent than the actual changing tides that are starting to inundate U.S. states like Florida, threaten the safety of New Yorkers, and eat up the coastlines of states like Texas, Louisiana, and California. Although often mentioned, the impacts of …
Just four weeks into my internship with the Woodstock Land Conservancy (WLC) and I am going to have to rewrite my resume if I don’t want it to be 5 pages long. I am working with a WLC project, the Friends of the Catskill Mountain Rail Trai (FoCMRT- yes, we are …
After 9 months in the US, I was itching to get back to Mexico. Don’t get me wrong; I love the US for things that Mexico is not. But I am a Mexican, through and through. My parents come from Guadalajara, Mexico but moved over to Australia in the early …
