Happy new year! In my first blog post about my internship I said I was amazed how fast a month had already passed. Six months and many, many cartons of animal crackers later, it only feels like a few days have passed. While the original intent of my internship did …
It is hard to believe that my internship with Global Green Coalition for Resource Recovery is complete! The Coalition for Resource Recovery (CoRR) is an industry-working group working to find ways to recover the value of waste that make sense in the corporate framework and is replicable and scalable throughout …
One thing I was particularly glad of during my internship was our class discussions regarding cost-benefit analyses, since the policy world is abuzz with the term at the moment. However, I began to think hard about a dimension of CBA that had not been discussed at CEP—the timeline of the …
Working in Mexico, while at times frustrating, carried with it a sense of fulfillment that I don’t believe I could have obtained working at a similar position within the states. Relating to both language and culture, I was confronted everyday with issues that I had never encountered before. Throughout the …
Hey look how clever my title is It feels a little weird to be writing my one-month in blog when a lot of people have already finished their internships, but that’s what happens when you commit to a fall internship. Anyways I’ve been at the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) …
I made a decision not to eat meat about 13 years ago, but I’m not preachy about it and rarely discuss it outside of a passing “I’m a vegetarian.” Back when I first went veggie, my main justification was that factory farming relied on animal cruelty. Since then my decision …
Hello! I spent the first four months of our internship period with The Nature Conservancy in Dublin, Ohio. My title was Conservation Benefits Intern and I had one task while I was there: write a research paper on the benefits (economic, social, and environmental) of investing in federal and state …
Hey there fellow BCEPers, Keith here. I’m just hanging out in San Francisco enjoying the consistently beautiful weather and consistently infuriating fog. As most of you know I got a late start on the internships and have only been in San Francisco a couple months now. Therefore, this is …
This summer I interned at the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C. My formal title was Climate and Energy Research Intern, and that title is pretty reflective since I spent nearly 100 percent of my time researching and writing. I worked on Worldwatch’s low-carbon development in Caribbean nations initiative specializing in …