Great Green Job of the Week: Environmental Scientist at Green Seal

Green Seal, a non-profit organization dedicated to environmental standard setting, product certification and public education, is seeking an environmental scientist to work at their headquarters in Washington, D.C.  Green Seal works toward sustainability by identifying and promoting environmentally responsible products, purchasing and production.

Title: Environmental Scientist

Position Type: Full Time

Position Overview:

Green Seal is seeking an Environmental Scientist to work on environmental leadership standard setting across a range of products and services.

Responsibilities:

The role will lead and support the development of environmental leadership standards for Green Seal. The main responsibilities of this position will be to evaluate technical research and work with external experts to develop criteria for environmental leadership standards; interact and coordinate with external stakeholders; conduct and support life cycle research; and manage projects.

Qualifications:

It is preferred that the candidate have an MS plus at least 1 year of experience or a PhD in chemistry, biology, environmental science, toxicology, engineering, physics, or related field. Experience with life cycle research and critical analysis of technical research is strongly preferred. Experience with standard development and stakeholder processes is not required, but preferred.

To apply, please email standards@greenseal.com with a cover letter, resume, and three references by September 30th, 2008.

Get more info about Green Seal at GreenSeal.org.

Via [Sustainable Jobs]

Green Drinks – Mingle, Network and Connect with Like-Minded People

If you’d like to meet more environmentally conscious people in your area, Green Drinks is a great way to do it. Green Drinks is a monthly informal meeting over drinks, and there are chapters all over the world, including all over the U.S. and Canada, the UK, Germany, Sweden, Japan and much more.  The number of Green Drinks chapters doubled during 2007, from 170 to 304, and has since grown to 350.

Green Drinks is a great opportunity to make new friends and business contacts, get referrals, commiserate on new ideas and get inspired.  Here are a few of the Green Drinks events going on in September in various cities:

London – Tuesday, Sept. 2nd starting at 6:15pm downstairs at The Glasshouse Stores, 55 Brewer St, Soho.  A range of bottled and draught beers, including organic brews, are available as well as a full menu with organic and vegetarian options.

San Francisco – Wednesday, Sept. 3rd 5:30-8pm at Varnish Fine Arts, 77 Natoma St. near 2nd.  For more info or to be added to the email list, contact sfgreendrinks@gmail.com.  Get updates on San Francisco Green Drinks events at the SFGreenDrinks blog.

NYC – Tuesday, Sept. 9th from 6-10pm at Pier 66 – Enjoy organic signature cocktails with complimentary snack foods and sample chocolate bars.  The first 125 people to sign up will receive a free drink ticket. Guest speakers include actor and environmentalist Matthew Modine and geographer and conservationist Robert Rose.  Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door – buy them here.

Vancouver – Wednesday, September 17th 5:45pm at Steamworks Pub, 375 Water St. on the edge of Gastown near Waterfront Station.

Find your local chapter of Green Drinks at GreenDrinks.org.

Featured Change Agent: Agent 350 is Building a Global Climate Movement

Each week, EarthFirst.com is featuring a standout Change Agent from the social change platform, Changents.com. Today’s featured Change Agent is Jamie Henn, also known as Agent 350.

Jamie Henn wants you to remember one very important number: 350. He and his team at 350.org are working to spread their message – and this number – across the planet to fight global warming. What’s the significance of the number 350? It’s the number of parts per million that we need to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere down to. Climate experts say that’s the magic number that can help us start reversing the damage we’ve done to the earth.

Jamie’s mission is to get everyone in the world aware of that number, and actively working to reach it – together, as citizens of the earth. The 350.org team is using the internet to crowd source cutting edge ideas as well as volunteers who can help them raise money, spread the buzz and turn 350 from a concept into reality.

This 23-year-old first became inspired to start 350.org as a college activist. He helped start the 2007 Step it Up campaign at Middlebury College in Vermont, which inspired people to gather around the U.S. on April 14th, 2007 in the name of cutting carbon emissions. The project, which encouraged cutting 80% of carbon emissions by 2050, soon became entwined with the 2008 presidential campaign and gained a lot of much-needed publicity for their cause. Jamie didn’t want Step it Up to be a one-time deal, though – he felt like there was still so much work to be done, and he wanted to be on the front lines to fight global warming.

There are many ways to participate in the 350 movement – even the busiest of people can find an opportunity to help out. Right now, Agent 350 has Action Opportunities on the Changents site that range from a crafting competition to helping spread their new video on YouTube, which you can view below.

Want to help Agent 350 spread the word about climate change and how we can all do our part to get carbon levels down to that all-important number? Join Changents as a backer and act as a publicity generator, fan, investor or advocate. There are so many ways to help, and each backer puts Agent 350 that much closer to their goal.

Great Green Job of the Week: Senior Online Marketing Manager at SustainLane.com

SustainLane is looking for a smart, creative, hands-on online marketer to grow the SustainLane.com site membership, refine its voice and expand its content.  SustainLane is a green social media website where users can get together to collaborate and connect with like-minded people who are also looking for answers on living a greener, healthier, more sustainable lifestyle.  This position is located in San Francisco.

Description

You are intelligent, self-confident and self-starting, and you take pride in your work. You will locate quality content through partnerships and community catalyzing, and make our content easier to find through good SEO. You are an entrepreneurial individual that is excited about the green space, user-generated content and community-building web technology, and believe that you can help take SustainLane.com to the next level.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Promote the website using standard tools, including newsletters, link-building, SEO research and implementation, Adwords campaigns and banner campaigns
• Oversee content creators/bloggers and manage editorial updates (selecting and featuring user-generated reviews and information)
• Create and manage marketing alliances
• Provide reporting and analytics
• Create web copy and communications and evolve the voice of the site
• Support development team in user interface decisions to create maximum site stickiness

Credentials & Experience

• Minimum four years of hands-on web marketing
• Copywriting experience for web
• Real experience in marketing user-generated content and knowledge of the blogosphere
• Track record of increasing site traffic
• Knowledge and passion for the green/sustainability space

Compensation

• Competitive salary
• Benefits (Health, Vision, Dental, flexible work environment, three weeks vacation and a company that values quality of life)
• Incentive stock option plan

To apply, send your cover letter and current resume to careers@sustainlane.com or fill in the application on the Treehugger jobs board.  Learn more abut SustainLane at the SustainLane.com website.

Link [Treehugger] + [SustainLane]

We Add Up: Global Warming, Activism & Organic Cotton T-Shirts

We Add Up is more than just a t-shirt company – they’re pioneers of a new way of getting people to realize that yes, you’re just one person – but together with millions of other people, you make a big difference. We love to see a good mash-up of global warming activism and eco-fashion, and We Add Up does it well.

The concept? Get yourself a ‘We Add Up’ organic cotton t-shirt printed with a unique number that represents your personal commitment to help stop climate change.  On the back of each shirt is printed a word or phrase that describes something everyone can do to help, like ‘Unplug’, ‘Lights Off’, ‘Carpool’, ‘Hybrid’, ‘Bike’ and ‘Buy Local’.  Every person who orders a ‘We Add Up’ t-shirt adds to the tally of folks who have decided that they won’t just stand back and let global warming happen.

We Add Up aims to get millions of people around the world committed, and believes that our combined effort can provide a health, green world for generations to come.  We Add Up t-shirts are made of 100% certified organic cotton, and come in a variety of colors including blue, natural, green and black.

Get involved – buy a t-shirt, start a fundraiser for your school/organization or join the affiliate program.  Get counted in!

Link [We Add Up]

Great Green Job of the Week: Online Director of Earthjustice

Earthjustice, the nation’s leading environmental legacy law firm, is seeking an Online Director to develop and manage all online communications. Earthjustice works nationally and internationally to prevent climate change, protect wildlife and wild places, and defend the right of all people to a healthy environment. Earthjustice achieves these goals through the U.S. court system to enforce, strengthen and maintain environmental laws on behalf of environmental organizations, coalitions and communities.

Position Overview:

We currently have an opening for an Online Director. The Online Director is responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating online communications programs for Earthjustice, developing an overall plan for electronic information management, researching and adopting new technologies and software, managing content across multiple web sites and email lists, and integrating online with offline communications.

This position supervises the work of the web team in implementing this plan and coordinates with staff from all parts of the organization, works in partnership with Communications, Development, and Policy and Litigation staff to grow and cultivate Earthjustice’s online community, tracks and evaluates online strategies and makes changes accordingly and manages ongoing relationships with key vendors and represents Earthjustice at key industry events.

Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor’s degree, preferably in English/communications, environmental studies / scientific discipline, political science, or history.

Experience: 7+ years experience with using online communications to attract & retain an audience. Experience specifically with web design, online communications programs including fundraising, computer technology, writing projects, marketing, and graphic design strongly preferred. Staff management experience.

Skills: Broad understanding of Internet technology and technology application in the business environment. Interest in exploring new technologies and practices to communicate with an online audience. Excellent organizational skills. Excellent written and oral communications skills. Strong eye for design. Exceptional interpersonal skills.

The ability to collaborate and work effectively with a broad spectrum of constituencies is critical. Experience applying technology to law firms and/or nonprofit organizations. Prior knowledge of database applications, html programming, Microsoft Office applications, and graphic design applications. Knowledge of Get Active software is a bonus. Strong familiarity with environmental issues.

This position will work out of our headquarters in Oakland, California. We are located ½ block from the 19th Street BART station in downtown Oakland.

For a list of responsibilities and compensation information, see the job listing at SustainableBusiness.com. To apply, submit a current resume and cover letter outlining your qualifications with the subject line “Online Director” to jobs@earthjustice.org.

Link [Sustainable Business] + [Earthjustice]

Featured Change Agent: Brad Corrigan Fighting Poverty in Nicaraguan Trash Dump

Each week, EarthFirst.com will be featuring a new ‘Change Agent’ from Changents.com, a social media site that connects people who are doing good in the world with a support system of advocates, donors, publicity generators and fans.

Today’s featured Change Agent is Brad Corrigan, a musician whose unusual journey toward social change began when his band, Braddigan, was asked to perform at a benefit concert in the US for an orphanage in Nicaragua. Brad wasn’t content with merely playing the concert – he traveled to Nicaragua to see the orphanage firsthand, and the experience changed his life.

Brad was driven through a city trash dump by a tour guide, and was amazed at the sight of people living in squalor right there amongst the refuse. He visited several more times, snapping photos in amazement, and at one point a little girl ran up to the car and knocked on the window. What happened next launched Brad’s commitment to help the people of the Managua, Nicaragua trash dumps:

The girl literally dragged him from the car and with a proud smile introduced him to her family and showed him their one-room house (made from corrugated metal and other scraps). That day changed the course of Brad’s life — in March 2007 he founded Love Light and Melody to combat the physical, emotional and spiritual effects of the extreme poverty in this community, which is now his home away from home.

Through Love, Light and Melody Brad is fighting to battle the physical, emotional and spiritual effects of extreme poverty. The organization’s goal is to identify and meet the immediate physical needs, raise awareness about trash dump communities and fight social injustice through music and the arts. They’re actively working to develop job opportunities for these people, and establish a secure and sustainable landfill elsewhere in Managua. They’re helping an elementary school located in the depths of the trash dump with food, recreation and art classes for the children and setting up a property in Managua to serve as a vocational school.

If you’d like to help Love, Light and Melody achieve these goals and more, see Brad’s Change Agent page at Changents.com and join to become one of his backers. You can offer financial, moral or physical support or help Brad get his message out to the masses. You can also learn more about current projects at the Love, Light and Melody website.

Link [Changents] + [Love, Light & Melody]

Changents: Networking Site Turns Agents of Social Change into Rock Stars

Changents.com is unlike anything you’ve seen or experienced before. This social media startup, which has partnered with The Timberland Company, aims to use the internet and its many social media applications to connect agents of social and environmental change with a community of backers across the globe.

Where once people with great ideas to help humanity and the earth might have been at a loss as to how to begin getting people interested, Changents has made it easy and fun. Change Agents can sign up themselves or be nominated, and can then begin building a network of Changents community members who will respond to, spread, support and consume the Change Agent’s innovations and ideas.

What makes Changents so unique is the fact that they aren’t just highlighting people who effect social change – they’re providing them with a virtual army of assistants, publicity generators, fans, investors and advocates. Just a year old, the site started by entrepreneurs Deron Triff and Alex Hofmann already has dozens of Change Agents, some of whom have as many as 95 backers.

I interviewed co-founder and CEO Deron Triff about how Changents enables Change Agents in remote locations to get the word out about what they’re doing via their Changents networks, and what he’s most excited about as Changents sets to officially debut.

Deron and Alex were driven by the idea that Generation-X and –Y ‘millenials’ wanted to personally make positive changes in the world, but were turned off by traditional non-profit approaches to philanthropy. Technology has allowed today’s younger generations to connect in ways that have never before been possible, and through Changents, Deron and Alex saw a fun and exciting way to use the web to allow agents of change to be discovered and supported.

The Changents team is putting social media to work, using applications like Flickr and Twitter to help Change Agents and supporters get their message out. He says, “The idea of allowing these individuals to create a suite of storytelling tools where they can create real-time dispatches talking about what they’re doing solving social problems creating that direct connection is really inspiring – their stories are so exciting and to be part of what they’re doing is so exciting.”

Deron notes with particular pride the case of Change Agent Elizabeth Redmond, a 23-year-old self-described ‘designtrepreneur’ working on a project called ‘POWERleap’, a flooring system for high foot traffic urban areas that generates electricity through human footfall. Through Changents, Elizabeth has received backing from companies like Reverb and dozens of individuals. She describes how she wants her project to change the world on her Change Agent story page:

The POWERleap concept is meant to engage the community, you, to take responsibility and generate some of the electricity we use everyday. This interaction between our exerted energy and the electrical energy we create/consume is where my designer mind comes into practice- my job is to make it functional, mysterious, fun, interactive, educational, sexy, and satisfying; and also, to make it work! On a larger scale, my vision is to sustain urban public electrical consumption via human energy.

I am determined to create the day when we produce our own electricity by walking to work, running in the park, walking through the airport terminal, and simply playing on the streets together.

Elizabeth is far from the only environmental advocate taking advantage of Changents’ growing network of global citizens eager to help effect change. Take a look through the Change Agents and you’ll be blown away by the good that’s being done, and how many companies and individuals are supporting it.

Another great aspect of Changents is their desire to further push agents of change out into the world so that their ideas and stories reach an even broader audience. Changents aims to help the particularly successful Change Agents with compelling stories gain inroads in traditional media like documentaries, books and magazine articles through their ‘Life Story Option’.

If you know someone who’s doing extraordinary work for the greater good, nominate them to be a Change Agent. You might just help them get the big break they need to bring their innovations to the masses, and you’ll have fun in the process! You can also join Changents as a community member, and be one of the many people who enable Change Agents to do what they do best: save the world.

Link [Changents]

National Go Topless Protest Day – August 23rd

So, what’s the deal with it being okay for men to go topless, and not women? You might think that a man is writing this, but not so fast – I’m definitely female. I just think that it’s absurd that men can flash their hairy, sweaty, potentially offensive man-boobs all over the nation and women can’t bare their own. This isn’t about men’s rights to ogle women’s naked breasts on city streets, at the beach and other places where it’s acceptable for men to be shirtless. It’s about equal rights, and the fact that society’s sexualization of breasts shouldn’t make them so ’shameful’ that we feel the need to keep them covered up all the time.

Personally, my main issue with this is where it falls in line with breastfeeding rights. A woman feeding her child in public the way nature intended accidentally shows a little boob, and by the usual reaction you’d think she just played a porno on her laptop in a public square. Discrimination against women who are doing the most basic and natural of acts in a public place is ridiculous, unfair and harmful to babies since it discourages many women from breastfeeding at all.

GoTopless.org, an organization that claims that women have the same constitutional right to be bare chested in public as men, is organizing a ‘National Go Topless Protest Day’ for August 23rd. From the site:

Currently, women who dare to be topless in public in the US are repeatedly being arrested, fined, humiliated, criminalized. On Aug 23rd, 2008, topless women will rally in great numbers across the USA to protest this gross inequality in the law and will demand that they be granted the fundamental right to be topless where men already enjoy that right according to the 14th amendment of the Constitution.

Across America, topless women and men will peacefully rally in the streets, parks, on the beaches of their towns and cities. Activities will start at NOON local time in each city

Topfree performances will be given by various artists to honor Women’s Equality Day and to convey how natural it is to be topfree for women in public just like it is for men. Please write to us if you are an artist who would like to participate in one of our shows.

Check out the GoTopless.org website to get info about events in your area.

Link [GoTopless.org]

Buy Nothing but Necessities for a Month

We’ve been getting word from various sources around the web of people with a common goal: trying to purchase nothing but absolute necessities for one month. Not only would it help you save money, but it could really teach you a lesson in how much unneeded junk you purchase without really even thinking about it.

Necessities are basically the things you can’t get by without – rent, utilities, credit card payments, student loan payments, basic groceries, medicine and basic toiletries (i.e., no gourmet goods or cosmetics). It’s basically a month without unnecessary shopping – no DVDs, electronics, knick knacks, home décor, Starbucks, and all those other little things that we tend to drop money on every now and then. Depending on income, participants have reported saving as much as $600 in a single month, which would add up to an awful lot of money over a year’s time if you wanted to stretch it that far.

I had my own little experiment with a ‘buy nothing month’ earlier this year, albeit unintentionally, during a dry month while in the midst of changing jobs. One thing I can tell you is, once you realize how easy it is to get by without all of those little purchases, it’s really easy to keep it going. Afterward, I was far more conscious about thinking before I buy – as in, “Do I really need this?”

MSN Money reports that in their own investigation of the ‘buy nothing month’ experiment, some people reported feeling deprived:

Concerns about feeling deprived were pretty common, at least in the early days. Many participants confessed they often spent money to ward off boredom or to lift a bad mood, or to socialize with friends, and wondered how they’d cope without that outlet.

A New York woman, Vanessa, dropped out early in the experiment because continuing, she wrote, would have meant being too lonely. New Yorkers socialize by going out to eat and drink, rarely entertaining in their shoe-box apartments.

In truth, there are so many free things to do out there. Go for a stroll. Read a book in the park. Get up close and personal with your community.

Buying stuff isn’t bad – but losing that zombie-like tendency to unthinkingly put things we don’t need would certainly be worth a month of participating in the experiment. It really lifts you out of that consumer mentality of buy, buy, buy – which would be a good thing for all of us.  Try it for yourself this month!

Link [MSN Money]
Photo credit: Flickr user sylvar

Brighter Planet and 1Sky Launch Climate Video Contest

Have an impact on the future of the planet – inspire the next president of the United States to take bold climate action. Brighter Planet and 1Sky have announced their Climate Matters Video Contest to give Americans the opportunity to make a difference. The winner will receive a $3,000 Brighter Planet Visa Gift Card, and the second and third place winners will receive $1,000 and $500 Brighter Planet Visa Gift Cards, respectively.

To enter the contest, upload a 30- or 60- second video encouraging bold climate change to the Climate Matters channel on vimeo.com/climatematters. The topic must be climate change. The deadline to upload your video is September 22nd, 2008, and winners will be announced on September 29th.

Here are some of the details:

The Climate Matters Video Contest provides all Americans with the chance to have their global climate change message seen by our next president and other political leaders. This October, the top 10 videos will be featured during a Washington, D.C.-based event for the media, Congress and both presidential campaigns. These top videos will also be broadcast to millions via Link TV, FSTV, and online at venues including: www.think.mtv.com, www.joost.com, www.huffingtonpost.com and www.quarterlife.com.

“We know Americans are inspired to take climate action; they’re already taking steps everyday,” said actress and Climate Matters juror Maggie Gyllenhaal. “I’m excited to see what people create.”

The 10 most viewed videos will be judged by a panel that includes: actress Maggie Gyllenhaal; Rory Kennedy, Emmy award-winning documentary producer; Tia Lessin, the supervising producer of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine; Leila and Nadia Conners, the producers/directors of 11th Hour; author Anya Kamenetz; David Jenkins, Government Affairs Director of Republicans for Environmental Protection; Bill Stetson, Producer and Environmental Consultant; Gillian Caldwell, Campaign Director of 1Sky; and Patti Prairie, CEO of Brighter Planet.

Viewers can log in to Vimeo to pick their favorite video and enter a drawing on the channel to win a Cannon VIXIA HDV Camcorder. Contestants can promote their videos to improve their chances of being counted among the top 10.

Check out an introductory Climate Matters video below:

Climate Matters from Brighter Planet on Vimeo.

Link [Brighter Planet] + [1Sky]

Net Impact Weekly Professional 2008 Green Challenge

If you’re a member of Net Impact and haven’t gotten in your entry for the Professional 2008 Green Challenge, act fast – the deadline is August 11th! The Green Challenge recognizes and rewards Net Impact members that are working on projects that make a positive environmental impact on their company, campus or community.

Some examples from last year’s Green Challenge include:

*Establishment of environmental task forces or “green teams”
*Creating the business case for green building programs on campus
*Efforts to move campuses and workplaces towards carbon neutrality
*Greening of cafeterias on campus or in the workplace

First prize winners (1 student, 1 professional) will get a cash prize of $500, $500 in Net Impact scholarships, a $100 gift certificate from TheGreenOffice.com, an 8,000 pound CO2 offset from TerraPass and recognition of the project’s success on the Net Impact website, at the 2008 North American conference and in Net Impact’s newsletter publications.

If you’re not already a member of Net Impact and would like to learn more, check out their website. The Net Impact network is made up of MBAs, graduate students and professionals who are committed to using busines for social good. Net Impact offers lots of great resources to help members hone their professional skills. And, if you become a member now, you’ll be able to participate in next year’s Green Challenge!

Link [Net Impact]

Great Green Jobs of the Week – WWF, Pew Environment Group

This week, we’ve got two great green job announcements for you – they were just too good to choose between! The Pew Environment Group is hiring a full time web intern, and the World Wildlife Fund is seeking an online marketing associate.  Now’s your chance to grab a great opportunity in the world of green collar jobs.

Online Marketing Associate – World Wildlife Fund

Job Type: Full Time
Location: Washington, D.C.

Job Description:

We are seeking an online marketing associate to perform a variety of tasks to assist the on-line marketing team with meeting its fundraising goals in the areas of email marketing and online projects. This is an exceptional opportunity to gain online marketing skills and contribute to the growth of the world’s leading conservation organization.

Basic Requirements:

The ideal candidate should possess a bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience. One to three years of online, web design or experience in a related field is required. Excellent project management skills, the ability to work independently, superior verbal and written communication skills, and proficiency with MS Office suite are necessary. Experience with HTML, Photoshop and Convio are preferred.

The closing date for posting resumes to this position is August 15, 2008.  Visit the WWF website’s jobs page and enter ‘29049’ as the requisition number to apply.

Intern – Pew Charitable Trusts

Department: Pew Environment Group
Location: Washington, D.C.

Responsibilities:

Web Internship, Pew Environment Group

The Pew Environment Group is seeking an online communications intern for the fall semester. This full-time job with the Web and Communications team is a great opportunity for somebody who is just starting out in the field.

Duties and responsibilities include online work on multiple campaign websites and support in developing potential new sites. PEG web interns typically work on dozens of different projects as well as participate in communications strategy discussions, planning meetings, brainstorming sessions and occasional training workshops. We’re looking for somebody who’s quick on his or her feet, adaptable, learns fast and has good attention to detail. Specific skills (html, design, etc.) are useful but not essential; some can be learned on the job. What’s more important is a positive attitude and strong initiative.

We offer a competitive internship hourly rate. Apply at the Pew Charitable Trusts website.

Link [WWF] + [Pew Environment Group]

Great Green Job of the Week: National Wildlife Federation

Earthfirst.com’s great green job of the week is located in Washington, D.C.  Do you have the credentials and drive to be the National Wildlife Federation’s next Global Warming Policy Director?

Title: Global Warming Policy Director
Position Type: Full Time
Salary Range: Based on Qualifications
Education: Must have an undergraduate degree in government relations, or related field required. Advanced degree preferred.

Required Skills: At least 10 years experience developing and passing legislation at the national level required. Additional international experience desired. At least some of the experience must be directly related to global warming, greenhouse gas reduction, energy policy, or energy conservation legislation. Specific experience with cap and trade legislation and/or natural resource conservation is highly desirable. Must also demonstrate ability to manage projects and supervise staff.

Benefits: NWF offers an excellent benefits package. NWF is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. Cover Letter and Resume are required.

Description: National Wildlife Federation (NWF), the nation’s largest member-supported conservation organization, is mobilizing Americans to solve global warming and achieve a cleaner energy future. NWF is seeking a dynamic, results-oriented individual to take up the reins of its global warming policy program and provide policy guidance and leadership throughout the organization.

National Wildlife Federation has identified global warming as the greatest threat to wildlife, nature and our children’s future. To effectively solve global warming, legislation is needed in the United States and a new treaty is needed to fully engage the international community of nations. NWF takes a pragmatic approach to solving global warming. The solution must reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address the impacts of global warming in ways that protect natural resources, the economy, and people. Success solving global warming will provide Americans a new energy future of real choices and new economic opportunity.

The Director, Global Warming Policy will develop and implement programs and lead a team of six legislative and policy professionals to enable NWF to provide strong leadership in the process of developing and implementing new global warming policies. The Director will cultivate effective partnerships, including the U.S. Climate Action Partnership and the Climate Action Network and build coalitions with a wide variety of organizations that can recognize the benefits of solving global warming.

The Director, Global Warming Policy will be the point person for decisions on global warming policy positions and tactics to achieve NWF’s objectives. The Director will supervise NWF’s national and international policy staff and will assist in fundraising and program development.

To learn more about the NWF and apply for this position, see the National Wildlife Federation website.

Link [NWF] via [Treehugger]

Green Blog of the Week: Jetson Green

We here at EarthFirst.com loooove Jetson Green.  It’s without question the best source of green design news and info on the web, it’s well laid out with eye-catching photos and the writing is always spot-on.  Jetson Green always seems to have the latest scoop on the most exciting green building projects before anyone else.

The man behind Jetson Green is our own Hot Guy in Green Preston Koerner.  He’s the founder, sole owner and chief editor of the green web magazine, and started Jetson Green as an MBA student in the summer of 2006.  His goal? To research, document, and discuss trends in green building.  Since then, green building has emerged as one of the major sources of innovation in modern technology, so it’s an exciting time for Preston and everyone who loves architecture.

Wednesday the 23rd marked Jetson Green’s 2nd anniversary on the web, and in that spirit, they’ll be giving away some awesome green gifts.  The giveaways are open until midnight (mountain time) tonight.  To participate, just leave a comment in the article for each giveaway post – you’re welcome to participate in all of them if you like.  Preston will be picking a random number for each article which corresponds to the number of comments received.  Winners will receive emails requesting their physical address.  If you win and send him your address, your green gift will be in the mail next week.  The prizes are the following books:

• MOO Green Pack of Eco-friendly Business Cards
• Book Duo: Worldchanging & Nature by Emerson
• Building Green with Kevin Contreras Season 1 DVD
• e² Season 1 & 2 Design and Energy 3 Pack DVD Set
• Ripple 3D Recycled Wallpaper Set & The Lazy Environmentalist

Be sure to check out the legal terms here.

Props to Jetson Green for 2 years on the web, and we hope you have many many more!

Link [Jetson Green]

Oceana is Hiring an E-Activism Fellow!

EarthFirst.com is bringing you a new weekly feature, ‘Good Jobs in Green’, where you can get the inside track on new green collar jobs as they become available. Today we have a job posting from Oceana, an organization that works to protect the world’s oceans through specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life.

From the Oceana website:

E-Activism Fellow

Department: Marketing/Communications

Location: Washington, D.C.

Description

Save the world’s oceans one e-mail at a time!

Oceana is looking for an E-activism Fellow to help recruit and activate Oceana’s online supporters, affectionately known as WaveMakers, and raise funds to support Oceana’s campaigns. The ideal candidate will put his or her technical skills into practice to make the WaveMaker program a reality. Principal duties include formatting, testing and sending e-mail communications; managing and updating supporter contact information; formatting and uploading web content; building relationships via social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook; responding to WaveMaker inquiries; and tracking and analyzing online statistics.

Qualifications

This is an entry-level position. Candidate should have a degree in computer science or related field plus 1 – 3 years experience. Knowledge of XHTML, Content Management Systems, CSS, delivery formats (RSS, SMS, etc.), are a must, with bonus points for familiarity with Democracy In Action, Drupal and Flash. The E-activism Fellow should be positive, organized, detail-oriented, able to multi-task and prioritize.

How to Apply

Please submit a cover letter and resume to Oceana via e-mail to mmcgregor@oceana.org
Include “E-Activism Fellow” in the subject line. We offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. No calls, please. EOE (Open until filled)

Oceana is a global organization with more than 300,000 members and e-activists in over 150 countries. They have achieved a great many successes on behalf of the world’s oceans including protecting sharks from finning, limiting destructive trawling, putting a stop to illegal oil dumping and saving dolphins and whales from active sonar. For more, see the Oceana website.

Link [Oceana]

Are You Chelsea Green’s Next Author?

We’re a little late reporting this, so there’s not a whole lot of time left, but Chelsea Green has an awesome contest going right now that could be a big opportunity for the right person. All you have to do is submit a book proposal for their Green Guide Series, and you have a chance of winning $1,000 and a publishing contract with Chelsea Green.

From Chelsea Green:

Our Green Guide series is a collection of big ideas in small packages. Current guides convey the basics you need to know to confidently get started composting, biking to work, greening your office, lowering your energy footprint, recycling to the max, and conserving water. And they convey it all in a small, 92ish-page format. In fact, our guides are small enough to travel in pockets, concise enough to make green practices seem as easy as they are, and useful enough to help their readers actually change they way they live and work.

So, about that contest.

Write to us, tell us about a Green Guide you would like to research and write, why you’d like to write it, how it should be illustrated, and a bit about yourself. If you’re one of up to five winners we’ll offer you a publishing contract that includes an advance of $1,000 against royalties.

Check out the contest guidelines here. The deadline for entries is July 4th, 2008.

Link [Chelsea Green]

Lawmakers in the Dark – Lightbulbs to Leadership Campaign

“How many lawmakers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None. They’ll sit in the dark.”

The Sierra Club just released this hilarious new video highlighting the dumb things lawmakers have done and said about environmental initiatives and activism. Among them are James Inhofe, the Oklahoma senator who said in 2003 that there is “compelling evidence that catastrophic global warming is a hoax”. The Sierra Club is urging you to not just switch out your lightbulbs and sit back: we need to act on global warming, and we need to do it now. The first step? Getting these idiots out of positions of power. Watch the video below.

You can learn more at LightbulbstoLeadership.org.

Link [Lightbulbs to Leadership]

How to Stop Wasteful Phone Book Deliveries

Every year, at least once, you open your front door to find one – or possibly even two or three – phone books piled in a heap on your doorstep, driveway or lawn. Competing phone book companies put out various versions of their tomes, giving you yellow books, white books, county books and city books. And, when’s the last time you even used a phone book? Aren’t we all just looking things up on the internet by now?

If you’re sick of wasteful phone book deliveries, you can put them to a stop. Here’s how, from Simply Thrifty:

If you want to stop receiving phone books call:

* ATT/ Yellow Pages: 1-800-479-2977
* Verizon: 800-555-4833, press 4, then 5, then 2
* DEX: 1-877-243-8339, press 2
* Yellow Book: 1-800-929-3556, press 2

You can also opt out of phone book deliveries at www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org.

Link [Simply Thrifty]
Photo credit: Flickr user merfam

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