as the world burns
this was posted on my blogspot until i realized it was public and could get me in trouble haha...
I'm on the verge of finishing my special project to get my Red Cross Chapter "Green Business Certified". We started a food scrap program, switched to recycled paper products + double sided printing, and have had several presentations on alternative transportation, recycling, and the ICRC's stance on Climate Change. My whole office has been participating by using reusable water containers and dedicating a few of our events to sharing Climate Change information.
Unfortunately, my CEO is a fucker and has been an obstacle the entire way through this project, but democracy has prevailed and she has yet to stop any of my movements. I'm going to be saving the Chapter more than $1,500 a year with some of my changes so I'm getting some of that money put back into my project through the form of motion sensors for lights. Overall, none of this sounds monumental, and it's not, but it's something and it has an effect on psychology. The building was already pretty green, I simply took on the task of identifying those aspects and then advertising them so that my co-workers could feel proud.
One of my co-workers was put in charge of our International Red Cross Red Crescent event and chose to focus on information from the ICRC's Climate Centre (climatecentre.org). She asked me to join the committee, so i'm pretty excited about the whole project. We'll be going to libraries throughout the county and talking about the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, the fires in SB, and the future floods/rising sea levels in Bangladesh.
In the meantime, I've been working on the Earth Day Film Fest for the Community Environmental Council. It's going well and it looks like we'll get both "The Cove" and "Climate Refugees."
I've also been working on my Master's/PhD proposals and have interviewed with one professor from UW. I'm talking to a potential supervisor from Berkeley later this week, I think. We'll see how that goes, I've already been rejected for two jobs I have applied for with The Oakland
Teaching Fellows and the Golden Gate Conservancy Internship Board. I'm still waiting to hear back from the Sierra Club Headquarters in SF, the
Green Corps Field School for Environmental Organizing, and Greenpeace in New Zealand. How nut balls would it be if I worked for Greenpeace? haha Even Sarah Palin recently gave them credit.
blah blah.. or should i say "BAHHHHH!"
I'm on the verge of finishing my special project to get my Red Cross Chapter "Green Business Certified". We started a food scrap program, switched to recycled paper products + double sided printing, and have had several presentations on alternative transportation, recycling, and the ICRC's stance on Climate Change. My whole office has been participating by using reusable water containers and dedicating a few of our events to sharing Climate Change information.
Unfortunately, my CEO is a fucker and has been an obstacle the entire way through this project, but democracy has prevailed and she has yet to stop any of my movements. I'm going to be saving the Chapter more than $1,500 a year with some of my changes so I'm getting some of that money put back into my project through the form of motion sensors for lights. Overall, none of this sounds monumental, and it's not, but it's something and it has an effect on psychology. The building was already pretty green, I simply took on the task of identifying those aspects and then advertising them so that my co-workers could feel proud.
One of my co-workers was put in charge of our International Red Cross Red Crescent event and chose to focus on information from the ICRC's Climate Centre (climatecentre.org). She asked me to join the committee, so i'm pretty excited about the whole project. We'll be going to libraries throughout the county and talking about the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, the fires in SB, and the future floods/rising sea levels in Bangladesh.
In the meantime, I've been working on the Earth Day Film Fest for the Community Environmental Council. It's going well and it looks like we'll get both "The Cove" and "Climate Refugees."
I've also been working on my Master's/PhD proposals and have interviewed with one professor from UW. I'm talking to a potential supervisor from Berkeley later this week, I think. We'll see how that goes, I've already been rejected for two jobs I have applied for with The Oakland
Teaching Fellows and the Golden Gate Conservancy Internship Board. I'm still waiting to hear back from the Sierra Club Headquarters in SF, the
Green Corps Field School for Environmental Organizing, and Greenpeace in New Zealand. How nut balls would it be if I worked for Greenpeace? haha Even Sarah Palin recently gave them credit.
blah blah.. or should i say "BAHHHHH!"