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Press: EarthThrives Opens the Door to Volunteers

Pioneer Valley, MA – EarthThrives is happy to announce that internships and volunteer opportunities are available for the Fall and Winter of 2009-2010. These opportunities in journalism, editing, new media and website operations are expected to fill quickly. Interested applicants should go to http://www.earththrives.com/volunteer for more information about individual positions and details on how to apply. EarthThrives is very excited to invite the community to engage in the process of...

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Volunteer

Volunteer Opportunities and Internships available with EarthThrives All opportunities are unpaid and run for a minimum of four (4) months. Those interested please contact Kirsten@earththrives.com with the information requested. The subject line of your email should indicate the position of interest. Positions open:– Journalist– Editor– New Media – Website Operations Journalism interns – write between 6 and 12 articles over a 4 month period, depending on credits...

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Press: EarthThrives Nominated for Green Stamp Program

We are proud to announce that EarthThrives has been nominated to receive this month’s Co-Op Green Stamp from River Valley Market. River Valley Market sent out this voting info to their members, “Member-owners, [vote] between now and 9:00 pm on November 27 for November’s recipient of donated Green Cards (worth $1.00 each) and cash register can donations. Past monthly recipients have received shopper donations ranging from several hundred to several thousand dollars.” Did...

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Pioneer Valley Institute to Host Tom Wessels Program

The Pioneer Valley Institute will present author and ecologist Tom Wessels at its annual meeting on Wed., Nov 4 at 7 o’clock in Greenfield Community College’s Sloan Theater on the main campus. The program, based on Wessels’ book Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England, is free and open to the public. There will be a brief business meeting at 6:30 to which all PVI members are urged to come. This program introduces us to approaches used to interpret a forest’s history...

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volunteer at EarthThrives

Volunteer Opportunities and Internships available with EarthThrives: All opportunities are unpaid and run for a minimum of four (4) months. Those interested please contact Kirsten@earththrives.com with the information requested. The subject line of your email should indicate the position of interest. Positions open: – Journalist – Editor – New Media – Website Operations Journalism interns – write between 6 and 12 articles over a 4 month period, depending on...

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It’s Blog Action Day Today

Today is Blog Action Day so if you’re a blogger, now’s your day to team up with bloggers around the world and make your voice heard about Climate Change. Go to www.blogactionday.org to register your blog.  BAD09 will link back to your post.  You can also post via twitter using the hash tag #BAD09. Not sure what you might write about?  They’ve got a handy-dandy page with some ideas for you. If you join the movement, drop us a note and we’ll link to your post...

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Clean Energy Connections

Clean Energy Connections

Clean Energy Connections at UMass Amherst on November 10, 2009 is a career and business development information and networking event. EarthThrives providing followup beyond the event (see details) • Access resources to build your business or start your clean energy career. • Tour exhibit hall displays about green technologies, services, practices and products. • Meet entrepreneurs and community groups mobilizing around clean energy. • Learn about clean energy trends. What’s hot and...

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Economy of the Commons

Nobel Prize in Economics to Elinor Ostrom: “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons” Ostrom’s pioneering work mostly concerns the governance of common-pool resources — resources that are rivalrous (i.e., scarce, can be used up yet need to be or should be governed as a commons — classically, things like water systems and the atmosphere. This work is cited by many scholars of non-rivalrous commons (e.g., knowledge commons) as laying the groundwork for their field. In the...

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350 Day of climate awareness – Oct 24th 2009

If you have organized a consciousness-raising event for next Saturday—October 24th—the day of climate awareness www.350.org — make sure you post your events there. Search for local events at Earththrives’ PV valley 350 event search(It also has a saved copy of local events since 350.org has been pretty busy) From GREEN Northampton In our community, there is a drive to get 350 homes to pledge to put up clotheslines in their yards.  (Dryers are one of the largest users of electricity...

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