Happy August 2008!
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UEL News
- Community Garden
Off Campus
- Green Zone
Internships & Opportunities
- Northeast Asia Economic Forum (NEAEF)
- Bridges 4 Learning Collaborative – AmeriCorps Member
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UEL News________________________
Thanks to the rich compost, the handy drip irrigation and the care of growers, the UEL Community Garden is getting greener by the day! Stop by to relax and smell the tomatoes or to read about the work behind the garden.
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Green Zone: A garden installation by Sarah Zurier
August 7th – 11th
Firehouse 13
31 Central Street
Providence, RI
“In Baghdad, the Green Zone is a fortified government district that contains the villas, palaces, and monuments of Iraq’s former regime and now serves as headquarters for the US occupation authority. Its park like environment is surrounded by concrete blast walls, chain-link fences, earth berms, barbed wire, and armed checkpoints.
Gardens are Green Zones. They are defined spaces of green refuge within larger, different, and potentially inhospitable settings, whether environmental (like brownfields, deserts, or vacant lots) or temporal (like wartime or winter).”
http://greenzonegarden.wordpress.com/
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More Activities & Events
Looking for more? Check out the August Calendars at:
What Grows On In Rhode Island
http://www.whatgrowsonri.com/new_calendar.html
Natural News Network
http://www.naturalnews.net/Joomla/Calendar.html
Internships & Opportunities_________
Northeast Asia Economic Forum (NEAEF)
YLP Fellowship Application Deadline EXTENDED
The YLP Fellowship application deadline has been extended to Friday, August 15, 2008 Hawaii Time (GMT -10:00). All reference letters and supporting documentation must still be received by Monday September 1, 2008. Please submit applications via e-mail to neaef@hawaii.edu.
An updated version of the announcement is attached to this message as a .pdf file. This announcement along with additional information can also be found at www.neaef.org. If you have any questions, please feel free to visit our Application FAQ website at http://neaef.org/FAQ.html or contact the NEAEF office directly.
Northeast Asia Economic Forum
1311 Kapiolani Blvd., Suite 200F
Honolulu, HI 96814
808-597-8677
Email: neaef@hawaii.edu
Web: www.neaef.org
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Bridges 4 Learning Collaborative – AmeriCorps Memeber
The Bridges 4 Learning Collaborative: Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living, Providence; Connecting for Children & Families, Woonsocket; Cranston Community Learning Center, Cranston; Traveling Theatre, Providence
Full time positions needed starting Friday, September 12, 2008 with a $11,400 stipend
The Bridges 4 Learning AmeriCorps program is looking for 6 full-time members to provide after school arts and environment enrichment education to Cranston and Woonsocket students. Members will also become “green mentors”, working to support the “greening” oflocal and statewide schools.
Members will be placed at each site to create and implement a variety of after school enrichments, green school initiatives, and community events. They will deliver environmental and/or theatre arts programs at after school programs for elementary and middle school students in Cranston and Woonsocket. They will coordinate “green” initiatives in local schools. They willhelp coordinate community events, including the RI Sustainable Living Festival & Clean Energy Expo www.livingfest.org. As a culminating activity, they will create and deliver an “environmental theatre” program to students.
For more information contact Bekah Greenwald and to apply, fill out the AmeriCorps application (including the 2 written references) found online at https://recruit.cns.gov/.
Print it and mail along with a letter of interest and resume to:
Bekah Greenwald
Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living
17 Gordon Avenue, suite 207
Providence, RI 02905
or email to: bekah@apeiron.org.
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Please send questions, comments and stories to:
CES Newsletter Editor, Marie-Laure Couët
marie-laure_couet@brown.edu
Thanks!