Volunteer Info
We are searching for interns for the Campus and Community Outreach Coordinator and Energy and Water Coordinator positions at the SEC for the Fall 2009 semester. Click here for an internship application and more information about the positions.
Volunteering is a great way to give back to the community while gaining valuable experience that will help you in your future endeavors. Here are just a few resources of local environmental organizations that you can volunteer your time and expertise to:
- Student Environmental Center - UNC Asheville
- Clean Water For North Carolina
- Asheville GreenWorks
- NC Arboretum
- Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy
- RiverLink
- Western North Carolina Alliance
- The Asheville Green Opportunity Corps
- The Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition
- Dogwood Alliance
- Bountiful Cities Project
- The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
- Appalachian Voices
- Mountain Voices Alliance
The Student Environmental Center at UNC Asheville is a campus community resource dedicated to increasing campus awareness surrounding environmental issues and improving the environmental performance of our University.
We are currently looking for interns for the following positions:
- Campus and Community Outreach Coordinator (Fall 2009 Semester)
- Energy and Water Coordinator (Fall 2009 Semester)
- Click here for an internship application and more information about the positions
Contact the SEC at UNCA by phone at (828)232-5143 or by e-mail at environmentunca@gmail.com.
Since
1984 Clean Water for North Carolina (CWFNC, formerly the Clean Water
Fund of North Carolina) has worked for clean, safe communities and
workplaces with hundreds of communities and thousands of North
Carolinians.Issues they work on are environmental justice, surface and drinking water protection, and toxics, including air quality.
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Asheville
GreenWorks, an affiliate
of Keep America Beautiful, is a volunteer-based organization working
to achieve a Clean and Green Asheville and Buncombe County through
community organizing, educating and environmental stewardship.
The North Carolina Arboretum is a 434-acre
public garden located within the
Bent Creek Experimental
Forest of the Pisgah
National Forest. Surrounded by the dense folds of the botanically
diverse Southern Appalachian Mountains, the Arboretum is nestled in one
of the most beautiful natural garden settings in America.
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Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy helps landowners protect local land and water resources vital to our natural heritage and quality of life. As a local nonprofit organization dedicated to saving the places you love, CMLC is helping to create a regional network of more than 12,800 acres of protected farm, forest, park and natural lands in Henderson, Transylvania, and neighboring parts of Buncombe, Polk, Rutherford and Jackson counties.
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Volunteer today to help protect and preserve our natural land, water and air resources! Call the office at (828) 258-8737 for more information.
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The
Asheville Green Opportunity Corps (Asheville GO) is a paid training
and leadership program designed to prepare under-served young adults
(ages 18-25) for living wage jobs in the rapidly expanding Green
Economy. Our hands-on curriculum combines community service projects,
life skills training, and on-the-job experience in promising fields like
green construction, clean energy, recycling, ecological landscaping and
restoration, and sustainable agriculture.
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The
Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition (SAFC) is a regional
non-profit organization whose mission is to protect and restore the
wildlands, waters, native forests and ecosystems of the Southern
Appalachian landscape.
Through SAFC's Conservation Vision, and with their growing list of members and partners, they work to:
- Improve management of the 4.6 million acres of public land in the region especially roadless areas, old growth forests, and key habitats;
- Add acres to our protected landscape through public and voluntary private actions;
- Strengthen grassroots organizations and citizen leadership in the region.
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Dogwood
Alliance brings together the voices of thousands of individuals,
local and regional grassroots partners, and national and international
organizations. They create powerful leverage on companies whose
practices destroy millions of acres of Southern forests every year. They
bring skilled negotiators into corporate boardrooms to pursue win-win
solutions that ensure the future of natural and native Southern forests.
They also work to create financial incentives for positive change by
creating market demand for environmentally sound paper products.
They are looking for interns and volunteers on a rolling basis. They request that interns maintain a regular weekly schedule and commit to at least 4 hours per week. Dogwood Alliance will provide the needed training and resources, such as phone and computer, to complete the internship objectives. We will also provide an internship evaluation for hours completed as part of an academic program.
Click here for more volunteer information or email info@dogwoodalliance.org
The
vision of Bountiful Cities Project is to enliven and empower
self-reliance, cooperation, and a stronger sense of community through
providing an opportunity to grow, harvest and eat fresh, local produce.
They envision community spaces that serve as models for
sustainability through organic food production, water conservation,
ecological building, community celebration, and cooperative economics.
This vision is becoming a reality at our two flagship gardens: a
permaculture-based vegetable garden on Pearson Drive in Montford and the
Dr. George Washington Carver Edible Park at Stevens Lee Community Center
which is home to over 30 varieties of fruit trees and an under story of
berries and medicinal herbs.
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The
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
is one of the country’s oldest and most
respected land trusts.
They
need energetic volunteers for:
- Leading guided hikes on protected properties
- Recruiting new members
- Planning and hosting special events
- Walking property boundaries
- Taking photographs of properties
- Public and community outreach
- General office work
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Appalachian
Voices needs your help fighting for clean air, promoting sustainable
forestry and ending mountaintop removal in central and southern
Appalachia. Volunteers are needed to help with a variety of tasks in the
office. Volunteers are welcome during business hours, Monday
through Friday. We also have a once a week volunteer night to coincide
with the ASU academic calendar.
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Mountain
Voices Alliance advocates to control
overdevelopment; regulate steep slope construction; end ridgetop
development; work to create a sustainable land use plan, including a
Mountain Protection Act; and demand strict enforcement of environmental
and development ordinances.
Volunteers are needed to attend various city/county meetings and report back, research projects, e-newsletter, and database entry. Visit www.mvalliance.net for more information or call 255-8537.
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