Interesting Sustainability Internship
It certainly didn’t take me long to find something to write about today! I just happened to stumble across an cool looking blog - Adventures In Ecological Design where one of the posts (the one I linked to) makes mention of the “Windward Institute”.
In the words of “J-Dawg” (who wrote the post):
So I’m in rural south easeten Washington, in the mountains of klickitat, at the windward institute. A sustainable community in progress if ever there was one. Some of our projects for the summer include aquaponics, solar ovens, biofuel, and watching the peacocks get rejected time and again.
Feel free to check www.windward.org for stories and info.
Of course, seeing mention of aquaponics certainly got my attention so I decided to follow J-Dawg’s recommendation to check out the site. I’m glad I did!
Here are some short exerpts from the Windward ‘about us’ section:
Windward is an intentional community located just north of the scenic Columbia River Gorge about 80 miles east of Portland, Oregon.
So far, we’ve acquired 131 acres of pasture and forested land, put in basic services and learned a lot in the doing of it all. Some of the lessons weren’t the nice kind, but we’ve made it through the sticky parts and grown.
…
Windward is guided by the belief that there’s nothing more radical than a working model of a better way. We’re committed to building working models of a variety of sustainable systems in order to show that appropriate technology is viable, affordable and practical.
Sounds like a great place!
There is quite a lot of interesting content on the site, including an online newsletter - but something else that really caught my eye was the mention of 2007 internships.
For 2007, Windward will be offering 12 week internships on an ongoing basis throughout the year.
Interns will participate in the development of the sustainable systems described throughout this website gaining both a theoretical understanding of interconnected sustainable systems and a wide range of practical, hands-on sustainability skills.
…Interns will also be part of a program of study that looks at the art of creating sustainable community both in historical practice and in speculative fiction as a way to better understand the challenges inherent in establishing sustainability at the small community level.
The ideal intern candidate would be someone in their mid-20s with a liberal arts degree who is looking for an opportunity to pursue sustainability as a life path. Applicants should be U.S./Canadian residents over the age of 21, but we have waived the age requirement when an applicant’s history showed that an exception was warranted.
Even if the internship isn’t your cup of tea (or you don’t fit the required profile), I highly recommend you check out the Windward site.
Technorati Tags: sustainbility, windward, internships, environmental, sustainable living, biofuel, aquaponics, solar, ecological design, composting, biomass, eco-village
Written by Bentley on February 22nd, 2007 with
no comments.
Read more articles on Announcements and Interesting & Notable.
- [+] Digg: Feature this article
- [+] Del.icio.us: Bookmark this article
- [+] Furl: Bookmark this article
