Job Description:

There are a variety of projects that need attention, and we can work to match the specific interests and skills of the student to available projects. Specific projects will be determined closer to the fall of 2008, so the following are offered as examples


POSSIBLE PROJECTS: 1.) Working to deepen and strengthen relationships with CWA activists in key communities. 2.) Activities needed to build the global warming campaign include preparing educational materials and presentations, helping organize local meetings, asking our climate volunteers to take action, helping coordinate our letter to the editor team, and analyzing media coverage of the issues. 3.) Toxics campaign activities could include: Outreach and education to pass safe cleaning chemical and pesticide resolutions in municipalities, identifying and contacting organizations to join the Coalition for a Safe & Healthy CT, organizing and recruiting participants for lobby days, helping with candidate forums, and database creation and updating.

Job Requirements:

Skills Required
Reliability, initiative, a commitment to public health and the environment, enthusiasm, strong verbal and written skills, attention to detail, and an ability to learn quickly and complete a task to which you have committed.


Expectations
Full time internships of 10 hours a week are expected. Part time and volunteer opportunities are also available. More hours enable the intern to more fully engage in a project and are encouraged. We are not usually able to offer a stipend, although we are happy to work with the student to fill out the required paperwork for them to get school credit or to apply for a grant program that might be available through the school or another source.

How To Apply:

Contact campaign director Roger Smith
860-232-6232
rsmith@cleanwater.org


Clean Water Action (CWA) is a grassroots non-profit organization with 11,000 Connecticut members and 1,000,000 nationally. Our Hartford, Connecticut staff works with citizen leaders and decision-makers around the state on issues affecting our health, environment and community quality of life.


In addition to playing a leading role in the successful Sooty Six campaign to clean up the state’s most polluting power plants, CWA passed laws to reduce the neurotoxin mercury in products and to limit mercury emissions from coal power plants, made Connecticut the second state in the nation to pass broad global warming legislation in 2004, and worked with allies to pass a law cleaning up diesel school buses in 2007.


The top issues of concern currently include implementing CT’s global warming plan, promoting energy efficiency and clean energy in CT, and replacing toxic chemicals with safer alternatives.

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