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Telecommute From Any College Campus in the US or Canada
The Eat Well Guide is seeking college interns/externs throughout the United States and Canada who are interested in food issues and would like to increase their research and marketing skills by helping expand the Eat Well Guide, a free online directory of sustainable food sources. While most experiences will revolve around updating and promoting the Guide, this is an incredible opportunity for interns with a passion for food and health to learn more about the industry.
Eat Well Guide interns will work from our New York City office, and externs will telecommute from their home or campus to help bring exposure to small farmers, retailers, and chefs who are committed to providing local, sustainable food products. In the process, interns/externs will gain an exceptional view into the rapidly increasing sustainable food movement; and through their research, they will interact with some fascinating people across the United States and Canada. Interested students should be organized, detail oriented, conversant in writing and on the telephone, and enjoy working independently as well as with other likeminded people.
Upcoming projects for the Eat Well Guide team include the launch and promotion of an online travel tool, enabling users to find good food on the road through an interactive map on the website. We are also working on promotion of the Eat Well Guide through the use of innovative new media outlets.
Interested students should be organized, detail oriented, conversant in writing and on the telephone, and enjoy working independently as well as with other like-minded people.
Other qualifications: College/graduate students who can commit to a minimum of 10 hours/week either during the semester or summer. Opportunities are also available for shorter intern programs during school breaks. Hours are flexible, but regularity is important. We offer a small stipend for local travel and lunch on days in which you work 4 hours or more.
How to Apply: Please email a cover letter, writing sample, and resume to or fax to (212) 726-9160. In either case, please note “Eat Well Guide Internship/Externship.”
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You may have seen TFP’s list of farms in Eastern Massachusetts, but did you ever stop and wonder how all those farms got on that list, how their info is kept up-to-date, and how that list corresponds with other lists of Massachusetts farms? Me either, until a conversation the other day.
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www.realfoodchallenge.org
Join us this fall for a national month of action for Real Food Now! Stand with thousands of students—including fair trade and farmworkers rights advocates, student farmers, local food champions and campus sustainability leaders—on hundreds of campuses as we act for a more just and sustainable food system. Students and their allies—from Hawaii to New Hampshire—will organize protest potlucks, community teach-ins, and real food roundtables to highlight the need for real change in campus food.
Especially now, as we witness a growing obesity epidemic, soaring food prices, labor abuses in the fields, and the degradation of our land and water, it’s becoming clear that our food system is in crisis. All across the country students are taking action—breaking ground on new community gardens, campaigning for clean energy and local food in their cafeterias, working in solidarity with farmworkers and farmers abroad. Real change is happening on campuses nationwide and students are leading the way!
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The Real Food Now! National Month of Action will:
- Highlight the strength and diversity of the growing student food movement—showcasing the inspiring work that’s already happening on campus and in the community.
- Kick off the Real Food Challenge—a national campaign to redirect the $4 billion spent by colleges and universities on food each year to real food, food that is healthy as well as community-based, ecologically sound, fair, and humane.
- Provide an opportunity to take action locally to change our campus food systems—transforming schools into living laboratories for real food solutions.
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Together, we can dramatically transform our food system into one that truly nourishes people, communities and the earth. But to achieve the real change our food system requires, we need you.
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How You Can Help:
Plan an Action—Collaborate with students near you to put on a Real Food Now! Action. Go to: www.realfoodchallenge.org/launch-challenge to get ideas and to share your action with other students across the country.
Spread the Word—Contact students and other allies in your network and get them involved. Forward this announcement and send them to the website.
Link Up—Post a link and some text about the Real Food Now! Month of Action on your website.
Contact Us—If your organization would like to sign on as an endorser or collaborate in other ways, please contact us today.
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For more information and to sign on to Real Food Now! go to www.RealFoodChallenge.org or email RealFoodChallenge@gmail.com.
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Organization: The Community Alliance with Family Farmers is a non-profit organization dedicated to building a movement of rural and urban people to foster family-scale agriculture that cares for the land, sustains local economies, and promotes social justice. CAFF is a membership organization guided by a board of directors that includes family farmers and others who are passionate about food, farming and the environment. In its program areas, CAFF is working to promote and enhance biological farming and California’s local food systems.
Description of the position: Farm-to-School is a comprehensive approach to nutrition education, teaching children about where their food is grown, how to prepare farm-fresh foods, and the benefits of healthy eating. The ultimate goal is for school-aged children to be nourished by fresh fruits and vegetables from local farms. The Central Coast Farm-to-School Project Coordinator will share responsibility for activities in elementary schools located in Alisal Union School District in Salinas. Activities include: bringing students out to farms and farmers into classrooms, conducting cooking lessons with students, and working with parents in the district. The coordinator will be working with elementary school children, parents, school administrators and staff.
Essential responsibilities:
- Coordinate and implement farm-related nutrition education including field trips to local farms and farmer visits to the classroom.
- Coordinate and implement cooking classes and seasonal produce tastings at school sites.
- Develop, assimilate, and utilize standards-linked nutrition and agricultural education curriculum.
- Organize Farm-to-School stakeholder meetings at school sites and at a regional level.
- Attend Farm-to-School related meetings on the Central Coast.
- Represent CAFF and participate in community activities and events.
- Provide administrative support to the Central Coast office.
Minimal Qualifications:
- Fluent in Spanish
- Bicultural or experience working with Latino populations
- Enjoy working with children
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Resourceful and able to perform a variety of administrative and organizational tasks with a creative approach to problem solving
- Ability to work well in a detail-oriented environment, exhibit flexibility, work on multiple tasks simultaneously and adjust to competing priorities
- Flexibility to work independently, with minimal supervision, as well as collaborate with others in a team setting
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs and the Internet
- Reliable transportation and willingness to travel around the Central Coast
- Willing to work occasional evenings and weekends
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience working with elementary school students
- Experience in gardening, farming or produce sales
- Knowledge of farming on the Central Coast
- Nutrition and/or cooking background
Compensation: Position pays $15-20 per hour, depending on experience and qualifications.
To apply: Submit a cover letter and resume to Ildi Carlisle-Cummins, CAFF, 406 Main St., Suite 406, Watsonville, CA 95076. Contact Ildi at (831) 761-8507 or for additional information.
Application Deadline: Open until filled.
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When: September 17 through October 9
Where: Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Vermont, New York City, Washington, D.C.
Guest Speaker: Leticia Galeano—Campesina and youth leader from Paraguay
In the midst of a global food, energy and climate crisis more and more people are challenging the destructive industrialized agricultural model by constructing local and regional alternatives with a vision for food sovereignty worldwide.
As momentum grows in the United States around truly local, sustainable and fair food systems, it is also crucial that we stand with the international movements that are actively pursuing these same alternatives and confronting the interests that oppose them—often in the face of violence and repression.
We hear little to nothing in the U.S. media about Paraguay, yet Paraguayan peasant and Indigenous communities have been fighting one of the most unheard of wars: the “soybean wars.” Soybeans in Paraguay are symbolic of the legacy of a U.S. backed dictatorship and of U.S. economic interests, specifically those of agribusinesses. These are making record high profits through the expansion of large-scale industrial monoculture production of Monsanto’s genetically modified soy at the expense of impoverishing local communities, human rights abuses and environmental destruction.
Come hear directly from Leticia Galeano, an inspiring young leader from the Movimiento Agrario y Popular (a peasant organization in the department of Caaguazú) and university student in Asuncion, Paraguay. Leticia will speak about militarization in Paraguay, criminalization of social movements, local resistance to soy expansion and about the role of U.S. agribusiness giants like ADM, Bunge and Cargill in the soybean wars.
Events will be held at universities, cultural centers, and conferences in various cities. Additional speakers will join Leticia at the events.
For more information or if you are interested in sponsoring this speaking tour, or hosting an event in one of the cities listed, please contact Lorena Rodriguez at or (612)840-9540 or Andrea Samulon at or (415) 659-0540.
Sponsored By: Georgetown University, Student Trade Justice Campaign, Rainforest Action Network, School of Americas Watch, Institute for Policy Studies, the Washington Office on Latin America and the International Labor Rights Fund.
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The Boston Globe ran a front-page story today entitled “Lead is threat to backyard gardens”, which mentions The Food Project. In the paper version, a photograph of Bessie Hood, one of the recipients of our raised-bed gardens, is on the cover of the paper.
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The University of California, Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Agrifood Systems (CASFS) is accepting applications for a Sustainable Agrifood Systems Associate Specialist. Under the general direction of the CASFS Director, the Associate Specialist will research and develop educational projects and materials on sustainable food systems, coordinate and edit a book, manage a campus-based agrifood seminar, oversee participatory research projects, help develop research collaborations, and participate in social science research and education development for the Center. For the full position announcement, please visit this link and scroll down to Social Sciences Division.
http://www2.ucsc.edu/ahr/academic_employment/Employment_opportunities_bulletin.htm#nontenuretrack
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WE ACT for Environmental Justice (WE ACT) is a 20 year old, community–based, non profit environmental justice organization dedicated to building community power to fight environmental racism and improve environmental health, protection and policy in communities of color. WE ACT accomplishes this mission through community organizing, education, advocacy, research, and public policy development.
WE ACT seeks an intern to help develop our Food Justice Campaign. The Intern will report directly to the Sustainability Coordinator towards the long-term goal of improving access to healthy and affordable food in Northern Manhattan.
Responsibilities Include:
- Research on the accessibility of healthy food in Northern Manhattan neighborhoods
- Policy research and policy platform development
- Support for coalition building with New York City and state food advocates
- Curriculum development for food justice workshops
- Organizing in Northern Manhattan Schools
Qualifications:
The most qualified candidates will have a minimum of 3 years of college coursework, with a concentration in environmental studies, political science, urban studies, public policy, or a related field. Must be proficient with MS Word and Excel. Experience and knowledge in community organizing and/or the local political system is beneficial. Bilingual (English/Spanish) individuals are encouraged to apply.
Additional Qualifications:
- Excellent writing skills and attention to detail
- Superb organizational skills and excellent verbal communications skills
- Excellent computer and research skills
- Demonstrated work ethic and ability to enjoy working with a smart, creative and enthusiastic team
Hours: 10 to 20 hours per week.
Start Date: As soon possible. College credit available.
To Apply:
Calls will not be accepted. Please send a cover letter and resume to
James Subudhi, or 271 West 125th Street, Suite 308, New York, New York 10027
