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Current opportunities

Utah Society for Environmental Education Annual Conference November 8-9, 2019 at the Eccles Wildlife Education Center
Environmental Justice in Multispecies Worlds: Land, Water, Food

The Center for Culture, History, and Environment invites participants for an interdisciplinary graduate student conference to be held March 6-8, 2020, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, which occupies ancestral Ho-Chunk land.

An Existential Toolkit for Climate Educators Workshop 3-5 July 2020
Conveners: Jennifer Atkinson, Elin Kelsey, Sarah Ray
Location: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany

Proposal Deadline: 18 November 2019

This workshop seeks materials and presentations for an interdisciplinary workshop that will address the following question: how can educators, activists, and community leaders help students navigate the emotional impacts of ecological degradation and social injustice in the age of climate disruption? Our aim is to develop a practical toolkit for educators, students and activists across disciplines and professions, with potential emphasis on pedagogical applications, curricular implications, and even co-curricular connections (counseling and wellness, student life, etc).

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Proposals for scholarly papers, teaching or educational materials, or descriptions of other kinds of student-oriented projects that relate to this topic and showcase the participants’ unique contributions are due 18 November 2019, and should be no longer than 750 words in length. Please include a position description that explains how your training experience shapes your knowledge on this topic, and a brief description of your specific contribution to the workshop. Please submit your proposal to Sarah Ray, sarah.ray@humboldt.edu.

SLC Parks & Public Lands has two open full-time positions:
- A Senior Groundskeeper for the Trails & Natural Lands Division,
- The SLC Public Lands Community Outreach, Events & Marketing Manager
Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment (UPHE)

Lead Safe Housing Internship - UPHE is working with Salt Lake County’s Lead Safe Housing program to help decrease the impact of lead poisoning on Utah children by offering free lead testing and free home lead remediation to qualifying families. UPHE and Salt Lake County have helped test hundreds of children and remediate many homes, but many children are still being harmed by this completely preventable condition.
STREAMS - Transformative Environmental Humanities hosted by KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory - Open Invitation & Call for Contributions, Stockholm, Sweden 5-8 August 2020

Job lists

Alt-ac (Alternative Academic)resources: https://guides.lib.unc.edu/c.php?g=216166&p=1625520
CoolWorks.com - Jobs in Great Places: https://www.coolworks.com/
Digital Humanities postings: http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/category/news/job/
Ecojobs.com - Environmental Career Opportunities: http://www.ecojobs.com/index.php
Grassroots Jobsources from Orion Magazine: http://jobs.orionmagazine.org/
Job Scholar - Humanities PhD students: https://thejobscholar.org/
List of job boards: https://guides.lib.unc.edu/c.php?g=216166&p=1511611
Nonprofitjobs.org: https://nonprofitjobs.org/
Society for Conservation Biology: https://careers.conbio.org/
The Idealist (non-profits): https://www.idealist.org/en/?type=JOB
USAJOBS.gov: https://www.usajobs.gov/
Utah Nonprofits Association Job Board: https://utahnonprofits.org/membership/job-board/all_ads?rootid=1
Versatile PhD (alt-ac resource for grad students): https://versatilephd.com/about/

Places we're working

Backcountry: http://www.backcountrycorp.com/
U Water Center: https://water.utah.edu/
Idaho Conservation League: https://www.idahoconservation.org/
Glen Canyon Institute: https://www.glencanyon.org/
HEAL – Powering Action to Protect Utah: https://www.healutah.org/about/jobs/
Natural History Museum of Utah: https://nhmu.utah.edu/
Nearby Nature: http://www.nearbynature.org/
Oregon League of Conservation Voters: http://www.olcv.org/
Save Our Canyons: https://saveourcanyons.org/
Summit Land Conservancy: https://wesaveland.org/
Torrey House Press: https://www.torreyhouse.org/
Utah Dine Bikeyah: http://utahdinebikeyah.org/
Utah Humanities: https://www.utahhumanities.org/
Utah Society for Environmental Education: https://www.usee.org/
Wasatch Community Gardens: https://wasatchgardens.org/