Environmental Resources

Goucher Green Guide 2011-2012

Click here for a listing of environmentally friendly restaurants, travel options, shopping, and locations.

Job Listings

Click here for environmental career web sites recommended by the Career Development Office.

Internship Resources

Greenpeace
Greenpeace interns perform a variety of tasks, depending on location, year, and interests surrounding environmental protection-- these include student networking, action units, grassroots organizing, oceans, forests, IT, and fundraising. Internships take place in San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Washington D.C.

Greenpeace Organizing Term
A semester-long advanced training program for student activists. This program is active, hands-on, and focused on developing leaders in environmental activism.

ECO Jobs
The Environmental Career Opportunities (ECO) site has extensive lists of jobs and internships available in environmental studies. Search by state or by date posted.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
This government office offers fellowships, scholarships, internships, and additional programs in Washington, D.C. and other national locations.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
Internships conducting research or teaching in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
The Smithsonian program offers opportunities to conduct terrestrial, atmospheric, and estuarine environmental research within the disciplines of ecology, biology, chemistry, microbiology, botany, zoology, mathematics, and physics. Projects are also offered in environmental education and environmental information management.

Orion Grassroots Network
Search "green" jobs and internships by state or internationally through this grassworks network.

Sustainable Business "Green" Jobs
This sustainable-only job bank lists both internship and volunteer opportunities as well as full- and part-time jobs.

Baltimore Green Works
In addition to planning an annual Green Week, this nonprofit organizes free and low-cost events year-round, such as the Ecoball and Sustainable Speaker series. Interns help the organization, which has only one full-time staff member, with daily operations for their environmental endeavors.

Marshy Point Nature Center
This 500-acre nature reserve in Baltimore County seeks interns to assist with programming, event planning, and exhibits. Students should be interested in the outdoors/natural sciences and have solid communication skills.

Maryland Conservation/Maryland League of Conservation Voters
One of the state's leading advocacy organizations, this organization works to pass pro-conservation laws at the state level and engage voters about conservation issues year-round. They are looking for interns to work on the Southern Maryland Global Warming Campaign, the Baltimore County Connections Project, web communications, and political/legislative campaigns.

The Nature Conservancy
This international conservation group works in all 50 states as well as 30 nations. Internships can be found online on a state-by-state basis.

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Funding Resources

The Garden Club of America
The Garden Club of America offers a wide range of excellent scholarships, fellowships, and internships for undergraduate and graduate students. The fellowships range from urban forestry and ecological restoration to medicinal botany and garden history and design. Scholarships include a variety of study topics throughout the year. For more information and application deadlines click here.

Goucher College Innovation Grants
The Innovation Grant Program has provided seed money to implement many exciting and effective campus projects proposed by Goucher students, faculty, and staff.Funded by the Office of the President, grants range between $250 and $5,000. The typical project is awarded between $1,000 to $2,000.

Grants.gov
A central storehouse for information on more than 1,000 grant programs from 26 federal agencies, providing access to about $500 billion in annual awards.

P3: People, Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustianability
An annual, national competition that enables college students to research, develop, and design scientific, technical, and policy solutions to sustainability challenges.

U.S. EPA Green Communities
A “green kit” of information on available EPA grants, including those for environmental education and environmental justice, as well as how-to tips on writing grant proposals.

Environmental Grantmakers Association
A coalition of more than 225 grant-providing groups. The Resource section includes a list of links for grant seekers, from professional associations to nonprofit organizations.

GrantsDirect.com
Tracks, profiles, and reports on the billions in grants paid annually by the nation’s leading new foundations.

Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE)
A comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency.

National Wildlife Foundation Campus Ecology Fellowships
Awards monetary fellowship grants to undergraduate and graduate students working with other members of the faculty, staff, or administration on projects designed to help reverse global warming on campus and beyond.

The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program
A USDA competitive grants program offered to eligible farmers, researchers, educators, and others in the agricultural community who are working on innovative approaches to sustainable agriculture.

AASHE Student Research on Campus Sustainability Award
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, this award recognizes outstanding student research that advances the field of campus sustainability.

The Kresge Foundation
A $3.1 billion private, national foundation that seeks to influence the quality of life for future generations through support of nonprofit organizations in six fields of interest: health, the environment, community development, arts and culture, education, and human services.