Are you looking for a summer job that will help protect the environment?

The Campaign to Save the Environment
Campaign to Save the Environment is a project of the Fund for Public Interest Research, a national, nonprofit organization. They run campaigns with progressive groups like Sierra Club, and the state PIRGs to make an impact on environmental and public interest issues. They're hiring staff for their offices in 65 cities across the country. This summer you can make a difference on environmental issues, make friends with other environmental activists and make money doing it. To apply, or for more information, call 1-800-75-EARTH or check out www.jobsfortheenvironment.org.

The State PIRGs
If you want a job where you can investigate, educate, advocate and organize each day on behalf of consumers and the environment, consider a job with the state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs). The state PIRGs are a national network of nonprofit activist organizations that advocate for the public interest. Starting with thorough research, they tackle problems that need to be solved. The state PIRGs' staff training combines classroom study with hands-on field work. They're hiring for positions as Campus Organizers and in their Fellowship Program.

Campus Organizer
The U.S. has more problems than it should tolerate, and more solutions than it uses. And it is hard to imagine things changing while so many are not participating. Making matters even worse, our educational system has become more focused on producing skilled employees rather than training effective citizens. That is where the PIRG campus organizer comes in. PIRG organizers recruit students, faculty, and community members to investigate problems and build support for solutions. PIRG organizers, and the volunteers they recruit and train, research issues, build coalitions, work with the media, educate the public, and generate grassroots support on issues ranging from poverty to environmental protection.

Fellowship Program
The goal of a PIRG Fellowship is to help develop leaders in the public interest movement. You might see yourself becoming an organizer, advocate or even director with a public interest group some day. As a PIRG Fellow, you gain hands-on experience in organizing, advocating and leading public interest campaigns in your first year on staff. More importantly, you get real results, whether at the local, state or federal level. And your experience is complemented by intensive training and the direction and advice of a more senior mentor.

How To Apply
To apply, or for more information, check out www.pirg.org/jobs or contact Peggy Lo at jobs@pirg.org or 617-292-4800.

Green Corps
Can you imagine yourself running a campaign to defend old growth forests from corporate logging companies, protecting local communities from pesticides or starting your own environmental group? Green Corps' one-year, full-time, paid Environmental Leadership Training Program gives you top-notch training to launch a career an organizing and advocacy career. You will learn the concrete skills and experiences it takes to be a leader in the environmental movement. The three-part training program includes intensive classroom training, hands-on experience running urgent environmental and public health campaigns, and placement in permanent leadership positions with leading environmental groups.

Training
The Introductory Classroom Training, held in Boston, MA, teaches you to mobilize grassroots support, train community leaders, and work with the media. You will learn about issues you care about - from endangered species, to corporate responsibility to toxic threats to communities. You will learn from environmental leaders who have real-life experience fighting to protect our environment like Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder of United Farm Workers, and Bob Bingaman, National Field Director of Sierra Club. Four subsequent week-long classroom training sessions held throughout the year teach you additional skills and hone your ability to plan and implement effective campaigns.

Responsibilities
As a Green Corps Field Organizer, you'll plan and implement a series of campaigns conducted on behalf of groups like Rainforest Action Network and Pesticide Watch. Your job will include recruiting, training and supervising volunteers, interns and staff; working with the media; fundraising; and mobilizing grassroots support.

To Apply
To apply or for more information, go to their website, www.greencorps.org or contact Jenna Perry at jobs@greencorps.org or 617-426-8506.