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Amir is Searching for Passionate Young Adults to Lead Camp Farms/Gardens

Amir Farmers serve as garden-educators at one of our partner camps during the summer, building productive gardens and farms with campers. Leveraging Amir’s educational curriculum, Amir Farmers use the garden space to teach about issues of social justice and fairness. Farmers will be trained and build bonds with staff working across the US and Canada at the annual training seminar in late May. At this training, Farmers will learn all aspeects of building a community garden, as well as how to use Amir’s Garden Manual and Curriculum to run programming for campers of all ages.

Amir Farmers have strong management and leadership skills, mentoring and education experience, and passion for food justice and environmental stewardship.

Transportation, room and board costs are all covered by Amir, and camp salary is competitive and consummate with experience.

For more information, contact Recruitment Coordinator Alex Goldfarb at agoldfarb@amirproject.org.

Sustainability Program Coordinator, University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)

The University of Connecticut is seeking applicants for a full-time Sustainability Program Coordinator in support of sustainability-related education, research and outreach goals and in furtherance of improved environmental performance in operational practices.

Application deadline: April 20, 2016

Learn more and apply. (Search under Staff Positions with Job Reference ID# 2016475.)

4 Quick Tips to Keep Your Dorm Room Green During Spring Break

Spring break is finally upon us, and many of us can’t wait to head out for some much needed R&R. But whether you’re heading home, hitting the beach somewhere warmer, taking a road trip or going off the grid for a few days of hiking, don’t forget that all the systems that make your dorm room comfortable when school is in session keep working even when you aren’t!

If you’re leaving campus for the week, take a second while you pack or prep to go over this mini-checklist. Help ensure that your dorm room or apartment is using as little energy as possible while you’re away.

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Not only will this help reduce heat loss, it’s also a good precaution to take in case of heavy rain and wind.

If you’re able to control your room temperature, turn it down to about 65 degrees, or slightly cooler than you normally keep it. You’ll be able to quickly bring your room back up to temperature when you return. (But fingers crossed that it’ll be warm enough that you won’t need to!)

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3. Report any leaking faucets.

Alert Facilities to the leak before you leave. Small drips add up!

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4. Unplug any non-essential appliances.

Don’t worry about your refrigerator, but if you have a coffee machine, toaster, alarm clock, desk lamp, hair dryer, game console or other appliance which doesn’t need to stay on during the break, unplug it to reduce phantom energy loss.

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