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Year Two: Cumulative Impacts and Sustainable Solutions for Central Valley Water
Content Type: Other Switzer Foundation Grant Awards
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Year Two: Cumulative Impacts and Sustainable Solutions for Central Valley Water
Leadership Program
$20,000
The Community Water Center (CWC) received a second year of Switzer funding for Dr. Carolina Balazs's position as Research Scientist. Carolina is developing short- and long-term research projects for CWC that will inform its advocacy efforts for clean drinking water and public health in California's San Joaquin Valley. Carolina contributes critical scientific and technical expertise to...
Year Two: International Program Director
Content Type: Other Switzer Foundation Grant Awards
Posted:
Monday, January 7, 2013
Year Two: International Program Director
Leadership Program
$30,000
Global Diversity Fund, Inc. (GDF), received a $30,000 second-year grant to continue funding for Susannah McCandless's position as International Program Director. GDF is an international community-based conservation organization focusing on biocultural diversity with programs developed and delivered in partnership with local organizations and community members. Susannah is based in...
Year Two: Project Leader - Western Private Lands & Connectivity Conservation
Content Type: Other Switzer Foundation Grant Awards
Posted:
Friday, December 21, 2012
Year Two: Project Leader - Western Private Lands & Connectivity Conservation
Leadership Program
$35,000
This second-year grant provides continued funding for Sarah Reed's work as project leader for the Western Private Lands and Connectivity Conservation project, and for her new full time staff position as Associate Conservation Scientist at Wildlife Conservation Society. Sarah's work informs the field of land use planning and how the practice of Conservation Development can be integrated...
The Carbon Bubble
Content Type: Leadership Exchange and Jobs
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
As You Sow seeks a Switzer Fellow or team of Fellows to conduct research and assist with policy recommendations on the following project:Coal, oil, and gas reserves that are claimed as assets on the balance sheets of the top 100 coal, oil, and gas companies contain 5X the total amount of carbon that scientists believe can possibly be burned without climate catastrophe. In the recently released...
Soak It Up! Preventing Oil Spills and Leakage from Recreational Boating
Content Type: Other Switzer Foundation Grant Awards
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Network Innovation
$5,000.00
Switzer Fellows are members of a Technical Advisory Committee to the Soak It Up! project involving several California-based NGOs, including the Los Angeles Sustainability Collaborative. The Collaborative produced a briefing paper entitled, "Soak It Up!: Strategies for Sustainable Recreational Boating and a Clean California Coastline", which highlighted the problem of oil pollution...
The Laundering Machine: How Fraud and Corruption in Peru’s Concession System are Destroying the Future of its Forests
Content Type: Blog Post - Fellow
Posted:
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
This past week in Lima, EIA launched a new report entitled “The Laundering Machine: How Fraud and Corruption in Peru’s Concession System are Destroying the Future of its Forests”. The full report is available in both English and Spanish as PDFs posted on EIA’s homepage. In addition, we have created a digital version that contains links to many pertinent official documents, news stories, videos...
[WEBINAR] Go Botany! A Behind-the-Scenes Tour with Switzer Fellow Elizabeth Farnsworth (Switzer Foundation Webinar Series)
Content Type: Blog Post - Fellow
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
How do you develop consumer-oriented websites that both inform and inspire sustainable action? Find out from Switzer Fellow Elizabeth Farnsworth as she takes us inside Go Botany!, a new website designed to help you identify over 1,200 of the most common native and naturalized New England plants. It includes interactive features that allow users to find friends, collaborate on field surveys for...
Enid Wonnacott talks about her work with the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont
Content Type: Blog Post - Fellow
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
What is the big problem you are trying to solve?On a big scale, I am working on the viability of agriculture in Vermont – addressing how farmers can produce food in a way that enhances the quality of the soil and the environment, market their products to their community, and maintain the scale of operation that provides a livable wage. Basically, we have a cheap food policy in this country...
Lopez's non-profit loses everything when accounting firm shuts its doors
Content Type: News - Fellows
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Monday, April 9, 2012
As a doctoral student at UC Santa Cruz studying the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Ann Lopez was touched by the struggles of migrant workers and the relatives they left behind in Mexico. In response, she founded the Center for Farmworker Families in 2008 to provide education and economic assistance and advocacy.But the Felton resident and San Jose City College environmental...
Balazs honored for contribution to Central Valley
Content Type: News - Fellows
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
The awards ceremony was held at the Fresno Art Museum Wednesday morning. Seven women were recognized for their contributions to the 31st district by Assemblyman Henry T Perea, as well as the community water center, which is an organization led by eight women.Among the others recognized, was a member of the Fresno League of Women Voters' Board of Directors. Also honored, an Edison High School...
Kramme interviewed about how consumers contribute to a threatened tiger’s demise
Content Type: News - Fellows
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Monday, March 26, 2012
LITZINGER12:34:22Okay. Are we causing a problem? For example, here in the United States, we are a consumer society. Sometimes we don't think about where things come from. What's the connection between what we buy and the Sumatran Tiger?KRAMME12:34:34Well, people might not be aware that the products that they buy here in the U.S. could be connected to these impacts on Sumatra's forests and...
Nancy Steele profiled in Forbes article on women who excel in and beyond the boardroom. http://onforb.es/zyf5n3
Content Type: News - Fellows
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Some aren’t (or don’t want to be) as spontaneous as Danicki or as physically intense as Castillo. But they’re just as extreme. Like Executive Director of the Council for Watershed Health, Nancy Steele. By day, Steele is responsible for the Los Angeles regions’ trusted hub for essential watershed research and analysis. She manages a team of 17 and a budget of $3 million with the ultimate goal of...
Gartner, Donlan publish issue brief on "candidate species" marketplace
Content Type: News - Fellows
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Sunday, March 25, 2012
This issue brief reports on the mechanics of and lessons learned from a conservation incentive program focused on the gopher tortoise. Its aim is to inform the successful design and implementation of other candidate programs emerging throughout the southern forests and greater United States.The Switzer Foundation is funding a pilot demonstration project to test the feasibility of the project...
Reed helps develop a new approach to identify and rank wildlife corridors
Content Type: News - Fellows
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The study, "Connecting Natural Landscapes Using a Landscape Permeability Model to Prioritize Conservation Activities in the United States," appears in the journal Conservation Letters. Authors include David Theobald of CSU, Kenyon Fields and Michael Soulé from Wildlands Network and Sarah Reed from the Wildlife Conservation Society.Read the full story
Elbroch named Project Leader of the Teton Cougar Project
Content Type: News - Fellows
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The overall objective of this field study is to quantify cougar ecology in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Specific goals are to:Document the characteristics of the cougar population, including population size, and vital rates (survival, mortality, and natality);Characterize cougar predation on elk, mule deer, and other species, assessing changes over time and characterizing the influence of...
Cohen coauthors op-ed "Boxer's transportation bill makes smart choices"
Content Type: News - Fellows
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Sen. Barbara Boxer seems to have achieved the impossible by crafting a transportation bill that is overcoming partisan gridlock in the U.S. Senate. Recently, the Senate voted 85-11 to advance Boxer's transportation bill, MAP-21, to a floor vote that is expected to be scheduled when Congress returns to Washington on Feb. 27.Read the full op-ed
Ardoin and Merrick publish second Research Bulletin for enviro ed practitioners
Content Type: News - Fellows
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The Environmental Education Research Bulletin is a project of NatureBridge in partnership with Dr. Nicole Ardoin at Stanford University. It is designed to inform NatureBridge educators about recent relevant research, so the emphasis is on field science, stewardship behavior, and residential settings, among other topics. Other environmental educators might also find this bulletin useful,...
Hafkenshiel appointed Director of the Bay Area Council Foundation
Content Type: News - Fellows
Posted:
Friday, March 16, 2012
The Council is pleased to announce the appointment of Erin Hafkenschiel
as Director of the Bay Area Council Foundation, the charitable
organization founded in 2004 to fund, manage and implement initiatives
that impact the entire Bay Area. A Fulbright Scholar and graduate of UC
Berkeley and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University, Erin brings to the Council extensive...
Rubinstein's NERC opposes use of degradable additives in plastic packaging
Content Type: News - Fellows
Posted:
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Northeast Recycling Council Inc.
(NERC), based in Brattleboro, Vt., has adopted a policy position in
opposition to the use of degradable additives in plastic packaging.
“The board determined that this practice currently has a negative impact
on plastics recycling markets and the effectiveness of plastics
recycling in general,” reports Sarah Kite, president of the NERC board.Read the...
Kramme quoted in Washington Post blog post about Kroger decision to halt purchases from Va.-based Mercury Paper
Content Type: News - Fellows
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Linda Kramme, manager of the forest program at World Wildlife Fund,
said her organization and others applaud Kroger for making a responsible
business decision.
“WWF and other groups that are asking consumers not to buy Mercury’s
products...aren’t trying to put Mercury or APP out of business, but
simply asking them to adhere to the same forestry practices that
responsible pulp and paper...