Check out this opportunity to be a part of Sierra Club’s Best Internship On Earth Contest! They are looking for a Youth Ambassador (18 – 25) who will explore, enjoy and protect the environment in countries around the world.
The chosen applicant will be part of a prize pack that includes:
- Travel around the country camping, rafting, hiking, contributing to environmental service projects, and enjoying the outdoors with the Sierra Club’s youth programs.
- Create an awesome video blog that documents the experience.
- Be based in beautiful San Francisco at the Sierra Club’s headquarters.
- Earn a $2,500 stipend for the 8-week internship, plus all expenses paid for travel.
- Be outfitted with $2,000 worth of gear from The North Face and Planet Explore.
The Outdoors Youth Ambassador will spend the summer video-blogging on a variety of Sierra Club-sponsored programs that include National Outings Volunteer Vacations, Inner City Outings, and Building Bridges to the Outdoors programs. Find out more and apply online at www.sierraclub.org/bestinternship.
Deadline is March 31st!
There was a time when the Sierra Club made sense but under the apparent financial influence of men like Robert Schad it seeme to have gone off the rails.
For example the Canadian Sierra Club fought to have grizzlies put back on the great plains which made no sense at all as there are people, farms livestock and cities there.
They ought to have used their money to pay to take grizzlies from the barren lands in the NWT, where there is an obvious overpopulation (they are migrating south into Manitoba and north on to the arctic islands where they are breeding with polar bears) and plant them in Labrador where they used to live but are now extinct. There is lots of room for more bears, no livestock, no cities and no people in most of Labrador.
If the Sierra once again began doing something useful I would support them but in recent years they have become infested with nut bar animal rights people and have gone right off the rails.
I’d encourage a kid to learn an honourable trade like becoming a trapper before I would encourage him to hook up with this lot and just become another cocktail party conservationist begging for hand outs to be spent on mailings,administration and pointless programs.