Audubon 100% Renewable Energy Campaign NOLA

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Green Corps is looking for motivated students to help us on an exciting campaign with the Audubon Society to pass a city-wide Renewable Portfolio Standard which would move New Orleans to 100% renewable energy by 2040! As volunteers or interns, students will help us to build grassroots power and work with volunteers, local organizations, and participate in environmental advocacy with our elected officials. With this work, you can join us in addressing one of the biggest threats to our planet: climate change. Over the next several months, we will be organizing community events, working with the media, collecting petition signatures, and building a broad coalition of organizations to join us in asking our elected officials to commit to phase out expensive & dirty fossil fuels in favor of clean, cheap renewable energy. Interns will lead and assist with a wide variety of campaign tasks. Good verbal and writing skills are important as interns will recruit and train volunteers, and lead meetings. Applicants should be willing to devote at least 10-15 hours per week to campaign work, but schedules can be adjusted to accommodate class, work, and personal preferences. We are unable to provide compensation for interns, but the internship will provide the opportunity to develop skills such as: public speaking, managing and training volunteers, goal-setting, fundraising and most importantly how to organize folks who care about an issue to make a big impact!