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Kathleen - This may not be the right time for the following job opportunity but there might be a great summer internship helping out whoever gets hired.
Bronwyn


Job Announcement
Program Coordinator for the Baltimore Neighborhood Energy Challenge



As one of the initial projects stemming from the Baltimore Sustainability Plan, the Baltimore Office of Sustainability, in partnership with the Baltimore Community Foundation, is launching the Baltimore Neighborhood Energy Challenge (BNEC) to motivate households to reduce their energy use. In its initial phase, BNEC will be a 9-month pilot program in 6-8 Baltimore communities designed to raise awareness, reduce residential energy use, stimulate demand for energy conservation services, and learn lessons on how to motivate behavior change related to reducing residential energy use. After the pilot, we hope to use what we learn to expand BNEC citywide and connect the program to other efforts aimed at creating jobs to make Baltimore homes healthy and energy efficient. BNEC has the potential to be a national model of community mobilization, social marketing, and verifiable energy use and greenhouse gas emissions reductions



The BNEC Coordinator will be responsible for pulling together all project components needed to successfully launch and grow this national model program. Working in collaboration with the Baltimore Office of Sustainability, the Baltimore Community Foundation, and a steering committee comprised of key partner organizations, the Coordinator will be the primary point of contact and organizing force behind BNEC.



For the full job description and application details please visit here: http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/greendreamjobs.display/id/3047317

Deadline: Accepting applications on a rolling basis through May 8th

To Apply:

Please send a resume and cover letter describing why you are qualified for this position and why you are passionate about helping this start-up initiative grow and succeed to Sarah Zaleski at [email protected]. No phone calls please.


Bronwyn Phillips
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Baltimore City Permits & Code Enforcement
United States

Hi Kathleen. My name is Ryan Champlin and I am a graduating Master's student at the University of Utah. My program of study is called Family Ecology, which doesn't much describe what I have been researching in the past 2 years. I have been studying both cbsm and public participation in urban planning, which has led me to seek out the intersections between the two. Specifically, I think there is enough research on public participation and on environmental social marketing to suggest that involving the target population in the barriers and benefits research and the planning and implementation of the strategies can be considered another social marketing strategy.
Anyway, I am considering starting a nonprofit organization in the Salt Lake area that would use environmental social marketing strategies to foster sustainable behaviors among local businesses, governments, and residents. Unfortunately, I can't do it alone, and I need someone else that is knowledgeable and interested in cbsm and sustainability. I am sure that helping to start a nonprofit isn't exactly what you have in mind, and you could probably make some money with some other organization, but imagine the senior paper you could write with this experience!
Please think about it, and contact me at [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

Best wishes,
Ryan Champlin

Ryan Champlin
University of Utah Department of Family and Consumer Studies
United States