Internships

World Centric currently has the following internship positions open:

Sustainability Intern

Goal: To develop content for the Conscious Living Guide

The Conscious Living Guide (CLG) aims to educate readers about environmental and social issues facing the world at varying levels of detail, and actions one can take to minimize impact. We envision that CLG will be a resource or portal for sustainability topics that is accurate, well referenced and makes connections when appropriate of seemingly disparate topics. At the same time, we aim to make this guide accessible to a wide audience using appropriate language and through the extended use of visuals.

The framework for the CLG contains the broad categories of the Environmental Degradation and Social/Economic Justice. The subcategories (components) for the Environmental Degradation section are broadly defined by components of the Earth System as follows:

    Environmental Degradation
  • Forests
  • Oceans
  • Climate
  • Soil
  • Fresh Water
  • Biodiversity
For each of these components, we aim to research and answer the following questions.
  • Why is this component important to the Earth?
  • What is the current state of this component and what are the predictions for the future?
  • What happens as it gets more & more exploited? E.g. Easter Island
  • What actions can one take to minimize impact? What are the alternatives?
  • Is there a way to quantify the difference? E.g. How many trees would a person save, if they switched to 100% post consumer waste toilet paper?
Each Earth System component is by itself a fairly large topic and there are many books devoted to each of these subjects. The intention of this research project is to:
  1. Perform a literature review on the particular topic.
  2. Write a report answering the above questions (5-7 pages)
  3. Write an executive summary from the report.(1 page)

All writing should be well referenced using a mixture of peer reviewed articles, government reports and magazine/newpaper articles. The intent of the report is to research the field with enough depth so that an interested reader would have a good background into the topic and have the important references identified. Both the report and the executive summary are intended for the web and should be structured and presented to make the information easily accessible and to keep the reader’s interest. Graphics, images and tables and other visuals would be very helpful. The executive summary will inform the reader through shorter statements and key visuals the essential message of the report.

Interns will be expected to meet with a World Centric once per week or biweekly to update them on progress and so that a meaningful dialogue can help guide the research and writing. Any writing from an intern that appears on the World Centric CLG will be credited to the intern should they approve.