Green Buckeye

Sierra Club's Green Life blog has a list of green beers for St. Paddy's day. Check out the comments, too, where readers share their local favorites and remind us that local brews might have a smaller carbon footprint.

Cleveland's Great Lakes Brewing Company is the closest brewery mentioned in the article. Do we have any breweries in Columbus making strong attempts to be more sustainable? Maybe The Columbus Beer Wench can help us out!

What's your favorite local brew?

Labels: consumer choices

Green Buckeye does not sponsor the events appearing on the calendar. We provide a link or contact information for the event if we have it. Please contact the sponsoring organization directly for the most up-to-date infomation about any event.

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The 270 blog brings our attention to a awesome opportunity. What if we could start up a green business here in Central Ohio in just one weekend?



Tag: Startup Weekend

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Ohio Environmental Council
Job Posting: Membership Director
Date posted: March 12, 2008
Applications due: April 15, 2008
Location: Columbus, Ohio

The Ohio Environmental Council (OEC) is seeking a Membership Director. The OEC is one of the nation’s premier state environmental advocacy non-profit organizations. The OEC’s mission is to secure healthy air, land, and water for all who call Ohio home.

The position: The Membership Director works with Director of Development for aggressive growth of the Ohio Environmental Council’s membership of individuals and nonprofit organizations.

• Responsible for preparing annual membership development plan, including analysis and evaluation of past membership development efforts. Closely work with the entire Board and staff to implement goals. Integrate fundraising and networking opportunities presented to Board and staff through their programmatic outreach efforts.
• Significantly grow OEC’s individual membership program. Evaluate, perform, and improve current tactics including mailings, calling, speaking engagements, online organizing, workplace giving, and events. Research, implement, and evaluate new tactics. Improve print and online membership communications. Respond to member inquiries.
• Build OEC’s nonprofit membership program. Evaluate the membership benefits offered to nonprofit organizations. Develop and execute a recruitment strategy involving Board and staff.
• Organize, assist, and attend fundraising and non-fundraising events including nature tours, house parties, and the OEC’s annual banquet. Responsible for acquiring auction items for annual banquet.
  

The organization: The Ohio Environmental Council is a statewide environmental advocacy group with a full-time staff of 15 and an annual budget of $1.3 million, with approximately one quarter coming from private donors. The OEC is Ohio’s leading advocate for fresh air, clean water, and sustainable land use. The OEC has a widely respected 40-year history of innovation, pragmatism, and success. Using legislative initiatives, legal action, scientific principles, and statewide partnerships, we secure a healthier environment for Ohio’s families and communities. Additional information about the organization and its programs can be found online at www.theoec.org.

Qualifications: The Membership Director must possess passion for environmental protection, strong leadership qualities, and demonstrated success in nonprofit fundraising, communications, advocacy, or sales. Experience with nonprofit membership is highly preferred. Bachelors degree required. Excellent written and oral communication skills are required. Director should have proficiency with technology, including use of the internet and databases, strong organizational skills, and must pay attention to detail. Should be able to travel throughout Ohio and occasionally work evening and weekend hours.

Competitive salary commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits including paid health, dental, vision, and life insurance, employer-matched retirement fund, and paid vacation, family, sick, and holiday leave.

Application: Send cover letter, resume, 3 writing samples, and references to:
Director of Development
Ohio Environmental Council
1207 Grandview Ave, Suite 201
Columbus, OH 43212-3449
or email: oec@theoec.org with “Membership Director” in the subject line.

The Ohio Environmental Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Labels: green collar jobs

These articles, news items, and opportunities for action came to our attention recently:

• It's not too late to nominate someone for SWACO's 2008 Central Ohio Emerald Awards. Deadline is Friday, March 14.
• This year's Leadership Hilliard class is creating the Hilliard Evergreen Team and is looking for volunteers to help make Hilliard greener (Hilliard Northwest News)
• Katie Archibald of Greener Footsteps, a sustainability consulting firm, is now publishing Sustainable Living Ohio, a monthly newsletter.
• World Water Day is March 22. We don't seem to have a local celebration, so you might want to participate virtually.
• John Wirtz at Xing Columbus has created a nice google map of COTA Park & Ride locations.

It's becoming more and more difficult to keep up with Central Ohio's sustainability-related news!

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Discovered this Chip Giller quote (The Way I See It #289) on my Starbucks cup this morning:

So-called "global warming" is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy independent, clean our air and water, improve the fuel efficiency of our vehicles, kick-start 21st-century industries, and make our cities safer and more livable. Don’t let them get away with it!

Viva the conspiracy.

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These articles, news items, and opportunities for action came to our attention recently:

• Sweeping transit proposal unveiled (Columbus Dispatch)
  
• Green-energy advocates rally around legislation (The Plain Dealer)
  
• Burying the problem: Battelle could be at forefront of solutions to global climate change (Columbus Dispatch)
  
• Calfee, Halter & Griswold adopts the Eco-Buck Program (Two Wheeling blog)
  

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Back in January I posted links pointing toward the candidates' stands on the environment and climate change. I'm posting some items I've posted previously here again for reference.

• League of Conservation Voters "Chart the Candidates" (detailed one-to-one comparision)
• NPR compares the still-standing candidates on climate change (quick and easy read)
• No Impact Man's wrote a comprehensive post with a positive future slant that I recommend
• The Council on Foreign Relations covers the candidates on numerous issues. Here is their page on Climate Change

Grist also has (had?) a great page on the candidates, but the whole Grist site appears to be down right now. In the event it comes back soon:

• Grist's presidential comparison chart (down as of 3/2/2008 11:50 a.m.)
• Grist's article, "How Green is Your Candidate" (also down)

Edited 3/3/2008 to correct a linking error.

Labels: 2008 Presidential Primaries, climate change, environment, resources

Columbus State is offering an overview course in environmental science this spring. The course is a "hybrid," meaning that most instruction is online with Sunday in-person lab sessions. Details appear below.

Thanks to Ira for fowarding to the COSR listserv.

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