June 2006 Update
Hi everyone, welcome back, and oh how time flies by as we count down the final days of June! As always, we here at the Arctic Youth Network hope you have been working happily and hard in your home communities. This month's AYN update is full of exciting scholarship and funding opportunities to help you continue!
Here at AYN, preparations continue for the AYN Youth Leadership Conference 2006! Application forms for the conference are now ready! If you wish to apply please go to our new conference page to download an electronic copy of the application. The deadline for applications to be completed is August 15, 2006. Spread the word and apply, apply, APPLY! We hope to hear from most of you in the near future. Peace.
This update will list Awards/Scholarships, Funding Opportunities, Voice (opportunities to have a say), Courses and Conferences, Job Opportunities, Volunteer Opportunities, Info, Contests, and Upcoming Events.
Awards/Scholarships
Toward Tomorrow
Toward Tomorrow is sponsoring an essay contest to encourage a new generation of folk (from college and graduate students to young professionals) to express and develop plans to act on, from a social justice and sustainable production perspective. Four $500 dollar prizes are available.
More Info: towardtomorrow@uml.edu
Deadline: September 6, 2006
UNESCO -- Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence
The Section of Action against Racism and Discrimination of the Division of Human Rights, Human Security and Philosophy, is calling for nominations for the Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence, which will be awarded for the sixth time, in 2006.
More Info: Phone +33 (1) 45 68 38 31/29 or fax +33 (1) 45 68 57 23
E-mail: s.lazarev@unesco.org
Deadline: Nominations should be sent before Friday, 28 July 2006
The International Student Organization for Sustainable Development and Economics
How can student action transform higher education institutions towards sustainability? What alliances are needed and how can entrepreneurial thinking push action at the local University level? In the context of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), OIKOS -- the International Student Organization for Sustainable Development and Economics -- invites students to contribute concrete projects dedicated towards sustainability at the university level.
Deadline: September 30, 2006
Web: www.oikos-foundation.unisg.ch/homepage/award2006.htm
IDRC Internship Award
The IDRC Internship awards provide exposure to research for international development through a program of training in research management and grant administration under the guidance of IDRC program staff. The internship is designed to provide hands-on learning experiences in research program management.
Web: www.idrc.ca/awards/ev-84370-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
E-mail: cta@idrc.ca
Canadian Urban Transit Association Awards 2006
This award is designed to encourage career opportunities within public transit. Five $2000 scholarships will be awarded in 2006.
Deadline: September 14, 2006
Web: www.cutaactu.ca
Funding Opportunities
The Aboriginal and Northern Community Action Program (ANCAP)
Call for Proposals -- The Aboriginal and Northern Community Action Program (ANCAP) of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) recently announced funding available for impacts and adaptation to climate change projects this year. $375,000 is available for projects north of 60, with a maximum $70,000 funding per project.
Deadline: August 31, 2006
E-mail: Marie-Eve Neron (neronm@ainc-inac.gc.ca) or Yanie Chauret (chaurety@inac.gc.ca)
Universite Laval and Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Post Doctoral Position. Complementary projects in response to climate change in the North: 1) Capacity Building of Environment and Health Surveillance in Inuit Regions, and 2) Better understanding the influence of climate change on food security.
E-mail: susie.bernier@crchul.ulaval.ca
Voice
Nature Canada
Nature Canada is circulating a petition to Prime Minister Steven Harper on the harmful effects global warming is having on the Polar Bear population living in Canada's North. You can sign the petition and let the Government know action is needed now!
More Info: www.charlesandroger.com
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Canada's woodland caribou are symbols of our national identity. We can only save the remaining woodland caribou by protecting their habitat in our intact northern Boreal forests. Please let your provincial/territorial representative know that you want them to establish protected areas for caribou. You can send a message to your government on our web site.
More Info: www.cpaws.org/action/caribou.php
Contact: info@cpaws.org
Aboriginal Youth Council Youth Forum
The Aboriginal Youth Council creates positive change for Friendship Centre youth through inclusion, empowerment and culture. The 17th annual National Youth Forum will be taking place July 9-11 in Saskatoon.
More Info: www.nafc-aboriginal.com/ayc.htm
Contact: jformsma@nafc.ca
ICLEI -- Local Governments for Sustainability
The project in one sentence: Engage young people into relevant local government conferences on sustainability while ensuring that the youth presence is effective through the provision of prior distance training on sustainable programs, advocacy skills and municipal workings.
More Info: www.iclei-europe.org
Contact: +49 (761) 36892 20 (ask for Elisa or Jean-Olivier)
E-mail: jean-olivier.dalphond@iclei.org
Topic Magazine seeks contributors for print and web magazines
Get some press coverage! Topic Magazine is interested in asking people who might never have thought of writing for a magazine to write -- they're interested in extraordinary lives. They are looking for anyone and everyone... from a prostitute in Prague, to a competitive eater in the national circuit, to a prison reform activist, or a teenager battling depression in remote Alaska.
Contact: Dawn at dawn.chan@topicmag.com
International Youth Day
This year's theme will be: "Tackling Poverty Together -- involving young people in the fight against poverty." Get out and organize! Let's show the South what the far North can do! Celebrate the role of youth in society and highlight areas of concern. This is our chance to scream!
Contact: AYN for ideas and support (arcticyouth@gmail.com). Check into the United Nations Programme on Youth website for info on other events taking place that day. To add your event, send an e-mail to youth@un.org. More info on: www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/iyouthday.htm
Courses and conferences
Pole to Pole Institute -- Human Powered Expedition
This expedition is looking for young people to get involved. It is organized by the Pole to Pole Leadership Institute. They are putting together three teams: 1 to do the actual journey, 1 to setup and work on 6-9 month volunteer projects along the route, and 1 to do outreach in high schools in Europe and North America.
More Info: www.poletopoleleadership.com
Orphaned and Abandoned Mines: A Workshop to Explore Best Practices
Who: The National Orphaned/Abandoned Mines Initiative (NOAMI)
Where: Winnipeg, Canada
When: Oct 26 & 27, 2006
More Info: www.abandoned-mines.org
Deadline: October 20, 2006
Contact: Barb McLean at (204) 945-4961 or toll-free (800) 223-5215
Stewardship and Conservation in Canada
Stewardship and Conservation in Canada is a national conference. Held every three years, this conference has been attracting participants representing federal, provincial, regional and municipal government, non-profit organizations, industry, aboriginal groups, youth, educational institutions and individuals from across Canada.
Where: Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
When: July 5-8, 2006
More Info: www.stewardship2006.ca/welcome_e.html
Contact: staciegregory@gov.nl.ca
Coastal Zone Canada 2006 Youth Forum
We would like to invite you to participate in the Coastal Zone Canada Youth Forum in Tuktoyaktuk, in Canada's Western Arctic, August 11-14, 2006. If you're between the ages of 15 and 29, and interested in the environment and change, Tuktoyaktuk NWT is where you'll want to be this summer! The Youth Forum in Tuktoyaktuk will be an exciting opportunity to exchange ideas and learn about new and emerging ways to manage and adapt to coastal change. The theme of this year's conference is "change and sustainability in Arctic coastal communities" and Participants will be considering how livelihoods depend on the coast, from research, to hunting and fishing, to shipping and travel routes. We will look at how coastal residents can better adjust to changing times and conditions. We are confident that the Coastal Zone Canada 2006 Youth Forum will provide many opportunities to learn and share with other youth from the Arctic and the rest of the world.
Contact: youth.forum@czc06.ca
Schools on Board 2006 Field Program
The 2006 expedition will take place October 29-November 11, 2006. Schools on Board will join the ArcticNet science teams on board the CCGS Amundsen (Canada's state-of-the-art research icebreaker), in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The onboard program will take participants through Frobisher Bay, across the Hudson Strait, along the Labrador Shelf and into the fjords of northern Labrador, proceeding into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and ending at the Coast Guard port in Quebec City.Schools can apply today to send one of their students and/or teachers on board this exciting science expedition -- join the team of 2 program leaders, 8 students, and 2 teachers. Preliminary schedule, costs, and application information are all available on the website -- www.arcticnet.ulaval.ca (click on Schools on Board banner). Schools will be selected by the end of June (2006) so that they are ready to select their participant in September.
Contact: barberl@cc.umanitoba.ca
Indigenous International Environmental Gathering
Indigenous Environmental Network, 14th Protecting Mother Earth Conference, July 6-9, 2006, Cass Lake, Minnesota (within the sovereign territories of the Leech Lake Anishinaabe Nation).
Web: www.ienearth.org
Contact: simone@ienearth.org
Pioneers of Change Network
The 2006 Annual Meeting of the Pioneers of Change Network will be held August 19th-25th on the East Coast at "The Shire" -- a study and practice ground for a sustainable human future. Summer School is an exciting opportunity to engage with young practitioners who are working in all areas of their societies for positive change. It will be a place to bring your burning questions and best learning to engage in a global community for 6 days.
Jobs
Alpine Bakery
Alpine Bakery is an environmentally and socially responsible business providing sourdough/artisan bread,veg/fruit produce, and other foods. We are accepting inquiries and applications for positions of front counter/cashier, baker's assistant(s), and kitchen/catering chef(s).
Where: Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
More Info: www.alpinebakery.ca
Deadline: As soon as possible
Contact: info@alpinebakery.ca
TakingITGlobal
We are currently hiring for 15 new positions across Canada: Francophone Youth Engagement Coordinator (Full time); Aboriginal Youth Engagement Coordinator (Full time); 13 Provincial and Territorial Outreach Coordinators (Part time).
Where: Varying locations across Canada.
More info: http://about.takingitglobal.org/d/getinvolved
Deadline: July 17, 2006
Contact: clccanada@takingitglobal.org
Campus Climate Challenge Coalition
The Energy Action Coalition is hiring four new full-time central staff and our coalition partners are hiring an additional 25+ new full-time-equivalent staff. These jobs are all part of an exciting new campaign called The Campus Climate Challenge.
More info: www.energyaction.net/jobs
Deadline: As soon as possible
Contact: Billy Parish at (203) 887-7225
E-mail: billy@energyaction.net
European Secretariat of ICLEI -- Local Governments for Sustainability
The ICLEI is currently taking applications for two Internship positions. Internship I: Assistant, ICLEI'S Climate & Air Team. Internship II: Assistant, Information services.
More Info: www.iclei.org
Deadline: Apply as soon as possible
Contact: jobs@iclei-europe.org
Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Society
We are seeking an Administrative Coordinator to undertake administrative and financial management of the Society. The position will be filled on a contract basis. Contractors must be able to perform this work on their own premises with their own office equipment.
More Info: www.yuwin.ca/english/job_board.cfm?Id=3297
Deadline: July 14, 2006
Contact: borderlands@taiga.net, (867) 667-7500
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS)
National Executive Director, The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is seeking an inspirational leader to run its national conservation organization and champion its bold new vision to permanently protect at least one-half of Canada's public lands.
When: Start date Fall 2006
Where: Yellowknife, Canada
More Info: www.planetfriendly.net/gwd.php?id=2318
Deadline: Jun 30, 2006
Contact: Search Committee
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Suite 506, 250 City Centre Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario K1R 6K7
E-mail address: hr@cpaws.org
Regional Coordinator, Glocal Youth Parliament
Regional Coordinators maintain and expand the Glocal Youth Parliament network within their regional jurisdiction. Their presence and expertise in the region provides easier access to youth and potential local partners than GYP staff have from Glocal Forum Headquarters in Rome. Regional Coordinators commit 10 hours of time per week to their duties, including network contact and management, fundraising, event coordination in close partnership with Glocal Forum staff. Regional Coordinators receive a stipend of 1600 euro annually.
Web: www.glocalforum.org or www.glocalyouth.org
Contact: nell@glocalforum.org
National Coordinator, Creating Local Connections Canada, TakingITGlobal
TakingITGlobal seeks a dynamic National Project Coordinator for Creating Local Connections Canada (CLC Canada), a collaborative three-year program (2006-2009) of TakingITGlobal. CLC Canada aims to inspire, inform, and involve youth as engaged participants in Canadian society through capacity building workshops, arts, online and in-person forums, networking, media creation, and other initiatives. This position will be based in Toronto, Ontario.
IISD
Paid internships to UNITAR. They are currently looking for someone who is available from August 2006-February 2007. To qualify you must:
- be Canadian
- be under 30
- have never had paid international work experience before
- HAVE FINISHED YOUR DEGREE
They will consider applications until the position is filled.
Web: www.iisd.org/interns
Circumpolar Young Leaders Internships
Web: www.iisd.org/interns/arctic
Jobs North: Work Opportunities in Northwest Territories, Canada
Web: www.jobsnorth.ca
Alaska Job Center Network
Web: www.jobs.state.ak.us
Internship -- Taiga Rescue Network
Like most other environmental and social NGOs, the Taiga Rescue Network has limited financial resources. We rely to a large extent on interns to keep up with the work.
Where: Jokkmokk is a small village with roughly 3 000 inhabitants and is situated in the inland of Northern Sweden.
When: September 2006
More Info: www.taigarescue.org/en//index.php?sub=3&cat=29
Deadline: Applications will be considered until the position is filled.
Contact: connectwithdamien@gmail.com
Volunteer opportunities
Arctic Youth Network Leadership Conference 2006
We are looking for volunteers to help with graphic design (posters!), outreach, painting of a giant circumpolar north map, etc. Volunteers can be located anywhere in the Circumpolar North. E-mail us and let us know what your special talents are... we'll supply you with the info and materials to use them!
Contact: arcticyouthnetworkconference@gmail.com or arcticyouth@gmail.com for more info
Volunteer for Community Development Nepal
We are looking for volunteers/students from your School/university/organization who can come to Nepal and help our people by teaching English, Awareness about Sanitation and the Environment.
Where: Nepal
More Info: www.vcdnepal.org.np
Deadline: No deadline
Contact: Bikram Paudel
Director
VCD Nepal
Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal
Post Box No 23889
Tel: +977 (01) 4700210
Fax: +977 (01) 4701356
E-mail: volunteer@vcdnepal.org.np
AIDS 2006 Conference
If you would like to receive e-mails regarding volunteer opportunities for the AIDS 2006 Conference, please send an e-mail to hivaids@takingitglobal.org. For more info, check out events.takingitglobal.org/aids2006.
Canada World Youth
Now taking applications for live/work abroad programs. Apply on-line at www.canadaworldyouth.org
Contact: (866) 7-VOYAGE (786-9243)
2007 Canada Games
Seeking planning volunteers for various areas, including Environmental Services.
Contact: (867) 393-5526 or volunteer@2007canadagames.ca
Info
Frozen Gas: A Coalbed Methane Primer
Coalbed methane exploration and development are being proposed for the Yukon. But it is not here yet. We still have time to decide whether we want it and, if so, how the industry should operate.
More Info: www.cpawsyukon.org/conservation/coalbed-methane-primer.html
Species at Risk Act -- Three Years Later
The federal Species at Risk Act (SARA) was proclaimed in June 2003 to address the mounting threats to Canada's endangered species. As the Act's third anniversary approaches, the Canadian Nature Network (CNN) reports that SARA is failing to meet its objectives. Key weaknesses in the Act have been exacerbated by shallow federal implementation.
More Info: www.naturecanada.ca/SARA.html
Government of Canada
A new Mine Environment Neutral Drainage (MEND) publication entitled Paste Backfill Geochemistry -- Environmental Effects of Leaching and Weathering is now available.
More Info: mend_nedem@nrcan.gc.ca
CBC News online
NORTHERN HEALTH WILL SUFFER FROM CLIMATE CHANGE, DOCTOR SAYS. Climate change is the biggest threat to the health of people living in northern regions, the co-chair of the International Conference on Circumpolar Health held in Siberia this month says. The evidence indicates that this kind of large-scale, industrial development could degrade our land, air and water for decades. And this in turn could profoundly affect animals, birds, fish, plants and ultimately our way of life.
More Info: www.cbc.ca/news
Northern Climate Exchange
Weathering Change/NCE Updates -- information about climate change research and observations in the North. For more info contact ksandifo@yukoncollege.yk.ca
Contests
NO Contests up for grabs this month, sorry folks! If you hear of any cool opportunities, let us know by e-mailing arcticyouth@gmail.com.
Upcoming events
The Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region
The Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region is a parliamentary body comprising delegations appointed by the national parliaments of the Arctic states (Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, U.S.A.) and the European Parliament.
Where: Kiruna, Sweden
When: 2-4 August 2006
More Info: www.arcticparl.org
Contact: Mrs. Hill-Marta Solberg, MP
Chair of the Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region
Stortinget -- Parliament of Norway
Karl Johansgt. 22
0026 Oslo, Norway
Tel: +47 2331 3601
Fax: +47 2331 3862
E-mail: hms@stortinget.no
Coastal Zone Canada 2006 and Youth Forum: Arctic Change and Coastal Communities
Arctic Change and Coastal Communities is the seventh conference in a biennial series, sponsored by the Canada Coastal Zone Association. This is the first of the series to be located on the Arctic coast. The intent of the Coastal Zone Canada 2006 conference is to raise awareness about the unique challenges faced by residents of the Arctic coastal zone in the face of rapid changes occurring in Arctic marine ecosystems. While the focus is on coastal and ocean issues in the north, we encourage contributions from coastal areas around the world, recognizing that many of the drivers of coastal change, and the adaptation of people to them, are common to many parts of the world.
Where: Tuktoyaktuk, Canada
When: August 14-18, 2006
More Info: www.ookpik.org/event.aspx?id=3381
International Polar Year
The first International Polar Year was 1882. An IPY in 2007-2008 affords an opportunity to engage the upcoming generation of young Earth System scientists and to get the public to realize just how much the cold ends of the sphere we all live on really do influence us. To ensure that researchers get the opportunity to work in both polar regions or work summer and winter if they wish.
When: March 2007-March 2009
More Info: www.ipy.org
Contact: British Antarctic Survey
Madingley Road
Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
Telephone: +44 (0) 1223-221468
Fax: +44 (0) 1223-221270
Youth workshop-conference
This project is a great opportunity for youth and leaders worldwide to help support youth initiatives and environmental projects in Africa and to support equal representation for youth from the global south at the next COP/MOP in Nairobi. If you were in Montreal you will remember that equal representation among youth from the global south and the global north was a critical concern that needs to be addressed for future COP/MOPS. This project is a great way to make sure that happens.
Contact: Rachel Nampinga, Project Coordinator and Youth and Development Officer, ECOWATCH-AFRICA (nrachelk@yahoo.com)
Arctic Youth Network Leadership Conference 2006
When: October, 2006
More Info: www.taiga.net/ayn/conference2006.html
Contact: arcticyouthnetworkconference@gmail.com or arcticyouth@gmail.com for more info.
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