Environment Maryland is hiring students to work on our campaigns this summer in College Park. We’re looking for folks that are hardworking, good communicators and committed to making positive change.
This summer our top campaign is saving the bees!
This has been a problem for almost a decade, but now bee keepers are reporting losing on average a third of bee populations each year. This is a huge environmental and economic issue, because bees pollinate everything from strawberries to coffee, and even the food that dairy animals eat which give us ice cream and cheese.
One cause of this issue is that bees have increasingly exposed to a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids, which are powerful neurotoxins. However, chemical companies like Syngenta are working to convince the EPA to raise the allowable limit of one of their bee-killing pesticides by more than 400 times.
That’s why we are working to push Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency to speed up the testing on neonics, a precursor step to banning the use of these pesticides. But to do that, we need to demonstrate the public’s support.
To win this campaign, we are hiring folks to get out into communities, and build support for this issue based out of our College Park office. Over the course of the summer you can expect to make between $4,000-$6,000 and make $10-$15/HR. It’s a great way to build your resume, like an internship, but you get paid.
To sign our interest form, click here!
Learn more about our campaigns at http://www.environmentmaryland.org