Subject:
Offer of Internship
Date:
Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:16:23 +0200
From:
"Christoph Erdmenger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Offer of Internship
Assistant in ICLEI’s Eco-Procurement and Eco-Efficient Economy
Programme
The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
is seeking an intern for it’s Eco-Procurement Programme.
The internship offers a wide range of activities, among them in
particular editing of English texts for publications and web-sites.
Relevant projects include the set-up of an Internet ”Info Shop” on
research projects on regional eco-efficient economy, the adaptation
and translation of a German publication on green purchasing and
the preparation of international EcoProcura® events. Furthermore
ongoing activities for the EcoProcura® magazine and the European
Municipal Green Purchasers Network will be in the scope of the
internship.
Please find further information at
http://www.iclei.org/europe/ecoprocura.
Internships at ICLEI are particularly interesting for all those who
wish to later work in international organisations, local authorities
and their associations, consultancies for local authorities and
training institutions.
Conditions
The duration of the internship is 6 months and should begin
between 1.5.00 and 1.6.00. A reimbursement of personal costs of
600€/month is possible.
Skills required
Education:knowledge of environmental science, law, technology
and/or economy e.g. through studies in a relevant field, such as
law, political science, economics, administrative science,
geography, etc.,
Editing skills in English language,
Practical experience with political organisations, foreign countries
and/or organisational tasks are welcomed,
Organisational skills: communicative competence, ability to work in
a self-organised way within a team, computing skills in MS Office
and electronic communication
Languages:very good English, preferably mother-tongue, as well as
good command of German.
Please apply before 10.05.00 in writing, including CV, motivation
and photo.
The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI),
European Secretariat, Eschholzstrasse 86, D-79115 Freiburg/
Germany Fax: +49-761 / 36 89 2-19 E-mail:iclei-europe@iclei-
europe.org
What is ICLEI?
As a membership association, ICLEI is an international community
of about 350 local authorities dedicated to achieving tangible
improvements in the global environment. In Europe some 140 local
authorities and 9 national municipal associations have joined ICLEI.
ICLEI members are interested in and working towards measurable
environmental performance. These members work together to
develop new models and tools for addressing priority environmental
problems and disseminate these results through ICLEI's networks
and international campaigns. ICLEI serves as the international
environmental agency for local government, offering research,
technical assistance and training services to its member local
authorities as well as to other local, regional, national and
European authorities.
The types of services provided by ICLEI on a contractual basis
include: pilot and demonstration projects, research, development
projects as well as studies, organisation of international
conferences, seminars, workshops, study tours and exchanges,
development assistance projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America,
fee-for-service technical consulting in key management areas to
individual local governments.
Rob Schaap wrote:
> G'day Michael,
>
> Whilst I am wholly aware of JMK's insistence that a fight between the
> bourgeoisie and the great unwashed would find him firmly on the side of the
> former, I still think there's room for a generous reading of all this. It
> seems, for instance, wholly consistent with the writings of, say, the
> Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, to claim that a person of 'independent
> means' (ie one not tied to a boss and the draining work day the latter
> extracts) would develop all kinds of personal qualities that simply don't
> have the chance to fulfill themselves in a being lashed forever to the yoke.
>
>
> I think, for instance, Habermas's recounting of the significance of French
> salons and British tea houses (the 'bourgeois public sphere') is important
> stuff. There, the nascent bourgeoisie articulated and substantiated the
> great (bourgeois) revolutionary age. Humanity was redefined, and human
> culture enriched. From where I sit (poor historically contingent thing that
> I am) progress was made - and in giant leaps.
>
> That JMK and FAK implicitly persisted in some sort of racist classism,
> whereby it is not life experience that fashions the human, but the
> 'nobility' of the parental loins, does not altogether undo the point, I
> think. Marx would have agreed, I reckon, and then politely asked (if he
> could manage to control his unpredictable temper) 'what if all humans
> enjoyed the positive freedom to fulfill their potential? Would we not then
> have a world even richer in all you value?'. It would have been hard for
> the worthy gents to demur, I submit. Which is not to say they wouldn't have
> - just that even their formidable reasoning (for which they were justly
> lauded) might not have been up to covering this instance of narrow and
> unreflective bigotry. They might even have been moved to admit, if
> sufficiently in their crystal cups, that their being was determining their
> consciousness ...
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
>
> >Hayek, F. A. 1952. "Review of Harrod's Life of J. M. Keynes." Journal of
> >Modern History, 24: 2 (June).
> > 197: Keynes "had not long before coined the phrase of the
> > "euthanasia of the rentier," and in a deliberate to draw him
> > out I k the next opportunity to stress in conversation the
> > importance which the man of independent means had had in the
> > English political tradition. Far from contradicting me, this
> > made Keynes launch out into a long eulogy of the role played
> > by the propertied class in which be gave many illustrations
> > of their indispensability the preservation of a decent
> > civilization."
> >
> >
> >--
> >Michael Perelman
> >Economics Department
> >California State University
> >Chico, CA 95929
> >
> >Tel. 530-898-5321
> >E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901
