Work Study Program

The NNHS Enviro Club is starting a work study program and we would love for you to get involved! The work study program offers a credit and cash incentive to help the environment and get involved with the Club. We're looking for motivated and dedicated people who have a serious desire to help and probably three lucky students will be accepted!

Students will receive $6.75 for every hour of work and 1.25 credits towards graduation. Participating students will manage the recycling throughout Newton North High School, a task previously carried out voluntarily by dedicated environmentalists. We will be holding two informational sessions for the Work Study in Room 202 after-school on September, Wednesday and Thursday the 20th and 21st. At the sessions we will review the general information on the application and if time permits, show the students what their duties will consist of. The more applicants we can get the better, so please, if you're interested, show up!

Participants will:

• Empty recycling from big blue bins
• Separate redeemable and nonredeemable recyclables
  
• Take out nonredeemable recycleables to the curb on Friday mornings
• Bring redeemable to Shaws in Newtonville
  • Collect cash to support club
    
  • Deposit money to Ms. Dannenberg, Rm 201
• Attend mandatory monthly meetings with the Environmental Club leaders
  • Flexible and at the convenience of all involved

*If, when primary tasks are complete, time commitments haven't been met, program members will use their skills to help the club in other areas to satisfy the time commitments.

Contact: Peg McGowan is the NNHS Work Study Coordinator and can be contacted regarding the program at peg_mcgowan@newton.mec.edu The club can be reached via email at NNHS.Enviro.Club@Gmail.com

This is a great opportunity for students who want to make a difference within the environment and contribute to the club.

Great Thanks,
The NNHS Enviro Club

Newton Community Education Presents...

A Conversation with Ross Gelbspan

Monday, September 11

at 7:00 p.m.

Newton North High School

Room 217

Ross Gelbspan was a longtime reporter and editor at the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. He covered the United Nations Conference on the Environment in Stockholm in 1972 and addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1998. The author of The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-Up, The Prescription and Boiling Point, he lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Please join us in welcoming Ross Gelbspan as he presents a journalist's overview of the climate crisis. The talk will provide a brief treatment of the science and a look at some of the recent impacts of our increasingly unstable climate. It will also highlight the political, economic and equity dimensions of the climate issue, including its implications for security in a post 9/11 world. It will detail as well a long and effective campaign of resistance by the fossil fuel lobby—and some recent seat changes in the corporate and political arenas. The talk will also outline a set of solution strategies which are designed to reduce global emissions by the 70 percent required to allow the climate to re-stabilize—as well as create large numbers of jobs, particularly in developing countries. That solution also contains the seeds for some of the most threatening non-climate problems facing us today: diplomatic dysfunction, anti-US terrorism and economic stagnation. A truly appropriate response to this challenge could substantially increase the wealth, equity and stability in the global economy, even as it generates a much greater appreciation of the need for sustainability in all aspects of our lives. Finally, a proper response to the climate threat could also provide a pilot model to begin to put democratically-determined boundaries around the operations of multi-national corporations: in short, to begin to democratize the global economy.

Tickets Still Available!
$5.00 admission - students free
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Newton Community Education
Room M-5, Newton North High School
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