New at Earth Island

Get Involved: Earth Island Institute — Accounting Associate
The Accounting Associate is part of the Earth Island Network Services team and supports the work of our Director of Administration with a variety of Accounting/Financial, Human Resources and Administrative responsibilities.
Get Involved: Energy Action Coalition — Campus Climate Challenge positions
Energy Action Coalition, founded on June 6^th, 2004, is a project of 25 major environmental and social justice organizations in the U.S. and Canada working to unify the growing student and youth movement for clean energy.
Action Alert: Environmental Gerrymandering: Oppose the Ninth Circuit split!
“Because anti-environmental special interests in Congress have not been able to weaken key environmental laws, they are now trying to change the pool of judges who decide the fate of those laws in western states.” From Earthjustice.

Get Involved: Earth Island Institute – Administrative Assistant
The Administrative Assistant is part of the Earth Island Network Services team and provides administrative support, reception, and light office management…
Action Alert: Predator Poisoning and Killing Planned In Wilderness Areas
“The proposed rule would permit aerial gunning and motorized vehicles in Wilderness areas to trap and kill predators and meet nebulous "wildlife management" objectives…” From the Center for Biological Diversity.
News Room: Report – The Toll of Superfund Neglect
“Today, the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) includes 1,244 sites awaiting cleanup. Many have languished on the list for well over a decade and some have awaited cleanup for almost a quarter century…“ From the Center for American Progress.

News Room: Update to Critical Hour
Earthhealing has released an update to Critical Hour: Three Mile Island, The Nuclear Legacy and National Security, published by Earth Island/Yggdrasil in 2004.
News Room: Consumer Reports Warns Women and Children to Stop Eating Canned Tuna
“A CR study of canned light tuna found mercury levels at least as high as those in albacore (white) tuna.” From GotMercury.org.
Event: Permaculture First Responder Course
Come gather the necessary tools for responding in times of natural disasters and technological shifts using Permaculture principles, ethics and practices.

Get Involved: KIDS for the BAY Program Coodinator Position
KIDS for the BAY collaborates with teachers to inspire environmental consciousness in children and cultivate a love of learning. The position is to teach environmental science curricula to elementary school teachers and students in the classroom and in the field…
News Room: Summer 2006 Earth Island Journal is now available online.
The June 2006 Journal is at newstands.

Event: The Haight Has Habitat!
Haight-Ashbury Stewards, a program of Nature in the City and SF Natural Areas Program, need your help to continue the ecological restoration of Tank Hill, and to create a viable future of sustained community-based engagement. Come be part of creating a culture of local ecological stewardship of the Haight's hilltop.
Press Release: ECO, The Whale Activists’ Newsletter — Online from the International Whaling Commission Meetings in St. Kitts, The Caribbean
ECO is put together each evening, recording votes by member nations and providing background and commentary from NGO's about the proceedings of the IWC.

Action Alert: Roadless Red Alert!
Just when we had all hoped the Biscuit logging debacle was over, political forces have compelled the Forest Service to log roadless forests with two new logging sales called "Mike's Gulch" and "Blackberry." From the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Campaign.
Action Alert: Proposal Permanently Opens Critical Areas of Kenai Peninsula to Snowmobiles
“The U.S. Forest is developing a winter use plan for the area that could surrender 85 percent of it to snowmobile use. We need your help to prevent this from happening.” From the Wilderness Society.
News Room: Letter from the President of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums
“…to express WAZA’s condemnation of this inhumane practice and urging them to immediately terminate the dolphin drives. I shall, of course, also be writing to our colleagues at the Japanese Association of Zoos & Aquariums to enlist their support in ending the Teiji Dolphin Drive and any other such activities of this nature…” From the Save Taiji Dolphins campaign.
Action Alert: Tell the Forest Service the Boise River is more precious than gold
“The mine would be in the headwaters of the Boise River and threatens Boise's drinking water supply, as well as fish, wildlife, and public health and safety.” From Earthworks.

In the News: Swimming With the Fishes
Drew Weiner, Director of Reef Protection International interviewed at Grist.
Press Release: 4 Slamming Campus Victories
“Last week, four campuses joined the list of over 200 campuses in the US and Canada that are purchasing clean energy. And they joined in style…” From Energy Action and the Campus Climate Challenge.