A few years ago, a few of us ecology, economics, and business graduates founded a nonprofit organization called Third Millennium Alliance. We raised some money and bought a lot of land in a critically-endangered rainforest and established an ecological reserve. There was a small patch of previously-degraded land right in the middle, where we have built an innovative and surprisingly comfortable research station out of bamboo, by hand. Immediately surrounding the house we are designing/growing/building a living laboratory of sustainable resource management (i.e. permaculture). Our goal is 100% food self-sufficiency within 10 years. So far, were maybe 20% of the way there. Likewise this is a testing ground for appropriate technology, such as off-the-grid renewable energy, water treatment and management, organic pesticide production, etc. We are also in need of various biological research projects and inventories.
The date range for the Late Summer program is August 1 September 28, 2012. Projects fall into a few broad categories: reforestation; flora & fauna research (incl. organic pest management); food production; and appropriate technology design/implementation. Possible projects for the Late Summer internship include: carpentry/building intern (well be doing a lot of building maintenance/construction this dry season) insect production project for human and/or poultry consumption infrastructure and protocol for keeping chickens and/or ducks develop garden of ingredients for homemade insect repellant spray detailed contour map and trail/swale plan gardening/farming food production: 50% reserve; 50% community house in nearby Camarones forest mammal inventory with photo trap cameras (on-going project) If you would like to learn more, please visit our Internship page on our website, where you can download a PDF file which includes a detailed program description, at: http://www.3malliance.org/index.php?id=320 After reading the PDF file, if you would like to apply, send an email to me at ben [at] 3malliance.org. Please be sure to answer to the questions listed in the program description. We hope you work with you! Sincerely, Ben Bowman Intern Coordinator Tropical Conservation, Permaculture & Research Internship Third Millennium Alliance Jama, Manabi, Ecuador www.3malliance.org
