Climate Solutions Corps

We are expanding the India Climate Solutions team as fast as we can, and are taking on as many of you who are passionate and care about scaling up solutions. Help us develop our model and take on the world's biggest problems to find some incredible climate solutions!

Climate Solutions Web Writers and Editors:
The small team of us that are writing and editng for the India Climate Solutions website are sharing as many solutions as we can on this page. However, we need more of you doing the same. Do you look at the world and see solutions where others see problems? If so, please join us as a writer and contributor to the blog and site.

Climate Solutions Research Coordinator:
Over the next year, the Climate Solutions Project will be scaling up research on 10 - 20 of the most transformative climate solutions to create white papers relevant for policymakers on how best to support and scale up these solutions, as well as relevant for institutions ready to change (youth leaders on campus, campus administrators, corporate facilities managers, young employees). We're looking for someone to help coordinate this research work, edit, and advise the research team. This would be either two parttime or one full time internships or position over the next year.

Climate Solutions Research Interns:
We are looking for at least ten researchers who are ready to take on a given climate solution that interests you. We are specifically looking for people who have experience in that solution (ie: you've built a biogas plant or have installed rainwater harvesting on your campus) but if you are passionate about a solution, that's great too. Research corps members would be writing brief reports on the benefits of this solution (cost savings, environmental impact), Implementation methods  that work (materials, people needed, partners available, potential obstacles), existing partners, financial opportunities (govt subsidies, investors interested...), and past case studies of places that have done it. We'd love it if you are your own case study, but if not, we'll put you in touch with people who are. We would like

Solutions we'd like researchers for include institutional scale biogas, household biogas, composting, rainwater harvesting, solar water heating, wastewater management, community gardens and agriculture, paper recycling, energy conservation, green building technologies, cycle sharing, and others that you've seen work on your campus or that you know are waiting for replication.

This is a part-time internship that can be conducted from wherever you are.

Climate Solutions Scouts:
We're looking for representatives of the Climate Solutions project in every city to document the climate solutions that you see on a daily basis to share them on the blog, and when you are confident that the solution is replicatable, we'd like to have you research it as above. This is a part-time internship with a commitment of one solution shared per week.

Climate Solutions Corps (including Campus Climate Challenge and Communities):
We're looking for an army of people creating climate solutions on their campuses and in their communities. As we work towards creating the research Guides to Action above, we need a team to start working on the ground, trying to implement these projects. As the project moves forward, your work will become easier as more shared resources come together. This is a parttime internship that should be conducted wherever you are!

Climate Fest Coordinator:
IYCN is constantly invited to participate in fests across India, either through giving leadership trainings, giving climate presentations, judging renewable energy competitions, or creating stalls with IYCN products and showcasing IYCN's work. We'd like to find someone who could reach out to other fests and handle all of our fest inquiries, forwarding them to the concerned parties and seeing who is available to give a presentation or host a booth. This is a part-time internship with a commitment of 3 - 5 hours a week that can be coordinated from wherever you are.

Green Fest Interns:
Separately, we'd like to take on a team of interns to create a guide to greening fests. This team should - ideally - be either working on greening a fest or have greened their college fest already. This guide would be 10 - 20 pages with the key items to consider when planning a fest. This would be published and distributed to every university! This is a part-time internship with a commitment of 3 - 5 hours a week that can be coordinated from wherever you are.

Campus Climate Challenge Regional Coordinators:
Regional coordinators will be responsible for ensuring that the universities in their region are giving monthly report backs and are receiving resources, help or advice as needed. Coordinators would not need to be able to answer all questions, but to know what resources are available. This would be a parttime internship with a commitment of 3 - 5 hours a week that can be coordinated from wherever you are.

Green Skills Training Interns:
In partnership with the Renewable Energy Expo in August, IYCN has been invited to give training programs in partnerships with RE coprorates. We need to identify the corporates, work with them to develop training modules, recruit students, and develop manuals and youTube videos from these trainings that could be used in training students across India afterwards.

Campus Climate Challenge Awards and Poster Competition Coordinator:
In partnership with the RE Expo, IYCN will be giving awards to campuses -- campus administrators, students, and researchers who are implementing solutions and/or developing incredible technologies/methods. We need someone to coordinate the application, outreach, and selection process (selecting judges, creating criteria). We'd also like a person to coordinate the connected but separate event of a poster competition and showcase during the RE Expo wherein students can showcase their research to the 20,000 people who attend the RE Expo in an IYCN booth! This coordinator would be doing outreach to universities, selecting which posters would be presented, and securing the logistics at the venue. This is a part or full-time summer internship with a commitment of 20 hours a week that can be coordinated from wherever you are. One intern will have to be in Delhi.

Indian Youth Summit on Climate Change Interns:
We are looking for 10 - 20 students across India to help organize this year's youth summit, a powerful Climate Camp tentatively scheduled for Delhi in June. We need a team of people in Delhi to help with logistics (location, housing, food) and people across India working on fundraising, recruitment and outreach, and content management including scheduling the week. This is a part or full-time summer internship with a commitment of 20 hours a week that can be coordinated from wherever you are. At least three interns will be in Delhi.

Socially Innovative Small Business Marketing Team:
As a part of the Climate Solutions Project, we've come across dozens of incredible small companies that are doing amazing work, yet do not have the business skills or marketing tools to reach a larger audience with their products or services. If you have marketing skills or think you could help scale up some of our solutions, please join this team. While supporting youth-led initiatives particularly, the Climate Solutions team would also be scaling up all such businesses.

Climate Solutions Music Interns:
If you are a musician and interested in organizing concerts to celebrate and promote work that is going on across India, or to work with us as we develop bilateral musical partnerships between nations to profile our common views on climate change, please let me know.

Greening Tihar Jail:
Kiran Bedi's work with Tihar Jail has made it one of the most spoken about examples of prison reform. She is very interested in creating better waste management processes at the jail, as well as training inmates in green jobs so that when they leave jail, they'll have truly sustainable employment. We're looking for a team to do an energy audit and carbon footprint, along with some of the residents, and create recommendations for energy, water and waste. She has started an incredible Weaving Behind Bars program that we'd like to then integrate into weaving plastic bags into new products (see http://indiaclimatesolutions.com/bag-lady)

Waste Management in Khan Market:
Since Khan Market is a high-profile market with a manageable waste stream, we'd like to create a model composting system. Many restaurant owners and fruit sellers are already interested but we need a team of volunteers to start analyzing where available space is in the market, what the best technology would be, and how to incentivize individuals to separate their waste. Manzil, Chintan, Daily Dump and other NGOs are interested in helping, but I need someone to coordinate this project!