Officially an intern ... and stuff

After a gruelling two weeks of challenges akin to Survivor, meets Big Brother, meets Punk'd, meets Amazing Race, I am officially a One Sky intern. What this actually means is that I finally received a detailed list of my tasks for the summer, which... well you can see for yourself is quite challenging:

Energetic Olympics:

- liaise with BC Ministry of Environment, CAEE program and Community Energy Association to get community energy profiles of potential BC communities

- research and compile energy-use data for various developing nations, including Sierra Leone, Mali, Cameroon, Nigeria and Peru

- begin case studies on positive energy stories out of developing countries

- research existing commitment tools and help develop one that can measure notion of "energy equity"

- assist Program Director in communications and fundraising with Province on this initiative

- develop promotional tools and outline of competition for presentation at the Union of BC Municipalities annual meeting in Vancouver

- set-up and monitor booth at UBCM

Carbon off-sets for One Sky / community flight

- research best-practices for carbon off-sets (other models that could be applied to One Sky)

- figure out a system for One Sky: where does the money go, what are the criteria, how do we measure how much GHG's we're off-setting? Is this model replicable for other Energetic Olympics communities

- set-up a system with a local travel agency that meets auditing requirements

Other related duties

- One Sky Energy Inquiries
- Participate in planning of One Sky's Annual Goods & Services Auction
- Media Outreach

In just one day, I've have 2 more projects added to that famous "other related duties" in every job description. I will also be working on a consultation with the local college in Smithers to build a "green" building on their campus. Also, the credit union would like some advice on installing a Solar Backup System. These are obviously things I'm not qualified to do but I think my job will be geared towards facilitating the consultations and providing the proper resources. Just let someone else do it...

It looks like I'm going to have quite the busy summer... and stuff.