Turning Green Summer 2024 Internship

Turning Green educates, empowers, and mobilizes youth to advance climate solutions in their lives, school campuses, and local communities by engaging elementary through graduate-level students as catalysts for sustainable change and positive social and environmental impact.

If you are a college, grad student or young professional interested in being a leader in the movement for a healthy, just and thriving planet and future, we invite you to apply for one of our internship positions.

Summer Session runs from May 2024 through September 2024

*Internship start date and length may vary based on area of focus and your schedule (12 week 

 minimum)

All interns must be available to work Monday through Friday from 9am - 1pm Pacific Time during the summer session. 

We have several areas of focus for our internships, including:

Communications

Our Comms intern team works across TG social media platforms, curating and creating content, graphics, collaterals, and monthly newsletter. 

Internship roles include:

1. Designing digital campaigns around TG programs, relevant themes, holidays, current events, our partners, and relevant news topics
2. Planning, writing, and editing original pieces for the monthly newsletter and website  
3. Creating, sharing and publishing content and digital assets for programs including Project Green Challenge, Conscious Kitchen and more. 

Project Green Challenge

Project Green Challenge is a powerful, diverse call to action with 30 days of eco-themed challenges each October since 2011. Built around conscious living, grassroots advocacy, informed consumption, and movement building, as over 2m participants have transitioned from conventional to conscious by shifting mindsets and behavior.

Internship roles include: 

1. Challenge research and editing  
2. Development of 30-days of themed resources  
3. Strategy development for student participant outreach and engagement
4. Speaker research, outreach and engagement
5. New non-profit partner outreach and engagement 
6. New corporate partner outreach and engagement
7. Daily prize outreach and curation 
8. Event planning for PGC Finals Weekend 
9. Data mapping projects

Conscious Kitchen 

Conscious Kitchen is committed to food equity, education and access, shifting the paradigm around school food, while cultivating a local ecological food system, and building nutrition literacy into meals. CK partners with schools and communities to source, prepare and serve FLOSN food: fresh, local, organic, seasonal, nutritious.

Internship roles include:

1. Assisting in building an organic supply chain for local school districts, including:
2. Researching and contacting potential suppliers
3. Researching different food procurement methods
4. Keeping track of products, pricing, contact information, etc.
5. Creating weekly food-related educational content / infographics
6. Supporting the development of Conscious Kitchen Ambassador program  
7. Conducting policy research pertaining to school food systems
8. Social media content creation and promotion
9. Marketing and special project development
10. GIS story mapping projects
11. Mapping Conscious Kitchen suppliers and story of each supplier.

Organizational Support 

General support for TG programs and working with staff 

Special Skills

We welcome students with expertise in certain areas including graphic design, animation, data mapping, ArcGIS story mapping 

To apply, please submit an internship application here.