GLOBAL WARMING & ENERGY PROGRAM COMMITTEE: REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
The Sierra Club's Sustainable Planet Strategy Team (SPST) is seeking
nominations for three vacancies on the Sierra Club's Global Warming &
Energy Program Committee (GWEPC). We are especially interested in
candidates with experience, expertise, and/or strong interest in the
following areas: energy policy, global warming and climate change issues,
renewable energy, energy conservation, regulatory policy, conservation
campaigns, or electoral and/or legislative strategy.
Appointments to the Committee are made by the SPST, based on applications
and phone interviews conducted by one or more members of a search team with
applicants. If you are interested in applying, please read and follow the
instructions below completely. We are only accepting self-nominations, so
please forward this announcement to others you think may have an interest
in serving on the GWEPC.
Nominees must be current Sierra Club members. Sierra Club of Canada members
are not eligible to apply. Please contact Sierra Club Canada at
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DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS: OCTOBER 15, 2002
A copy of the completed application should be sent via e-mail to Sanjay
Ranchod, SPST liaison to GWEPC, at [log in to unmask] If you cannot
use e-mail, mail your application to Sanjay Ranchod at 2220 Waverley
Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301. For more information about the appointment
process, e-mail or call Sanjay Ranchod at (650) 326-1497 between 7 pm and
10 pm PST.
THE GLOBAL WARMING & ENERGY PROGRAM COMMITTEE
The Club has Campaign Committees (CCs) and Program Committees overseeing
the Club's four priority campaigns (Wildlands, CAFOs, Sprawl, Ending
Commercial Logging) and four priority programs (Global Warming & Energy,
Global Population Stabilization, Human Rights & the Environment,
Responsible Trade). The Global Warming & Energy Conservation Program
Committee (GWEPC) plans, carries out, and reports periodically on the
Club's Global Warming & Energy Program, within priorities established by
the Board and the Conservation Governance Committee (CGC). The GWEPC is a
volunteer-staff partnership on broad strategic and tactical issues that
arise during implementation of the program, and reports to the Sustainable
Planet Strategy Team. The SPST appoints the program committee's members,
supervises their budgets, and assists them in developing and carrying out
their work plans. Appointments to Program Committees are for a term of two
years.
The GWEPC is responsible for working closely with staff in the development
and implementation of the Club's campaign on global warming and energy
issues, and for helping to shape national Club policies and positions that
have global warming or energy implications. The purpose of the Program is
to protect our children and environment from global warming by reducing the
pollution that causes it, and to replace wasteful, damaging ways of
producing and using energy with sustainable alternatives. A major focus is
the reduction of fossil fuel use in the United States.
The Program's goals are to:
1. Raise miles per gallon standards for cars, and raise miles per gallon
standards for SUVs and other light trucks to the same level as cars;
2. Promote legislation that will address global warming and reduce
emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, and oppose legislation,
including budget riders, aimed at blocking action on global warming or
having the effect of worsening global warming;
3. Build public support for action on global warming by continuing to
refute industry-backed skeptics and by educating the public about the local
effects of global warming and the benefits of solutions;
4. Support energy-efficient design and the installation of conservation
measures to reduce energy waste, and support the development of
environmentally-friendly forms of renewable energy;
5. Monitor legislative proposals concerning energy utilities and regulation
to ensure that they promote a transition away from fossil fuel use and
advance environmental quality.
Current members of the GWEPC are: Paul Craig (CA) (chair), Stephen Crowley
(VT), Rich Ferguson (CA), Kevin Finney (CA), and Frank Morris (NY), Dan
Becker (staff), Ned Ford (corresponding member), and Dick Fiddler
(corresponding member). Staff: Dan Becker, director of the Global Warming
and Energy Program, is the Club's lead staff person on these issues and
supervises staff in the Washington, D.C. office and several field
organizers.
If you have questions about the work of the GWEPC, please contact Sanjay
Ranchod (contact information above), or Paul Craig, committee chair, by
e-mail at [log in to unmask]
QUALIFICATIONS
Members of the GWEPC will participate in monthly conference calls,
communicate regularly by e-mail, may take on specific projects related to
the work of the GWEPC, and may represent the Program and/or Committee at
meetings of Club entities or elsewhere.
For the Committee, the SPST is looking for candidates with:
- solid experience in one or more conservation or political campaign(s),
including campaign strategizing and/or familiarity with the Club's planning
matrix, message development and press relations, grassroots organizing, and
coalition building;
- willingness and ability to work cooperatively with people holding
differing perspectives on the best strategies for the Club to follow;
- sufficient flexibility in time commitments to allow full volunteer
participation in this committee; and
- experience with the Club's chapter and/or group structure.
In particular, GWEPC members will meet to plan the ongoing campaign at the
Club's general planning retreat to be held near Washington, D.C. from
December 5-8, 2002. It would seriously compromise an applicant's ability to
contribute to the Committee's work if he/she could not attend that meeting.
Please indicate in your application whether or not you can attend.
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GLOBAL WARMING & ENERGY PROGRAM COMMITTEE APPLICATION FORM
Send you completed application via e-mail to Sanjay Ranchod at
[log in to unmask] The subject of your e-mail message should be
"GWEPC: [your last name here]. If you cannot use e-mail, mail your
application to Sanjay Ranchod at 2220 Waverley Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301.
Please delete all text above the ***.
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS: OCTOBER 15, 2002
1) Name:
2) Length of membership and membership # (required):
3) Contact information (address, day and evening phone(s), email, & best
times to reach
you by phone):
4) Sierra Club experience, leadership positions held, and campaigns worked
on, with
dates:
5) Other environmental experience (local, state, national, and/or
international level):
6) Brief statement explaining your interest in and experience with global
warming and
energy issues, and why you want to serve on the GWEPC:
7) Can you attend the December 5-8, 2002 planning meeting?
8) References (three total, including your Chapter Chair):
Erin E. Jordahl
Director, Iowa Chapter Sierra Club
3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280
Des Moines, IA 50310
515-277-8868
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