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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY: Design-and-Build Artist Village located in Africa seeks volunteer project manager/creative fundraiser for a Design/Build Earth Home Challenge. From 2010-2015, developing a model artist village in Ghana and Uganda for replication in other parts of Africa. For the locals, it will mean resolution to age-old problem for artists, painters, sculptors, dancers, and others who require low-cost and expanse of space in which to work; and for persons in the arts from around the world, it will be a contact point for artist-in-residence for community-based arts projects. Some 50 and 500-1000 acres have been speculated in rural parts of Ghana, as are in Uganda, Cameroon and Botswana. If interested in facilitating the project or wish to suggest a resource person, please sent email to <africoae@gmail.com>. Additional information on the project will be upon request or visit www.focusonthearts.org, http://afropoets.tripod.com/eta

Apprenticeship Course. Three-month apprenticeship course offered (regrow, rebuild and rethink our way of living) at Kibbutz-Lotan, Israel. More information available at www.birdingisrael.com or <lotalbuild@lotan.ardom.co.il>

Three- to six-month apprenticeships available in natural building and off-grid living at Spirit Pine Sanctuary, a beautiful 160 acre off-grid site in the coastal range of CA. Longer term commitments are possible. Meals and camping are included. Aikido ueshideshi apprenticeships are also possible.
Call Betty @ 805.698.3840 or email <cobbetty@gmail.com> for registration and
information.

Organic Farm Manager(s), The Sandpoint Institute, Sandpoint ID.
Farm will establish setting for Sandpoint Institute, a new educational institute for organic farming and sustainable living, a
project of the founders of OrganicVolunteers, www.GrowFood.org. Finding interns for this farm will not be a problem.
One or more farmers needed to establish organic farm (360 acres w/70 available to be cultivated and certified organic; rest is forested. Sandy loam soil. 70 acres sown in a timothy, clover, brome mix hay for a small livestock operation or micro-dairy in addition to vegetable production. Abundant water w/two ponds and seasonal creek w/micro-hydro potential; one 60-ft well tapped into aquifer. Buildings include huge 1940s era traditional barn, old milking shed, granary, sheds and farm house (3 BR, 2 bath) and separate cabin. Kubota tractor w/back blade and cultivator implements. For responsibilities, experience desired, compensation information, and application process, contact <ethan@organicvolunteers.com> with the word 3organic2 in the subject to circumvent the junk mail filter.

April to September 2009, Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Missouri. Earthbag Building Work Exchange, hands-on experience building an earthbag dome with cob walls, living roof and earthen floor.
http://www.dancingrabbit.org/social_change/interns-earthbag-building.php

Summer 2009 starting in April through September. Summer intern program provides wide range of opportunities for each person who lives, eats and works at the farm to find their own definition of green living by designing and building at least one project. 2009 projects include two strawbale builds, renewable energy project, earth plastering, and for folks interested in video, script and produce videos that accompany the Blue Rock Station booklets. For more information, go to www.bluerockstation.com/interns.html or contact Annie Warmke, Blue Rock Station Sustainable Living Center, 1190 Virginia Ridge, Philo OH 43771, 740.674.4300, <annie@bluerockstation.com>
www.bluerockstation.com

Timber Framing. Looking for short and long term assistance in custom timber framing shop in Eastern NC. In business 15 years; all types of timber work. Prefer prior experience and tools.
Email resume to <kevin@TimberFab.net> and phone number where you can be reached.
TimberFab, Inc., PO Box 399, 201 West Hope Lodge St., Tarboro, NC 27886, 800.968.8322,
252.641.4142 fax www.TimberFab.net

Straw-bale Construction Certification. New distance learning program enables students to start at any time and work at their own pace. Now available through the Geiger Research Institute for Sustainable Building. Director Owen Geiger is a correspondent for TLS. www.grisb.org <strawhouses@yahoo.org>

Blue Heron Natural Builders Guild (BHNBG), Madison, WI. Gain natural building work experience in the 2007. Earthen plaster, lime plaster, natural paints, natural remodeling, strawbale, straw-clay, stone, tile, hardscaping, timberframing, additions. To learn more about learning opportunities in the southern Wisconsin, contact Eric Nelson <blueheron@naturalbuildersguild.com> www.naturalbuildersguild.com

June through November, Cumberland Valley, Tennessee. Looking for building-focused interns to work on projects from cob-ovens to a ferro-cement living roof retrofit, and building a natural building exhibit and doing presentations at a local festival. Work in July will be focused exclusively on framing in a three-story meeting hall of sustainably home-harvested timber, and milled on a woodmizer sawmill. For more information about site and life Sequatchie Valley Institute (research and education in sustainable living), visit www.svionline.org Contact <quasiperiodic@gmail.com> if you're interested in the internships.

Labor Classifieds Bulletin Board at:
http://www.odiseanet.com/gblc/index.php
Lists strawbale and earth construction job offerings and employment needs, workshops and miscellaneous postings.

Apprenticeship. Six-month (May 1 through November 1), two semi-experience people wanting to learn more about natural building (cob, SB, wood, plasters, earthen floors. Construction work and working farm and community responsibilities. White oak farm & Education Center, Box 450, Williams OR 97544 <info@whitoakfarmscsa.org> www.whiteoakfarmcsa.org

Apprenticeship. Emerald Earth International Community, Northern California. All phases of work with local natural materials. www.emeraldearth.org <workshops@emeraldearth.org>

Job Opportunities. Looking for bale and plaster workers for commercial and residential projects in Colorado.
http://odiseanet.com/about_employment.htm.

Internship available at Black Range Lodge, Kingston, NM. Offering hands-on experience in natural building and permaculture projects. Work-trade for lodging and meals, plus payment, if warranted. Call 505.895.5652, <resources@StrawbaleCentral.com>.

Kleiwerks Internship. If you want to get more experience in the organization of a nonprofit, or in earth building and sustainability, and if you want to get into workshops for free, contact <West@Kleiwerks.org> Founded in 1998, Kleiwerks International is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that promotes social transformation and ecological regeneration by leading natural building and whole-systems training that results in community-based sustainable living centers. By invitation only, we collaborate with community-based people, projects and programs. Through hands-on educational trainings and building projects we construct activist centers, permaculture sites, orphanages, schools and villages. Significant results of our work nclude both the generation of regional activist networks, and the construction of public demonstration centers that serve community needs. Kleiwerks International is part of a worldwide movement that is reviving and refining the art and joy of natural building and living.

Apprenticeship Course - Three-month apprenticeship course offered (regrow, rebuild and rethink our way of living) at Kibbutz Lotan, Israel. More information available at: www.birdingisrael.com/LotanTourism/
ecoCenter/ga/ga2005.html or email <lotan-build@lotan.ardom.co.il>.

Apprenticeship Program - Ecovillage, Summertown, TN. Organic food production, natural building and permaculture. Five-week program. Field trips. College credit available. National/international instructors. Howard Switzer and Katey Culver, <ecovillage@thefarm.org>.

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This listing of internships, apprenticeships, job opportunities is compiled from information sent to The Last Straw Journal by individuals, groups and organizations. Send information about events, conferences, tours, workshops and hands-on training to: The Last Straw, PO Box 22706, Lincoln NE 8542-2706; <thelaststraw@thelaststraw.org> or call 402.483.5135.

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