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Position:<\/strong> Agriculture Symbiosis Research Assistant About the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure<\/strong><\/span> We help diverse communities and policymakers in the Pacific Northwest design sustainable, practical infrastructure solutions that offer replicable models for advancing economic prosperity, environmental quality, and social equity together.<\/p>\n What is Agricultural Symbiosis?<\/strong><\/span> About This Project<\/strong><\/span> Job Duties<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Qualifications<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Other Details<\/strong><\/span> To Apply<\/strong><\/span> Interviews will be held at CSI\u2019s downtown Olympia office, or via Zoom the week of 1\/23 with work beginning on 1\/30.<\/p>\n Please feel free to direct any questions to terry@centerforsi.org.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9909,"featured_media":34096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18,26],"tags":[540,219,995,390,996,999,404,1004,251,36,1000,1003,998,230,1001,1008,993,7,342,889,222,172,1007,9,890,997,1005,994,1002,364,1006],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48041,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48035\/revisions\/48041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Compensation:<\/strong> $18\/hour
Hours:<\/strong> 10\u201415\/week
Location:<\/strong> Olympia or remote\/hybrid
Job Type:<\/strong> Paid Internship
Timeline:<\/strong> 1\/30\/23 \u2013 6\/2\/23<\/p>\n
The Center for Sustainable Infrastructure\u2019s (CSI) mission is to catalyze state-of-the-art sustainable infrastructure solutions that help communities of every kind thrive economically, socially, and environmentally. CSI is a nonprofit innovator that bridges divides to catalyze community-driven infrastructure solutions that broadly benefit people, local economies, and the planet.<\/p>\n
Agricultural symbiosis is a 21st century term for a very old practice \u2013 using every resource to the fullest. As long as farmers have fed food scraps to livestock, or used manure to fertilize crops, they\u2019ve been practicing agricultural symbiosis. But new science and understanding have revealed exciting new possibilities that offer greater economic value and sustainability for Washington agriculture.
The idea \u2013 that farms, forests, and downstream processors can generate economic value by sharing and re-using water, heat, and organic materials \u2013 is being taken to promising new levels, contributing to business growth, improving energy efficiency, addressing the climate crisis, and helping maintain the state\u2019s clean water and air. New value can be created across a supply chain by broadening this symbiotic relationship across multiple companies through enabling infrastructure and contracts. Sometimes this comes in the form of new products and revenues and at other times in the form of decreased costs, waste, and pollution.<\/p>\n
In 2021 Washington legislators established on a bipartisan basis a new \u201cindustrial symbiosis\u201d program at the Department of Commerce to support symbiosis projects across industries. Initial funding has supported Pasco and other promising agricultural projects. Seeing the value of symbiosis to specifically support agriculture, the 2022 Legislature directed Washington State University and partners to study agricultural symbiosis opportunities and make recommendations to the Legislature by June 2023.
Through partners at the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure (CSI), Washington State University (WSU), and Pacific Northwest National Laboratories in the Tri-Cities, the study, a combination of research and stakeholder consultation, will \u201cdevelop recommendations for increasing the economic value and sustainability of Washington\u2019s agriculture sector through the use of industrial symbiosis principles.\u201d
WSU is leading on the technical research side. CSI will be engaged in a concentrated in-depth stakeholder engagement effort built primarily around interviews from which we will synthesize case studies, project profiles, and policy recommendations.<\/p>\n\n
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The intern will work independently but will meet weekly with CSI Operations Manager, Terry Carroll (either in-person or via Zoom). They may have the option to also join other CSI staff in project-related meetings, or to join and take notes during Zoom-based interviews with stakeholders and experts.<\/p>\n
Please submit a resume and cover letter explaining your interest and why you are qualified to terry@centerforsi.org by 9AM on 1\/23.<\/p>\n