Sustainable Living (B.S.)
Internships and Projects
Internships provide you with valuable real-world experience in sustainable living, while earning credit toward your degree. All Sustainable Living students are expected to complete at least a one-month (4 credit) internship, but you may use internships to fulfill:
- up to two months (8 credits) of Sustainable Living electives
- up to two months (8 credits) of general degree requirements
MUM can help you locate an internship or volunteer opportunity to fit your interests and career goals. We give you flexibility, and every student has a faculty advisor. Our students also get involved with lots of campus sustainability projects.
Here are several organizations where MUM students do internships / apprenticeships:
Sustainable Agriculture
- Ecology Action: teaches people to better feed themselves while building and preserving the soil and conserving natural resources, featuring the Grow Biointensive method. Student experience
- Soil FoodWeb: a way of improving the soils we work with now and keep them in a healthier state without damaging any other ecosystem.
- Burr Oak Center for Durable Culture: directed and self-directed studies ranging from seed to seed agronomy, organic permaculture, animal husbandry, and marketing.
Energy & Sustainability
- Ideal Energy: using specialized diagnostic equipment to assess current energy usage of an existing building and locate areas of energy loss or over usage—and staying abreast of available rebates, incentives, and grants for improving efficiency.
- Rural Renewable Energy Alliance: making solar energy available to people of all income levels. Student journal
Green Building & Design
- City Repair Project: organized group action to educate and inspire individuals and communities to creatively transform the places where they live.
- California Institute of Earth and Architecture: using earth and ceramic architecture technologies to empower people to create their own homes and communities—particularly in poor or disaster-stricken areas.
- Eco Nest: building hand-crafted homes of clay, straw, and timber. Student journal
Sustainability as an engine for change
- Bonnell building project: a nonprofit organization that provides physical space, infrastructure, and resources for community members to engage in a variety of learning activities, and to start and grow organizations (for-profit or nonprofit).