Opportunity Details

CALLING ALL ADVENTURERS!
Emergent Productions is a nonprofit organization that's on a mission to inspire environmental awareness and inspire people to do what they can to protect our planet. With World Cleanup Day being on 9/18/2021, it's the perfect day to set an example and join in on the fun. That's where YOU come in.

We want to create a highlight video showing our volunteers participating in World Cleanup Day and picking up trash themselves, and send us videos and/or photos of your experience. Take a selfie video explaining why you're cleaning, pictures or videos of the trash you found, etc. Take a bag with you (if you have a reusable bag, that's even better) and just spend some time cleaning up. After you are done, count how many pieces of each kind of trash you found (bottles, bottle caps, bags, wrappers, etc.) - we will want to report this data in the video. There is no specific location for this volunteer event. Just make sure it is located in a natural or green space either in a forest, trail, riverbank, beach, park, etc.

- Do you love being out in nature and doing good for the world?
- Do you have fun taking pictures and/or videos?
- Do you want to inspire others to love the outdoors as much as you?
THEN WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
- Camera shy? No worries, just show us the trash you found and where you are.

HOW TO FILM!
This can be shot with your phone or camera. We just ask that you film it horizontally in landscape mode so we can use it for editing (Portrait mode is limiting and not nearly as versatile). Get Creative! This can be a selfie video saying why you are cleaning up, a video of the trash you found, any weird or unexpected trash, shots of the place you are cleaning, etc. We just want your PASSION to shine through! Make sure to count how many pieces of each kind of trash you found (bottles, cans, bags, wrappers, bottle caps, etc.) as well and report it to us (this can be in your message when sending the video/photos).

SENDING VIDEOS AND PHOTOS!
The video or photos can be sent to us using https://wetransfer.com/, which is a free site that lets you transfer files that are too large for email. Please send to info@emergentproductions.org. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. We can't wait to see the adventures!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

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Please join us for a Learn from Home Volunteer Orientation and Training!

After you register we will send you an invitation and link to join us for a Zoom format meeting.

This fun and informational orientation is the first step in joining us as an official Reserve Volunteer. Learn about The Reserve's history, philosophy and mission, as well as skills for working with the public.

CERTIFIED RESERVE VOLUNTEER PROGRAM:
This training is the first step in becoming a Certified Reserve Volunteer. Certified Reserve Volunteers are specially trained volunteers that lead and co-lead Reserve programs.

Ages: Adult, 18 and older

Thank you for expressing interest in volunteering for The Reserve at Rancho Mission Viejo.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

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CALLING ALL ADVENTURERS!
Emergent Productions is a nonprofit organization that's on a mission to inspire environmental awareness and get people excited about exploring nature. With so many incredible parks within the U.S. National Park System, we want to create a video highlighting some of the outdoor spaces that are accessible here in the United States - That's where YOU come in.

We are asking you to visit a park within the National Park System, and send us photos and/or videos of the adventure by August 9. If you do not live near a park with free entry or cannot afford the entrance fee, then you may consider participating in this volunteer event on August 4, which is Great American Outdoors Day and all parks within the National Park System have free entry in honor of the holiday.

The location you choose to visit must be a park within the U.S. National Park System. You can use this handy website to Find a Park near you: https://www.nps.gov/findapark/index.htm

- Do you love being out in nature and exploring the outdoors?
- Do you have fun taking pictures and/or videos of the place you go?
- Do you want to inspire others to love the outdoors as much as you?
THEN WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
- Take photos of the park you visit.
- Take selfie videos explaining where you are and what makes it great.
- Let us know why it's worth the visit.
- Camera shy? No worries, we need photos and videos of views, scenery, and landscapes as well.

HOW TO FILM!
This can be shot with your phone or camera. We just ask that you film it horizontally in landscape mode so we can use it for editing (Portrait mode is limiting and not nearly as versatile). Get Creative! This can be a selfie video, a tour, a shot of a beautiful view or scenery, a show and tell, or just a quick shoutout. We just want your PASSION to shine through! Tell us where you are and what makes it so awesome! The goal is to show people the adventures they can have in their own backyard.

SENDING VIDEOS AND PHOTOS!
The video or photos can be sent to us using https://wetransfer.com/, which is a free site that lets you transfer files that are too large for email. Please send to info@emergentproductions.org. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. We can't wait to see the adventures!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

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The Shootout is one of the largest events for our community, bringing statewide attention to the Lake. This is important for the social and economic health of our residents, and while LOWA is dedicated to protecting those, we also want to protect our environment and our guests. The volunteer opportunities during the Shootout include clean-up, to be sure we aren't polluting our beautiful city, and a Bar-To-Car shuttle service to promote safety.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Campus Cleanup Friday Morning	8	n/a	n/a
Campus Cleanup Friday Afternoon	8	n/a	n/a
Campus Cleanup Saturday Morning	8	n/a	n/a
Campus Cleanup Saturday Afternoon	8	n/a	n/a
Campus Cleanup Sunday Morning	8	n/a	n/a
Campus Cleanup Sunday Afternoon	8	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

The Shootout is one of the largest events for our community, bringing statewide attention to the Lake. This is important for the social and economic health of our residents, and while LOWA is dedicated to protecting those, we also want to protect our environment and our guests. The volunteer opportunities during the Shootout include clean-up, to be sure we aren't polluting our beautiful city, and a Bar-To-Car shuttle service to promote safety.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Bar-To-Car Thursday	4	n/a	n/a
Bar-To-Car Friday	4	n/a	n/a
Bar-To-Car Saturday	4	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

The Shootout is one of the largest events for our community, bringing statewide attention to the Lake. This is important for the social and economic health of our residents, and while LOWA is dedicated to protecting those, we also want to protect our environment and our guests. The volunteer opportunities during the Shootout include clean-up, to be sure we aren't polluting our beautiful city, and a Bar-To-Car shuttle service to promote safety.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Meet and Greet Cleanup	6	n/a	n/a

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Come and take part in research at your local Tiny Forest!

About this event
Earthwatch invites you to attend your Tiny Forest’s first monitoring day this summer.

With the help of you - our citizen scientists - we are monitoring five key benefits across each of our 17 Tiny Forests. Specifically looking at how the forests change over time and how they differ per location.

We are researching:
• Thermal comfort: the cooling benefits of the trees
• Flood management: the forest’s ability to store water
• Biodiversity: focussing on butterflies, pollinators and soil-dwelling organisms
• Carbon capture: how much carbon a Tiny Forest sequesters and stores
• Wellbeing: conducting social surveys with volunteers

So please come along for an hour, to collect data on the Tiny Forest and support our ongoing research.

All events will be managed in line with current Government COVID-19 guidelines to create a safe day for all. We are therefore running hour-long volunteering slots, for you to choose from.

Important information:
- Please indicate how many people are in your group (children under 16 do not require a ticket)
- Please bring a face covering
- Hand sanitiser will be provided
- Please respect social distancing guidelines

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Shift 1	5	n/a	n/a
Shift 2	5	n/a	n/a
Shift 3	5	n/a	n/a
Shift 4	5	n/a	n/a

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Passive Risk/Cost of Inaction Analyst Volunteer, Wildfire Prevention Derivatives
Prevention Derivatives draws upon passive risk/ cost of inaction. Literature reviews on cost of inaction in general and with regards to wildfire specifically can be helpful.
-Prevention derivatives is driven by the thesis that there is an under-valuation of passive risk (or the cost of inaction) and an under-prioritization of positive risk. Correspondingly for wildfires as an example, there is an under-recognition of the potential shared value upside of preventative action through social innovation and social interventions (such as goats & sheep that prevent wildfires). CrowdDoing.world's aim is to guarantee positive risk through leveraging existing liabilities to allow for the implications of prescriptive analytics to be financed. The under-pricing of passive risk means that liabilities are treated as either costs of doing business or un-predictable risks even for entirely preventable risks. Risk management offices have been too biased towards avoiding taking the wrong risks rather than ensuring that institutions make their own luck by seizing the abundant positive risk opportunities in social innovation. Meanwhile, the bias against positive risk leaves social innovations not to get adopted even if there would be remarkable benefits to all stakeholders if they were adopted

In the framework of Prevention Derivatives, we want to create a predictive machine learning (ML) model that for a given geographical region will estimate likely savings (losses) due-to protection (damages) of stakeholders’ properties, business profits, common health, and regional ecology resulting in applying risk prevention solutions (or doing nothing instead). Goal of these notes is to analyze ML model’s design, offer a potential improvement and to discuss existing approaches for data collection, and training and testing the model. It is important to notice that the model is applied to the entire selected or target region. Therefore, a geographical region R is the smallest unit we apply modeling to.
Data science will be utilized in the following ways:
Explore/Visualize data currently available on Wildfires
Identify trends and patterns in Historical data
Quantify historical losses in dollars based on property destruction, casualties, acres burnt, etc.
Build predictive models to identify areas of high wildfire risk based on factors such as weather, vegetation, topography, etc.
Visualization of Model outcomes
Scenario building (changing input variables and observing impact on outcome)
Tools - R, Python, MATLAB, SQL, PowerPoint
Knowledge or Interest in anyone or more:
Identify papers on Simulation of Wildfires, Catastrophe Modeling
Review and present Technical papers in a way that everyone can understand
Assist in Model development and testing by contributing in finding data and programming
Identify/Collect data relevant to wildfire Impact
Work cross-functionally
Traits:
Mathematically inclined, highly analytical, creative problem solver, can conduct analyses independently or with minimal supervision
Programming for Data Science
Mathematics
Statistics
Predictive Analytics
Prescriptive Analytics
Machine Learning - Supervised/Unsupervised learning
Artificial Intelligence
Data Mining
Computer Science
Monte Carlo Simulations
Expectations:


If you have any questions about processes for joining CrowdDoing.world as a volunteer to support our efforts in systemic change please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world

Opportunity Details

About Us: -

CrowdDoing.world is a joint initiative of Match4Action Foundation and Reframe It. CrowdDoing is focused on addressing the social, economic, and environmental challenges our world faces by collaborating with professionals and volunteers from many different industries. We offer a platform for individuals to connect and collaborate toward creating systemic change. What makes us different? CrowdDoing aims to support social innovations with transformative impact potential through global multi-disciplinary volunteering, micro-leadership and service learning. We work through operating leverage for systems change to achieve collective agency. We orient to ikigai and self-determination theory in order to help each person have the perfect role. We would love for you to join the team!

 

Project Outline: -

Wildfire Prevention Derivatives is a framework/approach to align stakeholder (e.g., homeowners, landowners, utilities, local authorities, insurance and reinsurance companies, and others) interests and incentives in a way that leads to investment in Nature-based preventive solutions such as targeted grazing (by goats, sheep, etc.) as well as advanced technological solutions (e.g., IoT) in areas predicted by data driven models as highly vulnerable to wildfires. Prevention Derivative aims to mitigate preventable risks arising from wildfires instead of transferring them.

See more detailed background on CrowdDoing'sWildfire prevention derivatives
httpspublic://volop_imgs/volop_400070_feature.pngdrive.google.com/file/d/1dBp_HUr-tCCNaeGoSDfPrirRPbaoV3X4/view?usp=sharing
 

Role Description: -

We are looking for a qualified Silviculturists who will apply different treatments to make forests more productive and more useful to a landowner and society on a sustainable basis. Designs and implements silvicultural methods to develop stand composition and structures that may be reflected in natural disturbed ecosystems and thereby fulfill objectives that produce tangible (harvestable commodities) and intangible (ecosystem structure and function) benefit. The ideal Candidate is a good team player with great communication skills.

Key Responsibilities: -

Monitor contract compliance and results of forestry activities to assure adherence to government regulations.
Plan, supervise and conduct research in such problems of forest propagation and culture as tree growth rate, effects of thinning on forest yield, duration of seed viability, and effects of fire and animal grazing on growth, seed production, and germination of different species.
Establish short- and long-term plans for management of forest lands and forest resources.
Determine methods of cutting and removing timber with minimum waste and environmental damage.
Supervise activities of other forestry workers.
 

Skills and Competencies: -

Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Judgment and Decision Making- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Analytical or scientific software - Forest vegetation simulators; Forest yield software
Data base user interface and query software - Data entry software; Microsoft Access; SMART
Electronic mail software- IBM Notes; Microsoft Outlook
Inventory management software - Forest Metrix; Fountains Forestry TwoDog
Map creation software - ESRI ArcGIS software; ESRI ArcView; Geographic information system GIS software; Mapping software
 

Qualification and Experience: -

A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Forestry.
Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in forestry, or at least 30 semester hours in any combination of biological, physical, or mathematical sciences or engineering, of which at least 24 semester hours were in forestry.
Experience and knowledge in silviculture, forest management operations, timber management, wildland fire science or fire management, utilization of forest resources, forest regulation, recreational land management, watershed management, and wildlife or range habitat management.

If you have any questions about processes for joining CrowdDoing.world as a volunteer to support our efforts in systemic change please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world

Opportunity Details

Wildfire Prevention Financial Product Design Development & Architecture Analysis(with Video Introduction!)
p.s.

To see an 18 minute video introduction and overview of prevention derivatives as a framework- please see here what we shared in 2020 at the Skoll World Forum and at Social Venture Circle- httpspublic://volop_imgs/volop_400069_feature.pngyoutu.be/GMYEjyPGDK0




Knowledge or Interest in any one or more:

Economics

Insurance

Cost - Benefit Analysis

Technical research

Environmental research

Market research

Business research

Insight generation

Expectations:

Identify/Collect data/papers/literature relevant to wildfire Impact

Quantify costs incurred by different stakeholders as a result of Wildfire

Generate Insights from currently available research papers

Present your work

Work cross-functionally

Traits:
Wildfire Prevention Financial Product Design Development & Architecture Analysis-
High curiosity, creative, critical thinking, can conduct analyses independently or with minimal supervision.

Develop core analytical capabilities or model libraries, using advanced statistical, quantitative, or econometric techniques.

Provide application or analytical support to wildfire prevention and insurance researchers or traders on issues such as valuations or data.

Research or develop analytical tools to address issues such as wildfire prevention portfolio construction or optimization, performance measurement, attribution, profit and loss measurement, or pricing models.

Maintain or modify all financial analytic models in use.

Apply mathematical or statistical techniques to address practical issues in finance, such as derivative valuation, risk management, or financial market regulation.

Devise or apply independent models or tools to help verify results of analytical systems.

Define or recommend model specifications or data collection methods.

Confer with other financial engineers or analysts on financial product structure in light of market dynamics, informed by the development of quantitative techniques.

Collaborate with product development teams to research, model, validate, or implement quantitative structured solutions for new or expanded wildfire prevention markets.

Consult team members to determine the need for new or improved analytical applications.

Collect, synthesize, analyze, manage, and report environmental data, such as pollution emission measurements, atmospheric monitoring measurements, meteorological or mineralogical information, or soil or water samples.

Communicate scientific or technical information to the public, organizations, or internal audiences through oral briefings, written documents, workshops, conferences, training sessions, or public hearings.

Provide advice on proper standards and regulations or the development of policies, strategies, or codes of practice for environmental management.

Prepare charts or graphs from data samples, providing summary information on the environmental relevance of the data.

Analyze data to determine validity, quality, and scientific significance and to interpret correlations between human activities and environmental effects.

Determine data collection methods to be employed in research projects or surveys.

Process and review environmental permits, licenses, or related materials.

Plan or develop research models, using knowledge of mathematical and statistical concepts.

Conduct applied research on environmental topics in wildfire prevention

Research sources of wildfire air pollution to determine their effects on the environment and to develop theories or methods of wildfire pollution prevention

If you have any questions about processes for joining CrowdDoing.world as a volunteer to support our efforts in systemic change please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world