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Since January 2018, 350 Tacoma (with the support of EarthCorps and City of Tacoma Environmental Services) have been working to restore a tiny neglected salt marsh and mud flat deep in the industrial Port of Tacoma, nestled between an oil terminal and a container shipping yard. We'd love your help! If you would like to be notified about upcoming work party dates, please let us know by sending an email to 350tacoma@gmail.com

Location: North side of Port of Tacoma Road between Lincoln Ave and Maxwell Way. The site is just north of the Washington United Terminal. Please park in front or along Maxwell Way. Look for the orange EarthCorps signs and the 350 Tacoma banner. It helps if you arrive on time because you’ll see people milling about.

Our goal is to love this little one acre open space back to health. That involves picking up garbage, pulling out invasive weeds, restoring the soil, planting native plants and trees, and creating walkways and signage. The salt marsh was initially named for a French chemical company—Rhone Poulenc—that once operated on this site, but in consultation with the Puyallup Tribal Language Program we are working through the process to restore a native Twulshootseed place name: qʷiqʷəlut (“little marsh”).

EarthCorps supplies gloves, tools, water and snack bars. Site stewards will teach you everything you need to know about tool use, safety, and the importance of the work you will be doing. No experience necessary, just come ready to learn something new. This is a great way to meet other 350 Tacoma volunteers and get involved. Bring friends or come alone, but join us!

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Too often consumers and the public are supportive of our cause—but they just don’t know it.

This is why we need to be where they are, and attend events including markets, fairs, and festivals, to make people aware of the injustices inflicted upon animals. Having a presence at such events gives us the opportunity to interact directly with the public, including engaging in face-to-face conversations, handing out informational fliers, or soliciting petition signatures. And it’s a great way to meet new people, too!

Tabling opportunities include:
• Educating members of the public about key animal welfare issues such the caging of laying hens, dairy cow welfare, and fish binding

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Since our founding more than 20 years ago, we have never shied away from tackling neglected issues, pushing them to the fore.

Whether it be pushing to reform the inhumane slaughter of pigs or fighting to end unnecessary animal experiments, we know that addressing neglected issues provides the best opportunity to help the animals most in need.

However, without public awareness we will never be able to create the society we seek. As a volunteer speaker, you will have the opportunity to educate influential institutions and the public, swaying their views on the issues that affect animals.

Speaking opportunities include:
• Speaking to the public, institutions, schools, and at events about the welfare issues confronting caged laying hens

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We hope to see Taiwan become a global leader in animal welfare—and indeed, Taiwan is already leading Asia on many fronts.

However, there will always be a need to keep up to date with progress in other parts of the world, in other languages.

As a volunteer translator, you will ensure that our work is backed up by the most up-to-date resources worldwide, and that decision makers, stakeholders, and others have access to this information in the language they understand.

Translation opportunities include:
• Translating international scientific research, animal welfare guidelines, and laws into Chinese
• Translating information about our work—such as press releases—into English, to be shared with international stakeholders

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Research is the backbone of all of the work we do at EAST.

It helps us to uncover the ways in which animals suffer, understand opportunities for change, and power our policy work with scientific evidence and persuasive precedents.

Research opportunities include:
• Researching new animal issues that we have yet to work on
• Researching local and international policy or other precedents
• Uncovering opportunities to modify existing local laws and regulations

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We’re confident in our work, however sometimes our website doesn’t show it in its best light!

Should you possess the right website development skills, there is ample opportunity to help us rejuvenate our website, giving a clear and accessible voice to the animals.

Website Development opportunities include:
• Refreshing the design
• Adding new features
• Improving legibility and site structure
• Assisting with maintenance

Our website: www.east.org.tw

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Get your hands dirty! We planted over 25,000 native plants in the Phase II area that need some love. This is part of a larger goal to restore this entire 50 acre canyon connected to the Upper Newport Bay. We are looking for groups of 10-40 people for Thursday mornings to assist our volunteers in this effort in removing invasive plants and taking care of the flora that are supposed to be here. Please contact us (chris.fabela@newportbay.org) if you have a group that would like to joins us some Thursday mornings in beautiful Newport Beach, CA.

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Emergency Food Network partners with over 80 food pantries, shelters, and hot meal sites in Pierce County. Many of them rely almost entirely on volunteers to keep them running. There truly are tasks for people of all abilities and preferences, including packaging food, guest intake, delivery driving, shelf stocking, data entry, hot meal service, sharing healthy recipes, picking up donations from local stores and restaurants, sorting food, and working curbside to load food into guest vehicles.

Due to Covid-19, food pantries are experiencing an increase in guest visits, with some sites seeing twice as many visits as in 2019.  While many locations have support from the National Guard, this assistance will gradually be phased out towards the end of July, leaving many volunteers roles waiting to be filled. With pantries located throughout Pierce County, there is bound to be an opportunity that can work with your schedule.

We would love to help you find a food pantry to volunteer with that fits your schedule. Just let us know your preferences, and we will help put you in touch with right pantry so you can get started!


Contact us at (253) 584-1040, email MadisonS@efoodnet.org, or visit https://www.efoodnet.org/get-involved/other-volunteer/ to get connected with a program!

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Biophelia Communications Specialist Volunteer CrowdDoing

Plant proximity has been shown to be beneficial in multiple ways including from air pollution reduction & stress reduction. These leverage points have been demonstrated to have positive medical consequences in terms of reduced opioid addiction, reduced medical mistakes, prevention of diseases & conditions such as hypertension & related complications, asthma, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, diabetes, alzheimers & dementia, schizophrenia, rheumatoid arthritisacute pancreatits, chronic kidney disease. We have also evaluated the consequences of proximity to plants on hospital staff presenteeism, absenteeism & turnover rates.

We have concluded that under any scenario we have tested, a network of plant walls & vertical gardens and other uses of plants could pay for themselves in as little as two years and provide beneficial outcomes for more than 20 years. Plant proximity is understood by the scientific community through the lens of ""biophelia"". Biophelia is the visual & sensory experience of plants and proximity to plants. You have expertise relevant to reviewing for validity and applicability our simulation of biophelia in hospitals. Our draft aims to forecast the social outcomes that could be caused by varying scenarios of biophelia in hospitals. We have identified more than 100 outcomes that in principle can be attributed to biophelia. We present here in draft for review a partial simulation of this impact potential. We have aimed to consider prospective benefits to all stakeholders. We have structured this to be a flexible model that can be adapted to any hospital circumstance. We’ve aimed to identify both health outcomes, environmental outcomes financial outcomes.
Biophelia Communications Specialist Volunteer CrowdDoing
We are looking for an enthusiastic Communications Specialist to manage our external and internal communications for CrowdDoing's biophelia team. Phenomenal communication and copywriting skills make a strong communications specialist. Experience in corporate communications and project management are important qualities too. Your enthusiasm and positive attitude will help you gain the trust of colleagues and external parties alike.

Biophelia Communications Specialist Volunteer CrowdDoing Responsibilities
Develop effective corporate communication strategies
Manage internal communications (memos, newsletters etc.)
Draft content (e.g. press releases) for mass media or company website
Organize initiatives and plan events or press conferences
Liaise with media and handle requests for interviews, statements etc.
Foster relationships with advocates and key persons
Collaborate with marketing professionals to produce copy for advertisements or articles
Assist in communication of strategies or messages from senior leadership
Biophelia Communications Specialist Volunteer CrowdDoing Requirements
Proven experience as communications specialist
Experience in web design and content production is a plus
Experience in copywriting and editing
Solid understanding of project management principles
Working knowledge of MS Office; photo and video-editing software is an asset
Excellent communication (oral and written) and presentation skills
Outstanding organizational and planning abilities
Proficient command of English
BSc/BA in public relations, communications or relevant field

Thank you for your interest in becoming a Biophelia Communications Specialist Volunteer CrowdDoing.

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

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This exciting program is designed to allow folks globally to come and assist with wildlife monitoring, species identification, ecology and much more. This is a hands-on experience in the African bush. Great for Ph.D. graduates and those want to make a difference in the scientific and practical wildlife and ecosystems fields.