White Violet Center For Eco Justice
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Associate Director
White Violet Center for Eco-Justice
Terre Haute, IN
Categories:
Nat. Resources/ Restoration
Outreach/ Advocacy
Program Management
Skill Level: Mid Level
Position Type: Full Time
White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, a Ministry of the Sisters of Providence, exists to foster a way of living that recognizes the interdependence of all creation. Grounded in an understanding of Providence Spirituality as hope and healing, the center offers leadership and education in the preservation, restoration and reverent use of all natural resources.
The center provides opportunities for many persons to participate in creating systems that support justice and sustainability, locally and globally. Through organic agriculture, eco-justice education and social advocacy, White Violet Center strives to promote an awareness and way of living which support all life.
Position Overview:
White Violet Center for Eco-Justice is hiring an Associate Director. The individual selected for this position will manage, along with the Director, the day-to-day functioning of the White Violet Center and program components.
Responsibilities:
Essential duties include the coordination of advocacy work in areas of ecological justice, site supervision of the Providence Volunteer Program, directing our volunteer program, directing the forest restoration and preservation plan, serving as liaison to the facilities management department regarding work order requests, and assuming responsibility for the center operations in the absence of the director.
Qualifications:
We are seeking an individual with the following qualifications ,
- Bachelor's or higher level of education
- Experience in management and finance
- Experience in areas of earth spirituality, eco-justice, or environmental education.
- While experience in forestry is not required, it is desirable.
To Apply:
Qualified and interested individuals may please submit a resume.
Sisters of Providence
Human Resources
1 Sisters of Providence
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876
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Contact Information:
(812)535-1008 (fax)
http://www.spsmw.org/WhiteVioletCenterforEcoJustice/HOMEWVC/tabid/526/Default.aspx
More than a million pounds of steam last month, in fact, they said Saturday at the White Violet Center for EcoJustice's 10th annual Earth Day celebration while offering tours of the Sisters’ new biomass energy project.
'We wanted to pay the local workers instead of the gas and oil companies,' explained Sister Rose Ann Eaton, associate director of facilities, noting that heating costs for the Sisters of Providence facilities had run $400,000 a year even a few years ago when energy prices were lower than today.
The $3 million project was initially projected to pay for itself within three to five years, but with energy costs on the rise, it could be a shorter timetable, Eaton said.
'A lot of people won't have this because it's so work intensive,' she noted, pointing out the sheer tonnage of tree limbs and other carbon-based yard waste being processed.
But in addition to cutting their own costs, Eaton pointed out that the effort keeps local workers employed and helps cut landfill costs for area agencies.
Loads of tree limbs, bark, leaves and other carbon-based material are brought to the sites located just behind St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, where they’re chopped up in a chipper which is approximately the same size as a road grader.
The material is then loaded into a barn equipped with a 'walking floor,' from whence it is shaken across a conveyor belt and into the main boiler building.
The result is a 'syn gas' which can be used to generate steam, which in turn heats the facility’s buildings, Eaton said.
'We’re hoping to get a turbine to generate electricity but we're not there yet,' she said, noting that the project is a work in progress dating back to 2005.
'They've been bringing us this fuel for a long time and we just started with the boiler recently,' she said.
Local companies such as Great Dane Trailers drop off loads of used pallets, while city street and parks departments like those of Terre Haute and Paris, Ill., bring tree and yard trimmings. Previously, much of this material had been sent to landfills, she said, noting that cost savings go many ways with this type of facility.
After the steam has been generated, the post boiler material is taken to another site on the grounds and mixed with horse manure and leaves for compost.
The project was specially engineered to fit into the existing buildings and facilities, some of which date back to the early 1900s, she said.
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