Friday, April 1st, 2011 by Erika, Office DirectorcloseAuthor: Erika, Office DirectorName: Erika Obedzinski Title: Office Director About: Erika's main task as Office Director is to keep balance in the office for the Committee's many staff and priorities. She is the puzzlemaster for the office schedule--which involves over 20 staff in the summertime--and she also oversees the summer intern and volunteer programs. Before her current role, Erika spent three years as the Committee's Membership Coordinator and her first summer in the Basin as an intern. After studying music composition at Bennington College, Erika received a degree in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community from New College of California.See All Posts by Erika (11) Contact Erika
There are still a few openings left for our summer 2011 seasonal positions—if you or anyone you know might be interested, take a look at the job descriptions here!
Thursday, January 6th, 2011 by Erika, Office DirectorcloseAuthor: Erika, Office DirectorName: Erika Obedzinski Title: Office Director About: Erika's main task as Office Director is to keep balance in the office for the Committee's many staff and priorities. She is the puzzlemaster for the office schedule--which involves over 20 staff in the summertime--and she also oversees the summer intern and volunteer programs. Before her current role, Erika spent three years as the Committee's Membership Coordinator and her first summer in the Basin as an intern. After studying music composition at Bennington College, Erika received a degree in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community from New College of California.See All Posts by Erika (11) Contact Erika
We are now accepting applications for the 2011 summer season! Please visit the jobs page for detailed job descriptions and information on how to apply.
Friday, October 1st, 2010 by Erika, Office DirectorcloseAuthor: Erika, Office DirectorName: Erika Obedzinski Title: Office Director About: Erika's main task as Office Director is to keep balance in the office for the Committee's many staff and priorities. She is the puzzlemaster for the office schedule--which involves over 20 staff in the summertime--and she also oversees the summer intern and volunteer programs. Before her current role, Erika spent three years as the Committee's Membership Coordinator and her first summer in the Basin as an intern. After studying music composition at Bennington College, Erika received a degree in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community from New College of California.See All Posts by Erika (11) Contact Erika
Sierra Solar lays the groundwork for the solar panels to be installed.
Jim, TJ, and Isabel from Sierra Solar arrived yesterday to begin installing our long-awaited solar panels for the Mono Lake Committee’s “icehouse” office building. The panels will generate more than enough power for the building, and the extra power generated will offset a portion of the Information Center & Bookstore usage. The Committee is glad to be the second business in town to install solar panels on it’s rooftops—the Shell gas station across the street was the first. We’ll post more details soon and are very excited at this step that helps reduce our ecological footprint!
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 by Erika, Office DirectorcloseAuthor: Erika, Office DirectorName: Erika Obedzinski Title: Office Director About: Erika's main task as Office Director is to keep balance in the office for the Committee's many staff and priorities. She is the puzzlemaster for the office schedule--which involves over 20 staff in the summertime--and she also oversees the summer intern and volunteer programs. Before her current role, Erika spent three years as the Committee's Membership Coordinator and her first summer in the Basin as an intern. After studying music composition at Bennington College, Erika received a degree in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community from New College of California.See All Posts by Erika (11) Contact Erika
Students and leaders from Beyer High School along with OE staff were glad to help pick up trash along Lee Vining Creek.
This past Saturday, 18 staff and volunteers spent the morning along Lee Vining Creek and Silver Lake picking up trash as part of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy‘s Great Sierra River Cleanup. Thirty-eight pounds of trash might not sound like a lot, but our efforts were worthwhile, since as in many places along waterways in the Eastern Sierra, the trash includes a lot of fishing line. Fishing line (more…)
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 by Erika, Office DirectorcloseAuthor: Erika, Office DirectorName: Erika Obedzinski Title: Office Director About: Erika's main task as Office Director is to keep balance in the office for the Committee's many staff and priorities. She is the puzzlemaster for the office schedule--which involves over 20 staff in the summertime--and she also oversees the summer intern and volunteer programs. Before her current role, Erika spent three years as the Committee's Membership Coordinator and her first summer in the Basin as an intern. After studying music composition at Bennington College, Erika received a degree in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community from New College of California.See All Posts by Erika (11) Contact Erika
Natalie Holt enjoying a Sierra stream. Photo courtesy of Natalie Holt.
Two years ago, Natalie Holt spent much of her summer volunteering for the Mono Lake Committee—leading tours and helping with a variety projects in the office. More recently, for her senior high school project, Natalie created a seven-minute film called “Environmental Identity,” featuring our very own Communications Coordinator Elin Ljung!
In the film Natalie interviews Elin, a park ranger, an Earth First activist, and the owner of a green products store, asking what motivates, inspires and concerns (more…)
Sunday, February 7th, 2010 by Erika, Office DirectorcloseAuthor: Erika, Office DirectorName: Erika Obedzinski Title: Office Director About: Erika's main task as Office Director is to keep balance in the office for the Committee's many staff and priorities. She is the puzzlemaster for the office schedule--which involves over 20 staff in the summertime--and she also oversees the summer intern and volunteer programs. Before her current role, Erika spent three years as the Committee's Membership Coordinator and her first summer in the Basin as an intern. After studying music composition at Bennington College, Erika received a degree in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community from New College of California.See All Posts by Erika (11) Contact Erika
We are now accepting applications and hiring for our 2010 seasonal positions! For detailed job descriptions and how to apply, visit our jobs web page.
Mono Lake Committee staff, summer 2009. Photo by Arya Degenhardt.
Monday, July 13th, 2009 by Erika, Office DirectorcloseAuthor: Erika, Office DirectorName: Erika Obedzinski Title: Office Director About: Erika's main task as Office Director is to keep balance in the office for the Committee's many staff and priorities. She is the puzzlemaster for the office schedule--which involves over 20 staff in the summertime--and she also oversees the summer intern and volunteer programs. Before her current role, Erika spent three years as the Committee's Membership Coordinator and her first summer in the Basin as an intern. After studying music composition at Bennington College, Erika received a degree in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community from New College of California.See All Posts by Erika (11) Contact Erika
Mono Lake Committee Information Center & Bookstore.
Saturday, June 6th, 2009 by Erika, Office DirectorcloseAuthor: Erika, Office DirectorName: Erika Obedzinski Title: Office Director About: Erika's main task as Office Director is to keep balance in the office for the Committee's many staff and priorities. She is the puzzlemaster for the office schedule--which involves over 20 staff in the summertime--and she also oversees the summer intern and volunteer programs. Before her current role, Erika spent three years as the Committee's Membership Coordinator and her first summer in the Basin as an intern. After studying music composition at Bennington College, Erika received a degree in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community from New College of California.See All Posts by Erika (11) Contact Erika
Greg and Rose teaching the group the best way to plant each seedling.
This morning 13 Committee staff and Mono Lake volunteers planted 100 Jeffrey Pine seedlings near Rush Creek. After many days of overcast weather, it was a beautiful sunny morning and good to be outdoors. The recent rainy weather made digging holes for the new trees easy—the toughest job was (more…)
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 by Erika, Office DirectorcloseAuthor: Erika, Office DirectorName: Erika Obedzinski Title: Office Director About: Erika's main task as Office Director is to keep balance in the office for the Committee's many staff and priorities. She is the puzzlemaster for the office schedule--which involves over 20 staff in the summertime--and she also oversees the summer intern and volunteer programs. Before her current role, Erika spent three years as the Committee's Membership Coordinator and her first summer in the Basin as an intern. After studying music composition at Bennington College, Erika received a degree in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community from New College of California.See All Posts by Erika (11) Contact Erika
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 by Erika, Office DirectorcloseAuthor: Erika, Office DirectorName: Erika Obedzinski Title: Office Director About: Erika's main task as Office Director is to keep balance in the office for the Committee's many staff and priorities. She is the puzzlemaster for the office schedule--which involves over 20 staff in the summertime--and she also oversees the summer intern and volunteer programs. Before her current role, Erika spent three years as the Committee's Membership Coordinator and her first summer in the Basin as an intern. After studying music composition at Bennington College, Erika received a degree in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community from New College of California.See All Posts by Erika (11) Contact Erika
One afternoon several weeks ago Elin and I were in the main Mono Lake Committee office when the phone rang. Elin answered and soon passed the call on to me letting me know it was someone working on a film in Los Angeles who had a question for us. Assuming it would be a permit question I would need to pass on to State Parks, it was a fun surprise when I got on the line and James Burkhammer told me he was working on a film with actor and director Mark Ruffalo
Mark Ruffalo with his Mono Lake Committee water bottle on the set of Sympathy for Delicious. Photo courtesy of popsugar.com.
and actor Orlando Bloom–he wanted to know if we would send them our stainless steel logo water bottles for the cast and crew! They would (more…)
