I'm Keshav, now in the Central Valley region in California, and looking for an entry-level position in the environmental protection/justice career-field...

I have done much self-directed (though less official/recognized) study (especially through this internet) and experiential learning in environmentally healing/protecting activities (such as community garden and small-scale farming volunteering, ecovillage living, proposing environmentally sustainable transitions in various conditions, composting, etc.), have some good, clear knowledge and especially can bring good energy tied to my motivation for such needed, meaningful, and appropriate work.

I'm open to work that is most fitting, but also thinking it is a high priority (especially with the fires in the Western USA, you know?) to help here in the Central Valley; to help transition ag. to better growing methods (like permaculture methods, like a shift in plan(n/t)ing: from commercial/industrial to relocalized & from self/family/self-sufficiency --> village/community/etc. (with honest excess to be shared or traded, or eaten by "pests", right?). The UCB Grizzly Corps seems to be in the right direction at least, toward growing more trees, ecologically, etc., right?

My idea is to basically help in the Central Valley region, and evaluate-grade food production lands (as needed) and suggest how to transition toward truly ecological, holistically balanced methods of farming, and restoration of harmful (water-siphoning->desertification) ag. lands, with sustainable livelihoods outreach too (more balanced carrying capacity, you know).

Also thinking it would be good to collaborate on this transitioning effort with groups such as WWOOF, Fellowship for Intentional Community, Global Ecovillage Network, a better form of Habitat for Humanity, etc.

I'm also thinking of the possibility to partner with a university professor/researcher, as sort of an independent study, or action-oriented (research) project. I believe I'm charged with this work as I've even been developing corresponding questions/curriculum, you can check out*. Mostly action-oriented/practical, however it even includes more theoretical/bookish assessment-thinking like:

"in land evaluation, the pre-settling of the Central Valley in the mid 1850s, if snow-melt, seasonal flooding, then? Or, how to design-inhabit? how did the Yokuts/indigenous inhabit the area that would become Bakersfield (with its “complex of distributary channels, sloughs, and marshes produced by the Kern River, which emptied two shallow lakes that were, in turn, surrounded by desert in the southern Tulare Basin”"

*https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wOJNgocMW9RMSaXhW5poVueq87r9XHZ4/view?usp=sharing