Meet Our Interns! They are
great!
Hi, I'm Kate! |
My name is Kate Skalak,
I am a recent graduate of Iowa State University finishing
with a B.A in mass communications and minors in speech
and food science. I moved to Berkeley at the begaining
of June to start my internship here at Living Tree Community
Foods to work on the marketing and sales in the southern
U.S region, Canada and the kosher market. When finishing
up my internship here I will then move on to post-graduate
school at Kingston University in London, England. I will
be completing my masters in marketing, specalizing in
organic foods.
In my free time I enjoy playing sports (basketball, running,
wakeboarding etc), cooking, working out, socalizing and
listening to music. I personally live by a vegetarian
lifestyle and highly enjoy visiting the farmers markets
as many times a week as possible.
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Hi, I'm Maddy! |
I’m Maddy Gale from Hendersonville,
NC. I’m going to be a senior at Pitzer College in
Claremont, CA where I’m studying media studies.
I just returned from a semester abroad in Botswana where
I lived for 4 months with host families and had various
internships while studying the Setswana language and culture.
I’m in Berkeley for the summer and interning at
Living Tree Community Foods to learn about marketing and
sales and am currently working with the kosher market.
In my free time I enjoy biking, yoga, hiking, and reading.
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Internships at Living Tree University
Our internships are primarily for those considering a career in the organic food industry. We offer first hand experience in sales, marketing, administration and production. At the same time, we will introduce you to our Living Tree regime of live food and physical fitness, intellectual inquiry and contemplation. As we see it, vigorous daily exercise is an inseparable part of a live food diet, inquiry is part of our responsibility to understand the world in which we live and contemplation helps to bring it all together.
For more information, visit Our Way.
Your resources will include the research libraries at the nearby University of California- a treasure trove for early California history. What better place could there be for contemplation than Yosemite National Park, "the incomparable valley" as John Muir put it and one of the most inspiring places on earth. Furthermore, the Bay Area is the dance capital of the world, a great place to work on your mind-body connection.
Most important at Living Tree Community you'll have a supportive staff devoted to your evolution. We will treat you with kindness and respect.
Terms and Conditions:
- There are no fees nor tuition.
- We ask that you commit to a minimum of 12 weeks.
During the morning and early afternoon you'll be engaged in marketing, sales, production and distribution of organic food. You'll learn the structure of the markets for organic food. You'll also learn the art of negotiating sales with professional buyers. In the afternoon and evening you'll work on one of the research projects outlined below.
- We do not pay a wage or stipend. You'll have to provide for your own expenses including room and board.
Finding shared housing in Berkeley should not be too difficult. Suggest that you try craigslist.com to gain a concept of what's available.
- Classes are ongoing. You can start anytime.
- You'll be given every encouragement and support in following a live food diet.
- We expect you to balance your intellectual work with vigorous exercise each day. On the UC Berkeley campus are magnificent gymnastic facilities that you can use for a moderate fee. Circumstances permitting, you'll be welcome to join us for backpacking and cross-country skiing.
- If you'd like to explore this possibility, we suggest that you send us an email introducing yourself and explaining why you'd like to work and study with us. Also please include a resume.
Suggested Research Topics
Here are a few topics that you may wish to study. You may wish to suggest others. If we feel we cannot supervise your project we'll try to find someone in the rich intellectual ethos of Berkeley who can.
1. The Origin of Man in the Americas- until recently it was believed that the Americas were uninhabited until populated by modern man who came here across the Bering Straits, which were frozen over 12,000 years ago. This view is becoming more and more untenable as discovery after discovery points to the immense antiquity of humankind in the Americas. A lot of ideological freight is riding on the "land bridge" hypothesis, namely that Native Americans were "recent" settlers just like us. On a deeper level there is the belief that mankind could not have originated in here because there is nowhere to be found the kind of ape or monkey which the pundits posit as our ancestor. In other words, if it could be demonstrated that man did indeed originate here, the Darwinian structure would totter. Ask any Native American from the Arctic to Patagonia when his ancestors arrived and he will tell you that they have always been here. The evidence is mounting that this may well be true. Here is a discovery waiting to occur that will rock the world of conventional thinking.
2. Critique of Evolution- In recent years there has been a revulsion against the two core principles of evolution: common descent and mutation and natural selection as the mechanism of evolution. Ever since the 1920's, evolutionists have claimed that some characteristics of the Australopithecus ape genus resembled those of human beings, for which reason they have portrayed these extinct creatures as "man's most primitive ancestor". A good deal of evidence disproving this has emerged. There are a large number of ape species that once lived in the past and are now extinct. The skeletal structures of some show similarities to those of man. Yet those similarities do not mean that these creatures have any relationship to man. Evolutionists line up the skulls from these extinct species in a manner required by their theory and try to come up with "a ladder from ape to man". Yet the deeper research into the subject goes, the more it is realized that there is no such ladder, all that can be said is that different species of apes lived at different times.
The one thing clear from the fossil record is that man appeared all at once. The very idea of a "missing link", always shaky, is now more and more untenable. No one was more acquainted with evolution than Alfred Russel Wallace its co-originator. Yet he came to a conclusion quite different from Darwin: development and growth of species can only be explained on the basis of a guiding intelligence. Furthermore he concluded, we can not help seeing that we ourselves are the highest outcome of the development process on earth.
One critic of Darwinism introduced the much quoted analogy that the chance of life originating out of raw materials would be equal to the chance that a Boeing 747 resulted from a hurricane going over a junkyard. (As far as we know, Hurricane Katrina left merely rubble in the backyards of New Orleans).
There is a vast literature here. You'll read some leading works and come to your own conclusions.
Our Program
In our view learning is not a head trip; rather the only way to understand a point of view is by a sort of intellectual sympathy, i.e. to impersonate it. No view can be grasped from without. To appreciate it truly, one must insert oneself inside it and reproduce by an act of sympathetic imagination its intrinsic nature, to understand it from within. Thus a student is like a dramatist or actor who must identify himself with the character he is portraying. For him the world is but a stage, and he must strive to be able to impersonate in rapid succession heterogeneous moods, passions and attitudes with apparent seriousness and sincerity. Then, the play being over, from behind his mask, his laughing countenance is suddenly visible. For example, to an outside critic, junk foodism is obviously not the junk foodism of a junk food eater. We must see junk foodism through the eyes of a junk food eater to understand its intrinsic character. For a non-junk food eater, an experiment of this sort requires involves superb histronic art. Yet such histronic art is requisite for the portrayal from its own center of any point of view foreign to our own. Once we understand junk foodism, we can uncover its antitheses of ideas and aberrations of beliefs, to kindle "thoughtful laughter" at the sight of folly so everlastingly rampant.
Matriculate then when you come to the realization that everything human is subject to folly and that life is a perpetual comedy. Graduate when you have become the wholehearted and charismatic individual you were meant to be.
Jesse Schwartz, Ph.D.,
President
Living Tree Community Food |
