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Last call for the 7 March workshop with Carol. If you are ready for help with finding your green niche, sign up for this great workshop: Finding Your Green Niche Workshop. Read this week's Highlight for more information!
Want to really SEE where the green jobs are? This week's tip shows you the map to green companies across the USA.
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Last Call: Find Your Green Niche Workshop
Get Clear. Get Focused. Get Results.
- Are you struggling to find your place in the green economy?
- Are you wondering how to combine your varied interests and passions into a green career?
- Do you wish you had more clarity about how to proceed with your green career?
Join Carol and her colleague, Rebecca Kieler, for a full-day, interactive workshop to help you find your green niche. By the end of the day, you’ll discover how to combine your passions, interests, experience, and training to plug into the green economy.
With clarity about your green niche, your job search will become focused.
- You'll know exactly which resources align with your future direction.
- You'll know what to read, what classes to take, what conferences to attend, and what networking/professional groups will give you the information and support you need.
- Your network will be excited to connect you with their contacts because they feel your passion and they understand exactly what you want to do next.
- You’ll speak about your green career direction with more confidence, clarity, and commitment than ever before.
- Decision-makers will detect your enthusiasm for their position and your dedication to the green economy.
Date: March 7, 2009
Time: 9 am - 5 pm
Location: The Green Building Exchange
1 Chestnut Avenue
South San Francisco CA 94080
Price: $150.00
Register with Solar Living Institute, a non-profit education center.
***There are still a few openings. Sign up now!***
Tip of the Week: Where Are the Green Jobs? Maps Are Worth Ten Thousand Words
Thanks to the power of Google Maps, organizations that are researching the viability of green jobs and the green economy have a powerful tool at their fingertips. With a bit of data, these organizations are creating maps that show where green companies are located using icons so it’s easy to identify different kinds of companies.
This week we ran across studies that include maps of manufacturing companies and CleanTech companies. If a picture is worth one thousand words, these maps are worth ten thousand!
Even if you aren’t in the market for a manufacturing job or a CleanTech job, take a few minutes to click through to one of the reports listed below, or the maps. With one glance you’ll get it! Green companies exist. Their numbers are growing. As funding, policies, and incentives drop into place, these operations are going to start humming! Some percentage of the small companies will grow into household names.
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Jobs in the Manufacturing Sector
The Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness (CGGC), an affiliate of the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University, has been releasing their research on Manufacturing Climate Solutions since November 2008. The report highlights the “direct linkages between low-carbon technologies and U.S. jobs.”
In the series, the researchers ask, “In a new global economy increasingly affected by the threat of climate change, what are the U.S. job opportunities in technologies that can reduce carbon emissions?”
To conduct their research they looked at
Each report contains an introduction to the industry, an overview of the product or system, and a full description of the value chain involved in producing and distributing the product or system. Charts provide an in depth description of all of the materials and supplies needed to produce the product or system. Furthermore they list and map the companies that already exist to provide the materials and supplies needed to get the new technologies in place to reduce carbon emissions.
The bottom line of this report is that it shows that there are a multitude of companies in existence today that would benefit from providing for these new technologies. In addition, some of the technologies will require additional supplies and materials, which indicates additional job growth.
The Environmental Defense Fund is mapping renewable energy and energy efficiency companies in a number of manufacturing states. To see the proliferation of companies in these states, take a look at the maps for Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Scroll below the map for a list of the companies and their location. Click on the blue or green icon to read more about the companies. If the company name is listed in bold, there’s a bit more information when you click through.
This report was sponsored by Environmental Defense Fund, the Building and Construction Trades Department (AFL-CIO), Industrial Union Council (AFL-CIO), International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, and United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters.
101 CleanTech Startups
This week we ran across a fascinating map of CleanTech start ups around the United States. Thanks to Google Maps, you can see at a glance where CleanTech companies are showing up and what CleanTech sector they represent.
As you scroll down the left side of the page you’ll see the companies that fit under each of the following categories. It’s easy to see which category is which because each category has a distinctive, intuitive icon.
| Solar |
Energy Storage |
BioPlastics |
| Lighting |
Clean Coal |
Biofuels |
| Energy Efficiency |
Hydropower |
Electric Vehicle |
| Green Building Materials |
Wind |
Water |
Looking at this map is a little like eating a bag of chips…it’s hard to stop at just one click!
Want to explore the details? You have two choices:
- Click on the link on the list on the left, or click on an icon on the map to discover the following information:
- Company Name: With a live link to the company’s website
- Sector: The CleanTech focus of the company
- Founded: Date the company was founded
- Key Players: Who is in charge of the company
- Why They Matter: What the company is doing that’s important
- Investors: Who has invested in the company
- Earth2Tech Coverage: Links to blog posts Earth2Tech has written about the company
- Get Directions: How to drive to the company location
- Zoom down to your state or region to explore which CleanTech start ups are in your area. By zooming in, you’ll be able to click on the icons in your region to read the same information listed above.
Action Step
By knowing the names of manufacturing companies or CleanTech start ups in your area, you gain some important knowledge for your own job search.
- You’ll identify potential future employers in your area. Although start ups may not be ready to hire you now, they are certainly worth watching. When they are ready to go to market, you’ll be well aware of what they do, who they are, and the journey they’ve taken to get there.
- You’ll know who to watch for in your local media. Even if the company is not in your target industry area, you can still learn from them. How is your community covering their progress? What hurdles are they facing? What successes are they having? With the interdependent nature of the green economy you never know when something that is happening in another industry will have an important role in the development of your industry. You may even see the opportunity to partner with a growing company to provide them with a solution to a problem they face.
- You’ll identify other companies that may benefit by the existence of this company in your area. Will suppliers and vendors benefit? Will the company become a big player that will need a strong infrastructure? Will the company’s waste become an input from another industry that will then thrive? It’s all about connecting the dots!
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We are so excited to announce that the Green Career Central Job Board is live!
What does this mean for you as a Job Seeker?
Your job skills will be visible to Green employers currently looking to fill vacant positions!
With our robust job board system, you can
- Post your resume anonymously--at no charge.
- Search the job postings.
- Bookmark job postings that are of interest to you.
- Create personalized job alerts that are e-mailed to you when positions that match your skills are added to the Job Board.
- Manage multiple versions of your resume and cover letter.
- Receive, review and respond to the inquiries from potential employers.
To Get Started: Follow the step-by-step instructions below to create your account. (Green Career Central members, be sure to log in to the GCC site first and then click over to the Job Board so that you will get all your member benefits!)
Once you are there, set up your personal profile and post your resume. Green employers will then be able to scan your information (without knowing your identity or contact information) to look for matches to their open positions. If they like what they see, you'll receive a message. You then choose to communicate with them or not.
Instructions to access the Job Board:
Green Career Central Member:
- Log in to the Green Career Central site as usual and click through to the Job Board using the button on the right side of the home page.
- You will be automatically logged in as a GCC member on the Job Board.
- As a GCC member, your resume will be marked with a small Green Career Central icon to show employers you are committed to finding a green job.
- Member resumes will be listed ahead of non-member resumes.
Green Career Central Visitor:
- You need not be a member of Green Career Central to post your resume on the Job Board. If you are not a member of Green Career Central, you may still access the Job Board through our site, create an account on the Job Board and log in there each time you visit.
- The Job Board is free and open to the public.
Green Career Central Blog:
Green Career Trends: This week we highlight a couple of green industries that are growing, a couple of reports that rate colleges’ sustainability programs, and a couple of advancements in the renewable energy arena.
Human Footprint - Videos Illustrate Consumption of Average American: National Geographic produced an enlightening series (Spring 2008) that illustrates the consumption of the Average American. If you are looking for a problem to solve in your work, or a cause to champion, these short You Tubes videos may give you the inspiration for which you are looking.
Membership Has Its Advantages!
The discussion forum topic, audios, ebook, and articles listed below are available to members of GreenCareerCentral.com as a part of their membership. If you're not a member and would like to have immediate access, we'd love to have you join us now!
Green Career Central is a membership site with a comprehensive set of easy-to-use programs, resources, and events to help people achieve their green career dreams whether they want to find a green job, start a green business, or get a green education.
  
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What's New at GreenCareerCentral.com
New Industry Profile
We are building out our industries under the Environmental Sciences heading. This week we’ve added the Ecology Industry Profile. Ecology is the scientific study of how organisms interact with other organisms and with their environment. Here’s a short excerpt from this profile.
The rapid increases in the world’s populations threaten the earth’s ability to supply the resources we are going to need in order to survive in the long-term. An understanding of ecological principles is proving to be immensely helpful in understanding the global and local consequences of the various social, economic and political components that affect the short-term distribution of our natural resources.
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Take Action on Your Green Career Goal
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...Green Your Job
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...Green Experience
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Carol McClelland, PhD, founder and Executive Director of Green Career Central, has helped thousands of people discover their dream career through her book Your Dream Career For Dummies and her work with individuals, groups, and students. Together with her team of experts, researchers and writers, Carol has pulled together sixteen years of experience into a broad collection of how-to articles, resources, support, and teleclasses to help you find your way to make a difference and prosper.
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