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Thanks to my visit to the local courthouse for jury duty on Monday morning this week, and my spending three of the last four weeks on the road, this week’s Green Career Tip of the Week is a potpourri of new services, upcoming events, and an update on the Stimulus Package Money Trail.
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Highlight: Do You Have Questions About Your Green Career? Then… Ask Us!
We’ve just added a new Ask Us service to Green Career Central to help you move your green career forward. Choose the option that works best for you.
- Fill out our Ask Us form with your question and we’ll answer you within a few business days. This is a free service to members and non-members alike.
- Sign up for a Mentoring Call with Carol. During a 20 minute call you’ll have the opportunity to speak with Carol, the founder of Green Career Central. After purchasing this option ($60 for members and $80 for non-members), you’ll receive information from us to help you prepare to make the most of your time with Carol.
- Contact one of our Green Career/Business Experts for one-on-one support to help you find your green niche, jumpstart your job search, or strengthen your green business. We’ve selected each of our Green Career/Business Experts based on their knowledge and experience in their field, and their awareness of the green economy.
Upcoming Events : Mark Your Calendar!
Greening Your Career Forum: Sponsored by Acterra. Come learn about the emerging "green economy" and how it can impact your career. Dr. Carol McClelland of Green Career Central will bring a panel of speakers from a broad array of backgrounds and industries to share their stories of how they found their way to exciting green careers. Find out about green opportunities that are opening up in many fields, despite the economic downturn. Learn about strategies you can adapt to your particular interests. The program will also introduce Acterra's Be the Change program, a year-long leadership training course that helps people green their careers from the inside out. In next week’s Green Career Tip of the Week we’ll have details about the panelists.
- Tuesday, May 19th
- Symantec VCafe at 350 Ellis Street, Mountain View, CA
- 5:30pm – 9:00pm
- Register here
Green Ventures Conference: featuring the theme, “Jumpstarting the New Green Economy.” According to conference organizers, the goal for the event is to help participants help “create a vision for business and work within a new paradigm. Upon leaving, they will be armed not only with a clearer vision for the future, but their next steps to move sustainability forward in their homes, their place of business, and their immediate communities and broader communities.”
Carol will be speaking virtually at 6 pm Eastern Time on May 21st at the Green Jobs Networking Event about the Six Things You Must Know to Land a Professional Job in the Green Economy
- Tuesday, May 19th through Thursday, May 21st
- Fairleigh Dickinson University’s College at Florham, Madison, New Jersey
- Registration for the Conference, which also includes workshops, panels, and a free expo and networking fair, is available online at www.jumpstartgreen.org.
Green Career Conference in Los Angeles: Sponsored by the Solar Living Institute. Although this is the first Green Career Conference in LA, the Solar Living Institute has put on a similar event in the Bay Area for several years. We’ve attended each year and have been very impressed by the content, the speakers, and the networking. Join us in LA!
Carol will give a key note presentation (Find Your Green Niche) and facilitate a break out group (Outshining Your Competition: How to Develop and Edge in the Green Job Market) at this conference.
SFBay Greenfair: Sponsored by the Bay Area Newspaper Group, this event will have a variety of opportunities to learn about all things green! There will also be companies with job openings!
Carol will be speaking about Plug into the Green Economy: A New Frontier for Job Seekers from 11 am to noon. We’ll also have an exhibit table. Stop by and see us!
- Saturday, June 27th
- Cow Palace, 2600 Geneva Avenue in Daly City, California
- 10 am – 7 pm
- Free Admission
Tip of the Week: Stimulus Package Money Trail
You’ve no doubt heard about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that was signed into law on February 17, 2009 to provide dollars ($787 Billion) to stimulate the economy. Have you wondered where the money has landed?
Right after the law was signed, we heard about the Recovery.gov site designed to provide a transparent view of where the money is going by category. That page is interesting, but it doesn’t even begin to tell the full story.
Now, just 2.5 months later, you’ll find a number of very interesting details.
- Interested in what funds your state is getting? You can find the distribution of funds by state and by programs within each state (click through on your state on the map for the details.) According to the small print on the map, these maps illustrate funds that have been distributed to date. As more funds are distributed, the map will be updated. Although not all of the programs are green, it’s fairly easy to scan the list of programs to identify the programs that have an environmental/green flavor to them.
- Perhaps the most interesting chart is the table that shows how the money has been distributed by agency. As you arrive on the page, notice the two columns of numbers. The first column indicates the amount of money that agency is expecting to receive. The second column shows you the amount of money that has been paid to the agency thus far. (Keep in mind, that tax provisions and guaranteed loans are not factored into these columns of numbers.)
When you compare the two columns, you’ll soon see that, relatively speaking, very little money has been distributed.
- In fact, of the $72.2 Billion that have been announced thus far, only 21% or $15.4 Billion have been distributed.
- Of the $787 Billion that’s designated by the full bill, that same $15.4 Billion is only a mere 0.2% of the full amount.
SO when you hear people lamenting the “minimal impact” the stimulus money is having, remember that most of the money hasn’t been announced or distributed…yet! Doesn’t it make sense that we haven’t seen much evidence of new job creation…yet?
Click on the name of each agency to discover more details about the rate at which funds are being distributed; major announcements made by the agency, and planned actions by the agency. One more tip: Click on View Recovery Site on each page to visit the agency’s main website for even more detail.
You are most likely to find green/environmental funding for the following agencies:
- If you are interested in the energy efficient building initiatives within the ARRA, you want to look in a different area of Recovery.gov site. Basically, $4.5 billion is dedicated to transforming federal facilities into exemplary high-performance green buildings, $750 million to will go toward renovating and constructing new federal offices and courthouses, and $300 million is slated to constructing and renovating border stations. The Building Recovery initiatives section includes a report of projects awarded in the various states.
Actions You Can Take
- Visit the home page of Recovery.gov frequently to track the announcements on the left hand column. Several announcements are added to the site each week!
- Scroll to the bottom of the home page for a timeline of key ARRA milestones.
- Sign up for updates about the recovery process by entering your email and zip code in the upper right corner of the home page.
- Take some time to explore all the other areas of the website. There’s even more than I’ve reported here. Really!
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Follow the Money: Find out which government department is spending millions on green projects, how the wind industry is getting a much welcomed financial boost, and which major company is making over $2 billion of loans available for IT and smart grid projects.
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