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Happy Birthday special! This week is Carol's birthday, and she got YOU a gift! Check out the Highlighted Event section for details.
Want to SEE the green economy in action? Read this week's tip and check out the green maps.
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Birthday Membership Special – New Members Join Green Career Central for Half Price
To celebrate the birthday of our Founder and Executive Director, Carol McClelland, she is offering YOU a special gift! All new members who join GreenCareerCentral.com between August 12th and 19th can join for 1/2 price!
Green Career Central is a powerful, content-rich resource to help you:
- Switch to a green career
- Start your green job search
- Get a green education
- Green your resume for a future career change
- Launch a green business
- Advance your current green career
As a member of Green Career Central you will receive:
- Full access to organized, content-rich information, helpful tools, and targeted resources all designed to make you the ideal candidate for your target green career.
- A step-by-step plan to reach your green career goal.
- Preferred ranking of your resume on the Green Career Central Job Board.
- Easy-to-access, current resources you can use to achieve your green career goal. (Including green job boards, green recruiters, green schools, green industry profiles, and a green business center.)
- Personalized support, through our discussion forums, teleclasses, and workshops, to help you keep moving when you feel stuck.
- A variety of articles and interviews with our team of career/business experts.
For all the details about this great half-price special rate, visit us at www.greencareercentral.com and click on the "Birthday Special" button!
Career Counselors: This special is for job seekers. You have access to the same rate here.
Tip of the Week: Maps and More Maps of the Green Economy
One of our most popular newsletters of all time was entitled, Where Are the Green Jobs? Maps Are Worth Ten Thousand Words. The reason is pretty straightforward. Our readers want to see exactly where green jobs are located. More specifically, they want to see what companies exist in their region.
This week, we found a few more maps that add to the picture. We know you’ll want to take a look at them too!
Energy Industries
Earth2Tech, a blog that covers a variety of green economy topics that intersect with the tech industry, has been plotting the companies they’ve been writing about on a series of Google Maps.
- The first two maps show the demise of ethanol plants and coal powered plants. These are industries that are losing jobs, not gaining them.
- Keep scrolling down that page to see the next maps highlighting several renewable energy industries. Click on the link under each map to expand the image into a full sized Google map.
- Cleantech Startups
- Utility Solar Installations
- Cellulosic Biofuels
- Wind Turbine Manufacturers: The icons on this map are a bit hard to see. Look for green wind turbines.
Batteries and Electric Vehicles
Just last week President Obama made a speech in Elkhart, Indiana. In that speech he announced the largest investment in advanced battery technology ever made. $2.4 billion in grants are going toward manufacturing batteries and electric drive components, as well as methods to push electric vehicles into the marketplace.
This news indicates that manufacturing jobs in these industries will increase. That may or may not be of interest to you.
What should be of interest to you is that as these industries develop, the electric vehicle industry is likely to get a big boost. When there’s a reliable, sought-after electric vehicle to sell, then we’ll start seeing a bigger variety of job titles in the mix – marketing, sales, sales support as well as all the job functions required to run large, thriving companies.
For a more detailed look at where the grants are headed, take a look at this press release from the Department of Energy.
In addition, this two-page pdf file shows where the grant-winning companies are located. Then take a look at a detailed spreadsheet with the company names, descriptions, locations, and grant amount.
Green Collar Jobs – Clean Energy, Good Jobs
The Apollo Alliance is plotting green economy/green collar job success stories from around the country. From local training programs to a cap and invest system in the northeast (see Albany, NY).
Although you may not be targeting a green collar job, paying attention to the trends in this social justice movement can illustrate major advancements in the general green economy. This organization has had a strong influence on a number of details of several bills that have the potential to shape the green economy. Definitely a group to watch.
Actions You Can Take
- Look at these maps in a series. Do you see any geographic trends?
- Now take a look at how your region fares in the maps. What industries appear to be taking hold in your region?
- Click on various icons to read about the companies that exist in your area or in your target industry. Often the description has contact links to the company web sites. If you see something that’s interesting, bookmark it immediately. (Trust me on this, it’s easy to find a hot item and then lose it in the sea of icons!)
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Update: August Teleclass
August Call: "Where Do Your Skills Fit in the Green Economy?"
The first call of our Green Career Focus Teleclass Series:
Helping You Gain Clarity, Get Focused, Get Results
- As you try to figure out your target green career, are you concerned you don't know all of your options?
- Are you wondering where you might use your skills in the green economy?
- Do you have a map of the entire green economy to make sure you are headed down the right career path?
In this content-rich teleclass, Carol shares her latest map of the green economy. With this map in hand you'll be able to pinpoint the areas of the green economy that are most attractive to you. You'll also have more assurance that you aren't missing out on opportunities you don't know about.
During the call you will:
- Discover how to organize green industries into six industry categories.
- See examples of industries that fall into each industry category.
- Find out how each industry category has a slightly different culture that may influence your career choices.
- Uncover functions that can be done in nearly any industry category.
- Receive a chart that illustrates all that we discuss.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
6 pm Pacific / 9 pm Eastern
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Green Career Central Blog:
Green Career Trends: Trends this week include a new 5 Mw solar plant and a company producing the first green phone.
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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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This Week's Drawing for a
30-Day Trial Membership: julie.sullenger
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What's New at GreenCareerCentral.com
Natural Resource Management Industry Profiles
We are swinging back through a number of our industry profiles to provide more in depth descriptions of the industries and additional resources you can use to explore the industries. This week we focused on updating the Natural Resources Management profiles.
Green Career Central Bookstore
We’ve just added a new resource to our Green Career Resource section. In our new bookstore we recommend books you’ll want to read as you prepare for your green career. Take a look at the bookstore.
Green Career Central Discussion Forum
Ask a question, let us know about a green event in your area, answer a question someone else has posted. Join the conversation!
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Green Career CentralTM is a virtual career center for motivated professionals who are ready to find a green career that fully expresses their passions, skills, values, and talents.
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 eighteen 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. Carol is currently writing Green Careers for Dummies, which will be available in bookstores in late January/early February 2010.
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