The changes to each month’s publication of our Green Job Board League Table are not significant enough to justify publishing the league table monthly. Read the rest of this entry »
400,000 Environmental jobs 2015
August 27th, 2009 by Mark AllenThe House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) is currently conducting an inquiry into the prospects for green jobs and policies aimed at increasing employment in environmental industries. It will consider how the UK can maximise the environmentally positive opportunities arising from changes in public spending and how this might help with employment during the recession. Read the rest of this entry »
Powerful approach to accelerating sustainability
August 26th, 2009 by Debbie DelandReported by Debbie Deland, President of Net Impact Orlando
‘The Designers Accord’ is a creative approach to accelerating sustainability and a role model for other job disciplines or industries. So what is ‘The Designers Accord’? It asks designers worldwide (new product developers, architects, interior designers) to commit to 5 sustainability principles for themselves and their businesses. It is about addressing sustainability on every project with every client. Designing sustainability into a new building, a new product/service, etc. is the best way to achieve sustainable results. Read the rest of this entry »
Why focus on business for sustainability action?
August 25th, 2009 by Debbie DelandBiggest resource consumer and polluter
Based on reliable data from numerous sources, business and organizations use the most world resource and create the most pollution and waste. As undeniable, business enables a lifestyle across America that is not sustainable in that: Read the rest of this entry »
Ramblings on Security of Supply and Strategic Storage
August 19th, 2009 by Richard HarperI was watching the Russia Ukraine spat over gas deliveries to Europe and kept promising (myself) to put pen to paper on the subject. Finally I carved out sometime on a train to start. As everyone in the (European) gas industry knows Europe is heavily dependent upon imported gas, particularly Russian gas, especially if you reside in Central and Eastern Europe. The UK has been lucky to have indigenous supplies close at hand in the North Sea. This local supply is declining, and the recent collapse in exploration wells in the North Sea will exacerbate that decline (although the latest I read is that UKCS production will hold up well this winter, the lagged response to historically higher prices). A recent FT Article (not so recent now) on the subject in part pushed me over the edge to put down my thoughts, the last push was the email the text of which I set out below on investment in storage. Read the rest of this entry »
Could the CRC have a positive impact?
August 14th, 2009 by Andy CartlandGuest post by Bethany Cox, Marketing Manager at Acre; climate change recruitment specialists and co-founding organisation of the CRC Network
As I’m sure the members of Renewable Energy Jobs are well aware, the Government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment legislation comes into full effect in April 2010. Many of you may be involved in you’re the measurement of your organisation’s carbon emissions and actions to reduce these emissions to minimise the impact of the CRC financially and from a brand perspective. Read the rest of this entry »
G8—G20, UN 50 year planning will deliver nothing
August 12th, 2009 by Debbie DelandI don’t want to hear about goals out 50 years for climate change and our other environmental issues, decreasing fresh water and farmable land availability, less than a 30 year stock in oil, depletion of fish worldwide, destruction of forests worldwide, global warming approaching tipping point now, etc. Fine to have those goals, but they have to be translated to very near term targets with accountability and transparency. I want to know what commitments are for 2011, 2012, 2013, and up to maybe 2019. There is no accountability with a 50 year planning timeframe. Year over year specific actions, tracking results and focusing on your own country’s contribution, action, and measurable results is what is required. If I hear one more time, I am not going to commit or take action because another country is not committing or taking action yet, it will continue to confirm that we are led by a bunch of kids. Read the rest of this entry »
“The water content of things” to choose what you use and consume?!
August 10th, 2009 by Debbie DelandFresh water is increasingly an issue. Over 1.2B people don’t have access to safe water today. Safe water and good sanitation are two key foundations for a healthy human and animal society. Incredibly, less than 1% of the world’s fresh water is accessible to humans. This second statistic, like the metaphor of our atmosphere being like a piece of paper around a soccer ball, always reminds me that the Earth is a lot smaller than I imagine especially knowing I share it with over 6 Billion brothers and sisters. But, that’s not new. Have you thought about the water content of things in our everyday lives and in our businesses? I have to admit that I hadn’t thought much about it. Read the rest of this entry »
Bits about books: An annotated bibliography (part 2)
August 5th, 2009 by Janet PalmaSince my first round of review were nicely received, I decided to keep going and give people the benefit of all the time I have had to read so many new and wonderful books. This bibliography concentrates on books on the literature related to the environment, including but not limited to: climate change, sustainability, history, biological resources, animal behavior, and other personal growth and development resources. As the green business profession is rapidly changing, we as professionals should take a global view of how inter-related the world is. These are not all bestsellers, but most of these books should be readily available in your local library as that is where I found them. Read the rest of this entry »
Green job board league table - August 2009
August 3rd, 2009 by Sam NewellAugust’s version of our monthly updated green job board league table is below.
As ever the table is based on (job seeker) traffic data (accurate as of today) provided by Alexa.
Traffic data being one of the most accurate indicators of a job board’s performance over a period of time, and clearly a very important indicator for employers and recruiters when reviewing marketing spend. Read the rest of this entry »
Are we facing a green skills shortage?
July 30th, 2009 by Andy CartlandThe latest energy and climate change white paper from the UK government pushes a green energy revolution which would see 40% of the UK’s energy generated from renewable energy sources by 2020, creating 1.2m new green jobs. Read the rest of this entry »
Carbon capture and storage rambling feedback
July 28th, 2009 by Richard HarperDear all I feel duty bound (well perhaps a bit strong, more a case of it would be a good idea) to provide some feedback on the comments I received to my previous ramble. Time as usual seems to have flown by and I stopped responding to some individual comments on the basis I was preparing this follow up ramble. So apologies to those who anticipated they were due another response. In deed I find I have the time to complete this ramble as I’m currently holed up with “flu like symptoms” or perhaps more appropriately “Man Swine Flu” but it has got me out of a red eye round trip to Aberdeen at least. Read the rest of this entry »
A lot more impact than ‘I’m just one person’!
July 22nd, 2009 by Debbie DelandDeb Albers is a hero of mine because she took on sustainability within her company in a way where she and like-minded employees could contribute. Her initiative led to a lot more employee involvement and a lot more sustainability progress for Dell. She didn’t think of herself as ‘just one person’, but someone who had a passion to contribute on sustainability through her day job. Read the rest of this entry »
Insufficient, outdated coverage doesn’t help economy
July 21st, 2009 by Debbie DelandThe small article on Wal-Mart’s major move to eco-rate deserved front page coverage and a different angle. Positive action toward green or sustainable living commensurate with the size of our problems is news I want to read. The news limelight on N. Korea, Iran, even to some degree all of the Middle East is counter-productive. As they say ‘what you measure is what you get’. Perhaps what you consider news is what you get. These hot spots need addressing, but with the issues we face, they seem almost irrelevant to having a livable future based on the current reality of our$700B/year foreign oil dependence, natural resource depletion, severely declining eco-systems, the onset of climate change, etc. Read the rest of this entry »
Green job heresy?
July 20th, 2009 by Debbie DelandThe green job frenzy of job seekers, web sites, recruiters, etc. isn’t helping us make major progress on sustainability. The two things that strike me are that people want green jobs, but haven’t determined the personal and professional development required to qualify for green jobs. Second, the green job frenzy seems to set us up to think that green or sustainability jobs are separate, when every job and every employee needs to apply sustainability concepts to their current jobs and businesses. From all the sustainability case studies, sustainability progress is a journey that involves learning and application at all levels, i.e., integration of sustainability in the way we do all jobs and business processes. With a basic foundation in sustainability, employees applying sustainability in their day jobs within their companies will bring more progress toward sustainable business and living than green jobs themselves. Read the rest of this entry »
