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Could the CRC have a positive impact?

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Guest 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. (more…)

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“The water content of things” to choose what you use and consume?!

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Fresh 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. (more…)

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Green job heresy?

Monday, July 20th, 2009

The 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. (more…)

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System thinking blog —Your mental models (part 5)

Friday, July 17th, 2009

I am not going to talk about what I said I was going to talk about in my last blog until the next Systems Thinking Blog. A key element of systems thinking is understanding and updating mental models. This week Fox News set me off with their outdated mental models of the world, today’s reality, so I decided to talk mental models. (more…)

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Green job board league table - July 2009

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

July’s green job board league table is published below. There has been lots of movement this month with some sites making some impressive gains and some which have seen their job seeker numbers fall.

A number of additional sites which were highlighted following the publication of June’s table have been included this month following a review. (more…)

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Bad Government, but first climate change step - (Long bill gets long feedback from an informed layperson)

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

A 1000 or 1300 page Climate Bill not even off the copier is bad government, but at least we have a first step Climate Bill in progress. In the last month I had begun to sour on the Climate bill due to its length and not being able to get adequate assessment of the details and deals included in the bill. I certainly didn’t have the time and wouldn’t read the over 1000 pages of the usual legal language our government speaks. My husband, a not so active climate change action supporter, took me to task saying that all of us have fooled around with climate change action for years and have not done anything. Whatever this bill does, it is better than doing nothing and doesn’t preclude us from doing more as soon as we muster the political will to do more. He got me. (more…)

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People moves, renewable energy - May 2009

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

UK

Pannone the Manchester based law firm has strengthened its construction and projects team with the appointment of partner Simon Foy.

Foy has extensive experience in the energy, waste and PFI sectors and joins Pannone from Australian waste processing company Global Renewables where he was general counsel. He was in private practice at Simmons & Simmons and DLA Piper where he advised on many infrastructure, energy and PFI projects and was also the European legal director at US power company Edison Mission Energy.

US

Former Carter advisor, author and energy guru S. David Freeman will become the ‘Environmental Mayor’ of L.A.

Freeman helped shape the energy policy of the Carter era, and by funding the first wave of research into solar and wind technologies in the early 70’s helped to kick-start the renewable energy industry.

One of his first projects will be to revive a narrowly defeated solar energy plan for the city. Freeman is the man credited with putting solar panels on the White House. (more…)

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