By Carol McClelland •
February 1, 2008
News out of the renewable energy industry indicates a new trend! Green employment benefits for their employees.
In a RenewableEnergyAccess.com article, Dawn Dzurilla of Gaia Human Capital Consultants wrote that renewable energy companies are adding green benefits to their employment packages to align the company’s stated values with their company culture and to attract talent from traditional industries to the renewable energy industry. Each benefit allows employees to become more sustainable in their personal actions, a benefit that is likely to be quite meaningful to those applying for and landing jobs in the renewable energy sector.
Green employment benefits tend to fall into five categories: work related, transportation, residential, personal/well being, and financial.
By Carol McClelland •
January 24, 2008
Last night I attended a panel discussion called GREENtrepreneurs Help Individuals Go Green: Green Tech for the Consumer Market sponsored by MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB)
Venture capitalists have begun funding greentrepreneurs who are inventing green-consumer products that the mass market consumer will purchase. We all know about the green car, the solar panel, and the CFLs. The question is: What will come next? What factors will influence consumers to adopt new products.
Three greentrepreneurs presented their product pitch to a sold out crowd:
By Carol McClelland •
January 18, 2008
One of the critical issues to come out of the Advancing the New Energy Economy Summit is the shortage of green laborers who have the skills to retrofit buildings, build new green construction, install solar panels and built wind farms. This news has a number of implications for green careers of all kinds.
By Carol McClelland •
January 10, 2008
Editor’s note: We’re pleased to have Carol McClelland, founder of Green Career Central, join sustainablog as a weekly columnist on green careers. Carol’s columns will appear every Thursday.
As a green career consultant, one of the questions I hear most frequently is what’s hot in cleantech? In greentech? In renewable energy?
Although I can give green career changers my impression, I always encourage them to connect with experts in their fields of choice to understand the hottest trends and future directions. In my mind, those who live, breathe, and work in a field are going to know much more than someone looking at it from the outside.
Recently I clicked on a link from Inside Cleantech by the Cleantech Group to discover a gold mine of information for green job seekers who are getting up to speed on cleantech.
