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GREEN CAREERS

 

GREEN CAREER DEFINITION: According to the 2008 United Nations report, Green Jobs, green jobs are those that contribute appreciatively to maintaining or restoring environmental qualify and avoiding future damage to the Earth's ecosystems. Click here to read the full report.

 

 

 

TYPES OF GREEN CAREERS: Virtual Career Center Green Career Central founder and executive director Carol McClelland found when she began researching green job boards in 2007 that there was no standard way green jobs were categorized. Currently, in the rapidly evolving field, she sorts careers into the following categories:

  • Environmental Science
  • Natural Resource Management and Services
  • Renewable Energy
  • Policy and Direction
  • Funding and Finance
  • Green Systems/Infrastructure/IT
  • Marketing and Sales
  • Green Building
  • Green Products
  • Green Services
  • Inspiring and Educating

She also suggests you consider

  • Greening Your Own Business
  • Working for a Sustainable Business
  • Greening Your Personal Work Habits

 Green Career Central is a virtual green career center offering green career coaching, programs, resources, and events to help people identify and achieve their green job goals

Click here to visit Green Career Central's public website. If you sign up for a subscription membership, you can access more information and receive regular e-mailed tips. SFCC has a link for a FREE subscription available to students, faculty and staff in JACK. To access the subscription, users will have to have to be currently enrolled or employed and have an active "@sfcc.edu" e-mail address, which is required for registration.

 * Carol's latest book, Green Careers for Dummies is now available for check out in the SFCC library.

THE VALUE OF GREEN CAREERS: According to The Green Collar Economy author, Van Jones, green jobs:

  • Rebuild a strong middle class
  • Provide pathways out of poverty
  • Require some new skills (and new thinking about old skills)
  • Tend to be local jobs
  • Strengthen urban and rural communities
  • Save the planet Earth

Click here to access his GreenForAll website.

 

 

HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE GREEN CAREERS? Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com annually create a State of Green Business report.

 

 

 

FEBRUARY 27, 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. First meeting of The Middle Class Task Force led by Vice President Joe Biden, designed to rebuild and restore the middle class.  The first meeting's focus is on GREEN JOBS AS A PATHWAY TO A STRONG MIDDLE CLASS. Go to www.strongmiddleclass.gov for more information and a video message from our VP.

 

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Multiple programs are now available through our Sustainable Technolgies Center. They include

 

Individual seminars, workshops and certifications that vary through Spring, Summer and Fall are also available through our Continuing Education Program.  More information can be found in the current Continuing Education Schedule.

 

Click The Link to read about what SFCC's Sustainability Across the Curriculim Committee is up to in the February/March 2009 issue of the Office of Student Development's newsletter, The Link.

 

 

  

  

bboardGREEN JOBS are posted on the SFCC Career Services Web Based Job Bulletin Board and are highlighted with "***GREEN JOBS**".

Click on "Job Postings" in left margin and look for the link near the job seeker looking at a bulletin board picture for the latest postings.

Links to Green job databases are also available on the "Job Postings" web page.

OTHER RESOURCES THAT MIGHT INTEREST YOU:

REGISTER TO RECEIVE THE NEW MEXICO GREEN COLLABORATIVE E-NEWSLETTER, Sponsored by the New Mexico Department of Economic Development (see their links below)

MORE WEBSITES:

BOOKS/MEDIA:

PixyJackPress is a solar & wind powered independent publisher with Green Books like

MORE SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION:

For more information, please contact Patty Armstrong, Career Services Coordinator, (505) 428-1406 FAX 505-428-1848, patty.armstrong@sfcc.edu.

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