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Green Jobs Forum & Career Fair!
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LEADERS IN ENERGY 8th ANNUAL GREEN JOBS FORUM &
CAREER FAIR -- August 26, 2021, 1:30 - 6:30 PM EDT
With the Biden Administration's goal to create 10 million new clean energy jobs and the increasing momentum for green initiatives in the marketplace, our Forum's theme this year is: The Moment is Now for Green Jobs. Learn more from the Forum & Fair schedule.
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Meet Our Keynote Speaker - Peggy Brannigan,
Director of Global Environmental Sustainability, LinkedIn
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Peggy Brannigan is the Director of Global Environmental Sustainability for LinkedIn. Her keynote address will highlight opportunities for green jobs. In her role, she drives strategy and programs to achieve sustainability excellence for LinkedIn’s operations and shares best practices and resources to support climate progress for other businesses and individuals. Peggy leads initiatives to implement LinkedIn’s ambitious Carbon Negative, Water Positive and Zero Waste commitments. |
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Hear from Those Who Have Landed Green Jobs! |
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Meet our speakers for Panel 1: Green Jobs and Career Program Success Stories . Learn from others successfully entering the green workforce. Francois Giraud, Strategic Advisor, LV Health Solutions and Digital Marketing Director, Leaders in Energy, will be the moderator. We will also hear from Dr. Beth Offenbacker, Leaders in Energy Green Jobs Program Lead and Green Career Workshop Instructor, in the welcome session!
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Doug Abbott,
Program Manager, Education at Alliance to Save Energy
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Jacqueline Guobadia, Industrial Account Executive,
Entergy Louisiana
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Debbie Prenatt, Sustainability Market Manager,
M. Holland Company
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Learn About Available Green Jobs
from Recruiters!
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Meet our speakers for Panel 2: Skills and Experience Needed for the Green Economy. Learn from recruiters on what are employers looking for to enter the green job market. |
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Catherine McLean,
Founder and CEO,
Dylan Green (Moderator)
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Chloe England,
Head of Permanent/Direct Hires,
Piper Maddow
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Victoria Waye,
Director of Customer Success,
EnergeiaWorks
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Meet Our Career Fair Exhibitors!
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Meet companies which are hiring, nonprofit organizations offering volunteer positions and helping with job searches, and educators offering green certifications.
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Advanced Biofuels USA
Association of Energy Engineers - National Capital Chapter
BCS
Brown and Caldwell
Career Confidence
CleanChoice Energy
Concurrent Technologies Corporation
Green Corps
Leaders in Energy
National Wildlife Federation EcoCareers
The George Washington University’s Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI)
University of Virginia Sustainable Business Certificate Program
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Virginia Tech Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability
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7 Reasons to Attend the Green Jobs Forum & Career Fair! |
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CleanChoice Energy is LE's major Green Jobs Forum sponsor! We only have two remaining Forum session sponsorships. We are also continuing to add exhibitors. Are you thinking about being a sponsor or exhibitor? Register your company today! |
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Virginia Green Initiative: Help VA Businesses with their environmental goals |
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Come meet us at Little Tree Huggers in Leesburg, VA. on Monday, August 9th, from 6pm-8pm, for some light refreshments to talk about how all local environmental and eco-friendly organizations can help each other.
Our Leaders in Energy member, Candice Guillaudeu, will be presenting! She has played an instrumental role in the Virginia Green Initiative's Green Business Challenge. Their certification process helps businesses to incorporate sustainability practices into their planning and operations. This can also serve to attract new prospective employees by being a green business and to increase employee morale and retention. |
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Idea of the Week:
Green Skills
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Building a sustainable future requires "green" skills
Building a clean energy economy requires skills. Some are inherently green like conservation or pollution clean up, while others involve making "non-green" activities green (like sustainable fashion or investment).
LinkedIn's sustainability team, led by Green Jobs Forum Keynote Speaker Peggy Brannigan (Director, Global Environmental Sustainability at LinkedIn), identified 800 "core" green skills and more than 300 green-related skills across twelve categories such as pollution and waste prevention, renewable energy, and sustainability.
The fasted growing skills are in sustainable business and carbon neutral commitments, environmental services, climate, energy engineering, photovoltaics, and safety programs!
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By Jessica Corbett
The new U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report highlights that humans are using 1.6 times the resources that the planet can sustainably provide and since the 1990s, 420 million hectares or over a billion acres of forest have been lost.
The U.N. agencies estimate that delivering on existing pledges to restore at least one billion degraded hectares of land will require an investment of at least $200 billion per year by 2030—and while that may seem steep, the report notes that every $1 invested in restoration creates up to 30 times that amount in economic benefits.
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To add to our blog, send your piece to our Communications Director, Dr. Miriam Aczel, at maczel@leadersinenergy.org |
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The draft legislation from Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland directs the Treasury Department and the Environmental Protection Agency to identify the companies that released the most greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from 2000 to 2019 and assess a fee based on the amounts they emitted.
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Wildfires are raging in countries including Greece and Turkey, where thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes and on Tuesday a fire threatened to reach a coal-fired power plant. The fires have struck as Southern Europe experiences an intense heatwave.
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