July 9, 2021

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for our upcoming Green Jobs Forum & Career Fair with Resilient Virginia. See more on this and other initiatives below including a Montgomery County Green Futures Career Event for youth on green career pathways, a new webinar from OEP, and EV jobs in Maryland! We are also intrigued by an idea being proposed for an Earth Systems Restoration Corps (in the Idea of the Week section further below).

At the Leaders in Energy Green Jobs Forum & Career Fair, we will be hearing from recruiters and those who have landed or created green jobs. There will also be opportunities for job seekers to meet with companies and organizations throughout the event and at the live streamed Career Fair.

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 about the Forum & Fair schedule here.

Forum attendees and exhibitors will be able to attend the entire Resilient Virginia three-day conference as part of their registration.

Almost 8GW of offshore projects already have been awarded under State contracts and more are in the pipeline. The Biden Administration and certain state governments have recently announced efforts to open lease areas off the West Coast and the Gulf Coast along with the expansion of the lease areas in the Northeast. This conversation will discuss the opportunities and challenges that are unique to bringing offshore wind projects to market in the Northeast in the near term and other coastal areas in the medium term.

Samantha Buechner, Director, Renewable Energy & Environmental Finance, Wells Fargo

João Metelo, Clean Energy Leader and Chief Executive, Former CEO, Principle Power

Will Roberts. President. Foss Maritime Company

In order to meet the challenges posed by climate change, we will need a trained workforce to work in the emerging industries that address these challenges and provide innovative new solutions.

In this webinar, you will hear from speakers in various green jobs about their career journey. Speakers will talk about their current roles and how they entered the field. The session is geared towards high school students to learn from experts in the field.

Leaders in Energy is a partner on this event along with Waterford, Inc, a presenter of our green career workshops.

Did you know that most of the microplastic pollution in our local waterways is actually fiber from… our laundry??? We didn’t! Beth Gingold with Recycle Leaders is organizing action to do something about it together and we learned more about this at our recent Circular Economy Working Group meeting.

Starting July 12, the four-week series of virtual 1-hour zoom classes will guide participants in the Everywear Counts challenge, a fun remote competition that inspires participants to take actions together (virtually) that can save money, reduce water and energy use, and prevent microplastic pollution.

This project is organized by Recycle Leaders in partnership with the Audubon Naturalist Society with technical guidance from American University. Contact: info@recycleleaders.com.

In a July 7th Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post, Chuck Woolery, the former chair of the United Nations Association's Council of Organizations, argues that while Biden Administration and NASA's vision for an Earth System Observatory is a nice idea, their plan fails to include any of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Instead of simply watching our country burn from space observatories, Woolery puts forward a new idea: An Earth Systems Restoration Corps. He says that we need "...more passengers on spaceship Earth transforming themselves into crew members."

Electric Vehicle (EV) Program Coordinator, the State of Maryland

Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Project Manager, the State of Maryland

Executive Director, The Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions