Thanks in part to our government’s forward-thinking environment protection policies, Australian environmental software is leading the way internationally. Just this week Australian company CarbonSystems announced it has taken on the Microsoft Corporation as a major new client. CarbonSystems’s Enterprise Sustainability Platform (ESP) is a cloud application, providing a solution to the problem of [...]
Green job ads are at an all time high, making up almost 1.8% of all jobs advertised. Data from the GreenJob Index, which tracks the monthly fluctuations of green job ads, shows green jobs are up a further 6% this month, up from 2574 jobs last month to 2730 this month.
The pursuit of green-collar [...]
Finding a suitable grant is the easy part – just read below to see a spreadsheet listing our top picks of the latest grants available. We’ve chosen those grants most suitable for our GreenCollar community.
Remember that grants are given based on what matters to the organisation offering them. If the way you [...]
How many of us have spent numerous hours writing, polishing, and submitting our resumes, only to have it end up in a black hole? In today’s competitive job search arena this conventional, passive approach to job seeking is not only ineffective, but is becoming increasingly out-dated. Social media networks are breaking down the [...]
The concept of ‘green job’ stimulation in Asia provides us with interesting, and ethical, questions. Whereas the USA, Europe and Australia are developed countries with static or declining populations, most countries in Asia are not. So with their expanding populations, many of whom still exist in poverty, economic growth is still a fundamental [...]
As anticipated, the February 2012 Green Job Index shows a substantial improvement in the number of green jobs being advertised – just short of the high seen last July. Green jobs are up 56% on last month’s figures, from 1640 jobs mid-January to 2574 mid-February 2012. Of course, this month’s improved figures reflect seasonal employment [...]
The anticipation of the Clean Energy Future legislation (Carbon Tax to most of us), which comes into effect on the 1st July later this year, has led to a burgeoning information technology (IT) sub-sector – in cleantech and ‘green’ technology. Significant government funding will be spent on encouraging clean energy sources and their [...]
Last week Mohammed Nasheed, the Maldives President who so bravely championed climate protection, was ousted in a coup, leaving this island paradise in the hands of Muslim extremists. With rising sea levels already starting to affect the islands, how long before Maldives becomes paradise lost?
The Maldives holds a special place in my [...]
GreenCollar Talent is pleased to announce the appointment of Julien Lacave to our team of specialist ‘green job’ recruiters. Julien joins us as General Manager of Energy and Carbon, APAC region.
With his robust opinions and obvious passion for sustainability, Julien is bringing a certain ‘je ne sais quoi’ to GreenCollar Talent – as only [...]
Moving to a bushland property last year has meant that I am finally able to commit to a few simple and worthwhile green resolutions for 2012. So whilst the rest of the team here in the office are trying (not very hard I might add) to stay off sugar or cut back the beers, I’ll [...]
