[Closed] 'Green' jobs - who's got one?

Love the way this is journalists' idea of research these days. 😛

I am currently trying to measure this for a local authority. It's a tricky one, interesting too, highly subjective in my opinion also.

I'll email

Until March this year I was a project Manager for contaminated Land remediation - Unfortunately, the downturn has smashed the industry to bits, since its primarily driven by construction.

In 20-50 years, it will all be about last minute climate change mitigation. Anyone in flood defence and civil engineering of defence schemes will be laughing. Carbon sequestration will be industrial scale too by then, so I'd imagine chemical and process engineers will be pretty happy as well.

I'm back at Uni hopefully trying to get a green job afterwards. I don't really know what that will be yet.

I put/keep bikes on the road. And I cycle to work. Sustainable Transport Expert to some, bike shop bloke to most.

I work for M&S.

Its all about Plan A baby.

😉

Cut the grass around the holes on golf courses?

I'm a research/design engineer in a renewable energy technology research group, does that count?

I work from home and all my products are 'virtual' - in that the only resources they require is the manufacture and powering of other people's PCs.

Does that make me "green", or do I need to drive a Land Rover as well?

Ahem, this isn't my [i]only[/i] source of research... but you never know, there might a green Tim Berners-Lee or Henry Ford lurking here...
Thanks so far.

I'm a sustainable development consultant ... it's all policy, strategy, assessment and appraisal for me so nothing practical I'm afraid. However the environmental jobs market has been steady or growing ever since I started 15+ years ago ... god is it really that long. For background you might want to look at the sector surveys that people like ENDS and IEMA do which shows what and where the growth areas are and define to some extent what those jobs entail. For what it's worth talking of 'green' jobs and 'green' companies etc is very 1980/90s and most people now describe the sector in terms of sustainable development or 'corporate responsibility' (sic)of which practical environmental jobs are a component.

Yup, coffeeking, sounds good.

*Looks around air-conditioned room, sees approximately 80-100 computers each running between 2 and 4 monitors that spend 24 hours a day seven days a week switched on. Sighs.*

Not me.

Ive got a mate who works for sustrans, i would consider them a 'green company' and hence a green job, but then i work in the oil industry so every job is green compared to mine 🙄

'I'd imagine chemical and process engineers will be pretty happy as well.'

we are, currently we're fairly well paid by the oil companies to get the stuff out of the ground, in 20-50 years we'll be massively well paid by the government to fix the oil companies mess, it's a win-win situation for us!

I used to work for an Environmental Consultancy, did lots of Land remediation on MOD property (proper scary sh1t in the ground ) and designing / minimizing visual intrusion of wstonkign great windfarms in Wales.

Work for a waste company covering all types of waste from household to hazardous. We have one site running (has been for 25+ yrs) and are setting up another 3 to recycle, compost, waste to ethanol and energy from waste.

The waste industry is the place to be, we all make it and buy products that make it.....can't live without us!! 😀

Drop me a line and i'll help if you want.

Chris

he he scruff, I did time with Defence Estates... and yes it's all in the ground cause the solution back then was to bury it and generally forget where you put it !!!.. Actually, we haven't really learned have we cause that's still the solution now ...just look at the proposals for long term management of nuclear waste.

Corporate lawyer in a large international law firm. Work almost exclusively on renewables transactions (mainly biomass and wind) these days. We have one the country's leading clean energy teams.

Does *that* count?

Scruff - When I was on the closing party for RAF Locking someone found one of the old WW2 air raid shelters packed full of similar vintage corroded 45 gallon drums with absolutely no idea what was within them.

2 months later when I left the unit they still hadn't worked out what was in them and there was quite a cordon around the shelter.

I believe some of the West Moors site has also taken a few quid to 'put straight' over the years before it was handed over as public land.

I have a green t-shirt and jacket, a green land rover and work with trees which are mostly green

however, the tractors are red and blue and the chainsaws are orange

I am a forester in the conservation/charity sector, suppose I am managing a sustainable resource

So, am curious, how might you minimise the visual intrusion of a wind farm?

Thanks Art, IEMA looks very useful (using 'green' as shorthand for sustainable / environmental here).

I'll be driving an electric train later on today.

So, am curious, how might you minimise the visual intrusion of a wind farm?

Build it off shore.

Hi Corroded,
I am an engineer working for RES-ltd.com, developing and building windfarms. I have an MSc in Renewable Energy technology.

Two years ago I used to work for Jaguar Landrover!!

Feel free to email me if you think I can help with your survey.

Cheers
Andy

So, am curious, how might you minimise the visual intrusion of a wind farm?

Build a lot more, so that people stop seeing them as strange and instead just see them part of the scenery. You don't often hear people moaning about electricity pylons or telegraph poles.

I like the look of windfarms - probably wouldn't if they were everywhere though.

... or indeed the dirty great power stations lying around the place. The one at Fiddlers Ferry in Warrington completely dominates the surrounding landscape for about 30 miles in each direction. This can useful when I'm lost though, just look for the huge cloud of steam to get my bearings.

I'm a fuel efficiency in transport consultant AKA a driving instructor.

Future jobs "green" jobs will be related to something completely different than todays green jobs.

my ex is network co-ordinator for a sustainability charity in manchester, and also studying/training to be able to carry out environmental audits for VSOs/charitable organisations etc.
i could put you in touch with her probably...

I work for the NMS. I stopped my trust from using plastic film to show x-ray images, so no chemicals used in developing film and no plastic which becomes landfill in a couple of years.
Sort of pale green, I guess

Im an env regulator for medium sized industrial plant - chemical works, wee incinerators etc.

I work as an environmental engineer in a coal-fired power station so apart from the day job of compliance and environmental performance I've got a long-term interest in emissions control, biomass, carbon capture and storage and other technologies (that are needed pretty sharpish). A green job in a not so green industry?

Previously an environmental consultant and did a bit of work modelling wind energy yields for wind farms including a wee one on a moor just south of Glasgow. Member of IEMA etc etc. I like trees, bicycles and bees. Tomorrow I have to stand up in front of a primary school assembly for world environment day. Haven't been in a primary school assembly for (ahem) years so it should be an 'interesting' experience!

I'm also expecting a very 'interesting' next 20-30 years for the electricty industry!

my partner is an environmental consultant. She does work installing reed bed filtration systems amongst other things. Ironically she drives to work every day and regularly jets around the world. I do a 'normal' job but cycle in.

I work for the UK's largest SUStainable TRANSport charity designing and building cycle paths. Does that count?

I'm a newly appointed Contaminated land project coordinator 😀

cleaning up oil spills!!
wooo, kerosene!

I pursued people to cycle to work... does that count?
I also drive a 'green' car now with bluemotion...

I work for a large energy efficiency/renewables/sustainable transport organisation. We've increased in staff numbers hugely in the last couple of years (created green jobs?). Probably not the sort of job that Gordon was think about though.

Not really at the practical/installation end of things but I'd be happy to answer a few questions if it would help.

Windfarms-
In simple terms put em where there is a hill between local population and the turbines to screen them.

We also did a massive hole in the grounds of Eaton College so the fancy toffs could have a boating lake.

Olly, was that the one down South West way?

Olly has been sent to Devon for his sins 😉

i'm studying sustainable development at st andrews uni. Seems like a good field to be getting in to, and i'll be looking for a 'green' job in just under a year. No idea what in though. My girlfriend fancies energy industry. I'd help, if i were any use, but i'm just on my way to tajikistan to work for an NGO for the summer...

I remember seeing that one in the jobs pages. Crediton or something.

I used to be MD of one of the UK's leading energy efficiency organisations - we did everything from consultancy around improving the energy efficiency of buildings and developing software for energy efficiency advice centres, to running an energy efficiency advice centre, a training centre for energy efficiency NVQs and NHER, and an insulation unit which installed cavity wall insulation and loft insulation.

Now a self-employed consultant and am currently working on a project for a furniture recycling organisation.