EXPERTS
Jose Raymond: Linking the environment sector to other sectors of society
By Bhavani Prakash Jose Raymond is Executive Director of Singapore Environment Council (SEC), one of the leading environmental NGOs in Singapore. Before he joined SEC in September 2011, he had a varied career that enables him to forge multiple stakeholder relationships. As an award winning journalist with Mediacorp for 12 years, he was particularly keen on taking up causes [...]
Tania Ellis: Social innovation can become high speed in an Asian context
By Bhavani Prakash Tania Ellis runs The Social Business Company with the objective of inspiring and guiding companies and entrepreneurs to engage in or develop innovative solutions that create both economic and social value. A recognized public speaker, strategic business advisor, and author of the internationally acclaimed book, The New Pioneers, Ellis wrote her Executive MBA dissertation on [...]
V S Hariharan: The journey of a solar entrepreneur
Third Wave Power, a Singaporean cleantech start-up, aspires to provide affordable and innovative renewable power solutions that serve portable energy needs in both urban and rural areas. A few months back they launched their flagship product, mPowerpad, a portable solar charger, that also doubles up as a radio, a reading light, an insect repellent and [...]
Rachele Ferri: Trends in the Asian Talent Market
Universum is a global employer branding and talent attraction company present in 12 locations on 5 continents. Headquartered in Stockholm, the company has regional HQs in New York, Basel and Singapore. Their unique strength lies in the feedback they garner from more than 500,000 students and professionals worldwide, which gives them the expertise to publish [...]
Aubrey Meyer: Contraction & Convergence as a pragmatic framework to solve Climate Change
By Bhavani Prakash In 1992 the world agreed a Climate Change Convention at the UN. Its objective is to halt the rising concentration of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] in the atmosphere at a level that is low enough not to trigger dangerous rates of climate change. By 1995 the Convention had been ratified by a sufficient number [...]
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CAREER TIPS
How to jumpstart a green career
By Bhavani Prakash Yesterday, after an interesting skype chat about Sustainability & Green Jobs with MBA (PGDM) students from my alma-mater Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, a question that came up was how to actually get into a green career. According to official data there are millions of jobs likely to be created in the [...]
Environmental Education in Singapore
By Bhavani Prakash The rise in the number of courses dedicated to environmental education is an interesting and important trend. In future, it is hoped that such education will become an integral part of various mainstream specialisations, and more interdisciplinary faculties emerge related to sustainability education. Here are some of the major environmental courses [...]
JOBS DATA
China’s green growth potential ‘could create 9.5 million new jobs’
From the Guardian UK China can make a net gain of 9.5m jobs over the next five years if it phases out its dirtiest, energy intensive industries and replaces them with renewable technology and other “green” businesses, according to an influential advisory body. ………. The report was released this week by the China Council of International Co-operation on Environment [...]
Renewables 2011 Global Status Report: Jobs in Renewable Energy
By Bhavani Prakash We presented a summary of Renewables 2011 Global Status Report (REN21) in the previous post. One of the things in the report that caught our attention is the section on “Jobs in Renewable Energy” . Figures in the ‘green’ sector are not always the easiest to come across, and the numbers have [...]
