The Green Professionals Conference is the largest conference of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. More than just a green job fair, the conference is designed to recruit public and private companies and corporations, government agencies, elected officials, universities, trade schools and non-profits under one roof with the goal of furthering sustainability, energy efficiency and renewable energy industry growth. www.green-professional.com
The largest non-traditional career fair of its kind, Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. produces the interactive Women in Trades Career Fair to increase the overall number of women working in the trades and to help fill the eminent gap in the labor force that will be created with record-levels of upcoming retirements of skilled trades people.
Produced annually since 1993, this unique, industry sponsored and volunteer powered event offers dozens of hands-on activities designed to introduce women and girls to the possibility of a future career in the trades.
Van Jones is a globally recognized, award-winning pioneer in human
rights and the clean-energy economy. He is a co-founder of three
successful non-profit organizations: the Ella Baker Center for Human
Rights, Color of Change, and Green For All. He is the best-selling
author of the definitive book on green jobs: The Green-Collar Economy
and served as the green jobs advisor in the Obama White House in 2009.
Van is currently a senior fellow at the Center For American Progress
and is a senior policy advisor at Green For All.
The Sustainable Building Advisor (SBAP) program is a nine-month program specifically designed for professionals working or interested in the areas of green building and high performance buildings: residential and commercial. Register at 503-491-7235. For more information go to: www.mhcc.edu/sbap
