a couple of months was released in bookstores just text Gelisio Tessa and Mark Gisotti entitled "Guide to Green Jobs "(Edizioni Ambiente, €. 16.00) that attempts to explain what and what are the ecolavori offering hints and tips for those who want (or are forced) to change employment for young people who come for the first time in the world of work.
The book's subtitle reads: How the environment is changing the world of work .
It 'very possible that after years and years in which the environment is still an issue relegated to the living rooms of the environmentalists, it is finally becoming public domain?
Probably not, but if at a particular time as what we are going through open roads that are able to reduce our consumption against the costs and while providing new employment opportunities here is that dealing with environmental protection becomes extremely interesting for many.
According to the report "Green Jobs" of the United Nations in the world today, and only in the field of renewable energies, are 2.3 million persons employed, of which 300,000 in wind energy, 170,000 in solar photovoltaics, more than 600,000 in solar thermal and the remaining in biofuels.
ongoing climate change and economic crisis have created a mix in the first way out seems to be really the way to the ecolavori and not only in industrialized countries.
Another figure to see what is irrefutably the professionals of almost all economic sectors affected by the green economy.
Finally, let's face it, the level of environmental awareness in most people is so poor that the situation can not but offer enormous development paths.
Yet marketing professionals show us every day as any product "pull" more than those covered by a trademark "Green" that it enshrines the absolute environmental respectability, the media have fallen in love of environmental issues like never before and the public is making a real immersion of Applied Ecology
... But back to the book, in my opinion very interesting, and which among others also contains an introduction by the Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi.
Meanwhile, unlike that of Al Gore, and despite its 400 pages, this text is published as a very practical and I'll take it anywhere you can view its small size.
It is divided into two sections: the first is analyzed for 21 industry sectors and social both nationally and internationally with emphasis on useful to be a rather complete and usable as a compendium on the current state of the green economy.
Among the areas we pass from the analysis on renewable energy, sustainable mobility, to 'agri-food industry, Ecofin, waste management, environmental journalism and publishing, research and environmental monitoring, the green policy, to name few.
Each sector analysis is preceded by an interview with an expert in that field that analyzes the current status and future prospects.
Among the various sectors, their goodness, is also a chapter on environmental groups, however framed, and fortunately, (I should deny now the authors of the book!), not as a possible landing point of business, but as land able to gain experience, technical knowledge and appropriate attitudes, at least for some disciplines.
In the second part of the book, which seems to be, inter alia, the first of its kind published in Italy, are being described in detail the 100 most important professions green, indicating the necessary skills, training courses and the real potential in the labor market .
Among these professions there's some curious and amusing to say the least, and I quote eco-hairdresser and eco-chef , but I want to focus instead on some technical figures that I believe are those with the greatest potential for growth. The energy certification
since 2005 in Italy is compulsory energy performance certificates (Ace) to the deed of sale of any building. This act may be issued only by a person holding such qualifications. The regions are gearing up to set up special bodies for accreditation of these new professionals.
Only in Lombardy are now over 9,500 accredited certifiers. The qualification is obtained by attending training courses to follow which is not required to hold a university degree. The green chemical
: for several years in Italy there is a drop in enrollment scientific fields such as mathematics, statistics, chemistry and physics. For a young man who has yet to choose the university faculty I would suggest one of those disciplines because of the most requested by industry. In particular the chemical, as the powers of that figure are now cut across many disciplines, from solar to environmental remediation, waste recycling. The landfill mining
: This term is difficult to mean the excavation of the landfill to extract raw materials . This may seem a bit 'paradoxical but this could turn in a few years in one of the most profitable in the world. Landfills, now a problem in the near future, when the availability of raw materials will become increasingly difficult, they could be of real mines. No doubt today activity recycling of materials creates more jobs than the landfill or incineration.
The solver environmental conflicts: it is certainly less of a professional, but I mention with pride as the relief that this book is, above all, because the Friends of the Earth have launched training courses from as many as 3 since 2006. The environmental expert in conflict resolution work in the construction of large infrastructure projects or land reclamation involving an 'extended part of the territory and manages the public, to listen, talk to the social groups from time to time come into contact with the areas for the project. This role also leads to another equally important, that of environmental communicator who can then develop community-based positive actions undertaken and implemented by government.
undoubtedly contribute to the development of green jobs as well as some external factors such as the U.S. and the new course of China and its increasing ability to influence markets. Does not rule out the recent European Directive 20-20-20 which involves a massive use of renewables by 2020. Like it or not the green economy will induce significant changes in our economy also. Always quoting the data of this book, it is estimated that today in Italy are less than one million workers already employed in the green economy.
1,500,000 is expected to become within a few years.
We are at the end of a difficult year as the best hope for 2010 then that glimpse of a promising future ...
Michele Salvadori
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