One of my favorite blogs is the Green Economy Post, an excellent resource for all things about the emerging green economy.

And one of my pet peeves in this sector is the scarcity of women in high profile roles (this goes for the tech world as a whole), so I was very happy to see a blog posted on the Green Economy Post that was focused on networking opportunities for women looking for green careers.

This post provides valuable information and links to great resources for women. I’d like to explore some of these organizations in future posts..

The way I came to find this particular post was from yet another great story in GreenBiz about yet another way Walmart is helping the green economy and women at the same time through a collaborative effort between the Walmart Foundation and the Business and Professional Women’s Foundation (BPW).

In much the same way as Green For All provides training for low-income community members to get into green collar jobs, Walmart and the BPW are working together to provide training for women for green jobs. $60,000 in grant money is going to training programs.

What’s missing here is what training and for what jobs? Maybe this hasn’t been hashed out yet, but I’d love more information on this. I’ll keep watching and post here as I find more information on the training – the where, when and what of it all.

But for now, I’m very happy to see that this is a priority for some.

Tags: green economy, green jobs for women, networking for women

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