TREES, WATER & PEOPLE AND JOBCOMB: HELPING JOB SEEKERS AND THE PLANET

Trees, Water & People and Jobcomb are announcing a new partnership to help not only job seekers and employers, but also our environment. Jobcomb, an online resource dedicated to green jobs, will generously donate 25% of all listing revenue to environmental nonprofit organization Trees, Water & People to support their global sustainability efforts.

Trees, Water & People and Jobcomb are excited about the opportunities this partnership can bring. Scot W. Vaver, COO of Jobcomb explains, “This partnership assists Jobcomb in fulfilling our company’s mission of helping our environment for generations to come, allowing us to help employers find qualified candidates for their organization while at the same time knowing that they are taking steps in helping the environment with each job listing. The employers can also feel confident that with Jobcomb they are getting national and international exposure and will be achieving what they would have on other job boards at a reduced cost.” Scot further adds, “Job seekers benefit from reviewing not only Jobcomb listings, but also Indeed’s nationwide job listings. The job seeker can feel confident that

Jobcomb lists thousands of opportunities with green and renewable energy companies.”

This new partnership between Trees, Water & People and Jobcomb makes it possible for an environmentally-conscious job seeker to make a difference for the planet today while searching for their future green career.

About Jobcomb

Launched in 2008, Jobcomb focuses on all aspects of green and renewable energy jobs globally. The goal is to become the leading directory of green and renewable energy jobs and make it easy for job seekers and employers to find each other. All employer listings are available globally on Jobcomb and Indeed.com, another leading search engine for jobs. For job seekers, Jobcomb compliments its own green job listings with those provided by Indeed.com. Jobcomb offers an array of useful tools for both employers and job seekers. More information about Jobcomb can be found at www.jobcomb.com.

Henry Red Cloud and Richard Fox Visit the Wind River Reservation

Earlier this week Richard Fox, TWP’s National Director, and TWP’s Lakota partner, Henry Red Cloud, visited the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming to demonstrate how our solar furnaces heat homes, using clean energy from the sun. During interactive workshops, solar heating systems were installed for two local households. Manufactured by Henry’s Pine Ridge company, Lakota Solar Enterprises, these systems lower a family’s heating bills by 20-30%, by providing heat for pennies per day, whenever the sun is shining.

The Wind River Reservation is the home of two separate tribes – the Northern Arapahoe and the Eastern Shoshone. Approximately 30 members of the tribes’ Housing Authorities attended Richard and Henry’s presentation about residential-scale renewable energy and its potential to bring green jobs to Native American communities. Tribal members then helped to install solar heating systems at a family home on each reservation.

Both Wind River tribes are exploring ways to incorporate renewable energy into their housing and job-training policies and plans. During their visit, Richard and Henry met with Patrick Goggles and Joanne Seesequasis, Executive Directors of the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone Housing Authority, and John Wadda, Director of the Eastern Shoshone’s Employment and Training Program, to discuss how TWP can further this process. If tribal leaders decide to implement solar heating on a wide scale, tribal members can learn to assemble and install the heating systems at our Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center on the Pine Ridge Reservation. These newly trained Solar Technicians could then be employed to economically install a large number of systems for Wind River families.

For more information please visit http://www.treeswaterpeople.org/tribal/tribal_intro.htm.

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