Browngirl Green’s Kristy Drutman: Taking the mystery out of finding a green job
When you know you want a green job but you have no idea how to find organizations that fit you —your interests, your experience, and your personality—what do you do? The Year of the Climate Job host, Daniel Hill, talks with Kristy Drutman, who founded Browngirl Green and the Green Jobs Board, to solve exactly this problem. Because she faced it herself, and she had to learn to demystify climate work before she could find her own path in it. The truth is, the climate economy is growing and evolving. Every day, new green jobs are being created. But it’s a confusing job market shrouded in mystery. It’s no wonder it’s difficult to identify the right companies and roles for you. In this first episode of our new mini-series, “The Year of the Climate Job,” Kristy offers strategies you can put to work today to get unstuck. And she tells us how she developed her own climate career roadmap when one wasn’t clear. She also speaks to how she’s attacking a big problem: the exclusionary history of climate-related employment. And she invites you to help make necessary changes to bring more people into the fold to address the urgent issue of the climate crisis.
Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers · Daniel Hill, Kristy Drutman
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Show Notes
Kristy Drutman is a speaker, content producer, consultant and environmental advocate. Much of her work is focused on where media, diversity, equity and environmentalism intersect. She founded the storytelling site Browngirl Green and co-founded the Green Jobs Board, where she curates good, paid jobs in the climate space. Drutman has been invited to speak on environmental issues at the White House several times, and E&E News listed her as part of the “next generation of climate and environmental visionaries.”
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Resources from this episode:
- Browse Drutman’s Green Jobs Board and see what people are talking about on the jobs board’s Instagram page.
- Check out the Environmental Defense Fund Green Jobs Hub.
- Read up on the 2022 LinkedIn Global Green Skills Report.
- Check out and join the following climate-specific communities:
- Browse other climate-related job boards:
- Sign up for the Degrees newsletter or the Climate Tech VC’s newsletter.
- Read #OpenDoorClimate’s “Day in the Life of a Climate Profile” series.
- Here are a few articles we’ve been reading about the Inflation Reduction Act’s impact on the green jobs market:
Related episodes:
- How Heather McTeer Toney is redefining climate action for the next generation of leaders
- 10 ways to save the planet
- Building a Black community for green jobseekers
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Who makes Degrees?
Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers is presented by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Daniel Hill hosts The Year of the Climate Job. Yesh Pavlik Slenk hosts Degrees. Amy Morse is EDF’s producer. Podcast Allies is our production company. Stephanie Wolf is senior producer; Andrew Parrella is our production manager; Matthew Simonson is our audio editor; Elaine Appleton Grant is CEO of Podcast Allies and Tina Bassir is podcast manager. Our music is Shame, Shame, Shame from Yesh’s favorite band, Lake Street Dive.
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