Friday, January 23, 2009

5 Salaries You Thought Would Be Higher

Check this out, boys and girls...

http://www.careerbuilder.com/Article/CB-1106-Job-Search-5-Salaries-You-Thought-Would-Be-Higher/

Three guesses what profession is among the five!

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade

Good news boys and girls! According to FastCompany.com, being a forester is one of the "Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade."

Here's what they had to say about foresters:

"Modern forestry a complex combination of international project finance, conservation and development. According to the World Bank, a staggering 1.6 billion people depend on the forest for their livelihoods. Foresters help local people transition from slash-and-burn to silviculture--teaching cultivation of higher-value, faster-growing species for fruit, medicine or timber, for examples while carefully documenting the impact on the environment. Deforestation, which causes around a quarter of all global warming, is also likely to be a leading source of carbon credits worth tens of billions of dollars."

For the entire article go to: http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2009/01/best-green-jobs.html

Can fame and fortune be far behind?

Saturday, January 10, 2009

What should we call trees?

Now that PETA has suggested calling fish "sea kittens," does anyone have any ideas on what we should call trees? "Woods puppies" maybe?