Green Collar Jobs Training Program Update (7/9/09)

The Green Collar Jobs Training Program offline sustainability trainees are spending more time at the Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resource Center at Keaukaha. With the amount of time they spend there, they should be expert sustainable kalo farmers by the time the summer opportunity for work experience ends on July 24, 2009. What better way to educated trainees about sustainability than front line conservation in the fields!

The online sustainability trainees spent their day at the office in the Hawai‘i Innovation Center in Hilo. There they continued to refine their blogging, video editing, and online sustainability skills. With program in its fourth week of existence, online trainees have enhanced their skills on the internet, as well as their skills in computer applications such as iMovie, flash, and fireworks.

Green Collar Jobs Training Program Update (7/8/09)

With the training program about to come to an end, the online crew members started helping Green Collar Technologies with its client work. Using the skills they gained over the last few weeks, workers will help promote a company in Boston, MA by managing blogs and increasing search engine optimization. If all goes well, the income made from these client jobs will be used to fund the sustainable efforts of Green Collar Technologies. As Brent says it, "To put gas in the tank." Trainees also got to talked with some of Brent's colleagues, Cooper and Faizah, who will also give workers classes on some of the ins and outs of online sustainability (such as geo-mapping, twitter, flash, etc.). Cooper just moved from California where he worked with 2Advanced Studios. You should check out the site, it's pretty amazing!

The offline sustainability crew continued laboring at the Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resource Center, again working with Joe Bernabe. They are out in the center grounds, refining their kalo farming skills.

Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resource Center

The Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resource Center in Keaukaha.
Picture from http://pacrc.uhh.hawaii.edu/

The Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resource Center is a research and development center at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo College of Agriculture, Forestry & Natural Resource Management. It's mission is to:

"Advance longer-term sustainable use and conservation of coastal areas worldwide through aquaculture and resource management."

It's for this reason exactly that Green Collar Jobs Training Program workers spend most of there time learning about sustainable practices. The center is operational at two site on Hawai‘i Island: Keaukaha and Panaewa. The kalo farms the trainees have been working at are located at the Keaukaha facility. It used to be a wastewater treatment plant, but was recently converted in to the Center with an initial focus on ornamental fish culture and cultivation of pearl oysters. It is also because this facility (among other incentives) that make the Univeristy of Hawai‘i at Hilo a premier location for education in the fields of marine sciences, aquaculture and coastal resources.

For more information visit http://pacrc.uhh.hawaii.edu/.

Green Collar Tech Training Program Update (7/7/09)

Nothing new is happening this week for the offline team. They're helping out Joe at the Aquaculture Center almost everyday now. So until we find other activities for them to do, nothing new will be happening on their side. As for us (the online team), the situation is pretty similar. We've been doing the same thing for a while now (editing videos, posting up blogs and pictures). But this week we might do something a little different. We're not too sure on the details yet, but I'll update our progress in the next blog.

-Ashley