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My Environmental Career Journey

June 27, 2020

MY ENVIRONMENTAL CAREER Name: Lola Okunrinboye Job title: Environmental Manager at Dragados UK and Women in Sustainability Network Aberdeen Hub Lead Qualifications: Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) , MSc(Eng) Environmental and Energy Engineering, BEng(Hons) Chemical and Process Engineering. Why did you go into an environmental career? Growing up, I loved everything to do with the environment and always wanted to make a difference and impact. What was your first environmental job? When I completed my MSc in Environmental and…

Top tips for how to live more sustainably

June 14, 2020

Traci Lewis

Hellie shares her 5 top tips for how to live more sustainably. Since lockdown began, questions have been raised about the links between pandemics and the environment. This has sparked an increased interest in sustainable living. Over 75% of people surveyed in the UK – according to Futerra – said they had done something during this time to make their lifestyle more sustainable. Over 87% thought we should be making some of these drastic lifestyle changes, which we have made…

Catalyst Summit will empower future female sustainability leaders

June 14, 2020

Traci Lewis

The Catalyst Summit is for girls & young women who want to save the world. Feeling worried about your future and the future of the world? You want to make a difference but are not sure how to go about it? The Catalyst Summit is a new online 3-day event that will empower young women to build a sustainable future. This new summit replaces the summer Catalyst Bootcamp that was due to take place in Bristol, as a face-to-face event.…

5 Reasons You Should Come To The Catalyst Summit

June 6, 2020

Traci Lewis

During 3 days in July lots of brilliant women will gather online at the Catalyst Summit to explore some of the biggest questions currently facing us. what if the world really were gender equal and fair for everyone? what if the world was powered just by renewable energy – with clear skies & clean air all of the time? what if I had the confidence and skills to help make that change? Catalyst Bootcamp cancelled With our summer Catalyst Bootcamp…

7 Tips for virtual internships & CV building

May 17, 2020

Traci Lewis

Hellie, a 2nd year student at Exeter Uni, shares her tips for boosting your employability through virtual internships and CV building. The coronavirus crisis has brought many challenges for young people. It has made it more difficult to find work and internships. Which has hampered our efforts to develop our CV’s. It can be frustrating leaving school or university and then feel like you are losing valuable time and experiences. So I am going to share my 7 top…

Would you like to Mentor a Young Woman?

May 1, 2020

Traci Lewis

Are you a woman working for social or environmental change who would like to help inspire the next generation of change makers? The Catalyse Change 2020.21 Mentoring programme is now open if you would like to mentor a young woman? The world is facing serious environmental and social problems, and now more than ever we are on the cusp of great change. Fridays for the Future have seen more than 13 million people taking to the streets across the globe…

What’s an online Green Career Masterclass like?

April 28, 2020

Traci Lewis

Taryn Everdeen shares her experiences of our recent ‘Feeding Britain’ – our 1st online Green Career Masterclass. We’re a month into lockdown when I hop onto Zoom to join Catalyse Change’s 1st online Green Career Masterclass ‘Feeding Britain.’ Having attended a few of their events before, I have high expectations of anything under the Catalyse Change banner–and I’m not disappointed. Faces join mine on the screen, some of them familiar–we met at the 2019 Catalyst Bootcamp–and others I don’t recognise.…

Why I mentor young women

April 18, 2020

Traci Lewis

Lucy, one of our Catalyse Change mentors, tells us all about her own varied sustainability career journey and why she has decided to now also mentor young women. Name: Lucy Gatward Current occupation: Freelance communications specialist on various sustainability projects. Current projects: Going for Gold Bristol – Food Sector Lead; City to Sea: managing Food Sector project. My sustainability career journey I can probably point to the start of my sustainability career in two parts. The first is accidental, the…