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7 Top Green Career Tips

June 17, 2025

What does a green career really look like? What challenges do women in sustainability face – and how do they overcome them? In this blog, we’ve gathered 7 top tips from the inspiring green career stories of five women: Ellie, Kirsty, Meg, Traci and Vineeta, across diverse roles in sustainability. Their insights offer valuable guidance for anyone starting or evolving their green career journey. How they got started Their entry points are as varied as their roles: academic studies in…

Diversity is what makes us Great

February 10, 2025

Traci Lewis

Would you like to work with us? How you can support diversity, equity & inclusion. What comes to mind when you hear the word diversity? Many people immediately think of race, culture, or ethnicity. While these are key aspects, diversity is much broader – it influences every part of our lives, from our workplaces to our communities, food systems, and economies. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are currently under attack. But we know that diversity makes us stronger. In…

Would you like a Green Career & Skills workshop?

January 16, 2024

Traci Lewis

Would your students or team benefit from a Green Career workshop? Catalyse Change CIC has been running transformative sustainability empowerment and green career workshops for young women and non-binary changemakers for over 8 years. We are delighted to be able to offer our most popular workshops more widely, to a range of age groups and genders, both online and in-person. Our core offerings are listed below, they can be adapted to ensure they are right for your community, budget, and…

Your Green Career: An antidote to sustainability job hunt anxiety

December 19, 2023

Traci Lewis

Blog by Ruihan Zhu: “There has never been a better time to work in sustainability.” Yet, embarking on a sustainability career can be a thrilling yet daunting journey, especially for young women and non-binary individuals seeking to make a meaningful impact through their work. Your Green Career is an empowering course and community that recognises the need for guidance and support in this niche. Held over a month in November with sessions every Wednesday and Friday, this course aims to…

Catalyst Voices: My first green job

May 12, 2021

Traci Lewis

Emily is from Sheffield and works as an Admin & Communications Coordinator for the Sheffield Climate Alliance. She is also volunteering for us at Catalyse Change, helping us with our digital communications and social media. Here she tells us about her journey to getting her first green job. Tell us a bit about your educational background. I’ve always been more interested in humanities subjects, rather than science-related subjects that might lead more naturally into a climate career, and before I…

Our Climate Vision: A Mock COP Fringe Event

November 11, 2020

Traci Lewis

Our Climate Vision: From Experience to Action Last week a group of our catalysts launched their Mock COP Fringe event ‘Our Climate Vision.’ Team member Zoe Montgomery here outlines their journey creating this innovative event, which will take place on 29th November. We have embarked on a mission to create an event that allows people of all backgrounds to share their stories relating to the climate crisis. This event will include sharing findings from original research about how people have…

Gender Equality is Key to Fighting Climate Change

February 21, 2020

Traci Lewis

A national climate emergency has been declared by the UK Parliament and the 2020s have been described as the “decade of action to repair the Earth.” In the lead up to IWD 2020, Catalyse Change founders Jenna and Traci, take a look at where the UK is in terms of gender equality and why it is imperative in addressing climate change. There is still work to do to achieve gender equality Gender inequality is evident all around us in just…

10 Tips for Attending Youth Climate Strike Protests

November 19, 2019

Traci Lewis

This article from Bethany Stephenson contains 10 top tips for young women attending a Youth Climate Strike. Are you going to be joining the Global Climate Strike on Friday 29th November? As after more than 7 million people went on climate strikes around the world during the week of September 20th, the Youth Climate Strike movements are going to be doing it again on November 29th. The school strike for the climate, also known variously as Fridays for Future, Youth…