Last call to enter the Ecobrain eBook giveaway! This is your chance to get something for nothing! There are several full-time jobs listed today, some of them are location specific, but offer telecommuting. Have a green Halloween!
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Welcome to Green Gigs!
Updated September 18, 2009: Green Gigs is no longer an active blog. Although we had a good run, the time has come to bring Green Gigs to a close. As such, some of the information below has changed. Specifically, comments have been closed and the statcounter removed. Thanks for stopping.
Green Gigs was founded as a job board/blog hybrid dedicated to helping those seeking telecommuting, eco-focused work. It has grown into a grassroots network of green job hunters who understand the environmental and personal benefits of working from home on behalf of the environment. What you can find on Green Gigs:
* Home-based, green job listings, spanning all industries,
* Interviews with green professionals,
* Job search tips,
* Job application advice from employers,
* Profiles of green job hunters,
* Green living information, resources, and more!
The Minds Behind Green Gigs
Lori – Founder and Editor
As a freelancer and science geek, Lori found there was a lack of free, centralized job information, listings and resources in the blogosphere for those seeking home-based, eco-friendly work. In an effort to correct this oversight, Lori launched Green Gigs in August 2008.
Morgan – Contributing Writer
Writer, greenie, poetry lover, blogger and kindred spirit, Morgan O’Donnell, joined Green Gigs in February 2009 as a contributing writer. Morgan brings her sense of humor, her experience pursuing a sustainable life, and job hunter insight to Green Gigs.
Press
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Any handbag designers out there? If so, today is your lucky day - there is freelance gig here that is perfect for you! For everyone else, there are commission-based green sales opportunities and freelance writing opportunities today. Keep it green!
Sorry, these green gigs are gone : (
Can you hear the crickets? It is a little quiet on the bidding sites this week, hopefully one of these is meant for you!
See "Home" for new gigs!
Good morning. Today's freelance gigs include opportunities for an executive secretary, software engineer, green sales person, and green kitchen writers. While your applying for a gig, consider entering Green Gigs' contest, it is easy and maybe you will even win! Make it a green one!
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Hi All - Green Gigs for today are listed below the EcoBrain review and contest. Have no fear, links are here! There is also a feature gig post for a start-up looking for a partner. Hope you find a great gig!
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Welcome to the start of a new week. Just another quick reminder that those pesky craigslist ads can get flagged for removal amazingly fast. If there is a craigslist link here you plan to apply to later, copy the actual ad and save it as a file or email it to yourself so the information doesn't disappear before you apply. Today's eco-friendly jobs include gigs for freelance writers, web designers, green sales folks, a marketing assistant, and a customer care rep. Good luck and please let me know if you land a gig listed here!
Hmmm...these were really old so we had to delete them.
I am very excited to announce that Green Gigs will be participating in its first blog tour next week. As a thank to you to my loyal readers and a welcome to new readers, there will be a contest giveaway as part of the tour. I hope you will check back next week and partake, it's simple, fun, and you may even win! Today there are freelance gigs for green writers, a green sales rep, and a sales engineer. Best of luck!
Sorry, these jobs have long since been filled!
There are several green gigs for freelance writers today. Hope one (or more!) of them are of interest to you. Tell them Green Gigs sent you!
Hey, find some NEW gigs on our home page!
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It is that time of week again, time for green bid madness! As always, today offers an interesting selection of projects to bid on - there are opportunities for green writers, logo and graphic designers, virtual office assistants and bookkeepers, and database developers. If you land a project, be sure to check out who you are really working for, let's not help out those high school and college kids looking to have a paper written for them!
Visit Green Gigs for new listings!
Only a short list this morning, but both gigs relate to bamboo - so if you are a bamboo guru, you are in luck!
Sorry, these jobs have expired!
Good Monday everyone. The new week brings opportunities for a video documentary researcher, analyst, green sales rep, and a jack-of-all-trades office assistant. Be green.
These jobs are gone!
Happy Friday green friends! There is some good news during this time of economic turmoil, the U.S. Conference of Mayors released a report stating that 4.2 million green jobs could be created by 2038. And you know some of those will be home-based jobs which bodes well for us! So even if your background isn't in an environmental field, don't be afraid to green your career. If you are a writer, start reading up on environmental issues and go after those green writing gigs. If you are a programmer or web developer, apply for gigs working on environmentally-friendly companies. If you are a sales guru, apply to sell or market green products. Get ahead of the curve and start greening your resume today!
Today there are jobs for green freelance writers and a programmer. Also, there were quite a few green gigs this past week, including a large list from the various job bidding sites - so check them out if you missed them! Go green and stay home!
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I would like to start today's post off with a big Green Gigs thank you to Eco-Office Gals and Energy Environment Forum for linking here. Also, just because Blog Action Day is over, doesn't mean we should forget about the issue of poverty. If you do nothing else, consider clicking on the Free Rice banner at the bottom of Green Gigs or The Hunger Site badge in the right column - both are quick, easy, and yes, free ways to donate food. Go get those jobs and tell them Green Gigs sent you!
These listings have expired.
Today is Blog Action Day 2008. One day each year, bloggers unite to help bring attention to a pressing issue and this year's topic is poverty. As a mother, the issue of poverty and children particularly bothers me. My children have a home to live in, access to some of the best health care in the world, ample food, heat for the winter, and attend a great public school system. It breaks my heart to think of children here in America and around the world that are hungry or die of starvation, that are cold during the winter, and that do not have access to the great equalizer, a quality education.
What bothers me most about poverty is the needless suffering and death of children from common illnesses and birth defects that can easily be treated. My youngest son was born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia, a life-threatening birth defect which kills upwards of 40% of the children born with the condition, even with the best medical care. My son is a survivor, but I constantly think of the fate of children born in other places that do not have access to rapid advanced medical treatment. Babies who could have very well gone on to have normal, healthy lives die because they do not have the access to or means for life-saving medical care. Another place or time and our son's fate would have been very different, and that weighs heavy on me.
So what can be done about poverty? I have come up with a list below of simple things we can all do, that alone may not make a huge difference, but together perhaps will. Don't worry, Wednesday Green Bid Madness links are at the bottom of this post, but please, read through the suggestions on how to combat poverty before skipping straight to the links. Even better, commit yourself to at least one of these simple suggestions for fighting poverty, honestly, they are not that hard!
1. Make a commitment to donate some cash to a worthy charity of your choice. I challenge you to apply to one Green Gig today and if you land it, donate a small percentage of your pay from that gig to an organization that fights poverty. Some organizations that I like are: Green for All , Heifer International, and Doctors Without Borders. Check them out!
2. If you have children, get involved in their school. Education can be a path out of poverty and teachers work amazingly hard with not enough resources to education our children. Volunteer in the classroom, chaperon a field trip, donate supplies, join the PTO, clip some box-tops, attend a spaghetti supper - not only is it easy, your children will benefit as well.
3. Donate food to and/or volunteer your time to a local food pantry or kitchen. Many churches, schools, and local stores have donation drop-offs available year round. If you don't know of a local pantry or kitchen, try Feeding America's searchable database.
4. At last check, over 9,000 bloggers were signed-up to participate in Blog Action Day today. Visit some of your favorite blogs or try some new ones and read what other bloggers are saying about poverty. Here is the official link listing participating blogs.
5. See the "Free Rice" banner running at the top of the page? This banner continually runs at the bottom of this blog (not just because its colors match my template!), but I am featuring it on the top today and encouraging you to click on it. I get no revenue for running the banner and the Free Rice folks make no cash off you visiting their site. Rather, 20 grains of rice are donated to the UN Food Program (through sponsored advertising) for each question you answer correctly on their site (also try The Hunger Site, same idea - just click, no games). I personally like to change the question subject to "Chemical Symbols", but they have several categories you may choose from. So if you do nothing else, click on the banner, answer the questions, get smarter, and get rice into the mouths of those who need it most! I will play today -how about you?
That is it. Wasn't so bad was it? As promised, here are today's Green Bid Madness links, go get 'em champ!
Whoops, these are expired! Visit Green Gigs' home for new listings!
Happy Tuesday folks! Here are a few green jobs to get the week started. Let them know Green Gigs sent you!
These jobs were way too old to apply for!
Happy Columbus Day Weekend everyone! I will be celebrating Columbus' non-discovery of America tomorrow and will not be posting, so in exchange, here is a weekend edition of Green Gigs. Today there are opportunities for green writers, environmental compliance specialists, researchers and analysts, and a remote office manager. I hope there is something here for you! Also, if you are a blogger and have not yet signed-up, please consider participating in Blog Action Day on October 15. This year's issue is poverty, Green Gigs will be participating along with 7,000+ other bloggers, join us!
Bye expired gigs!
Little bit slow this morning, hope there is something here for you. Tell them Green Gigs sent you!
These jobs are long gone...
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Just a couple listings this morning. Go green and stay home!
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Yes folks, it is Wednesday, that means it is time for another round of green bid madness. For those of you new to Green Gigs, bid madness lists environmental themed jobs up for auction on the various bidding sites. I am interested in hearing your feedback about the bidding jobs. Has anyone placed a bid or landed a gig from the green bid links? Post a comment and let me know! As always, have a green day!
Sorry, these listings have expired. Stop by our home page for new listings!
Welcome to Tuesday! Today brings opportunities for green bloggers and writers, green sales folks, and renewable energy experts. If you haven't checked out the new "quick links" feature in the right column, check it out now! I'll be updating the links by job category a couple times a week. Also, let me know if you land a job through Green Gigs, it makes me happy!
Sorry, these jobs are long gone!
Welcome to Monday green friends. The new week brings job leads for a web developer, green sales reps, an attorney, and researchers. Be sure to read the actual ads carefully, as a few of them were a little vague about how much of the work is truly telecommuting. Best of luck!
These jobs have expired!
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The following ad did not make the Green Gigs post cut because it made my scam antennas kick into overdrive:
A website educating and informing Louisiana on everything green, from do-it-yourself home projects, local heroes, and neighborhood gardens, to green laws, organizations, and alternative energy sources... with everything green in between. We are looking for green writers to write weekly articles for our Green website. We are new so there will be no pay to start. Expecting 5000 green subscribers by year's end and 50 companies advertising. Great for journalism students or green company owners. If we get the advertising we expect, we all get paid.
The topics of these regular columns will be as follows: * Turning Blight into Bright * Growing & Eating Natural and Whole * Daily Energy Saving Tip * That Something New & Green & Cool * Our Changing Green Economy * Green Spots for Visitors to Louisiana
Send your resume with a cover letter. The cover letter is important. I want to hear how you would handle this task....looking for creative people who can write. Write and send a short sample of your green writing.
Whether or not this ad is for real, here are five reasons why I would not apply:
1. No pay! The “to start” implies there may be pay in the future, but try taking that to the bank. Oh, and they want “weekly” free articles from you, nice!
2. “Write and send a short sample of your green writing.” I hardly ever apply to gigs that request a free sample of work that is directly related to the content of the site. Providing your standard writing samples and/or a blog link, along with your resume, should be enough for a prospective employer to get a sense of your writings skills and style. This sounds suspiciously like they are fishing for free content.
3. “Expecting 5000 green subscribers by year's end and 50 companies advertising.” Oh, so am I! Other than the fact that this is a sentence fragment (which in itself does not bode well for the site); it also sounds like wishful thinking. If there were already 5000 subscribers and 50 advertisers, maybe it would it be worth submitting an article that would link back to my blog for the free plug, but probably not.
4. “The cover letter is important. I want to hear how you would handle this task....looking for creative people who can write.” This is not an unreasonable request if there was pay involved, but seems a little pushy for free content.
5. “If we get the advertising we expect, we all get paid.” It reads as though they are at least offering revenue share for your work. However, no where is it clearly stated that this is case or what percentage of revenue you could expect. Plus, see #3, there is no revenue to share!
There are quite a few telecommuting jobs listed today, ranging from freelance writing, to green sales, to designing - so go get those green gigs!
Bye-bye old gigs! We still have new ones though...
I am trying a new feature here at Green Gigs - lists of jobs based on types of gigs. Lists are in the right column, under the archive. To start, there are four lists:
I hope this will provide a way for readers to quickly view links in their respective fields. I will try to update these links a couple times a week. Regular postings will continue to list the most recent green gigs across all fields.
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Good morning everyone! First a quick heads-up, often craigslist ads are quickly flagged for removal (whether for legitimate reasons or by other job applicants) - for example, two green jobs I was going to post today were flagged before I was able to list them. So if you see a craigslist ad posted on Green Gigs that you would like to apply for, copy the actual ad and paste it in a document or email it to yourself, so you have all the info saved if it is flagged before you get a chance to apply. Today is heavy on green sales jobs, along with a re-post for an environmental radio reporter, and CAD support for an environmental consulting firm.
Wow, you really want these jobs??? They're long gone, stop by Green Gigs' home page for new gigs!
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