I’ve been interviewing with a lot of companies lately, and I recently heard a comment on the state of the industry that attracted my attention. An employer I was talking to mentioned, off-hand, that despite the economic conditions and the number of people looking for jobs, companies are having a surprisingly difficult time finding personnel [...]
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The Topiary Personnel Roster
Posted in employment, job search, markets, work, workplace, tagged Career, economy, engineering, job search, management, society, work, workplace on 18 August, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Kicking off a new decade
Posted in Personal, site, work, tagged ceqa, economy, engineering, environment, impacts, local, natural resources, nepa, water quality, work on 1 January, 2011 | 1 Comment »
2010 was a difficult year for most people I know, and for me personally. I was sick, our car was stolen right out of our driveway, I lost a beloved cat to illness, I had unexpected (and unentertaining) expenses, work has been very slow, etc. I stopped writing on my blog early in the year, [...]
Didn’t they notice the recession?
Posted in local, markets, society, tagged california, economy, quality, service, society on 12 June, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This week I had to make a little trip toward the eastern edge of the state, to Susanville (which I discovered to be a really pretty, charming little town.) I left in the evening and stayed in Redding overnight so I could meet with my colleagues there in the morning before heading out to Susanville. [...]
Sequoia Park Zoo in trouble
Posted in current events, local, tagged economy, humboldt, local, management on 13 March, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Reprinted from today’s message from the Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation: Dear Zoo Members & Supporters, We need your help to Save Sequoia Park Zoo! You may have read in the paper recently Eureka City Councilmember Larry Glass’s suggestion that the City of Eureka close the Sequoia Park Zoo in order to balance the 2009/10 budget [...]
Morford dissects our disorder
Posted in current events, tagged economy, jobs, politics on 27 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I really liked Mark Morford’s column today in the San Francisco Chronicle: “Obama vs. the Fear: Grin and be enthralled, or tremble and stuff dollar bills into your mattress?” With his customary zest, he describes our alternating between fear of disaster and relief that someone competent and equipped with a conscience is at the helm [...]
The CCC lives on — for now
Posted in current events, environment, tagged activism, california, economy, management, natural resources on 23 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
During the last couple of weeks’ worth of budget battles in this state, the California Conservation Corps came really close to extinction. This morning, I received the following message from the ad-hoc grassroots organization Save-the-CCC: Last Friday, Governor Schwarzenegger signed an historic budget package to solve California’s $42 billion deficit and move California forward from [...]
Act today to save the CCC
Posted in current events, environment, tagged activism, california, economy, environment, excellence, management, natural resources, politics on 12 February, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Remember last week when we talked about Governor Schwarzenegger’s decision to close the California Conservation Corps? The grassroots organization Save-the-CCC has started a letter campaign to protest the proposal. But even if you’ve already sent a letter, they need your additional help immediately: The governor and four legislative leaders are working behind closed doors to [...]
Keep the California Conservation Corps
Posted in current events, environment, tagged california, economy, environment, excellence, management, natural resources, politics on 6 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I would like readers to go check out Kym’s excellent post from yesterday, “Cutting the California Conservation Corps: Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish”. She explains why Governor Schwarzenegger’s decision to close the California Conservation Corps is a bad one from the conservation perspective and from both the human and monetary costs point of view. And she urges you [...]
Metal heads
Posted in current events, local, markets, tagged economy, humboldt, local, recycling on 14 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was mentioning last week that the prices for bulk metals are high these days, even in this economy. We have an indication of this in Tuesday’s article “Scrap rules coming to Humboldt County” in the Times-Standard. The new rules discussed in the articles are ones that make it easier to identify the provenience and [...]
2008 Greenwashes of the Year
Posted in current events, environment, technology, tagged activism, economy, environment, oil, pr, sustainability on 13 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Very little chance to post this week, as my home computer is in the shop. In the mean time, enjoy the Greenwash Brigade’s 2008 Greenwashes of the Year. The Greenwash Brigade is a group of environmental professionals, each part of the Public Insight Network, on the hunt for “greenwash” as they examine eco-friendly claims by [...]
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