How to get professionally committed to the ecological transition? If possible upon graduation? This is the project of many young people who sometimes do not know what training and what jobs to target. To help and support them, the Les Pépites Vertes association identifies and disseminates the careers and testimonials of dozens of young professionals committed, particularly in its
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In order to support this initiative, 20 minutes joined this summer “to the great appeal to the nuggets of France” launched by the site to find new talents and reveals to you every Wednesday in September, one of the four “green nuggets” met by the president and founder of the association Claire Pétreault.
“There are billions of possibilities”
After the testimonies of Solène, project manager at the French Office for Biodiversity and Alexandre, organic artisan-baker, discover this week the advice of Marine, 24, project manager at Beyond the Sea, a young innovative company , located in the Arcachon basin (Gironde) which is developing a system for pulling ships by kitesurfing kites. “Today, you should know that maritime transport is 940 million tonnes of CO2 emitted per year. And therefore this technology would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20%. »Explains the young woman.
Her advice for getting involved professionally? “Go all out, not to be afraid of making a mistake”. “There are very varied ways of working for the transition: it can be both in a big box, it can be in a smaller structure, it can be like me in the maritime field but it can be on a whole other area. There are billions of possibilities ”, she explains, before advising“ to dig and be a little curious about what is being done ”.
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