The Green Industrial Business and Career Expo program started three years ago to help highlight the new business and career opportunities that are being created by our transition away from fossil fuels.

Part of that transition will come from choices we make as consumers about the goods we buy (or don’t buy) and the ways we conduct our daily lives. But the transition will also require new consumer options in the form of new products as well as enormous changes in modern systems for construction, manufacturing, agriculture, and energy generation. These goods and processes are being created right now by people who work for private companies and public agencies throughout the greater Pacific Northwest.

These innovations require applied math, science, and technology skills that can be acquired through readily accessible education and training programs in our state that prepare people for some of the best careers available in the 21st Century.

The first two Expos brought together more than 60 green industrial exhibitors and more than 500 high school and community college teachers. The next one will be the best yet and the first one open to students.

To learn how teachers, students, businesses and exhibitors can participate, contact Green Expo Program Manager Carla Dean at 206-762-2470 or Carla@seattleindustry.org