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Coming up March 7-11: "No Impact Man" Colin Beavan and Workshops to Impact Your Employment Future

Nov 1, 2022, 10:58 AM
Colin Beavan, blogger, author, advocate for renewable energy and sustainable goods, to address Florida State College March 8, 2011 PLUS TWO (count 'em!) workshops to help you prepare for an upcoming career fair. Cool factor: off the scale.

Colin Beavan’s book “No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process,” delivers the details of his family’s year-long experiment of cutting back radically on consumption, stemming from the theory that a change in those behaviors can improve lives. No car. No air conditioning. No electricity. No processed food—only local, sustainable foods. A subsequent documentary about the same subject by the same name was released in Sept. 2009. Beavan will deliver a free and open to the public lecture March 8 at 7 p.m. at the Wilson Center, on FSCJ's South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., east of St. Johns Bluff Road. In addition to the lecture, Beavan will also hold a post-event book signing. Student art and projects related to their experience will be on display.

Also of impact, especially to those looking for a job: Downtown Campus is offering two free workshops at 101 W. State St., in the Main Lobby, Bldg. A, this week:

1. “Résumé Builder”—March 9, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. (Bring your résumé for review by career counselors!)
2. “Preparing for a Career Fair”—March 10, from 1-2 p.m.

The workshops are free and open to the public. The Résumé Builder workshop will add a little fun element. The counselors are dressing in construction worker get-up. I can almost feel the thump-thump-thump of "YMCA."  But the workshops are serious. Everyone attending is encouraged to bring a résumé copy, which the counselors will review and suggest improvements on the spot to help you nail that new job.

There is a purpose in all this. Downtown Campus will host a Spring Career Fair on March 22 from 9 a.m.-noon. It's free and open to the public. More details on that later, or you can look it up at http://www.floridastatecollegenetwork.com/press-releases/view/get-ready-for-spring-career-fair-with-free-workshops-hosted-by-florida-stat.

Media questions? Call Corby at 904-632-3310, or try my cell at 904-608-0415.