Wind Explorer, Digital Detective, the new cradle-to-grave jobs

posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 23 April, 2009 at 9:41 am

A list of ten “future proof” jobs… have you ever wondered what a Wind Explorer does though:

When civil and environmental engineer Mathias Craig arrived in Nicaragua in 2004, he found a stretch of Caribbean coastline where transportation consisted of horses and boats and there wasn’t a single light bulb. “It was like the Wild West 200 years ago,” he says. As founders of the nonprofit Blue Energy Group, Craig and his brother organized volunteers to build wind turbines to catch the Caribbean trade winds and supply several communities with electricity.

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