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Inspiring Stories from People Working in Clean Energy WHEN I GROW UP INSPIRING STORIES FROM PEOPLE WORKING IN CLEAN ENERGY YAMINA GUIDOUM | MALGOSIA BARTOSIK | PHILIPPA NUTTALL JONES | JOYCE LEE | VERONIQUE FYFE ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHANTAL SWIEGERS WHEN I GROW UP INSPIRING STORIES FROM PEOPLE WORKING IN CLEAN ENERGY WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT? It started with a dream to inspire you and other young stopping global warming. Chantal is an artist, who “The climate crisis has already been solved. people around the world to become passionate about did the illustrations. This book is about 21 people who We already have all the facts and solutions,” said clean energy and the many opportunities it offers. are working in clean energy to help tackle the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg in 2019.“ We decided to write this book climate crisis. All we have to do is to wake up and change.” so you can get a better idea of the We are six women who have put this book together: Two years before, she had accused world leaders from Algeria, Poland, Canada, South Africa This project would not have happened without all the at a UN Climate Summit in Katowice in Poland of clean energy jobs that are out and Belgium. amazing young people from 25 different countries, failing the younger generations. “Since our leaders there, what subjects you might need who formed our Editorial Committee and sent more are behaving like children, we will have to take the Some of us are mums and some are not, but we all than 1,000 questions to the people whose stories responsibility they should have taken long ago,” to study and the skills it might share the belief that you and other young people have feature in the book. You can find all their names at she said. be useful to have. the power to help change the world for the better. the end. Malgosia, Yamina and Joyce work in wind associations The people you will meet in this book know how that are helping people understand the role of wind Chloé aged 11 from Brussels in Belgium, and her important it is to act now. They found the solutions energy in combating climate change. Veronique dad Ian, deserve special thanks. They were our test and are working for change. They also know that we You will also find at the end of develops renewable energy projects in South Africa. readers, and Chloé made sure we saw the world all can take responsibility and work to fight climate this book a glossary that will help Philippa is a journalist writing about climate change through young people’s eyes! change and make the world a better place. you understand and learn and how clean energy is an important solution for important words. They are not famous and you’ve almost certainly not heard of them before. But they are definitely worth getting to know! They include people like Jos, an architect from Hopefully, you will be inspired by what you read and the Netherlands, who makes playgrounds, and other might even decide that becoming a wind turbine amazing things, out of rotor blades from old engineer, wind farm designer or the boss of a wind turbines. renewable energy company is for you! “THE CLIMATE CRISIS HAS ALREADY Then there’s Brian, from Ireland, whose job is helping You can, if you wish, read the book from cover to Google buy renewable energy from wind and solar cover. Or, if the mood takes you, you can start at the farms, and Vanessa - originally from France, but now back. Or you can just pick out the people who interest BEEN SOLVED. WE ALREADY HAVE ALL THE in the US - working to reduce Microsoft’s energy use. you most. This is your book, you choose. We have Swarna in India, Toni in South Africa, If you want to learn more about clean energy jobs and FACTS AND SOLUTIONS,” He Dexin in China and Elbia in Brazil. We have the people who do them, or simply let us know what engineers, sales people, an expert from the European you think about this book, please go to our website SAID SWEDISH CLIMATE ACTIVIST Commission, a professor and an inventor! www.whenigrowupstories.org. What all these people have in common is that they We look forward to reading a book about your work to increase the amount of our energy that is experiences working in the world of clean energy GRETA THUNBERG IN 2019. produced by clean, renewable sources such as solar in a few years time! We are sure the world will have and wind. In this way, the world can stop using so evolved massively by then, helped by the actions of many fossil fuels and reduce carbon dioxide and people like you. methane emissions, which are causing climate change. We can’t wait to hear all about it. “ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS TO WAKE UP AND CHANGE.” We wanted to show that to help save the world, you In the meantime, thanks for reading. don’t have to be a super hero. You don’t have to pull your pants on top of a pair of tight leggings and fly Yamina, Malgosia, Philippa, Joyce, Veronique through the sky! Simply by deciding to do certain and Chantal. jobs, we can all help look after our planet, nature and the people who live on it. CONTENTS I’ve always been a bit crazy - Cian Desmond 06 From helicopters to wind turbines - Carlo Bottasso 28 Winds and Greek Gods - Swarna Priya Natarajan 08 Guardians of the land - Mary Quaney 30 Greening Google - Brian Denvir 10 Protecting our planet for future generations - Rabia Ferroukhi 32 I dreamt of a job that didn’t exist - Mercia Grimbeek 12 All paths lead to the sea - Philippe Kavafyan 34 A lifelong fascination with windmills - Katrina Swalwell 14 Tough cables that can take a lot of twisting - Natalia Zacur 36 A love of physics led me to clean energy - Alessandro Boschi 16 Saving the planet can be good business - Balki Iyer 38 Having a positive impact on society - Elbia Gannoum 18 Law got me to wind - Toni Beukes 40 Being good at making new things - Henrik Stiesdal 20 Drones and dreams - Nicolas Quievy 42 A great teacher changed my life - Lucy Craig 22 Clean energy for the cloud - Vanessa Miler 44 Science and creativity make for a healthy planet - He Dexin 24 Waste not, want not - Jos de Krieger 46 The coal miners’ friend - Aleksandra Tomczak 26 Glossary of terms 48 I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A BIT CRAZY ’ve always been a bit crazy and time in universities working with and mini floating wind turbines. loved inventing things, even if students and scientists, learning I’ve used satellite data from NASA they were totally impractical! about new ideas and thinking (the American space programme) As a child, I spent a lot of time about old problems in new ways. to measure the wind and had cups trying to build a perpetual motion In short, my job involves lots of of tea with community groups machine. That is a machine that reading, organising and talking! trying to build their own wind starts moving and never stops. But farms. There is always something you can’t do it; it is impossible to Floating wind turbines are one of interesting to learn or someone make, no matter how hard you try. the most exciting new technologies interesting to meet. The energy to keep it going needs that I am investigating. These are to come from somewhere. I think turbines that are not attached to I also love that my job allows me my interest in renewable energy the bottom of the sea and can be to live near the sea, and I go there stems from these experiments as, used in very deep waters, where as much as possible with my family. with a little help from the wind, we there is generally more wind. Even in the middle of winter I love can (almost) have perpetual motion. playing on the beach with my three We want to better understand how kids and running into the water for As Head of Innovation for an they will behave in places where a swim. It is a great way to have fun engineering company, it is my there is a lot of wind, but also lots after a busy week and the coast is job to uncover the best ideas to of waves, like off the west coast of different every time we visit. make our projects as sustainable Ireland. These conditions can make as possible. For wind energy, this things very difficult, especially Cian Desmond is Head means finding ways to keep costs when you need to visit the wind down so everyone can afford to use turbine to maintain or repair it. We of Innovation at Gavin and clean energy. It is also important are looking at using robots to fix Doherty Geosolutions to make sure wind turbines have a turbine when it breaks, so you a positive impact on local animals don’t have to send a person out in (GDG) Ltd., Ireland. and people. dangerous conditions. To do this, I keep track of the I really enjoy that I get to work latest development in science and on so many different projects engineering. I help my company with such talented people and get ready to do the kind of jobs interesting technologies. I have that we will be asked to do in five worked with wave tanks (that or ten-years’ time. I spend a lot of generate artificial waves of water) WHAT DID I NEED TO LEARN TO DO THIS JOB? I loved biology and maths at school.
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