Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a strong proponent of green business. And yesterday, he appeared at a Palm Springs, Calif. “presser”—with whirling wind turbines as a backdrop—to push his plan to bring green business and green jobs to the Golden State.
From the Palm Springs Desert Sun:
The California Jobs Initiative includes $500 million of incentives going to [...]
Excerpted from the upcoming book, “Tailoring the Green Suit: Empowering Yourself for an Executive Career in the New Green Economy” © 2010, Dan Smolen.
We know that hiring managers are most-predisposed to the best green-trained and educated executive talent. Understanding that a busy hiring manager may have an inches thick stack of résumés (to triage), he [...]
Earlier this week, we reported about Green Spaces, a New York City-based facility that encourages ecopreneurs to “co-office” in its sustainable work environment.
Now, Arlington County, Virginia – already a nationally-recognized model for resource sustainability and urban renewal – joins Nashville, San Diego, and Charleston, South Carolina in a green office challenge pilot program sponsored by [...]
Who likes waiting (for anything good)?
Many of you – excited about the impending release of Tailoring the Green Suit: Empowering Yourself for an Executive Career in the New Green Economy – have (emailed me/called me/sent me smoke signals/channeled me/social media messaged me) asking when the book would finally be available for purchase online and on [...]
Earlier, we reported on how vacant retail sites and other dwellings were being re-purposed as truly sustainable work spaces.
Now, a facility in the hip TriBeCa section of New York City is taking the green office movement one step farther; it is enticing ecopreneurs with a highly-engaging way to “co-office.”
Green Spaces takes the 1990s-era shared office [...]
For several years, I have written about the critical importance of green business training and education.
The C-Level’s demand for well-trained and properly educated green business executives is urgent. More companies are seeking talent that can ably manage the triple-bottom-line (people, planet, profits).
But are the institutions awarding so-called Green MBAs yielding such well-prepared talent? Ford Motor [...]
The Clorox Company, long a proponent of green business best-practices, has extended its commitment to product manufacturing transparency by listing its products’ ingredients on-line.
Clorox’s corporate website now includes a new Ingredients Inside page which provides easy click-throughs to each of the company’s products, ingredients, and Material Safety Data Sheets.
We are encouraged that this formidable consumer [...]
I am pleased to report that pre-production on my book, Tailoring the Green Suit: Empowering Yourself for an Executive Career in the New Green Economy is proceeding, nicely; we are on track for book-release around the end of March.
As many of you know, I have been toiling on this project since late July 2009. And [...]
We Can Lead, a business advocacy group led by senior executives from some of the U.S.’s most-recognizable brands, has called on President Obama and the 111th Congress to act swiftly on comprehensive energy and climate change legislation. The group believes such legislation when passed will bolster national security by making the U.S. more energy-independent, boost [...]
Yesterday, I received a comment to an earlier post. The commenter, Kwame, referenced the special election to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s seat in the U.S. Senate. He wondered what affect Republican candidate Scott Brown’s surprise special election win would have on the state of green business. I thought Kwame’s question was an interesting and [...]
