An online community devoted exclusively to media, public relations and marketing professionals (or business owners and executives) who have the job of communicating new developments and trends in what promises to become a Greener world.
A Boutique Investment Banking Firm. Their current focus is on helping America to focus on Renewable and Green Energy, in order to help reduce our dependence on Foreign Oil. They claim to have committed to acquiring or building 100 new Green Energy Power Plants, focusing on Cogeneration and Solar Technologies.
That is they appear to be managing a portfolio of investments or full ownership in green energy production facilities. In turn they offer investors to buy into their investment portfolio.
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Green Jobs: A Guide to Eco-Friendly Employment is a job hunting guide that's especially relevant to Americans right now. Why? With the Obama Administration the path promised to steer the U.S.A. out of our economic is green jobs, green technology, green businesses, etc. This podcast is an indepth look between the covers of an excellent guide to finding these sorts of jobs.
This book is very in-depth containing a very comprehensive list of resources for every item they discuss. The first couple chapters set the stage with the history of the environmental movement, and the environmental challenges facing our society. The latter part of the book is an extensive survey of the job market for green sustainable careers.
The book is set up with these sections:-
Technosanity Book Review: Green Jobs, A Guide to Eco-Friendly Employment
A San Francisco-based full service green business consultancy and communications firm serving the eco-economy. The goodMix is the preferred vendor for innovative sustainable organizations that want to achieve a fast ROI through strategic partnerships, brand awareness and business development strategies. The goodMix helps businesses thrive in the eco economy.
Our mission is to help San Francisco business adopt environmental practices that are sustainable as well as profitable. We achieve our mission by setting stringent criteria, providing technical assistance, and publicly recognizing and promoting Green Businesses with a seal that enables customers to shop in keeping with their values.
There is a directory of "green" businesses in "Environmental Services", "Food, Lodging & Recreation", "Government", "Retail" and "Services"
A membership-based professional organization which provides educational resources to planners, suppliers, and venues seeking to meet the ever-rising standards consumers set for sustainable meetings. They promote green practices globally by offering educational programs in the form of training workshops and online resources. The Council is in the process of partnering with educational institutions to develop an accredited curriculum at the university level for green meetings.
The mission of GreenLinkz is to provide a professional business network that promotes sustainable business practices to an international audience of professionals and “green” workers. GreenLinkz is designed for those who are being impacted by the need and desire to embrace sustainable business practices, and who see opportunity in providing green business solutions.
Their site is still in beta and none of it is publicly visible at this time.
This strikes me as possibly being the modern equivalent of those ads in the back of magazines saying you can make $3000 a month, you send them the $10 and get back a letter describing how to set up a business selling people on making $3000 a month. Anyway, "Ge A Green Irene" has blanketed the Internet lately with advertising extolling the business opportunity of greening our world one home (and office) at a time.
They say: Our Eco-Consultants are independent business women and men who work from their own home or office and are distributors of our eco-consulting services and an array of green products. They are a direct sales company that lets people set up part time or full time businesses. The main product is a "$99 Green Home Makeover conducted in about 60-90 minutes and covers such topics as energy conservation upgrades, energy efficient lighting replacements, water conservation and purity tools, indoor air quality improvements and harmful chemical reduction in the home." There's also a business version of the product lineup.
You'd be working on your own time setting your own hours and being a small business owner. You can hold "Go Green" parties which sounds like the modern day equivalent to Tupperware parties. You don't own inventory, instead the Irene mothership sends directly to your customers. Obviously there is more to this than the makeover, but the makeover is simply the foot in the door through which they sell other products. The eco-consultant would walk around the house and check off a list of things which could be purchased to make the home more green, presumably.
As you can see in the comments below ... "Green Irene has in fact approved by the Board of the DSA (Direct Sellers Association) as a full member. Additionally, we have been approved for Green America's (formerly CoOp America)Green Business Network and we are a proud member of the BBB." These steps demonstrate a commitment for quality business practices.
This is Silicon Valley so therefore 'green business' means entrepreneurs doing startup companies.
The Environmental Business Cluster (EBC) is a nonprofit technology commercialization center created to assist early stage for-profit companies developing products or services that will have a positive impact on the environment. The Environmental Business Cluster was created to minimize the costs associated with starting a business, improve the chances for success and increase the linkages between emerging companies and established businesses, universities and professionals in the field.
The EBC and the City of San Jose are establishing the first facility in the United States to focus on the design and development of alternative fuels and hybrid commercial vehicles that meet homeland security needs. The Electronic Transportation Development Center (ETDC) will be a place where established and early-stage companies will focus on the design, development, commercialization, and prototype manufacturing of alternate fuel and hybrid electric and gas commercial vehicles that also meet homeland security needs.
An office products industry where human and ecological health are the sole byproducts of operation. Provides a full selection of sustainable office products at great prices.
This is an online store providing a full range of office supplies, where they have verified each one as to 'green' qualities. This means recycled paper -- biodegradable cups -- products made from recycled content -- electronics which are energy star compliant. However not all is perfect in that I notice some of their electronics are labeled from the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition as 'failing'.
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate the public about our need to engage in new economic practices — as consumers, businesses, and communities — that are environmentally sustainable and socially just. These principles are embodied in the Green Economy.
They appear to have plans to build a physical location containing green retail, office space for nonprofits and socially responsible companies, event space, affordable housing for teachers, and an eco-gym that will help power the building, among other features.
Dominican University of California's Green MBA program is an accredited, on site graduate program in the San Francisco Bay Area. Graduates receive a Master of Business Administration degree in Sustainable Enterprise. Students have a choice of two-year full-time and three-year part-time structures. In the Green MBA, we seek solutions that promote financial viability, ecological sustainability, and social justice. We use a dynamic, project-oriented learning approach to integrate the development of entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial skills with the building of critical thinking and leadership capacities.
Business that contributes to an equitable and ecologically sustainable economy. Provides global news and networking services to help green business grow. Offers visitors a unique lens on the field as a whole, covering all sectors that impact sustainabilty: renewable energy/ efficiency, green building, green investing, and organics.
An online training program offering online education about sustainability. Companies need information about being sustainable to practice social responsibility, remain competitive, or meet the needs of global markets. They provide online sustainability training and sustainability professional certifications through the Global Sustainability Institute of Technology.
The courses include:
Green Purchasing Fundamentals
Sustainability 101 & Corporate Social Responsibility Essentials
Carbon Strategies
Senior Certified Sustainability Professional Certification (SCSP)
Certified Sustainability Professional Certification (CSP)
Green Supply Chain Professional Certification (GSCP)
I recently learned of the MSNBC Going Green network, which I'd never heard of. Sounds like an interesting possibility to access "content" plus gain some extra visibility for the blogging I do through this web site. I want to first take a look at the service as there is an interesting question here irregardless of whether this blog joins their 'network' or not. There is a need for people to have access to good quality news and information about "green" issues and sustainability, so does MSNBC or MSN have a good quality service?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ -- This is MSNBC's home page, and looking over the top level navigation it's completely unclear how to get to "MSN Green" or whether they cover any environmental, green or sustainability news. U.S. News, nothing, World news, nothing, Business, nothing, Tech & Science, nothing. Uh?
http://www.msn.com/ - It does have a link, "Green Living", which goes to http://green.msn.com/ ... Presumably if I were to login in and create a custom home page it could include a block for Green Living news items from green.msn.com
I see they have supporting partners including: Conservation International, Environmental Defense Fund, Earth 911, Grist, StopGlobalWarming.org, Treehugger, The Daily Green
There's a set of links at the top for 'msn' leading to News, Lifestyle, Travel, etc, content and it appears there is "green" content among the regular content of their news & information site, and that these links assist the reader to view the green subset of the news they publish.
In general it looks pretty reasonable. It's interesting that some of the content they publish is coming from their partners.
While new green events emerge every year, West Coast Green represents the largest milestone yet in the green innovation movement. The West Coast Green experience is a feast of innovations, ideas and opportunities designed to expand your business, widen your vision, and stimulate your thinking with the latest best practices and key players in building, business and design.
Each year the conference has grown to meet the needs of industry leaders, practitioners and homeowners; this year the conversation will deepen to include a focus on the interface of green building, innovation and technology. The emerging products within the clean tech sector that have the most ability to reduce global warming gases are predominantly products for the building industry such as solar, wind and waste reduction. With the move to the San Jose Convention Center in the heart of Silicon Valley, West Coast Green will connect the explosive world of cleantech to the green innovation movement like never before.
new, multi-billion dollar economic sector is emerging, bringing new opportunities in green construction, clean technology, urban agriculture and energy. Our goal: ensure that this green economy is strong enough to lift people out of poverty.
Green-Collar Jobs Campaign creates opportunities in the green economy for poor people and people of color through policy advocacy, public outreach, and an employment pipeline - the Green Jobs Corps.
Are you searching for the best way to plug into the green economy? Are you trying to figure out how to leverage your passions, skills, talents, and experience into a viable green career? Are you confused about where to start your search? Our mission is to help you transform your passion
for the environment into a prosperous green career.
90% of finding a new job is navigating the inner landscape of hopes, dreams, fears, self sabotage, etc. Stay focused especially on the idea that possibilities abound. Stay in hope and momentum.
That point, staying in hope, possibilities, momentum, that's about being a good manifester.
Many have a question or block of needing to know where they're going before starting out. This is a way of blocking yourself and keeping yourself from starting out. She claims it's better to just start out, and that you don't have to have the journey worked out before you start. Instead the journey is taken one step at a time. The thing you're starting toward may not even exist at the time you start out.
Is your industry ready to hire you? Are you qualified for the industry you want to work in? What are the qualifications?
Green business. It's more than a good idea. It's a practical and powerful way to help create a more just and environmentally sustainable economy.
Co-op America's Green Business Program provides the networks, resources, and technical assistance needed for socially and environmentally responsible businesses to emerge and thrive in communities across the US.
