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Sheryl Sandberg Wants You To Lean In

Sheryl Sandberg is an American business executive who has gained prominence in the bookselling world with her nonfiction book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. If you haven’t read it yet, Sandberg presents strategies that are tailored to women, but equally valuable for men.

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Greening Your Unemployment; Eco-friendly Tips for Your Job Search

Brace yourself. Financial research firm Lombard Street Research states, “unemployment could rise above 8 percent,” according to Breitbart.com. During the first quarter, the official unemployment rate stands at 7.9 percent. The unstable, competitive job market breeds unemployed individuals, or the employed deficient, who wake up every morning with the grueling job hunt on the mind. Unemployment and job searching can be discouraging, frustrating and a blow to your ego—but that doesn’t mean you have to take it out on the environment. There are easy ways to green your unemployment and adopt an eco-friendly job search.

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Green Jobs 27th Ward Candidate Sues Winning Incumbent for Dirty Politics in 2011

CHICAGO (February 26, 2013) – Thomas Courtney Jr.—the 2011 candidate for 27th Ward Alderman who had developed a “green” Chicago River revitalization plan acknowledged by U.S. Green Technology—has filed a federal lawsuit against 27th Ward Alderman Walter Burnett Jr., the City of Chicago and two officials from the City of Chicago Streets and Sanitation department; he claims that Burnett unfairly won the 2011 election by stooping to dirty political methods involving theft, threats and abuse of power.

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Green Jobs: Environmental Jobs are a Bipartisan Issue

Would you believe that environmental jobs are on both political agendas? According to a recent poll taken by The Nature Conservancy, from “Tea Party Republicans to liberal Democrats, more than four-in-five Americans say that conserving our country’s natural resources–our land, air and water–is patriotic.”

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Solar Jobs: Top 5 States for Solar Jobs

Looking for a little light to finally shine down on you in your work life? You don’t have to look very far if you live in a certain five states – the top five states for solar jobs. Something about the sun simply makes people happy: A better day almost is inevitable if the sun is shining, and sunshine actually ensures a better night’s rest, too. You just might need this shot of sunshine in the workplace as well.

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Green Jobs: Surveying the Ecology around Us

Our world is made up of different living organisms around us. These include oceanic wildlife, animals, birds, reptiles, trees and of course us human beings.  All these living organisms are existing in the same nature and share the same resources of the nature and physical environment around us. The relationship between the various living organisms and its impact on the surrounding physical environment is the study of ecology.

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Green Jobs: Combining Technologies; Applications that Facilitate the Monitoring of Energy

There are a lot of things that can be done with modern technology, and the monitoring of green energy is becoming a real vantage point for many manufacturers. It is something that can be incorporated into anything from solar panels to bio-mass heating. There are many benefits of this technology that can easily be integrated into the many green systems that are used in modern building mechanics.

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