America is in a housing boom right now, and as home sales continue to rise, you don’t want to be left behind, never making it onto the wave. Even if you don’t have thousands of dollars lying around to flip houses and make big bucks in the real estate industry, here are a couple of other inexpensive ways you can break into the real estate field while being green and getting “greens” in the short and long terms.
If your 2012 wasn’t as green as it could have been, there’s no reason to look backward in regret: It’s all water under the bridge now, and the best thing you can do—for the earth, for your own sense of self-actualization and for your wallet at tax time next year—is to go green in multiple aspects of your life. Outside of the common tax-break areas of purchasing an electric car or renewable energy home system, here are a couple of top tax benefits you are likely missing out on.
If the number “four” stands for stability and being grounded, then it makes sense that Sears Holdings has accomplished one of the hugest green feats in the business world—not once, but four times in a row. Sears Holdings has been selected as a 2013 Energy Star Partner of the Year winner for Sustained Excellence in the Energy Management and Retail categories by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Not only is it the company’s fourth time receiving the award but also it is its first year earning the Sustained Excellence honor, which points to the fact that it is dedicated to energy efficiency.
Going green isn’t just a fad. Fads come and go (think skinny jeans or sagging pants). Rather, going green is the way of the future, and if you want your company to actually be the driving force behind what works economically for companies in the future—instead of simply flying by the seat of your pants to keep your bottom line strong—then green project management needs to be high on your agenda. That’s the only way you will keep your project manager position safe and stay out of the hot seat in the coming years.
Although the sport of go-karting began getting noticed in the 1950s, it’s showed no signs of slowing down since then. The activity is popular not just in the United States, but around the world. According to a study from the Netherlands published on a National Institutes of Health database, indoor and outdoor tracks welcome thousands of people every year, and some enthusiasts even begin racing go karts first before graduating to Formula One racing
