Green Project Management: How to Get Your Company to Accept the Cost of Going Green

April 26, 2013 in Green Careers, Green Jobs with 6 Comments

Face it: As a project manager, your aim is to ensure that company projects are successful. Black and green are your favorite colors—you want the company to be in the black, and the path to making this happen is completely green. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to save the company some “greens”—or money—by being an efficient project manager, and there’s also nothing wrong with wanting to go green—by being eco-friendly—in order to grow your own project management career opportunities as well as your wallet size at the end of the day. The question is how do you know that your project management office is really ready to go green?

How Green of a Shopper are You—Really?

April 25, 2013 in Green News, Green Jobs Chicago, IL, Green Tech, Green Products with 5 Comments

When it comes to being a shopper, how green are you—in reality? Do you shop with a conscious green mind, or is going green at the grocery store just an afterthought? Here are some criteria that will help you to determine the category under which you fall and what you can do take your green shopping to the next level. If you make most of your buying decisions based on environmental conditions, you fall in the Committed category (this constituted 2 percent of the population back in 2009, according to Grocery Manufacturers Association/Deloitte).

Can you make your car green: Read top 10 tricks to do that and save some dough

April 24, 2013 in Green Careers, Green Jobs, Green Tech, Green Products with 5 Comments

It’s no secret that the prevalence of cars is contributing to environmental damage and wallet damage as well. The skyrocketing price of gasoline is nothing encouraging when you face a daily commute, and having to breathe in all those fumes while sitting in traffic isn’t that great for you either. The growing movement about environmental awareness is quickly taking hold of people’s consciousness, and it’s an important cause.

Green Jobs: Where are the Women? In Chicago

April 24, 2013 in Energy Jobs, Green Energy Jobs, Environmental Jobs, Environmental Science Jobs, Green Careers, Green Jobs, Green News, Green Jobs Chicago, IL with 7 Comments

When you look at images of solar panel fabricators or wind energy turbine workers, whether you want to admit it or not, you probably are more apt to imagine a man wearing that hardhat versus a female. However, the Windy City—the home of U.S. Green Technology—is striving to change that. Even as the Windy City works toward increasing the number of its employees in the green energy industry, it is offering a special training program specifically to women in order to bridge the gender gap in the green-collar world.

Mow Down Pollution: Economical Mowers for Your Lawn

April 23, 2013 in Green Careers, Green Jobs, Green Living, Living Green, Green Tech, Green Products with 3 Comments

Spring has arrived and there are many lawns to be mown. For most Americans, this also means there are skies to be polluted and an excess of water to be sprinkled. With one simple change, homeowners can make a significant difference to the environment. Toss out your power mower and eliminate reliance on fuel with these ecological lawn mowers.

Take a Chance Today: Overcome Your Top 10 Fears by Going Green

April 23, 2013 in Green Careers, Green Jobs with 5 Comments

Don’t let today be like every other: Life is too short to be so boring. Instead, why not celebrate today by taking a new risk and trying something new. After all, today (March 23) is “Take a Chance Day.” Try some new “green” things in observance of this quirky holiday: If you don’t try them today, then you’ll probably never try them—and it’ll be a lost for you and for Mother Earth.

Solar Power Burned up the Energy-Source Competition in March: What Does the Future Hold?

April 22, 2013 in Energy Jobs, Green Energy Jobs, Green Careers, Green Jobs with 3 Comments

If you’re a solar power skeptic, then here’s a fact that might shed some light on the power of solar in America (pun intended): For the first time in history, all of the new U.S. power grid capacity in March came from solar energy. The fact that solar power was the only power source that added capacity in March offers a peak into the future potential of this green energy source.

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