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Missed Sustainable Brands ’10? Read Our Round-up of SB ’10 Posts from Around The Web

By Tracey de Morsella on June 15, 2010 1 Comment 15 Cool Things I Learned at Sustainable Brands 2010, A Random Collection of Thoughts from Sustainable Brands, a staff writer for Fast Company, Amie Vaccaro, Andrew Winston, ANDvantage strategies, Anya Kamenetz, BBH Hive, Beth Bengtson, Bill Marquard, Bill Roth, brand strategy, Brooke Farrell, Bruce MacGregor, Cheskin, Cobblestone Solutions, David Ferris, David Wilcox, EARTH 2017, green innovation, Green Recovery, greenwash, Harvard Business Review, HIP Investor, How Starbucks Strives for a Better Cup, How the Monterey Bay Aquarium Is a Model of a Nimble Business, How to Drive Change the IDEO Way, Huffington Post, IDEO, Implementing Cradle To Cradle Strategies For a Cleaner World, Innovate With Empathy, Inspired by the Journey, Janan, Jason Saul, Jen Boynton, John Marshall Roberts, Julian Holman, Julie Urlaub, Karen Barnes, Kelli Peterson, Kirsty Saddler, KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz, Live From Sustainable Brands ‘10: Selling Green to Consumers, Maddock Douglas, Marble Leadership, Marc Stoiber, Microgrid Energy Rules the Sustainable Brands Innovation Open, Mission Measurement, Nick Aster, open innovation, Our Snapshot of This Year’s Sustainable Brands Conference. My 20 Favorite Quotes Heard at Sustainable Brands 10 Conference, Paul Herman, ReachScale, Recycle Match, sb '10, SDialogue, Shelton Group, social innovation, Starbucks, Summer Rayne Oakes, sustainability, Sustainable Brands 10', Sustainable Brands Innovation Open, Sustainable Life Media Recognized by Governor Schwarzenegger and California EPA Secretary as Sustainable Brands ’10 Opens in Monterey, Suzanne Shelton, Taiga Company, TetraPak + Bottled Water Still Equals Greenwashed Nonsense, The Hot Eco-Fashionista Five Principals of Good Design, The Matter Network, The Power of ANDvantage: Increased Profits by Solving Relevant Global Social Issues, The Secret Green Sauce, Timberland’s Road to Recovery Paved with Earthkeepers, Triplepundit.com, Trple Pundit, ustmeans, Wal-Smart: What It Really Takes to Profit in a Wal-Mart World, Winston Eco-Strategies

Were you unable to attend Sustainable Brands 10? Do the next best thing; read our SB ‘10 news round-up of posts from around the Web. Help us keep this compilation up-to-date. If you have a new post on the Sustainable Brands ’10 Conference, or we missed your post, drop us a line, so we can include it. We will continue to to provide daily post-SB ’10 coverage in the coming days. See a preview of that coverage at the bottom of this post.

EcoFenzy’s Find Great Green Interns

By Tracey de Morsella on June 9, 2009 2 Comments Amie Vaccaro, Ecofrenzy, environmental impact, hiring, interns, internship, recruit, recruitment costs, search process, Social Venture Technology Group, SVT Group

Interns can be great hiring resources because they can help you recruit new interns through word of mouth. They can help your organization decrease recruitment costs and enable you to add personnel during periods when workload has increased, but you do not want to add another full-time employee. In the past I have obtained four great interns that way. Two ended up working for me and one of the others did several freelance assignments for my years later.

GREEN CAREER PERSPECTIVES: Non-Technical Green Careers, Get a Green Job with Networking; Resume Strategies, Penetrating The Green Job Market

By Tracey de Morsella on April 23, 2009 1 Comment America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs, Amie Vaccaro, blogging, Bright Green Talent, Carol McClelland, conserve energy, contacts, credentials, eco-friendly, Ecofrenzy, enironmental impact, environmental responsibility movement, experienced workers, green career, green economy, green industry, Green Job, green job hunting, Green Job Market, green networking, green networking events, green non-profit, green resume, greenbiz, increasing operating efficiency, introductions, Karydes Consulting, layoffs, Megy Karydes, Network, networking, Nick Ellis, Non-Technical Green Careers, proactive introductions, professional network, reduce emissions, referrals, research, Resume Boot Camp, Social Media, Social Venture Technology Group, Students, SVP GRoup, thank you notes, Tom Ballantyne, Torchiana Mastrov & Sapiro, training, volunteering

The following green career strategies and perspectives that I found around the web. If you have a green career strategy or perspective that you would like to share, do not hesitate to contact us. Amie Vaccaro, editor of the blog, Ecofrenzy, has created a list of 15 ways to find your green dream job using networking. Carolyn at Bright Green Talent has posted an informative three-part Resume Boot Camp for student and Grads seeking a green career. Carol McClelland explains that most of the jobs within the green economy have the same job titles they have in the traditional economy. She lists several ways you can see yourself fitting into in the green economy and provide a few strategies to use to map your way into the green economy. GreenBiz.com recently talked two career experts to get their advice on entering the green job market and asked if they had special tips for experienced workers who are looking for new opportunities following layoffs.