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Green Career Success: Tajana Mesic, Managing Director, Green Grove Group

By Chris de Morsella on May 4, 2011 1 Comment biomimicry, Bioneers, Climate Action Plans, community initiatives, compliance engagements, environmental, Ernst & Young, Global Reporting Initiative, Green America, Green Grove Group, Greendrinks, greenhouse gas inventory, Human Resource Management, International Society of Sustainability Professional, ISSP, Kollo Collaborative, Measuring GHG Impact, Natural Capitalism, Plano Community Garden Junior League, recycling, recycling numbers, Responsible Purchasing, Social Investment, supply chain, sustainability, sustainability consulting, Sustainability Professional Certificate, sustainable community development, Sustaining Sustainability, Tejana Mesic, Texas Refugee and Immigrant Women's Association, University of Alabama, University of Dallas, water use, workplace diversity, zero-waste

Meet Tajana Mesic, a Green Economy Post Featured Green Career Success Story. Tajana comes to the green economy with a more than decade long career focused on managing compliance engagements for large Fortune 500 multinationals operating globally where she implemented and managed a large number of complex multi-country compliance engagements, spanning over 70 countries worldwide. During the last 7 years she spent with Ernst & Young she developed an interest in sustainability. Tajana is currently the Managing Director for the Green Grove Group. Read about her Green Career Success Story.

Making The Business Case for Green Teams and a Look at Best Practices

By Michael D Tam on April 15, 2010 Comments Off on Making The Business Case for Green Teams and a Look at Best Practices Andrew Winston, best practices, Brand Recognition, Carrie Freeman, composting, corporate social responsibillity, corporate sustainability, cost savings, cross-functional groups, eBay, employee engagement, employee morale, energy use, engage employees, engaged workforce, environmental initiatives, Green Business, Green Impact, Green Recovery, Green Teams, Green Teams: Engaging Employees in Sustainability, GreenBiz.com, Intel, Libby Reder, market share, metrics, Michael Tam, National Environmental Education Foundation, productivity, recycling, sustainability, sustainability strategy, sustainable strategies, The Engaged Organization: Corporate Employee Environmental Education, Volunteers, water use

The idea sounds simple enough. Create a team of volunteers from existing employees. Have them focus on ways to green the business and culture. In turn, create cost savings, attract top talent due to an improvement in brand recognition, and increase market share from the newfound brand image, possibly even innovative product and services. The idea and the goal sound simple, while the execution and plan of attack seem a bit more complex. How can an individual or company go about implementing this team of sustainability focused volunteers? Resources and guides may be abundant and abound. The report, “Green Teams: Engaging Employees in Sustainability,” released by GreenBiz.com and Green Impact, provides a good starting point that captures the business case for these green teams, how to get started, four key areas behind best practices, and a breakdown of 10 best practices in developing green teams.

Are Business Opportunities Found in Rising Resource Pressures?

By Julie_Urlaub on September 21, 2009 1 Comment business risks, Cliffs Natural Resources, conservation, costs, Dell, efficiency, emissions, energy, energy consumption, energy market, environmental stewardship, governance, market share, sustainability, sustainability consultants, sustainability leader, sustainability report, sustainable development, transparency, Water, water use

Businesses around the world are feeling the pressures of rising energy, water, and the potential costs of emissions. While business risks and costs are driving many behavior changes, leading businesses are exploring sustainability concepts to identify opportunities. Many companies are addressing these risks by exploring the value aspects of business sustainability.

ComputerWorld Announces List of Top Green-IT Departments and Green-IT Vendors

By Tracey de Morsella on May 4, 2009 Comments Off on ComputerWorld Announces List of Top Green-IT Departments and Green-IT Vendors absorption chillers, Allstate, Aplicor, Applied Materials, Austin Energy, BT Group, Burt's Bees, capital savings, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, carbon footprints, carbon impact, carbon offset, centralize, Citigroup, Compellent Technologies, compression, ComputerWorld, consolidating, convert, cooling demands, copper consumption, Data Center, data de-duplication, data network, data recovery, DC power, de-duplication, decommission server, e-waste, EAM, eco-friendly, electric grid, electronics recycling, emissions, EMS, energy consumption, energy efficiency, Energy Star, energy use, Entrust, Environmental Management System, EPEAT Gold certified, flat-screen, Fujitsu America, green, Green Computing, Green-e, Green-IT, Green-IT Vendors, greenhouse gases, Hewlett-Packard, hot/cold aisle isolation, IBM, incentives, Infor Enterprise Asset Management, intelligent power management, IT chargeback costs, KPMG, LCD monitors, LEED-certified, Linux-based mainframes, Living Green, MAID storage, Marriot, massive array of idle disks, Mohawk Fine Papers, monitor energy use, multicore, Office Depot, peak energy efficiency, power, power demands, power usage, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Qualcomm, recycle, recycling, renewable energy, sensors, server consolidation, servers, Seventh Generation, socially responsible, State of Indiana, State Street, sustainability, temperature, Terremark, thin clients, thin provisioning, videoconferencing, virtual server, virtualized, virtualizing, VoIP, water use, wind

For the second year in a row, ComputerWorld has showcased the achievements at 12 IT departments that are reducing power demands and using technology to create energy efficiencies. Thirty criteria were used to determine which organizations had the greenest IT departments. The IT departments selected include: Mohawk Fine Papers, State Street, Allstate, Citigroup, PricewaterhouseCoopers, State of Indiana, KPMG, Seventh Generation, Office Depot, Burt’s Bees, Marriot and Austin Energy. Find out why these organizations were selected.