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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.

So You’re Building a “Green” Data Center”

By Jack Pouchet on April 26, 2011 1 Comment aperture, avocent, BREEAM, carbon usage effectiveness, cooling, CUE, dcim, Embedded Energy, emerson network power, energy efficiency, Green Computing, green data center, green grid, HVAC, IT asset utilization, jack pouchet, liebert, material recycling ratio, MRR, operational efficiency, power, Power Usage Effectiveness, PUE, recycling program, sustainability, USGBC LEED, water usage effectiveness, WUE, zero-waste

Building a green data center is a challenging undertaking; it is also one that is poorly understood and that can fail in many ways. This post goes into some of the deeper level goals that need to be kept in focus if the project is going to be a success.

In Supply Chain Logistics Management, There’s a Reverse Gear–and It’s Green–Part 2

By Dave Meyer on March 3, 2011 1 Comment asset recovery, Dave Meyer, Dell, Dell Financial Services, Design cycle, eco friendly pet products, efficient warehousing systems, Full Circle program, Gil Friend, Global Alliance, Greenbridge International, hazardous material programs, Hewlett-Packard, HP, John Kunkel, Marc Gunther, Noranda, obsolete equipment disposition, Patagonia, product life cycle, Product modularity, product responsibility, product take-back programs, Product traceability, reconditioning, recycle, recycling programs, refurbishing, remanufacturing, resell, reverse logistics, RoHS, SEEDS, Sustainable Economic and Environmental Development Solutions, The Truth About Green Business, upcycling, Walmart, waste streams, WEEE, Worldwise, zero-waste

Once you determine which products pose the greatest asset value in terms of recoverability, you should then look for potential ways to reprocess or reuse waste byproducts or other manufacturers that may be turn your waste into their product feedstock. Your company, your customers and the environment will benefit tremendously.

Are Zero Waste Communities A Viable Option for Achieving Sustainability in The United States?

By Aysu Katun on January 21, 2010 5 Comments Austin, Berkeley, Boulder, Canberra, desalination, diversion, diversion rate, federal plan, General Motors, GrassRoots Recycling Network, Hewlett-Packard, incentive, Kamikatsu, landfill, landfill-free, Lord Norman Foster, Los Angeles, Masdar City, monorail, NIKE, policy reform, recycle, recycling rate, repair, reuse, San Francisco, Seattle, solar power, waste processing, waste reduction, zero carbon, zero waste communities, zero waste goal, Zero Waste International Alliance, zero-waste

Imagine a world where the concept of “waste” does not exist. A world in which nothing gets discarded, every industrial product gets reassembled into something useful, each unit of energy is offset and anything and everything is a renewable resource. This is the design principle and environmental philosophy of “zero waste”.

How Leading Companies are Pioneering Innovation in Carbon, Water and Waste

By Abhijit Khanna on December 13, 2009 2 Comments Abhijit Khanna, AquaSciences, AT Kearney group, BASF, biomimicry, business sustainability, Calera Corporation, Carbon, Carbon Disclosure Project, carbon footprint, CEO Water Mandate, Chicago Climate Exchange, Climate Change, climate change risk management. Mandatory reporting, climate risks, Coca-Cola, compliance, corporate sustainability, corporate water strategy, CorporateRegister, creative destruction, desalinization, DJSI, Dole, Domani Consulting, Dow Jones Sustainability Index, DuPont, e-waste, ecoefficiency, Ecopatent Commons, environmental, environmental performance, Environmental Protection Agency, Global e-Sustainability initiative, Global Reporting Initiative, green innovation, Green Policies, green products, Green Rankings, green rankings. KLD, greenhouse gas emissions, Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Hewlett-Packard, innovation, Innovation Opportunities in Response to Today’s Environmental Hot Buttons, Interfaceflor, LEAN manufacturing, Levi Strauss and Company, life straw, NanoH20, nanotechnology, Nestle, NIKE, Nike Trash Talk, Patagonia, PepsiCo, reputation, reverse osmosis, risk management, risk management practices, SAB Miller, SB Boot Camp, Serious Materials, social performance, Sprint, Subaru, supply chain, sustainability consulting, sustainability performance, Sustainable Brands Boot Camp, Sustainable Life Media, Tennant, Trucost.Green Score, Vestergaard Fransden, Wal-Mart, waste, Water, Water Disclosure Project, water footprint, Water Footprint Network, water management companies, water neutraility, water neutrality, water utilized upstream, water-resource management, Waxman-Markey Kerry Boxer, Will Sarni, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Xerox, zero-waste

A summary of the second webinar in the Sustainable Brands Boot Camp series, Innovation Opportunities in Response to Today’s Environmental Hot Buttons: Climate Change, Water & Waste. The webinar was led by Will Sarni, CEO and founder of Domani Consulting, an integrated sustainability consulting firm, and featured examples of new, innovative business and product strategies from various markets that are successfully being brought to market in response to emerging environmental and social strains.

Incorporating Sustainability into Innovation Processes

By Aysu Katun on November 24, 2009 4 Comments biomimicry, closed loops, cradle to cradle, dematerialization, employees, environmental impacts, environmentally conscious employees, Gil Friend, green design, Introduction to Opportunities in Sustainable Innovation, Natural Logic, natural step framework, nature, recommendations, stakeholder, Sustainable Brands Boot Camp, sustainable design, sustainable innovation, Sustainable Life Media, The Truth About Green Business, webinar, zero-waste

Sustainable Life Media launched their first online Sustainable Brands Boot Camp on Friday. Leading the first webinar, “Introduction to Opportunities in Sustainable Innovation”, was Gil Friend, President/CEO of Natural Logic and author of The Truth About Green Business. Friend spoke on sustainability focused design innovation and how companies can remain competitive in the midst of today’s environmental challenges. Friend provided valuable and practical recommendations on how companies can incorporate sustainability within their innovation process.

The Greenest Cities in America

By Tracey de Morsella on July 31, 2009 4 Comments 000 clean energy sector jobs by 2015. Sacramento Municipal Utility District, air quality, AL, AR, Arlington Heights, Austin, Austin Energy, AZ, battery-swapping, Bellingham, bike lanes, biodegradable, Boston, Boston Redevelopment Authority, Burnsville, CA, CA. Sacramento plans to add 20, California, canopy cover, carbon offset, Chicago, cities Madison, clean air, Clean Energy Incubator, CO, compostable disposable food service ware, conservation, CT, Denver, edible urban gardens, electric-car charging stations, energy audits, energy conservation, energy efficiency, energy production, environmental standards, EPA, EPA Smart Growth Program, Eugene OR, Fayetteville, FL, for the Environment, Fort Collins, Gavin Newsom, generate jobs, Geothermal Energy, GHG, global warming, green building; recycling, Green cities, green concrete, green jobs, Green Medium Cities, Green Small Cities, Green Town Challenge, greenest cities, greenhouse gas emissions, greenness, Greg Nickels, How Green is My Town, Huntsville, hydroelectric, hydrogen-powered, hydropower, ICLEI, IL, incentives, kyoto protocol, landfill, Laredo, large cities, LEED, light rail, Living Cities, Local Governments for Sustainability, MA, Madison, Mission Viejo, MN, Mountain View, Nanosolar, Nashua, Natural Resources Defense Council, NH, Norwalk, NRDC, Oakland, passive cooling, plug-in charging stations, polystyrene foam, protect the environment, Redmond, renewable energy, reuse, rooftop gardens, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Sarasota, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Scottsdale, Seattle, Smarter Cities, SMUD, solar manufacturers, solar panels, solid waste, Solopower, Spokane, Springfield, SunPower, sustainability, Sustainable Business, Tallahassee, The Denver, transportation, trees, TX, U.S. Green Building Council, Underwriters Laboratory, urban rehabilitation, urban sprawl, US Conference of Mayors Climate Agreement, WA, Washington, wastewater, water quality, WI, wildlife refuge, wind turbines, Wisconsin, Yale, zero-waste

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) recently announced their list of the greenest cities in the United States and have released their findings on a new web site, called Smarter Cities. The survey includes all cities in the United States with populations larger than 50,000. Smarter Cities is considered to be one of the nation’s most comprehensive and robust database of U.S. urban progress toward sustainability. Seattle ranked number one and San Francisco ranked number 2 among the 67 large cities that were evaluated. Madison, Wisconsin placed firstand Santa Rosa, California came in second among the 176 medium cities that were surveyed. Among the 402 cities that were evaluated, Bellingham, Washington came in first place and Mountain View, California came in second.

Princeton Review Rolls Out List of The Greenest Colleges

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The Princeton Review, today released its second annual Green Ratings of colleges. In this measure of how environmentally friendly the institutions are on a scale of 60 to 99, the company tallied its Green Ratings for 697 institutions based on data it collected from the colleges in 2008-09 concerning their environmentally related policies, practices, and academic offerings. The Princeton Review also named 15 colleges to its “2010 Green Rating Honor Roll” – a list that salutes the institutions that received the highest possible score – 99 – in this year’s rating tallies.