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Sep 8, 2010

Looking for a green job in New Jersey? Montville, NJ expert Dr. Jeana Wirtenberg can help

Dossier: Dr. Jeana Wirtenberg, founder, Transitioning to Green Dailyrecord.com
By SALLY SILVERMAN • SPECIAL TO THE DAILY RECORD • August 17, 2010
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Sep 1, 2010

Green' Report Explores Sustainable Economic Growth for the Garden State

A sustainable green economy must meld consumer demand for new products and services and state and federal mandates crafted to support environmental goals.

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Aug 28, 2010

Growth Strategy for NJ

Transitioning to Green is proud to share a proposal for “Developing and Implementing a Sustainable Growth Strategy for New Jersey” from our affiliate, The Institute for Sustainable Enterprise, Silberman College of Business, Fairleigh Dickinson University (www.fdu.edu/ise).Click here to download the entire proposal. Please send comments to jwirtenberg@transitioningtogreen.com.

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Aug 20, 2010

GOVERNOR CHRISTIE SIGNS OFFSHORE WIND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT TO SPUR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENCOURAGE ENERGY AS INDUSTRY

TRENTON, NJ -- Today, Governor Chris Christie continued his commitment to grow and strengthen New Jersey's economy by utilizing and promoting energy initiatives as key to the State's technology future by signing the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act.
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Aug 5, 2010

Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research

Dr. Jeana Wirtenberg Chaired an All Academy Symposium at the Academy of Management ( www.aomonline.org * was held on Sunday August 8 from 4:15-5:45 PM in the Le Palais Des Congres, 516C, Montreal, Canada. The Symposium featured luminaries Riane Eisler www.partnershipway.org speaking on her book "The Real Wealth of Nations:Creating a Caring Economics" along with esteemed panelists Peter Senge, Jay Barney and Jane Dutton.
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Aug 3, 2010

US Solar Power Investments to Reach $61.1 Billion by 2015

From 2010 to 2015, US solar power investments are projected to increase from $22.4 billion to $61.1 billion, according to the latest issue of EL Insights. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.3% during this time period.

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Jul 11, 2010

Career Change Can do a World of Good

July 10, 2010 Career Change Can do a World of Good By Don E. Smith Jr., Workshop offers job seekers information on 'green' industries.
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Jul 6, 2010

CEOs see dearth of sustainable-business leadership skills

A poll of 700 business leaders reveals that 70% of executives believe their company will face a green-skills crisis during the next five years, in part because of a paucity of people with sustainable-business leadership skills.
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Jun 24, 2010

CEOs Say Sustainability Crucial to Success

A new survey of CEOs by the United Nations Global Compact and Accenture found that 93 percent see sustainability as crucial to their future success.
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Jun 24, 2010

New careers envisioned as jobs go green

By: CRISSA SHOEMAKER DEBREE Bucks County Courier Times

"People don't realize there are going to be careers we can't talk about yet, because the technology hasn't been invented," said Carol McClelland, an author and founder of Green Career Central.

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Jun 1, 2010

Transitioning to Green LLC Founder and HR Thought Leader Builds Bridges to the Green Economy with HRPS

EXCERPT: With a 30 year back ground in human resources, Jeana quickly realized that there is a missing element in implementing organizations’ green initiatives:  HR leaders and HR professionals must step up and play a stronger role in moving organizations toward sustainability.

As People & Strategy’s editor for organizational effectiveness and the editor for the just published Special Issue of People & Strategy “Transitioning to the Green Economy” Jeana gathered multidisciplinary thought leaders and compelling case studies from around the world pointing to the need for HR’s role in the sustainability movement. This must read latest issue of People & Strategy is available for purchasing at www.hrps.org or contact Theresa Wojtalewicz at twojtalewicz@hrps.org for hard copies and multiple reprints.

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May 16, 2010

ISE's second annual: "Graduate Certificate Program in Managing Sustainability

Fairleigh Dickinson University is proud to announce ISE's second annual: "Graduate Certificate Program in Managing Sustainability - fall 2010 Program"

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May 15, 2010

Where Tomorrow's Jobs Are: Health Care and Green Tech

By PALLAVI GOGOI DailyFinance:

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May 4, 2010

Green Careers For Dummies is a Green Book Festival Winner in the Business category!

We are proud that Jeana Wirtenberg, Ph.D., Transitioning to Green LLC Founder and CEO, was the Technical Editor for Green Careers For Dummies.

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Apr 28, 2010

CR Directors Average $151K in Salary

Corporate responsibility directors in North America average about $151,000 a year in salary, slightly less than what is paid to those in the same position in mainland Europe, according to the 2010 Corporate Responsibility Salary Survey from Acona, Acre, and Ethical Performance.
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Apr 22, 2010

Earth Day Roundup

Environmental Leader: Earth Day Roundup: Pepsi, Kraft, Dow Corning - http://www.environmentalleader.com/category/all/

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Apr 21, 2010

Two Washington campuses get an A+ in green.

The University of Washington and Evergreen State College are among the 15 greenest schools in the nation, according to new rankings compiled by longtime college grader The Princeton Review.

The Review has published a free guide to 286 green colleges, rating them on factors such as the construction of LEED-certified buildings and the availability of local or organic food.

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Apr 3, 2010

U.K. Climate-Change Probe Clears Lab but Faults It on Disclosure

A U.K. government investigation of an influential climate-research lab found no evidence that the lab's director improperly manipulated scientific work but criticized researchers there for refusing to disclose data.
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Mar 27, 2010

Battery Maker Seeks Role on Electric Cars

U.S. climate legislation and a global agreement could drive the battery and electric-vehicle markets, but they aren’t as crucial as oil prices, said Mr. Shah.
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Mar 19, 2010

Coal Giant Consol Is Latest To Buy Gas

"Gas is a perfect hedge against draconian moves on coal in the short term," Consol Chief Executive J. Brett Harvey said in an interview.
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Mar 11, 2010

The View From Big Oil

We are focusing a lot on biofuels at this stage. We just announced a few weeks ago a big joint venture in Brazil where we are bringing our first- and second-generation biofuels technologies together with Cosan, a sugar ethanol producer there, in order to speed up the second-generation capabilities because we need to speed up that process.
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Mar 4, 2010

Natural Gas Tilts at Windmills in Power Feud

Many environmental groups talk of how wind and relatively clean-burning natural gas can partner to displace dirtier coal, creating a path to power the U.S. while releasing fewer greenhouse gases. A bitter fuel fight in Texas points to a different future: one in which gas and wind are foes.
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Feb 25, 2010

Small Reactors Generate Big Hopes

A new type of nuclear reactor—smaller than a rail car and one tenth the cost of a big plant—is emerging as a contender to reshape the nation's resurgent nuclear power industry...The news comes just as President Barack Obama announced more than $8 billion in loan guarantees this week that would pave the way for the first nuclear power plant in the U.S. in decades.
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Feb 19, 2010

China Undercounted Pollution by Half

China's government said its water is far more polluted and its industry is producing far more waste than previously realized, in a major study that environmentalists welcomed as a step toward greater transparency.
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Feb 14, 2010

Employers Growing Green

by Sherri Heller, Sunday Star Ledger, Feb. 7. Great article about the green economy and continues on most of the page on p. 11 on second link with some wonderful quotes and references to TTG.
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Feb 11, 2010

Using Smokestack Gases to Pump Oil

Carbon dioxide pouring from smokestacks hardly has a reputation as a valuable commodity. But one company has launched a series of projects to see if it can use the refuse of the industrial economy to breathe new life into tired oil fields.
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Jan 28, 2010

SEC Sets Corporate Climate-Change

By Jim Efstathiou Jr.

Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Companies must consider the effects of global warming and efforts to curb climate change when disclosing business risks to investors, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said.

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Jan 25, 2010

Climate-Change Claim Under Fire

An influential United Nations panel is facing growing criticism about its practices after acknowledging doubts about a 2007 statement that Himalayan glaciers were retreating faster than those anywhere else and would entirely disappear by 2035, if not sooner.
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Jan 17, 2010

Job Creation Takes On New Importance in Climate-Change Fight

If the public has to choose between creating jobs and spending billions to scrub invisible heat-trapping gases from the sky, jobs will win. That's why the campaign to combat climate change is morphing, at least politically, into an economic-development drive with an environmental twist.
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Jan 9, 2010

Clean Energy Sources: Sun, Wind and Subsidies

[Fans of renewable energy] are concerned that society, in its haste to roll out wind turbines, solar panels and other forms of clean power, is spending billions of dollars without spurring as much renewable energy as it could.
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Dec 29, 2009

Hawaii Harnesses the Wind

Michael W. Allman, president and chief executive officer of Sempra Generation, said that "Hawaii will value energy storage and renewable energy more than anyone else as it's completely captive to oil and its volatility, which puts an economic squeeze on the state."
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Dec 21, 2009

Carbon-Permit Slide Reflects Copenhagen Disappointment

"The end game in Copenhagen was symbolic of the conference's broader procedural failings," says Michael Levi, director of energy security and climate change at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
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Dec 12, 2009

Envoy Says U.S. Won't Pay China to Cut Emissions

"[US climate envoy Todd Stern] said the U.S. doesn't plan to give money to China to subsidize its efforts to curb greenhouse emissions, and said developing nations can't get "a pass" from demands to burn less fossil fuels."
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Dec 5, 2009

Climate Scientist Steps Down

"...hackers recently stole emails and documents from the East Anglia center that suggested Dr. Jones and other like-minded scientists tried to squelch the views of dissenting researchers and advocated manipulating data."
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Nov 25, 2009

Global Warming With the Lid Off

"In [the emails] scientists appear to urge each other to present a "unified" view on the theory of man-made climate change while discussing the importance of the "common cause"; to advise each other on how to smooth over data so as not to compromise the favored hypothesis; to discuss ways to keep opposing views out of leading journals; and to give tips on how to "hide the decline" of temperature in certain inconvenient data."
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Nov 17, 2009

Political Hurdles Surround Climate Summit

"Alternative producers need to see the right signals from policy makers before they will make decisions to invest billions of dollars in alternative-energy sources...Copenhagen is where those signals need to come from."
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Nov 11, 2009

Railroads & Windmills: Berkshire's 'Green' Bets

"The one thing we won't do is get involved in fads," said David Sokol, chairman of MidAmerican, in an interview. "We're looking at game changers."...If the company succeeds in producing batteries that can make power storable and portable, that could change the economics of alternative power.
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Nov 3, 2009

Sins of Emission

With everything supposedly balancing out, the cap-and-trade programs run by the United Nations and European Union—and maybe soon the U.S.—treat biofuels as carbon-neutral. The Science study argues that this is a false economy, because it doesn't consider changes in land use.
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Oct 28, 2009

Key Democrat Cites Concerns on Climate Bill

As proposed, the bill risks moving legislators "further away from that achievable consensus on common-sense climate-change [legislation]," Mr. Baucus said.
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Oct 21, 2009

Big Oil Looks to Biofuels

"The oil companies…see a world of restrictions coming on high-carbon fuels, and they need alternatives,"
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Oct 15, 2009

Wind Energy Doesn't Require Excessive Land Use

"..only 2% to 5% of that land is actually disturbed for turbines, service roads, etc., which means that for America to generate 20% of its electricity from wind, the amount of land actually used is about half the size of Anchorage, Alaska,..."
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Oct 15, 2009

Energy 'Sprawl' and the Green Economy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009, 9:30 A.M. ET

We're about to destroy the environment in the name of saving it.

Full article link.

Oct 7, 2009

Transitioning to Green Forum

Are you looking to transition into a greener career? Attend the Transitioning to Green Forum a highly interactive, unique, one-day event with subject matter experts (SME’s) in sustainability and green jobs. Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Click here to read MORE about the Forum and to register

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