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.
A sustainable green economy must meld consumer demand for new products and services and state and federal mandates crafted to support environmental goals.
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.
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.
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 Eislerwww.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
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."
"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.
"[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."
"...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."
"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."
"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."
"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.
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.
As proposed, the bill risks moving legislators "further away from that achievable consensus on common-sense climate-change [legislation]," Mr. Baucus said.
"..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,..."
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.