Thereโs just too much emphasis on โgetting a jobโ these days. Okay, so weโre at nearly 10 percent unemployment nationally (if you believe the Federal numbers), so many people are [ … ]
Tag: Business
Book Review: LESS IS MORE (Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet)
As millions of Americans are finding themselves waking up with less disposable income, fewer job prospects, less income thanks for forced furloughs or lost value in their 401(k)s, some are [ … ]
Are You In ‘The Gort Cloud’? A Book Review
(click to expand) The Gort Cloud: The Invisible Force Powering Today’s Most Visible Green Brands by Richard Seireeni with Scott Fields 240 pp. Chelsea Green It is like what Van [ … ]
Rolling Fresh Dough: Five Ways Rural Women Ecopreneurs Spark Economic Vibrancy
Need a venti-size jolt of positive enthusiasm amidst these dire economic times? Think one more round of the nightly news will tank you into a depression coma? Get out of [ … ]
The Twelve Days of sustainablog: Urban Homesteading, Green Colleges, and Recycling by the Numbers
Dog days of August? Not at sustainablog! While most people are wondering if the summer heat is ever going to end, we were hitting our stride here: many more posts, [ … ]
The Twelve Days of sustainablog: Biofuels, Preachers, and Echinacea
May Day, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day and even Cinco de Mayo… lots to celebrate in May.ย We had lots to celebrate at sustainablog, also… especially a bevvy of new voices [ … ]
Environmental Defense Fund: The Green Jobs You’ve Been Hearing About
This post is by Jackie Roberts, EDF’s director for sustainable technologies. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/oulpzUfAGoU&hl=en&fs=1] The thought of revitalizing the economy with green jobs is inspiring, but how will it actually work? What [ … ]
Religion and Darwin…and Politics, Business & Environmental Stewardship
Fellow Green Options blogger, Sam Aola Ooko, recently related that there has been a reconciliation of religion and evolution. As written in that EcoWorldly blog post — St. Charles Darwin [ … ]
Plant It Green: Five Tips for Mixing Sustainable Foods into Your Next Event
Large events, from weddings to corporate functions to even your parentsโ 50th wedding anniversary bash, provide a double-edged sword when it comes to going green. On one side, as events [ … ]
Authentic Chick Lit: An Urbanite Turned Farm Girlโs Reading List
Iโve been reading the Little House on the Prairie book series aloud to our six-year old son, Liam. The cover just fell off โThe Long Winter,โ perhaps due to the [ … ]
Ecopreneur or Entrepreneur: What’s the difference?
There are many ways in which entrepreneurs and ecopreneurs are similar. Both embrace failure and are idea driven, innovative, creative, risk tolerant, flexible, adaptable, freedom minded and independent. Perhaps you [ … ]
Morality and Markets: The Depth of our Carbon Footprints
Change your lightbulbs, buy local food, keep your tires properly inflated: all of us in the green publishing space, both online and off, promote such actions as ways for all [ … ]
Environmental Defense: A Clean Energy Future? Global Warming by the Numbers
Global warming is the most serious environmental threat of our time. As these facts show, affordable options are available. And America cannot afford to fall behind any more in the [ … ]