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There’s no shortage of young professionals ready to meet the moment, if only you give them a chance and a voice.
by Joel Makower
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A new guidebook aims to help employees become climate activists. Can it work?
by Joel Makower
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What does it take for a company to educate, engage and empower 330,000 employees around the world? The consulting giant is about to find out.
by Joel Makower
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A new initiative aims to press companies to have a strong and active voice on climate policy in the United States. Your company and its campus recruiters just may be a target.
by Joel Makower
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Most of those working for large U.S. companies expect their CEO to be vocal about environmental and social issues, according to new research. And when it comes to the issues they care about most, renewable energy trumps immigration.
by Joel Makower
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Companies including Ceasars Entertainment and Unilver are kicking their sustainability up a notch by making motivated employees a key part of the equation.
by Joel Makower
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Creating platforms and networks for people to convene, innovate, and thrive doesn't take a tech revolution. More like a culture revolution.
by Joel Makower
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As part of our ongoing look at 2012 sustainability trends, we examine the trend of gamification for good. Will it work to move the sustainability needle forward, or will we be saying "Game Over" down the road?
by Joel Makower
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A new report explores the emergence of the sustainability role in corporate America’s C-suites.
by Joel Makower
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It's been easy to pooh-pooh employee engagement as a soft, feel-good endeavor. But no more.
by Joel Makower
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Thirty years after the publication of my book on the health effects of office environments, things have changed significantly, though some things haven't.
by Joel Makower
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(Episode 105): In the first of a three-part podcast series, the executive chef at the National Geographic Society explains how Sodexo has worked with the group to cut costs, reduce waste, and help earn LEED Platinum certification.
by Joel Makower
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(Episode 101): Since its founding six years ago, the Presidio Graduate School has been at the forefront of sustainability business education, and Seyed Amiry, the head of the school, talks about the future of green business education, especially in tough economic times.
by Joel Makower
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As we view the whatever-it's-called decade in the rearview mirror, it's tempting to assess what's transpired since the good old days of Y2K to see how far we've come — and how far we haven't.
by Joel Makower
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Americans believe that companies should be at least as actively involved in maintaining and improving health as it has been in maintaining and improving the environment, and say they are more likely to purchase from, recommend, and invest in companies that act on health issues, according to a new survey.
by Joel Makower
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A near-Herculean effort, Newsweek's new list of the greenest companies in the S&P 500 Index may be imperfect -- and are sure to be debated -- but they may also be the best effort to date to assess the mainstream corporate marketplace in the U.S.
by Joel Makower
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The co-directors of Walmart's Sustainability Consortium, one key plank of the company's larger Sustainability Index, explain how the group will work -- and what companies get for the six-figure price of admission.
by Joel Makower
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Nancy Sutley, the head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality -- and Van Jones' new boss -- talks to Joel Makower about how the federal stimulus package will be a boon for the environment, and areas where companies might benefit from that spending.
by Joel Makower
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In the past year we've seen not just growth in "CEO Buy-In" -- getting the big boss on board with green plans -- but also companies having success engaging employees at every level to work toward environmental goals.
by Joel Makower
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Despite nearly limitless hope and hype around the green jobs movement from the mainstream media and Washington, D.C., we're still not 100 percent sure what a green job is, so how will we be able to bring them online quickly?
by Joel Makower
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Despite all the media reports about a surge in "green jobs," a slew of recent layoffs and buyouts of seasoned environmental reporters means we aren't likely to see those green jobs in the media itself.
by Joel Makower
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Who's greener, your employees or your company? This isn't just some idle query. The answer can have a significant impact on the success of your company's environmental commitments, initiatives, and progress.
by Joel Makower
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That question has been at the heart of speeches and presentations I've been giving for the past couple of years, and is at the core of my forthcoming book, Strategies for the Green Economy.
by Joel Makower
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The promise of the green economy and the clean-tech revolution is that they will bring a new wave of job opportunities - productive and respectable jobs at every part of the economic spectrum, from line workers to senior managers. Nonprofit groups like the Apollo Alliance have made this part of their raison d'etre. A steady drumbeat of studies since the late 1990s has told us that burgeoning markets for solar, wind, clean transportation, and other technologies would represent the next big wave of job creation. Cities and states have been positioning to become clean-tech hubs, eyeing the workforce development potential. Organizations representing low-income populations have been viewing the green economy as an entry point for those near the bottom of the economic ladder.
by Joel Makower
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'WANTED: One highly motivated, business-savvy, green-minded, entrepreneurial self-starter, looking to have a worldchanging impact on how business gets done. Must be willing to move to northwestern Arkansas.'
by Joel Makower