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Your employees' behavior can make the difference between whether your company's energy strategy produces outstanding results or insignificant savings. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy distills five case studies on the subject to offer advice.
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Last week, we reported that Jones Lang LaSalle surpassed its goal of having 1,000 certified sustainability professionals on its books. The USGBC has since told us which companies have the most LEED APs on their payrolls.
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Other companies talk about their environmental footprint. At Molson Coors, the sustainability message is conveyed by a "beer print" -- the positive and negative impacts the company can have on the people and the environment. Here's the story behind it.
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Jones Lang LaSalle becomes the first commercial real estate services firm to have so many of its staff attain credentials as accredited energy and sustainability professionals from LEED, BREEAM and other global standards.
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Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to bring about sweeping culture change is to jettison old ways and jolt the existing culture into a new reality. Management experts offer a different approach.
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For hundreds of companies, Earth Day represents a prime opportunity to get employees pumped up over green -- and give a boost to its ongoing sustainability activities. That's what we heard from dozens of executives when we asked them, "What do you consider your organization's biggest Earth Day successes and failures?"
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In some cutting-edge firms, where pushing boundaries and thinking about and doing business in different ways is the name of the game, job titles can reflect a company's maverick sensibilities. And for employees with roles in sustainability or corporate social responsibility, their titles may also serve as value statements in brief.
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When it comes to high-ranking green jobs, do titles that break from tradition enhance or detract from a company's image? A longtime recruiter specializing in sustainability and CSR posts shares her views.
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The 18- to 25-year-olds just entering, or poised to enter, the workforce aren't likely to be satisfied with shared "hotel-style" desk assignments, drab cubicles or windowless spaces that have characterized offices in the past, according to new research that could strongly influence space and energy efficiency strategies in the corporate world.
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Office Depot, whose annual Green Guide is a compendium of the nearly 2,200 greenest products the retailer provides, has added a new dimension to its campaign to be the working world's top supplier of eco-friendly office products.
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U.S. Green Building Council closed its annual conference with awards to industry leaders, as the region's convention bureau hailed the estimated 28,000 building professionals who came to town for boosting the local economy by some $30 million.
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Job hunters seeking to break into the green building field or looking for new opportunities will have a chance network with destination companies and organizations at the upcoming Greenbuild 2009 conference in Phoenix, where the U.S. Green Building Council will conduct the first job fair at its annual gathering.
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Two measures passed this week by the Navajo Nation Council establish a commission to promote green jobs and foster a green economy, an initiative that is the broadest of its kind to date, supporters say.
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With record numbers of people out of work, the prospect of an emerging green economy is increasingly viewed as the light at end of a long dark tunnel by many jobseekers -- especially those from industries that are retooling, or retreating, as tough times persist. Career management experts offer their advice on how to pursue opportunities in this new job market.
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With unemployment at a record high, growth in green jobs is increasingly seen as a rare bright spot in a bleak landscape — a view shared by applicants, prospective employers and, unfortunately, scam artists preying on those eager to enter the new hot job market.
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With holiday party season in full swing, a host of sources offer tips on greening office celebrations from ideas on pared down, eco-friendly festivities in house to the ultraminimalist option of bagging it all together.
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You've seen the encouraging reports about the growth of green jobs. Now Forbes shares a list of the top green jobs that rake in $100,000 or more a year.