Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference: Well, shouldn’t they all be GREEN jobs? Looking for a few good jobs. Looking for a few green jobs. Looking for a few Good GREEN Jobs.:-) Before the recession, green jobs were outpacing others, both in terms of pay and number. It will be interesting to see what the conference stats have to say about this. Of course, there are about 50 shades of green!… Seems like a book,…
Why Won’t Yahoo! Let Employees Work From Home? – Businessweek: Boy Mayer is gonna cause a lot of shake here with the everyone-has-to-travel-to-work policy. Apparently (Today Show) she now as a nursery set up next door to her office for her new convenience. That helps new parents, maybe, but not the ones with kids in school or those people who live a longer way from the office. But Mayer is shaking it up. There has…
Why Won’t Yahoo! Let Employees Work From Home? – Businessweek: Oh boy, Mayer is gonna cause a lot of shake up here with her everyone-has-to-travel-to-work policy. Apparently (Today Show) she now as a nursery set up next door to her office for her new convenience. That helps new parents, maybe, but not the ones with kids in school or those people who live a longer way from the office. But Mayer is shaking it up….
Advocacy: Sustainability: Check out this 3 part series on Sustainability. Part 1 talks about “What if they are right?” Part 2 addresses “How we liver our lives?” Part 3 takes on “A plan for the interim period?” Basically, what are we gonna do right here, right now. These are pretty long articles so sit back with a good late’ and let it rip. ‘via Blog this’
Dow Solutionism: This is a very cool concept from DOW. Solutionism… Kinda a cure for consumerism, where it’s all about how much you can consume in your lifetime. Maybe this should be one of the cures for consumerism, one of the great Social Irresponsibilities? Interesting idea. Work backwards from each problem — and the associated solutions to them — into helping address the root cause of the original problem. Generally we tend to symptom solutions, not real…
Gleaning feeds the needy | Highlands Today: “Gleaning feeds the needy” Earth Day… Basic four things to do. Right now. Number 1. Health and wellness. People can’t be healthy, and they certainly can’t be productive, if they don’t have the basics of health and living conditions. Just drinkable water and basic sanitation is a critical issue. This combined with the lack of basic nutrition results in major health and wellness issues for approximately 2 billion of…
