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, doesn’t it.:0)
Chris McKnett: The investment logic for sustainability | Talk Video | TED: Chris McKnett gives a wonderful talk on investing and the idea that all investors should start looking at ESG (economic, social and governance). The economic is obvious, profits. Social is the impact to people in general, and governance is corporate social responsibility (CSR). Generally the research shows that there is no downside to being socially (and environmentally) sustainable. But in the long term,…
Good news corporations are reporting on sustainability-related issues, especially those risks associated with operating a business that does not account or consider the areas where they are not sustainable. Operations in the UnSustainable Zone have lots of risks such as, for example, the company may not really be profitable. Cheap coal, is not nearly so cheap when you figure in all the negative externalities: pollution, health, CO2, coal ash… Check out this WSJ article about…
It was a little bit of a surprise that Obama stepped up as forcefully about taking on climate change as he did. Check out this post by Peterman at Huffington: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-peterman/state-of-the-union_b_2674448.html Many environmentalists are going to complain that this is not enough, but it really is better to start late than even much much later. As Peterman shows, it looks like we are aiming for 6+ degrees C, not the 2+C that many people were…
Warren Buffet had these pearls of wisdom to share with Kids: Never spend more than you have. Save for the unexpected Never borrow without a payback plan I like it. Short. Sweet. Accurate. Simple… Sustainable even. So simple even a caveman could understand it. I’m thinking that we need to transmit this repeatedly up to our friends in the Federal Government (and maybe even to the States). Never spend more than you have. Boy do we break this rule….
Hain Celestial (HAIN) was way up today on great earnings… That’s right, the high end and heathy food company. Shouldn’t they be getting crushed on the high prices from the great drought of 2012? Healthy eating is “not a fad, not a trend”, according to CEO Simon. Consumption of the category is up 14%, vs about 1% on the main stream food categories. Of course the super fast growth of Whole Foods doesn’t hurt, but…
BioLite BaseCamp Stove | Turn Fire into Electricity by BioLite — Kickstarter: I love it. But only 62 hours to get in on the KickStarter offer. They are at twice goal with $800k+ and 3,000 backers. Yes, it was DARK in Miami, when Hurricane Andrew came through South Miami/Homestead on August 24, 1992. Well, afterwards really. It would be weeks before most of us would get power. So bar-b-q grilling was the norm. That was…
