Articles tagged “Green Community”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

How To Work Well with Coworkers, Be Green and More Productive By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Feb 2 2009 When you get along with your coworkers you work more productively. When you work more productively you work more efficiently, saving your own mental time/energy but also the energy required to run your office day-to-day. Ergo, when you work more productively, you work greener, and working greener is working better. + READ MORE

Know the Art of Defending Environmentalism: Keep Up with Key Green Issues By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Jan 29 2009 Remember in seventh grade when you'd get into a conversation with the older, and by law of the land, much cooler kids, and they'd ask you something like, "What kind of music do you listen to?" And you'd see that glint in their eyes, knowing already that it's a trap but that you have to say something because you're on the spot and to say nothing would sound stupid... + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Land Sharing By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Jan 29 2009 Bonnie Alter of TreeHugger.com calls land sharing "a scheme which puts people with large unused gardens in touch with gardeners wanting space." + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Transition Town By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Jan 28 2009 Sami Grover of TreeHugger.com calls transition towns a "community-based response to peak oil and climate change." + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Product Service System (PSS) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Jan 28 2009 "In order to achieve sustainable society, it is necessary to transform industrial structure to the one that does not reduce the Earth's resources," they say at Enviroscope. "Under this circumstance, a business model of 'not selling goods, but selling services' has been expected as a measure of co-existence of business and the environment. This idea is called Product-Service Systems or PSS." + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Tool Library By Mickey Z. IN Home & Garden Jan 27 2009 Did you ever notice you can never find a butt marker when you need one? That's when a tool library comes in handy. + READ MORE

How to Deal with a Workplace Bully By Josh Peterson IN Work & Connect Jan 27 2009 On my last day of high school, someone threw a pickle at me. If you are a stellar enough employee to warrant bullying, maybe it's time to work for some people who will recognize your potential. + READ MORE

How to Find a Compatible Roommate By Josh Peterson IN Work & Connect Jan 23 2009 Living with another person can be grating sometimes. It seems like everyone I live with makes me do the dishes. Even if we agree that we will share the task, I?m always the one who does them. + READ MORE

Meet Ethical Fashion Designer Anton Jurina of Armedangels By Leonora Oppenheim IN Work & Connect Jan 22 2009 Celebrated for its funky organic-cotton t-shirt graphics and activist messages, German ethical fashion label armedangels, which was founded by Martin Höfeler and Anton Jurina in 2007, is more than just two people who launched an eco-friendly company. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Greenster By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Jan 22 2009 Predictably, the UrbanDictionary.com definition of "greenster" is negative: "an environmental extremist" and "a hipster that has gone 'green'." Isn't it interesting to see "extremist" used to describe someone ready to take action to save the planet? To me, the only true extremists are the trans-national corporations dead set on polluting the planet in the name of profit. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Ecotage By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Jan 21 2009 Ecotage is a portmanteau of "sabotage" and the prefix "eco-", and it is "intended to separate ecotage from other acts of sabotage which might be aimed at achieved other goals." + READ MORE

It's Time For Change: Unplug and Connect With People Face To Face By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Jan 21 2009 Is it just me, or do we all get sucked into our own digital worlds far too often? I embarked on a trip to Washington, DC,for the inauguration and found myself chatting with strangers left and right. Not to necessarily imply that this is out of the ordinary for me, but it was happening much more often than usual while I was in D.C. Everyone was abuzz, connecting with each other because of a collective excitement for the new president. + READ MORE

Rent Out That Spare Room By Josh Peterson IN Work & Connect Jan 21 2009 Living alone in a great, big house doesn?t do the environment any favors. A single tenant living in a house will consume 18.4% more electricity per capita than a two person household and 52.8% more than a three person household. More than one in four households are single-person households. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Ecovillage By Mickey Z. IN Home & Garden Jan 20 2009 Did you know that there are 11,000 sustainable villages in Sri Lanka and 350 such villages in Senegal? The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) knows. GEN is "a global confederation of people and communities that meet and share their ideas, exchange technologies, develop cultural and educational exchanges, directories and newsletters, and are dedicated to restoring the land and living 'sustainable plus' lives by putting more back into the environment than we take out." + READ MORE

Catch the Green Living Project—On Tour 2009 By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Jan 16 2009 The Green Living Project is making its way across the country with a free multimedia lecture tour, inviting anyone who's curious to stumble through its eco-friendly doors. Every stop is an all-ages event, and should be chock full of illuminating environmentally focused concepts. + READ MORE

Plan Outdoorsy Events For You And Your Colleagues By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Jan 16 2009 I work from home these days, but there is something I wish I had done when I was back in an office that I encourage you to do now if you want your colleagues to appreciate nature the way that you do: Plan outdoorsy events. + READ MORE

Meet Tom Callos, the Green Black Belt By Meaghan O'Neill IN Work & Connect Jan 15 2009 Within less than a year, Tom Callos did his first Judo roll and read Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The two subjects-personal self-defense and environmental self-defense-quickly became intertwined in his mind and his life. That was 1970. Today, the sixth-degree black belt, who resides in Hilo, Hawaii. To date, more than 100 martial arts schools globally have also embraced Callos's Environmental Self-Defense Intuitive, which asks teachers to require their young students to perform 10 acts of environmental self-defense along with the physical requirements in order to earn the rank of "green belt." + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Voluntary Simplicity By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Jan 15 2009 Voluntary simplicity "has just about as many definitions as there are individuals who practice it. Simple living is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. Rather, it is about living an examined life—one in which you have determined what is important, or 'enough,' for you, discarding the rest." + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Earth First! By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Jan 14 2009 You gotta love an eco-group that offers this welcome on their website + READ MORE

Make Green-Collar Jobs a Reality with these Simple Steps By Megan Cohen IN Work & Connect Jan 12 2009 Green-collar jobs have the potential to revitalize the economy while providing workers like you with a chance to build a more ecologically sustainable future every time you clock in. With a few simple steps, you can support the creation of more of these eco-smart positions. + READ MORE