Greenwishing? Greenwashing? Or Green?
Isn’t it interesting how air travel works? You fly thousands, sometimes many thousands of miles (or kilometers), land, taxi to the gate and wait, either for a gate or a jetway. The last few steps of...
View ArticleTotally Turbinular
In the 1980s there was an expression – totally tubular – meaning really ‘awesome’ or cool. I think its origins were from the west-coast (US) surfer culture. Well, that expression (with some...
View ArticleBill Ford: his love for the environment – TED Talk
Listen and watch. The leaders get it. Will the middle managers, and – closer to home – the project managers? This post does not need a lot of words. Just sit down and listen to the great-grandson...
View ArticleReducing Alcatel-Lucent’s Carbon Footprint: a video interview
See below for a short but fairly powerful video about one telecom company’s journey to reducing its carbon footprint. Here, Richard Goode, Alcatel-Lucent’s Senior Director of Sustainability, talks to...
View ArticleServing the environment – and serving yourself
At last week’s PMI North America Congress, we were lucky enough to be at sponsor DeVry (Keller) University’s booth signing our new book and getting to chat with many project managers about Green...
View ArticleA carbon bathtub?
Here’s an interesting and educational simulation to learn how the reduction of carbon really affects climate change. The sim was created by a multi-organization collaboration (see below the line to...
View ArticleBitumen projects in Canada
Project managers who want to transition into practice areas such as energy should (must?) learn to be conversant in their new practice areas. If for no other reason, they need this familiarity to be...
View ArticleZero is the new Infinity
In fashion, it was once said that brown is the new black. Here at EarthPM, we say that green is the new black – but we’re not fashion experts. What we have learned a lot about, however, is the fact...
View ArticleView From Big Oil – ECO-nomics
Whether your TV tastes run to Fringe, 24, or the serials, like My Friend Flicka, or The Lone Ranger, there is always a recap from previous episodes. So here goes. “In our last episode,” I talked...
View ArticleNew EPA Rules
This is no April Fools! On April 1, 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT), in response to an Obama Administration directive, established new, more...
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