In the middle of the meeting on a controversial financial proposal, “Jane” has a flash of insight into a problem. She looks at the men and women around the table as she enthusiastically elaborates on what she believes to be an important point that can bridge the conversation.
Continue reading... →Congratulations to Woman Of Green Esmerelda Kent who is a recipient of Eileen Fisher’s 7th Annual Business Grant Program for Woman Entrepreneurs. Esmerelda’s business, KINKARACO created the first burial shroud for environmental purpose to be used without a casket in 2005. The shroud debuted on the HBO series “Six Feet Under” on the green burial episode which buried Nate Fisher (no relation to Eileen).
Continue reading... →While seemingly every New York Times article about green products since the start of the recession has followed the same tired pattern (people say they want environmentally friendly products but never as much as they want to save a dollar twenty-five,) a few of the recent Green Blog pieces have unearthed some telling, and surprising, quotations.
Continue reading... →Woman Of Green friend Phila Hoopes speaks below to her son, an energy engineer, about her hopes for renewable energy and the conflicting data coming in from all sides on the energy debate.
Continue reading... →We love Treehugger. They’ve got tools to get informed, interact and take action. To celebrate Earth Day they’ve interviewed some real powerhouses to ask them, if they were in charge.. what would they fix first? These are our favorites:
Continue reading... →Greenpeace has been tenacious with trying to get Facebook to ditch coal as a power source for its data centers. Starting with their own Facebook page to show the company how many of its users would like it to “unfriend” coal, the activist group then moved on to set a world record in the comments section.
Continue reading... →The website Treehugger has the results in on their “Best Of Green 2011” and the results in the food and health category are worth checking out for their unique impact on our lives
Continue reading... →A New York Times article this morning describes the San Francisco International Airport’s efforts to go green with “furniture made from sustainable timber, lighting that exceeds California’s energy efficiency standards by 35 percent, and paints and building products that emit lower levels of chemical gases,” in their newly renovated T2 terminal. They even have organic food offerings. This all sounds wonderful, but it doesn’t change the fact that for all of T2’s environmentally friendly features, air travel remains the most carbon-intensive form of transportation.
Continue reading... →Collective intelligence is not tied to either the smartest person on the team nor to the average intelligence of the members of the team. Rather it is something that is greater than any individual contribution or the sum of contributions. It is an emergent property that results from the interactions among the people in the group. What emerges is almost magical: something greater than the sum of its parts. You can call it evolved thinking.
Continue reading... →Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s slash-and-burn approach to public sector unions–imitated by over a dozen Republican governors across the nation–is the political equivalent of slamming women’s labor history into reverse.
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