Moving your company to a more sustainable, “carbon neutral,” or “green” policy is a bold, cost-saving, and difficult shift for your firm and employees.  Several factors can throw your plan awry, including:   – Unengaged employees resisting such a change. – A misguided or inefficient allocation of resources. – Poor communication throughout your organization.   [...]

Believe it or not, I’m giving a presentation to a USC alumni group 2 days after I return…Thur., Feb. 25, 7pm, at the Village Idiot (no pun intended), in the Melrose area of L.A. If you think you’d like to attend, or know someone that will, please DM me on Twitter (leonkaye), or email me [...]

Going though a period of unemployment and career transition is frustrating.  Here are some suggestions that can make this time more bearable. During the last several months, I have met many amazing individuals who, like me, aim to transition into a green-collar job.  I also know many talented people with sparkling credentials who have been [...]

Based on a recent exchange I had with a Facebook friend collector, I felt compelled to write about networking and what works–and what does not.  A couple weeks ago, someone from a Facebook group to which I belong asked to be a “friend,” sending this message: “Hi, I’m also a member of the Green Business [...]

Green jobs are hot right now.  Well, they are a hot discussion.  I’m not convinced a green job revolution is going to transform our economy and employment to the extent that the Internet boom of the 1990s had sparked.  I’ve been to many conferences and meetings focusing on “green,” where everyone is asking each other [...]

I’ve been to many “green” events over the past several months . . . from huge conferences such as Intersolar to events in the basements of skanky restaurants where I couldn’t wait to claw myself out . . . sometimes I had just felt so “dirty” and “corporate” compared to the brownshirts with whom I [...]