Final Post =)

Ive got to admit when I started this class the topic didn’t really interest me. My perspective on the going green issue was that it was always costly. This class allowed me to open up more to the idea and realize that going green can actually make you money and save you money. One of the topics I hope to be revisiting and research more in the future is on the construction of reusable materials. I want to develop real-estate products in the future and will be looking at reusable and green building materials to save me money. The last thing I won’t be forgetting is the triple bottom line I love the concept and will be sticking with me.

Choice

Ive decided Going Green is cool butttttt when it comes to business going green I would only do if

1 it saves me money
2 I make money from it =p

Energy Proposal

I turned in my Green Proposal today came out pretty cool lol =p and colorful lol...

I decided to do it on replacing all of the bulbs @ QLU to CFC bulbs to help reduce energy consumption, save on pollution and MONEY!

Dictionary words

1 Pick TWO words in the green dictionary to define. See if you can find a video or something interactive that would add to the definition. Include an active link so the reader can go right to the page

48. Tragedy of the Commons- is a problem when multiple individuals act independently and ultimately deplete a shared limited resource.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXqHSZOg3VA&feature=related

25. Market Failure: is when there is an inefficient allocation of goods and services on a market.  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc3Dg5Makx8

2 In the Green Dictionary add THREE new concepts or terms about which you learned from the videos you watched. Make sure to cite!

1 Commons the total amount of credit in society. “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXqHSZOg3VA&feature=related”

2 Economic interventionism is an action taken by a government in a market economy or market-oriented mixed economy, beyond the basic regulation of fraud and enforcement of contracts, in an effort to affect its own economy. “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_interventionism”

3 Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy”

HR/S.

Based on the reading specifically Role of HR in the new world I agree with them that HR are correlated with organization performance. It is up to HR to establish a culture where there is a sustainability environment in place. It begins with the recruiting you are only as good as the workers that work for you. Its HR job to educate their employees to establish new sustainable practices, it’s not enough for them to just follow the rules but to come to accept and practice it in their own personal lives. I was actually surprised that the correlation between HR and employees was just recently discovered. This is something that should have been noticed long ago. 

Privatelayer GREEN?

I currently work at Privatelayer im the director of Marketing and it is in the hosting industry. Privatelayer provides dedicated servers and online services to consumers globally. Privatelayer is a business that thrives on using a lot of energy consumption to have servers on and running 24 hours a day. Although I have to admit i didnt think you could actually be green in this business once  I researched that Private layer is actually as Green as it can be when it comes to energy consumption and in the field.

In Zurich Switzerland where Private layer hosts about 350 servers all of the latest green initiatives are implemented.

The data center in Zurich Switzerland is called Equinix which is a global company that rents server space across 38 key markets in 13 countries and 5 continents.  The advantage to using an Equinix building to host your space is you can start a data center whenever you want and all of the infrastructure is already there for you. Hosting a room full of servers requires you to have very technological equipment to help manage all of the hot air that the servers disburse. Most importantly Equinix is “committed to improving energy efficiency within a data center industry”. Equnix is also part of many groups like the green grid which is a consortium purely dedicated to building energy efficient data centers. Equinix employees are part of the US green building council and the American society of heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).

They have also been recognized by many organizations and awarded prizes for there green initiatives. 

If your interested in knowing all of the green technologies and awards please follow this link http://www.equinix.com/company/about-equinix/green-initiatives/

Fer

tryingggg

Ok i turn off the water now when i brush my teeth lol =p

Brushing my teeth =p

Thanks to carrie i will now be adding turning off the water to my promise list when i brush my teeth.

Any other suggestions?

Carbon Foot Print

You can look at my Carbon foot print in the link below!

http://tinypic.com/r/au6ufr/7

I was surprised considering the global stats below!

Your footprint is 16.88 metric tons per year
The average footprint for people in Panama is 1.78 metric tons

The average worldwide carbon footprint is about 4 metric tons

These results are actually not even including the electricity and bills since i did not know the energy consumption for the house.

So my foot print is actually very high.
Im honestly not very green and im WILLING to
do some stuff to improve like recycling or throwing away garbage in the right places. But i am not willing to modify my life like walk or something that would make things harder to get to or do. I like to be comfortable.

I dont have anything against people that are green crazy and actually i do think it is good that people do it but not for me lol.

Promise =)

My personal sustainability promise will be to start to throw my trash away in the correct places and to start to recycle within my own home.

Survey

According to www.thehappinesscenter.com/survey/survey.php

I scored 75 on my "life satisfaction survey"

And offered me the following advise. 

My life is okay, but not always what I would like it to be. I could use some direction in making my life happier....

Personally im happy with my life, I felt the responses always, sometimes etc were not very good answers and to general and didn't allow me to be able to answer correctly or accurately score. The point system also favored what it considered to be good for an overall 1 type of honest perfect person. What if for me what it calculated as a negative for me was a positive and made me happier?

1 Identify a single area you feel both enhances your life and is in some way connect to our world and nature.

Personally i am not very Green at all and none of the questions allows me to connect to the planet and nature.

2 Think of a personal sustainability practice (PSP) that would improve your life and the life of others even in a small but significant way. Remember if each of us takes a small step it can result in a large change

I think i can start to always throw my trash away in the correct places. There are times were If i don't see a garbage near by i just leave it on the ground. I even kinda feel bad afterwords and i think this is a great way for me to start being more GREEN.

3. Now think about whether or not this is something that is repeatable (is it a one time act or something you can do on a daily basis), is it sustainable and is it something you will enjoy?

This is def something i can repeat weekly and can come to enjoy and feel good about.

Green Washing?

Today i began to caught up on Green business class. I have to say that its pretty interesting to see how many companies around the world practice it. Even more interesting is how many are accused of green washing.
I understand how other people can target companies for green washing but not why they expect for companies to do this for free or not gain something from it. Nothing is ever for free or done just to be nice there is always a cost and if it helps the planet or people or organizations then who cares if they make money off it. I believe it is fair to have a give and take type relationship.