Sunday, February 28, 2010

Waste-Stream Eco-Solutions forum - Free to attend Sunday, March 14 - RSVP a must at http://ping.fm/KxmYE
The Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Educators (PAEE) 2010 Conference in two weeks! http://ping.fm/vEt59

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Event Sun/Mar. 14 Sustainable Waste-Stream Solutions-Food, Material & Community Capital @ http://ping.fm/yqJDw

Waste-Stream Solutions & Opportunities - Green Jobs Jersey Development Group

On Sunday, March 14, Priscilla Hayes from the Rutgers Solid Waste Resource Renewal Group; Rob Benjamin from Sustainable Hamilton; and Eric Hansel of EMG Green will participate as panelist for Green Jobs Jersey's first of a series of forums designed to stimulate thought and dialog around the question - "What's Greening Your Industry or Company".

This session will take place from 10:30am until 12 noon at Beanwood Coffee Latin Bistro, located at 222 Farnsworth Avenue in Bordetown New Jersey. The meeting is free and open to the general public with a donation to the New Jersey Division of Salvation Army's Haiti relief, recovery and relocation effort. Please RSVP by phone at 609-379-2885 or on-line at http://gjjwastestreamsolutions.eventbrite.com/

Topics on March 14 will include:

* From Food Waste to Renewable Energy
* Sustainable Community Capital from Re-purposed Land, Buildings and Waste
* Eco-Friendly Waste-Stream Solutions in the Casino Gaming Industry

Our survey will scan multiple industry sectors in the state of New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania and the greater Philadelphia metropolitan region by documenting current trends and better practices in five areas of green impact:

* Food;
* Energy;
* Transportation;
* Environment (natural);
* Buildings (home, commercial and institutional)

We are surveying at least twenty (20) industry groups' by defining and assessing the impacts that one or more of the five areas of impact described above are having in each respective industry/company.

Contact us at info@localwisdomcommunications.com or call 609-379-2885 for more early-bird details about being a group leader, sponsor, on-the-ground forum host. or special adviser for our Green Jobs Jersey Green Asset Survey.

Sponsors include:

AgServe Sustainable Land Management (http://www.agserve.net/)
Hearts In Mind LLC (http://www.heartsinmind.net/)Drew Cifrodelli (http://www.cifrodelli.info/)
The BACH Foundation(http://www.bachfoundation.org/)

We invite sponsor inquiries at sponsors@weareboost.org or 609-379-2885.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Is water really the next oil? http://ping.fm/0iz7v - also
Former Obama adviser/Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones, now visiting Fellow @ NJ's Princeton Univ. http://ping.fm/ErMSu

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Trader Planet Filtering Green Noise 2 GJJ photos http://ping.fm/uSWDU

Monday, February 22, 2010

What's Greening Your Industry or Company?

We Are BOOST and our *sponsors have launched the Green Jobs Jersey Development Group to put together the framework and content for http://www.greenjobsjersey.com. Our organizational platform is currently on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/greenjobsjersey

In order to facilitate this process, we are conducting an initial (Phase I) green asset scan multiple industry sectors in the state of New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania and the greater Philadelphia metropolitan region by documenting current trends and better practices in five areas of impact:

* Food;
* Energy;
* Transportation;
* Environment (natural);
* Buildings (home, commercial and institutional)

We are surveying how this five areas relate to twenty (20) industry groups' and sub-groups' green policies, practices and programs:

* Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations;
* Agriculture, Landscaping and Gardening;
* Architecture, Planning and Design;
* Banking, Finance and Accounting;
* Broadcast, Print and Social Media;
* Building Trades, Materials and Construction;
* Chemistry, Biology, and Ecology;
* Civic, Social and Faith-based Services/Organizations;
* Computers, Computing and Information Technology;
* Consumer Goods, Services and Advocacy;
* Education, Training and Workforce Development;
* Entertainment, Event Planning and Performing Arts;
* Environment, Energy, and Renewable;
* Graphic, Digital and Visual Arts;
* Government Administration, Services and Contracts;
* Hospitality, Hotels and Tourism;
* Health-care, Alternative Health and Hospitals;
* Law, Legislation and Public Policy;
* Pharmaceuticals, Medicinal Services and Products;
* Writing, Editing and Publishing;
* Other...

Contact us at info@localwisdomcommunications.com or call 609-379-2885 for more early-bird details. Join in with us at LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/greenjobsjersey

* Phase I sponsors are AgServe Sustainable Land Management (http://www.agserve.net/) and Drew Cifrodelli (http://www.cifrodelli.info/), We invite sponsor inquiries at sponsors@weareboost.org or 609-379-2885.
Green Asset Scan NJ/PA Phase I to start on LinkedIn in two days! - Join in at http://ping.fm/LWJyf

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Empowerment Coaches for C.A.S.H. on Sunday, February 28 at Beanwood Coffee Latin Bistro - RSVP at http://ping.fm/3wZk0
Sun., Feb. 14 - http://ping.fm/6eSMO?v=app_2344061033&ref=ts

Friday, February 19, 2010

L.W.C.Partners http://ping.fm/uApBM

We Are BOOST GREEN JOBS JERSEY

GREEN JOBS JERSEY is about generating and capturing economic opportunity throughout NJ, Eastern PA and metro-Philadelphia. We invite participation in putting together the web site http://www.greenjobsjersey.com

The current site at http://www.greenjobsjersey.com reflects the source from which it is an off-shoot, and that is Green Jobs Philly. We Are BOOST is inviting participation in putting together the framework for the web site http://www.greenjobsjersey.com

If you have ideas for the G.J.J. site, are interested in being a site or page sponsor, advertiser, content contributor or resource provider, please contact BOOST at (609) 379-2885 or email timrazzaq1@yahoo.com.

GREEN JOBS JERSEY POLL - choose the priority goal your business or organization seeks to reach by May, 2010 - http://polls.linkedin.com/p/77768/xjxbr Feel free to forward link to this first of series of polls and surveys to friends and colleagues via email or post this link on Facebook or Twitter http://polls.linkedin.com/p/77768/xjxbr

NEW FILE POSTED!: GREEN JOBS.doc - BY MATT POLSKY http://www.linkedin.com/in/greenjobsjersey Green Jobs-Related Selections from Thomas Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded: What the Current Thinking is Missing, Review by Matt Polsky, Research Fellow or Adjunct Professor at F,D,U. I.S.E, a perpetual student, a Sustainability Change-agent. -- Please feel free to submit your papers/articles to timrazzaq1@yahoo.com