Guest Post: Businesses Making the Solar Choice

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[This is a guest post by Adrian Phillips, a renewable energy expert from Southampton, UK]Governments across the globe are now introducing incentives to encourage a bigger uptake in solar panel installation and other renewable energy forms. But it’s not just homes that are now making the solar … [Read more...]

Labor Day: Confessions of a Non-Green Summer

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Labor Day, the symbolic end of Summer. For me it's good riddance. This has been one Summer I will be happy to forget!  Between Abby's toe, the construction field continuing to struggle, and way too much more to burden my readers with. All in all, it is best to be forgotten. As a result I have … [Read more...]

2009 Revisited

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What? No it's only March, but I thought we could take a look back at where we have been so far this year, a little accountability? At the end of last year and beginning of this year I had a series of posts to help my readers and I green up the new year. Some of them include: Green Steps for … [Read more...]

Eco-Options: Job Hunting

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Pounding the pavement is hard on the feet and with the current economy there is a lot of competition! So, why not consider getting a little green around the collar when searching for potential career options? After all, that's how I ended up starting Eco-Office Gals and our new President Obama has … [Read more...]

Your Green Steps for 2009?

So, what will your Green Steps be for 2009?  I have the 3 R's covered for 2009: Reduce - buy a reusable coffee filter and reduce paper waste. Reuse - Work at remembering my reusable shopping bags when I go to the store! Recycle - I would like to try to start a compost pile.  I'd love to … [Read more...]

Growing Business Green Guest Post: Your Green Review

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"Pollution is waste, waste represents inefficiency and inefficiency is simply not profitable” In this simple quote Jeffrey Hollander of Seventh Generation asserts what environmental advocates have been telling us for years: sustainability and profit are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, they go hand … [Read more...]

What is a VA?

A Virtual Assistant (VA) is an independent entrepreneur providing administrative, creative and/or technical services. Utilizing advanced technological modes of communication and data delivery, a professional VA assists clients in her area of expertise from her own office on a contractual … [Read more...]