It's time to take a different approach to green jobs. We can transform the way people work to achieve change on a mass level, and every manager can encourage sustainability by making one modification that would benefit the environment. Additionally, this change can positively affect employee morale and productivity, as well as company efficiency and profitability. So here's what you need to do:

With the breadth of innovations in green technology, it seems that we should all have solar-powered laptops by now. Unfortunately, that's yet to be the case. In the meantime, there are a number of easy, more affordable ways you can reduce your carbon footprint in the office.

There are various avenues you can take to support this year's Earth Day initiative, and a great way to mobilize the earth is by using mobile devices. Check out these apps that can help you go green in time for Earth Day, and set a precedent for the rest of the year.

A zero-energy building is one that produces as much energy as it consumes, making it a net-zero energy property and eliminating energy bills for its owners. Although zero-energy homes and buildings are quite rare today, increasing concerns about energy waste have set the stage for a growing market.

Thermoelectric materials that turn heat into electricity have been around for a while, but are typically expensive and inefficient. The microwaved zinc oxide is an environmentally friendly technology that should produce affordable materials. The question is, how can we use this material to make a much-needed impact on society and the environment.

Here are eight implementations that would help the movement gain momentum.

Good article on the basics of a Safety Program

Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP), a non-profit organization providing sustainability certification in the graphic communications industry, today introduces a ten-part educational video series about the benefits of sustainability in print facilities.

How strong is our Lock Out/Tag Out program?

How many of these tips can we say we're moving forward on?

We might want to take a look at these requirements and compare them to what we are doing in the Pressroom.

How does your safety training program stack up?

Key findings from the study done by ESI International, which polled 3,000 training managers:

60% said they had no formal program to determine whether employees applied training to their jobs
Only 20% said their employers offered financial rewards as motivation for completing training and applying the training to their jobs.
Only 23% said their managers conducted follow-up to training sessions to determine if it helped and was being used.

Interesting article about some VPP sites.

A technology to watch.

t pays to be green, as this infographic from Canon shows. The digital imaging company did a massive overhaul of its energy consumption at five of its U.S. offices.

Linda - can you give us a list of the managers who have a personal printer?

A good printer for us to learn from.

Let's take a look.

Environmentally friendly paper.

Why couldn't this be something we aspire to?