Every morning when I scan the headlines, I see the buzzwords sustainability and cybersecurity in government, IT, and acquisitions articles.

Journalists and industry pundits write about one or the other topic. Conferences schedule numerous panels and workshops. Even the administration has released specific mandates, including the…

The General Services Administration has recently launched a Carbon Footprint and Green Procurement Tool to assist agencies in managing their GHGs as required by Executive Order (EO) 13514…

It's my fourth week now since I was asked to be Monday's featured blogger, and the last three weeks my blog HR: Humans Represent has focused on representing employment related information. This week, the focus is on representing the greening of our society.

Chances are your granny had the right idea about living a green life. In fact, you could in a way, argue that previous…

Just read about a quick study that was recently done (May 2010!) about green job hiring in the U.S., and here's the list of the top 5 states currently hiring:

1. California

2. Washington, DC

3. New York…

When it comes to going green, IT can be both part of the problem and part of the solution. It has been shown that information and communications technology accounts for close to 2% of all carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, around the same amount as produced by the aviation industry. However, IT also gives us the tools to reduce our energy…

I love this news for 4 Reasons... Here's the headline:

Ford to add 170 jobs for hybrid

and electric cars

My four reasons for celebration:

1. Jobs being added here in the US - 170 blue collar workers AND Green Jobs, specifically

2. The product is Green - friendlier to the environment

3. Michigan has been hard-hit…

Japanese scientists, engineers and financiers have already charted their course and set sail on the botanical city. Forget about that tall building in Dubai, and picture a 3,330 ft. tower and a vertical farm (complete with cornfields and a livestock ranch) floating on a concrete lilypad in the middle of the ocean.

By the year 2025 Shimz corporation predicts they will have all the necessary technology and will begin building - as long as they have identified a patch of…

In anticipation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Earth Day 2010 today, we worked with GovLoop last week to poll community members on workplace habits related to energy efficiency. I was pleased and encouraged by the over…

I'm SO excited to share details about NASA's newest, coolest, never-been-done-before sustainability initiative, LAUNCH:Water.…

Wow! March sure is a busy month for enviornmental awareness both nationwide and worldwide. I just posted 7 events here on GovLoop, and wanted to encourage everyone to get involved in some way.

Read up, Get Up, Speak Up ... just don't give up!!

It's the only planet we got!…

Dr. GovLoop has been scouring the Web to find awesome content...and here's a blog post that caught his attention over coffee this morning.

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