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Volunteering in the field you've targeted for your career path has proven to be a winning strategy, especially in today's economy as thousands look for jobs and strive to get an edge on the competition. Carolyn Mansfield of Bright Green Talent provides a road map for volunteers who want to develop skills, gain experience or simply help out with eco-friendly projects. Read More

Amie Vaccaro takes a look at the concept of social return on investment and how Wal-Mart is working to measure and manage its environmental and social impact. Read More

Golf courses in the Arab region use enough water to satisfy the needs of thousands of people. Yet their numbers are growing, illustrating the conflict between economic development and depleting natural resources, according to a new report. Read More

Long-term sustainable growth is important to building a successful company. In the final installment of her four-part series "Growing a Green Corporation: Meeting the Next Great Disruptive Challenge of the 21st Century," Brandi McManus provides a blueprint for building a green team. Read More

Corrugated cardboard made of post consumer waste material is an excellent sustainable packaging solution and a critical part of a long term environmental solution, but it has to be combined with some basic product knowledge to be cost effective as well as performance effective. Read More

The aspiring stylists at Paul Mitchell Schools want your hair during Earth Week -- and not just to practice their art. They'll be giving any shorn locks to a novel environmental organization that recycles hair into highly absorbent mats for use during oil spill cleanups. Read More

The economic downturn brings with it new wrinkles for large corporations to address as part of their corporate social responsibility planning. Read More

Green Earth Technologies' G-Oil, which is based on animal fat instead of petrochemicals, will be used in all of the safety trucks for the American Le Mans Series, and was recently certified as meeting the same standards as typical engine oils. Read More

Ever wonder how a wunderkind made it big time? Now you can take a page -- literally -- from Tom Szaky's "Revolution in a Bottle" and put the ideas to work in your business. Amie Vaccaro lists 10 tips gleaned from the book by the cofounder and CEO of TerraCycle Inc. Read More

In an earlier blog, Robert Pojasek spoke about environmental sustainability as an oxymoron. The "Google recognition index" registers more than 3,240,000 hits for environmental sustainability. "One has to wonder if the term sustainability is becoming a cliche," Pojasek now writes. "It is being applied to so many terms that it is in danger of becoming meaningless." Read More