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Live Near Your Job OR Work Near Where You Live

Author
CHAD SKALLY
Skally Management
Whether you own or rent your home it pays to move near your workplace. The current estimate of car expenses is 58.5 cents per mile. So for every ten miles your workplace is closer to your home you save $58.50 per week. Assuming you average 30 to 60 miles-per-hour during your commute you will also get an additional two to three hours of extra free time each week.

Green Business is Here to Stay

Author
SARA GROCHOWSKI
Do It Green! Minnesota
How important is it to you that a business is locally and independently owned, or that it engages in green practices? How important is it to you that you work for an environmentally friendly company? Or that your office space or production facility is sustainable and healthy? The answer may change depending on where you live and work. What cannot change is the interconnectedness and interdependence of society, our environment, and the economy.

Workers' Rights

Author
Charley Smith

 

I was just lying on the grass at Peavy Park on May Day. There were progressive and activist types all around. I felt alienated as always; even on International Workers Day, I was in the minority as a crazy, angry, blue-collar-working trash person.

Working From Your Heart: Environmental Careers

Author
Reprinted from the Los Angeles Green Pages

 

You'd love to change the world - but by the time you get off work, you're too tired to change anything but the TV channel. You need to make a living and pay the rent, but you wish you could find a job that rewarded more than your bank account.

Footnotes/Endnotes

Environmental Career Resources:

Minnesota:

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits

www.mncn.org/jobs/jobs.htm

NextStep

Sustainable Communities Team

MN Office of Environmental Assistance

520 Lafayette Rd. N, 2nd Floor

St. Paul, MN 55155-4100

651-296-3417

www.nextstep.state.mn.us/jobs.cfm

Nationwide:

Cornell University Center for the Environment

200 Rice Hall, Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853

www.environment.cornell.edu

E Jobs

www.EcoEmploy.com

Green Dream Jobs

www.sustainablebusiness.com/jobs

Idealist

Action Without Borders, Inc.

350 5th Ave. Suite 6614

New York, NY 10118

212-843-3973

www.idealist.org

The Job Seeker

Specializing in natural resource and environmental vacancies nationwide.

24313 Destiny Avenue

Tomah, WI 54660

608-378-4450

Email: jobseeker@tomah.com

www.thejobseeker.net

The Nature Conservancy

4245 N. Fairfax Dr. Suite 100

Arlington, VA 22203-1606

800-628-6860

Email: comment@tnc.org

www.nature.org/careers

Workparties: Many Hands Make Light Work

Author
Philipp Muessig
Minnesota Sustainable Communities Network

Each month, like a roving band of grain threshers or barn raisers, my family of four and two other households descend upon one of our homes to paint, build, garden and clean, and to eat, drink and be merry.

Simplify for a Richer, Eco-Friendly Life

Author
Betsy Barnum
Great River Earth Institute

In our complicated, stressed-out modern life of speed, consumer pressure, money worries and jam-packed schedules, the concept of living simply has crossed everyone's mind. The truth is, it's an appealing, attainable idea, and could make a real difference in your life.

Footnotes/Endnotes

Simple Living Network

Center for a New American Dream

Resurgence

 


The Simple Living Guide, Janet Luhrs

Your Money or Your Life, Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin


Great River Earth Institute
612-305-1232
Email

University of Minnesota - Alliance for Sustainability
1521 University Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN 612-331-1099
Email
Website

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