Trevor Stafford
aug 08 2007 18:05
10 Reputation Points

One of the reactions I had (yeah, to my own question, I know) was “how much responsibility would I have in my new role, less or more?”. Should I have included a choice that had decision-making or responsibility as a factor?

Pascal Jasmin
aug 09 2007 08:42
2 Reputation Points

There’s big variability to how green a company is. From clean coal PR, to carbon negative. Its hard to generalize.

Trevor Stafford
aug 09 2007 12:10
10 Reputation Points

In this case it would be a company that actually produces or distributes a green or environmentally-sensitive product. Good examples might be:

Bullfrog Power
Ballard Power Systems
Zenon Environmetal Inc.(http://www.zenon.com)
Envirotower (http://www.envirotower.com)

Comment Dummy
aug 22 2007 14:43
-8 Reputation Points

Why move?
I would only move it was a better position\career not if the company was green or not.

Tim T
sep 20 2007 20:15
7 Reputation Points

“Going green” is a luxury, and not many people can afford luxury. The average family will work to pay their mortgage and save for their children’s tuition – to feel good doing it will be a distant 3rd priority. Until there is a compelling economical incentive, “going green” will not be practical for the majority. Personal debt will slow the adoption of anything green.

Trevor Stafford
sep 21 2007 08:20
10 Reputation Points

That doesn’t seem to be true in terms of giving up a job to work for a ‘greentech’ or ‘cleantech’ company however. 33% of respondents (so far) would take a pay cut to take.

I hear what you’re saying though, and agree. In the profile of Zerofootprint, a company that helps families and municipalities be ‘greener’ they explicitly target affluent consumers.

Jim Murphy
sep 25 2007 12:06
8 Reputation Points

Green, cleantech, carbon offsets and even organic food or “grown local” are great ideas that are currently too *expensive* and premium for the masses. Kind of like say, fast processors, more memory or bigger disks.

Oh wait a minute…I have all those. :-)

Maybe it will juts take time and technology to fill the real need?

Mark Stock
mar 09 2008 23:40
0 Reputation Points

There is no going, we are here.

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”—Winston Churchill

There is an incredibly huge market opening up. People want smart green technology ten years ago. I think that “going green” may be the most economically beneficial path available. But hey, don’t read anything I write.