HR Bartender is proud to be involved with Blog Action Day 2009 (aka BAD09). The purpose of BAD09 is for bloggers everywhere to write about a single subject in the hopes of increasing awareness for a cause. Last year, the topic was poverty and this year the subject is climate change.
When I first heard that the topic was climate change, I was like…hmm…this is a workplace blog. How can businesses get involved with climate change? Then, I checked out the EPA website. They have a whole section devoted to workplace best practices that can have a positive impact on the environment. I also discovered the EPA has a great kids’ site that explains what climate change is and how we can all make a difference. Between you and me, I enjoyed the kids’ site a whole lot more than the adults’ site…bright colors, great graphics and never once saw the words “regulatory initiatives.”
But just as I was getting ready to write this post, a headline from my SmartBrief on Sustainability newsbrief caught my eye. The headline read: “Apple resigned from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over Climate.” Their decision follows the resignations of Pacific Gas & Electric, PNM Resources and Exelon over climate policy differences.
If you didn’t think before that climate change is a business issue, then I hope that the actions of these companies send the message. We only have one environment, people. Consumers want to know that companies are sensitive to our climate as they produce their products. And, consumers are willing to support businesses that take care of our precious resources.
Being a socially responsible company is not just a nice thing to do. It makes good business sense.
I think it’s great to be able to use this blog for a global awareness purpose. I hope you enjoyed the change of pace and check out the EPA sites for more info. We’ll resume our regular programming about managers and martinis tomorrow…October 16 is National Liqueur Day and National Bosses Day!
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Joni Rosenthal says
Sharlyn: Back to your Dress Code article.
I miss the way we use to look, in the so called “OLDEN DAYS” I look at the nurses in hospitals these days who do not wear their whites anymore . . . my word, what a difference in the REAL nurse look for the now day. We purchase all the different colors of the rainbow to wear, along with THE dirty, nasty sneakers. I can’t tell the nurses from the patients. Although to me, the patients outshine the nurses. They are at least in the same uniform so we can recognize who they are. The nightgown with the open back.
I miss the whites and what the uniform stood for. At least the Doctors are still having their white coats. The day they come in with deniums, is the day, to pack it all in.
Yes, in the summer time, we all want to dress to be as cool as possible but why do we try to make everything so easy; again in the olden days without air conditioning, we stood with the elite and felt the freshness of a unifrorm that we had earned after so many hours of real head sweat.
Go on the New York subway in a suit in the summer time and get to the office with real sweat on your brow. I never thought about the fact that I was wearing a suit. Getting into the Board room and seeing the President of a huge corporation felt so good. Although it wasn’t my suit that got me in . . . yet was it not?
Happy DAY. JWR