I generally try to stay engaged and current with what’s going on in the world of marketing. One of my favorite online marketing resources is MarketingProfs. Always informative, I rely on their marketing expertise often. I’m a big fan.

This morning I checked my inbox. Inside was a gentle reminder about tomorrow’s MarketingProfs Digital Marketing World Virtual Conference. Yes, you read that right, virtual conference. I sort of scoffed to myself…...

There has been a movement in recent years among on college campuses to go green. The Princeton Review, best known for publishing annual college rankings, had added a new ranking for 2009 and will recognize green efforts. The Green Rating ranked 534 colleges according to their environmentally related policies, practices and academic offerings.

A college’s Green Rating is based their performance in three main areas:

Do students have a campus...

I’ve been living just outside of Center City Philadelphia (about 8 miles to be exact) for nearly four years, and the more I learn about this city, the more I love it.  Just the other day I found yet another wonderful reason to love Philly and its people – The 100K House Project. 

The 100K House project is the brainchild of Postgreen, a Philadelphia-based green developer, located in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia, just...

Starting a garden can be both fun AND environmentally friendly.  Last spring two friends and I decided we wanted to try our hand at gardening.  Not just tossing a few flower seeds in the ground and seeing what happened, but a full on vegetable garden complete with fertilizer and lattice work for our tomatoes to climb.  We worked hard, but through trial and error and not being afraid to ask questions, we were able to enjoy quite a...

Why are environmental issues important to some and not to others?  Everyone benefits from clean air and water, but not everyone is motivated to act from this perspective.  I would venture that many who have made decisions in their lives based on respect for the environment have done so based on a personal relationship with nature established in childhood.  It turns out that Community Energy employees offer examples that support...