The Green Suits Featured in Ithaca College’s Sustainability Newsletter

Our thanks to Marian Brown, head of sustainability at Ithaca College, for highlighting our recent on-campus visit in the latest issue of Collective Impacts (the college’s sustainability newsletter).

Read more about our visit, and other sustainability stories, HERE.

The Green Suits at Ithaca College: We’re in Very Good Hands

Cross-posted from The Green Suits:

Ithaca College is gaining a national reputation for leadership in sustainability and social responsibility. And the students I met were bright, funny, and totally upbeat. Not a single cynic among them. Photo h/t Ithaca College.

I just returned from a terrific trip to my alma mater, Ithaca College, where I presented Tailoring the Green Suit: Establishing a Bright Green Career in a Dull Gray Economy–ten strategies designed to help future Green Suits start and build successful careers in sustainability, corporate responsibility, and other “green” fields of work.

Ithaca College is gaining a national reputation for leadership in sustainability and social responsibility.

The students I met at the strategy presentation and in classroom settings were bright, funny, and totally upbeat. Not a single cynic among them. And I felt that our world–turned over to them–would be in very good hands, indeed.

Thirty years ago, that same campus reeked of cynicism. Many of us were hyper-competitive and often distrustful of our peers–fearful that we might tip-off others to job opportunities we wanted for ourselves.

Thankfully, today’s students are collaborating, sharing ideas, offering encouragement and good cheer to each other. They are well aware of sustainability and social responsibility, and they are eager to pursue job opportunities after graduation which embrace their practice.

And the Ithaca College campus, the institution, and the student body are all better for it.

Check out Ithaca College’s leadership in sustainability and social responsibility story, here.

Ithaca College Hosts Nov. 3rd ‘Tailoring the Green Suit’ Career Strategy Session

Cross-posted from The Green Suits:

Readers of 'Tailoring the Green Suit' know that one of my mentors--the late "(M)adman" and Ithaca College Associate Professor of Communications Howard S. Cogan--dreamed up "Ithaca is Gorges." Created over thirty year ago and still in use today, it remains one of the world's most recognizable eco-tourism campaigns. Image h/t VisitIthaca.com.

Next week will surely be very exciting!

The afternoon of Thursday Nov. 3 marks my return to Ithaca College. Later that evening, I will present Tailoring the Green Suit: Establishing a Bright Green Career in a Dull Gray Economy. This session will provide ten key strategies which soon-to-be-grads should employ to achieve immediate and lasting career success in green business.

John Bradac is Ithaca College's Director of Career Services. Photo h/t Ithaca College.

And on Friday, I get to sit in on a sustainability course and sit down with the deans of the School of Business and the School of Communications, the Director of Sustainability, and others to learn about Ithaca College’s many important efforts to train and empower The Green Suits.

Twenty years have passed since my last Ithaca College speaking engagement which is much too long of a lapse. But as a result of IC’s warm welcome to this grad–and in particular the generosity of time, resources, and advice already provided by John Bradac (the head of IC’s career services department)–I am certain that my South Hill visit will be a great and memorable one.

I just hope that the snow melts in time for my arrival. (We’re not quite ready for winter!)

Ithaca College Gearing Up for ‘Tailoring the Green Suit: Establishing a Bright Green Career in a Dull Gray Economy’

Cross-posted from The Green Suits:

Nov. 3rd at 7PM: Ithaca College will host 'Tailoring the Green Suit: Establishing a Bright Green Career in a Dull Gray Economy.' Ad h/t Ithaca College Office of Career Studies.

We are very pleased with Ithaca College’s on-campus promotion of our Nov 3rd event: Tailoring the Green Suit: Establishing a Bright Green Career in a Dull Gray Economy. The discussion will take place at 7PM at the Ithaca College Student Center’s Klingenstein Lounge. And we hope for a ‘SRO’ crowd!

‘Tailoring the Green Suit’ Author to Visit Ithaca College, Discuss ‘Establishing a Bright Green Career in a Dull Gray Economy’

Cross-posted from The Green Suits:

We're presenting 'Tailoring the Green Suit: Establishing a Bright Green Career in a Dull Gray Economy' Nov. 3rd at 7PM, at the Ithaca College Student Center's Klingenstein Lounge. Photo h/t Ithaca College.

For sure, we’ll be playing Steely Dan’s “My Old School” on the drive up to Ithaca College on November 3rd.

And we are looking forward to returning to South Hill after so many years; during this visit, we will meet with many aspiring green careerists interested in becoming The Green Suit.

In association with Ithaca College’s Office of Career Services, we will present Tailoring the Green Suit: Establishing a Bright Green Career in a Dull Gray Economy–a one-hour strategy and Q&A session designed to help passionate careerists pivot into successful and rewarding green careers.

The event will take place 7PM at Ithaca College Student Center’s Klingenstein Lounge.

Ithaca College is fast becoming a leader in environmental studies as well as sustainability and social responsibility leadership. And we look forward to a long and successful partnership, to help empower IC’s sustainability-focused students as they work towards graduation and landing entry-level jobs.

It seems like yesterday that we fell asleep in so many “Textor 102″ lectures. And that vivid memory reminds us to keep this presentation and the discussion to follow fast-paced and interesting. In other words, we hope to provide a lot of immediately useful career development strategies.