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ONLY KIDDING – But seriously, we have a gig scheduled in September and more on the horizon.  On September 21st, we’ll be doing a presentation and be available to sign our book at the Boston BioPharmaPM Conference: Delivering Value Through Projects titled “Blue Pill-Green Pill-Chlorophyll-Landfill”.  It’s about sustainability; its importance and applicability to the biopharma industry and how projects within the industry can benefit from green project management.  As always, we’ll have tips and techniques to help you.

Watch our site for we just may be appearing in a “theater” near you.  We’d love to meet you.

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ONLY KIDDING – But seriously, we have a gig scheduled in September and more on the horizon.  On September 21st, we’ll be doing a presentation and be available to sign our book at the Boston BioPharmaPM Conference: Delivering Value Through Projects titled “Blue Pill-Green Pill-Chlorophyll-Landfill”.  It’s about sustainability; its importance and applicability to the biopharma industry and how projects within the industry can benefit from green project management.  As always, we’ll have tips and techniques to help you.

Watch our site for we just may be appearing in a “theater” near you.  We’d love to meet you.

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Author: earthpm
Website: http://www.earthpm.com/2010/08/powdered-water/

Steven Wright is a tremendous comedian.

You should check out some of his work here.

We also provide some text examples as well:

“Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?”
“What’s another word for thesaurus?”
“I bought a house, on a one-way dead-end road; I don’t know how I got there.”
“I wrote a song, but I can’t read music. Every time I hear a new song on the radio I think ‘Hey, maybe I wrote that.
‘”The restaurant’s sign said “Breakfast Anytime.” So I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance.”

And one of our favorites:

• I’ve got some powdered water, but I don’t know what to add to it.

Well, this is s a story about real powdered water.  “Dry water” they’re calling it, and it has the potential to fight climate change, and it may initiate some projects in the pharmaceutical industry that change the way drugs are created.

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Author: earthpm
Website: http://www.earthpm.com/2010/08/wheres-your-project-the-green…

We aren’t huge fans of games, but this one has a “teachable moment” and a true reward for one lucky winner.

The rules are simple and the prize is flexible.

Let’s start with the prize: it’s a free license to OSP International’s PDU Podcast or the PMP Prepcast – excellent downloadable media products that help you keep your PMP Credential if you already have it, or earn it if you don’t yet have it.  The winner would be saving somewhere between $100 and $200!

Now let’s get to the rules.

As usual, we want each post – even a game – to be educational.  So with this post we expose one of the ideas from our book – the ‘green spectrum’ -  and ask you to comment on this post with a reaction that tells us:

• where you think your current project fits on this spectrum (choose one of the four points below)
• why you think it’s where it is (just a sentence or two)

Here you see a figure from our book, Green Project Management.  You’ll need to read the book for the juicy details.  Here’s a…

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In the film Blade Runner (at least the original that I’m familiar with), Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, had a job to do.

From Wikipedia:

The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically engineered organic robots called replicants—visually indistinguishable from adult humans—are manufactured by the all-powerful Tyrell Corporation as well as other mega manufacturers around the world. Their use on Earth is banned, and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work on Earth’s off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and “retired” by police special operatives known as “blade runners”. The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of recently escaped replicants hiding in Los Angeles and the burnt out expert blade runner, Rick Deckard, who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment to hunt them down.

As project managers, we’ve also got jobs to do.

Unless we…

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Author: earthpm
Website: http://www.earthpm.com/2010/08/planning-for-the-end-of-oil/

Here’s a short, uplifting, interesting (well, to some of us, anyway) talk regarding how innovation may just be able to help us out of our energy problems.

It’s delivered by geophysicist Dr. Richard Sears.

It smacks of innovation, of science, and of the need for change, led by – you guessed it - project managers.

Enjoy.

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A joint post from EarthPM and TenStep:

There are many examples of projects undertaken to produce some deliverable with environmental implications. In fact, one may assert that in fact, any project, since it uses resources, has environmental implications.  This varies tremendously, based on scale and the direct impact on the environment.  One project that clearly has environmental implications is the Deepwater Horizon drilling project and what is often called “the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster”.

Important note: We do not purport to say that any specific single action or philosophy that we enumerate below would have prevented the Deepwater Horizon disaster or led to its instant cleanup.  What we do assert, however, is that taken collectively and holistically, an intense focus on green thinking would have had a tremendously positive impact on the disaster.

Many companies are incorporating environmental considerations into their thinking about the deliverables…

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A champion of green projects passed away suddenly August 7th.  Matt Simmons, well known for his views on peak oil in his book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy apparently drown after suffering a heart attack.  Here in Maine, however, he was best known for championing green energy projects (Green By Definition from our book). He had big plans for some big projects, particularly trying to harness the ocean’s energy.  He founded The Ocean Energy Institute in Rockland, Maine, whose grand opening was in July, a “think tank” focused on tidal energy.  It is both a not-for-profit research facility coupled with a for-profit venture capital enterprise to fund the alternate energy.

From an article by Michael Corkery in today’s (Aug 9th) Wall Street Journal Blog, Matt Simmons is quoted as saying that, “When it comes to alternative energy, wind is perfectly commercial today. But when you try to scale it, it just doesn’t work. I suspect the cost…

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Our site – and our enterprise, EarthPM – is (as we say in our tagline) “at the intersection of green and project management”.

Most of our postings are smack-dab inside that junction, some lean a little towards the environmental side in their focus and some on the project management side.

This one takes a little twist, based on the very name of our company:  EarthPM.

One thing we all have in common is that we manage projects (mainly) on this little rock (Earth).  So what happens if we had to describe our work – our profession – to someone from a different rock?  Not so easy, eh?

Peter Taylor, author of  The Lazy Project Manager, posed this challenge on one of the many LinkedIn discussion groups.  The question was an intriguing one, and it got so many responses, he posted a story on it which we’ll quote from and reference here.

So… what was the challenge?  Here it is:

Describe Project Management to an Alien from Outer Space

We all know the terms of definition for project…

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Website: http://www.earthpm.com/2010/08/bitumen-projects-in-canada/

Project managers who want to transition into practice areas such as energy should (must?) learn to be conversant in their new practice areas.  If for no other reason, they need this familiarity to be able to command the respect of their project team.

In this post we provide a means to learn about the efforts to extract bitumen from beneath the ground in Canada (and elsewhere).

Mainly, this posting is a resource pointing to rich sources of information in which you can get yourself smartened up on the subject, and understand the types of projects taking place.

The basis of the info came from a Public Radio story broadcast today on a show called Marketplace.  We suggest you start by going to this site and listening to the broadcast.  And, oh, by the way, that’s a great show to listen to as a project manager needs to keep up with the latest and most interesting business trends.  As we say in our book – project managers are indeed the “business end” of business ends.

• Here’s a <a href=”http://marketplace.publicradio.org/standard/display/slideshow.php?ftr_id=77964″…

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