Insights about Green Projects

The article “Green Projects” written by Dave Nielsen, discussed about how a green project could become a very beneficial project to pursue. First, let us define what a green project is, from the term “green” it implies that it is good for the environment; it is eco-friendly. Concatenating it with the term “project” it makes a collaborative enterprise, frequently involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim, and that aim is to save Mother Earth.

Here are some words from one of the key thought leaders of having a Green Project, Tom Mochal: The world is going green. We are collectively realizing that we don’t have an unlimited amount of air or water or space to continue to utilize resources like we have in the past. Concerns over global warming merely serve as the central rallying point for an environmentally friendly movement that has been underway since at least the 1970s. On the other hand, most project managers don’t run these kinds of projects. Most of us deal with projects such as installing a new software package or upgrading network infrastructure. How can these projects become more environmentally friendly?

Mochal’s idea is very true. As I could remember in my lower years of being an IT student we were also taught about green computing; that we should pursue IT expertise into helping our environment. Now that I’m in my upper half of my study and having this course Project Management, I have come to realize and remember that as human beings we have the responsibility to take care of the world that’s giving a place to be alive. We were also told by our instructor/facilitator for the said course that it is better to make our class project to be a green project by promoting green computing.

Going back to Nielsen’s article, the provincial government was restricting on where solar farms can be placed. After reading the article, I searched a bit about that news and found that there was another news update about the solar farm in Ontario, Canada. October 21, 2009, a headline was released: Canada's largest solar farm opens in Ontario. That was indeed good news. Upgrading the province’s transmission and distribution systems are key parts of the government’s strategy to create jobs and facilitate economic growth embedded in the Green Energy and Green Economy Act. The government predicts that these upgrades will create 20,000 jobs in the province over the next three years. "The government’s announcement today offers every one of us the opportunity to become energy entrepreneurs by ensuring that any clean energy we produce, whether that is wind power, solar energy or biogas, will be able to feed into the electricity grid for a fair and profitable price" said Kristopher Stevens, Executive Director of the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association. "Now municipalities, First Nations, farmers and energy co-operatives can become power proponents, reducing greenhouse gases and smog while creating potentially thousands of jobs in their communities."