Ryan Murphy

The Green Training Academy In the year 2020, companies have a massive amount on their plates. Along with attempting to maintain profits and typical business measurables in the era of COVID-19, companies also have a new area to focus on that seemingly every company is ill-prepared to address: the environment. More than ever, companies are including environmental conservation as one of their key corporate missions, and they’re setting lofty goals to make up for their abuse of the planet. However, despite their good intentions, “many large corporations are falling behind or missing self-set benchmarks” (Ward, 2014). It’s expensive and time-consuming for companies to invest in developing their own training curriculum and materials for their employees. This is where the Green Training Academy comes in.    We realize that corporations are busy and don’t always have the expertise necessary to train employees to successfully implement their green initiatives. The Green Training Academ...

When thinking about making the world a better place, thoughts of ending world hunger, disease, and poverty often race through my mind. These are all obviously worthwhile endeavors, but these will all be completely pointless if we can’t save our environment from ourselves. Humans have fought amongst themselves for seemingly as long as we have existed. Although taking sides seems to be a natural trait, one side that we all need to be on is the fight against global warming and the degradation of the environment. In the real world, taking action against these issues starts with our own lives. Taking steps in your own life to reduce waste might seem pointless if you think about the billions of people on this planet, but the results could be amazing if we all worked together. Uniting people and organizations against the corporate abuses of our environment to create real change seems to be an extremely rewarding (albeit frustrating) path to take.     Some initial steps in my own life...