Innovation + Responsibility

Well, months ago I did a blog entry about putting the "social" in social responsibility. Yesterday I decided to experiment and I formed a Facebook group called, "The Sun Employee Sustainability Network - Every Job is an Eco Job!" Okay, so it's not exactly an elegant name...a bit of a mouthful really.  But since I have been saying since I arrived at Sun, and even in this space, that it is more valuable for people to find the "eco" (or CSR) in their own job than to find a job on the eco or CSR team (and since "Every Job is an Eco Job!" has become the rallying cry for the Sun Eco staff), it seemed like a good name for the group. And with groups out there like, "National Corn Dog Day," and, "If 1,000,000 people join I'll legally change my name to McLovin," well...I realize mine is not so bad.

So, I started the group last night around 10pm PST and this morning, at 8:19am PST there are 11 members.  Mark Monroe already posted photos to get things started - he posted a mock-up of a solar array on the roof of one of our Broomfield, CO campuses. 

 
I sent invitations to the 40 or so Sun employees that I am connected to on Facebook. Hopefully all of them will join.  And then we will have to see: will more people join than just the ones I invited?  Will Sun employees (who I don't know) see that their friends have joined this group and want to join themselves? Can Facebook actually work for this? We shall see. And I'll keep you posted here!

If you are already on Facebook and want to join the group, go here.  If you are not already on Facebook and want to join...well, get on Facebook and then go here!