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A smile for your weekend, courtesy of Brandcamp. Click through to read more about cartoonist Tom Fishburne.

In business, going green is more than a marketing slogan: it's the new way of doing things. It's an edge -- a method by which you can improve your company's bottom line while acting responsibly toward your customers, employees, and the environment.

Back home, you've swapped your incandescent bulbs for CFLs; installed low-flow shower heads, weather stripping and an electronic thermostat; you're eating more local and organic foods; and recycling is finally second nature.

Good job. But how does one scale personal progress in green living to the more complex structures of the 21st Century workplace? To help you get started, Lighter Footstep has rounded-up twelve specific specific actions you can take to starting greening the way you work. Pick a few, drop them into your organizer, and let's get started! Click through to get the list.

It never seems to be much fun going back into the office on a Monday. But this week, why not get started by making your personal routine a bit eco-friendlier?

Even if your office doesn't have an official recycling program, there's no reason you can't make your workday routine a little greener. Here are five quick tips for getting started:

Green seems to be all the rage lately, and web sites are cropping up all over cyberspace to help green homeowners sell their houses.  I am partial to home marketing on EcoBroker.com, not only because I'm an EcoBroker Certified REALTOR, but also for several other reasons: EcoBroker is gaining international market recognition (and driving traffic to its web site) and the EcoBroker database allows the user to search for specific home features (such as passive solar heating, recycling facilities nearby, or natural ventilation cooling). 

Only licensed REALTORS can achieve the EcoBroker designation, so the listing information on EcoBroker is coming from qualified, professional real estate agents.  While the general public cannot post listings on EcoBroker, anyone can search the listings.  Because EcoBroker's listings are broken down by state, I could not calculate how many home listings appear on the site; however, if I had to guess, I would say there are between 150 and 200 homes listed through EcoBroker.

EcoBroker is not the only site where you can search for your next green home to purchase, though.  Here are a few others.

Take the case of the lowly U.S. dollar bill. The folks over at Treehugger just published an interesting article, Greener Green: The U.S. One Dollar Coin. It's about whether or not the new series of dollar coins might be a better deal for the environment than their paper equivalents.

At first look, you might think coins are a slam dunk. Dollar bills are notoriously short-lived, a consequence of popularity and frequent handling. They're made from virgin cotton fiber and linen paper. When they wear out, only about 10 percent of their mass gets recycled -- the rest gets dumped in landfills. And even though they're cheaper to make than coins, bills end up being about ten times more expensive if you view them in terms of a coin's 30-year average life cycle.