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long life or could be recycled? Even if it had a long life, was it recyclable?
Did we consider the packaging of the eggs and the vanilla, as well as their
manufacturers’ commitments to sustainability? Did we buy just enough
ingredients to bake the cake or are there waste or storage issues? Did we
consider the product? Will it get eaten in the first sitting, or will we have
to store it? How will we store it? What kind of material is the storage con-
tainer made from? Might this require us to power up a refrigerator to
“keep” it? It sounds like a lot of things to think about for “just baking a
cake,” and you’re right, it is. However, once it is ingrained in our thinking,
those issues and decisions we make will become second nature, just as for
our experienced readers, the use of a WBS and a Gantt chart have become
second nature. And what good will this green planning do? Only time will
tell, but economist David Friedman once said, “I’m trying to have every-
thing that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the
way I want to make a difference.” Here’s our chance as project managers
to make that difference.

Who and What are reQuired For the ProjeCt
Depending on the nature of the project, resource planning includes three
major aspects; (1) the people required to do the work, (2) the equipment
needed to support the people or the project needs, and (3) the cost of the
people and equipment required. There is a direct connection between the
resources required and the quality of the project and we’ll talk about that
aspect, too, in Chapter 7.

greening the PeoPle

One of the purposes of this book is to instill green into project management
so that there is no longer a difference between how we have done projects
and how we will provide greenality to projects. It will be one and the same.
Planning for greenality will become the “new” project planning. In order
to do this, the people you choose for projects need to have some back-
ground in green. What we mean by that is that all contributors (stake-
holders) to the project are aware of the universality of green, including all