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While much of the focus on the environmental practices of companies has focused on large corporations, smaller firms, which make up 98 percent of all companies in the U.S., have a key role to play. Although they may individually be small resource users and waste emitters, they cumulatively are a force, environmentally speaking. In this section we highlight ways that small companies can become more environmentally efficient, and the benefits that can come as a result of going green.
- Throughout 2009, California's green economy lost fewer than half as many jobs as the overall state economy, according to the latest report from Next 10....
- Cynthia Rosenzweig, a world-renowned urban climate change expert, explains what businesses and cities can do to help each other prepare for the threats posed by the warming planet.
- After surviving -- and thriving -- in five of the roughest economic years the country has known, there's a lot we should have done differently when we opened the doors of our green packaging......
- Event organizers can now report on sustainability issues like impacts on communities, natural environments, and local and global economies, a move that aims to speed adoption of green meetings, and...
- Brent Schulkin, the CEO of the startup that aims to harness individuals into a force for good, talks about the power of consumer action and why the stick isn't as effective as the carrot for......
- Jed Davis, the sustainability director at the cooperative of 1,200 dairy farms, talks about quality control, energy efficiency, the vision of employee engagement, and what sustainability means on the......
- The winners of the annual StopWaste Partnership Business Efficiency Awards offer useful examples of how companies large and small are putting their operations under the magnifying glass to cut costs......
- As more and more companies embed their CSR practices in day-to-day operations, it becomes an opportunity for HR managers to become sustainability leaders. This checklist spells out what HR......
- Disrupting the status quo is difficult -- but not impossible -- from within large corporations. In working to build strong, responsible companies at the bottom of the period, Blue Earth Network has...
- During the opening keynote to the three-day conference in Portland, Oregon, Lord Hastings avowed that the single most effective way to change the world is overcoming cynicism -- not a product or a......
- Portland, Oregon's Bamboo Sushi is powered by wind energy, Marine Stewardship Council-certified, and is singlehandedly proving that sustainable sushi doesn't have to be an oxymoron.
- Even after a decade of daily evangelizing about the ease and importance of green meeting practices, we're still struggling to make an impact....
- A look at the differences between the patent activity of small and large innovative firms in green technologies and industries....
- The Slow Money Conference held last week aims to bring socially responsible investing to innovative companies that are creating jobs, improving the soil and growing healthy food at a sustainable......
- The first day of the world's biggest green building event brought out more news from more companies and organizations than could conceivably be covered. Here are some of today's highlights....
- The first prize from a challenged issued by the Environmental Defense Fund and InnoCentive proposes a simple solution to the problem of pollution from nitrogen-rich farm runoff. It's just one of many......
- Case studies from the US, Canada and the UK show small firms are getting big benefits from environmental improvements.
- A coalition of accounting groups have released a report that highlights how small and medium-sized businesses in the US, UK and Canada are profiting from their environmental initiatives.
- GE Power & Water's outgoing chief sustainability officer, Jeff Fulgham, is headed to Banyan Water after more than two decades at GE, hoping to create a growth business by saving water for big......
- There's no simple way to get companies up to speed on sustainability, but these six ideas can give any company the skills to get started....
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- San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee opens the 2012 GreenBiz Forum by talking about how the city is......
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