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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.
- Despite the many differences between the Fortune 500 coffee retailer and the family-owned artisan roaster based in Mendocino, Calif., the two companies are committed to working with growers to source...
- In a move to grow the market for Fair Trade products, the longtime head of Fair Trade USA proposes to allow much bigger coffee growers into the certification -- a move that some say runs contrary to...
- The co-founder and director of global sustainability consultancy SustainServ talks about what the evolution of corporate sustainability means for small to medium-sized businesses, supply chains...
- The CEO of the car-sharing company RelayRides discusses the collaborative consumption economy, partnering with GM, and just what it means to share your car with strangers.
- At last week's GoGreen 2012 conference in Seattle, up-and-coming entrepreneurs showcased how the young and hip are using business to drive sustainability while creating like-minded communities....
- Can a group of social entrepreneurs concerned about redefining profitability find common purpose with academics?
- A new study from Taiwan's Chang Jung Christian University explores what manufacturers, distributors and retailers concerned about their supply chains can do to promote greener logistics.
- With the results of the first Internet revolution -- one that Case, the co-founder of AOL, also pioneered -- firmly entrenched, Case talks about what his venture capital fund, Revolution, sees as the......
- There's been an evolution in sustainability consulting in the past decade as major players moved in to help major clients embrace sustainability. But will demand for those services continue? Is...
- As Benefit Corporations pick up steam in the business community, more firms are focusing their attention beyond the single bottom line, and L3C structure just emerging in the US could help advance...
- 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......
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