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Re-Designing the Environmental Challenge: State of Green Business Forum 2010
By Matthew Wheeland, February 04, 2010
In a lightning-paced presentation, serial innovator Saul Griffith laid out the human and global scope of the climate crisis, as well as where solutions will -- and won't -- come from. ...
When GreenBiz Meets Cleantech: State of Green Business Forum 2010
By Leslie Guevarra, February 04, 2010
What happens when green business meets cleantech? When those companies are like Best Buy, Autodesk and Serious Materials, you get firms that align their products and services with efforts to...
How to Use 12 Principles of Permaculture to Grow Sustainable Organizations
By David Jaber, February 01, 2010
How many times have you felt stymied in helping yourself and your colleagues advance toward a common goal in a sustainable way because of commitment, communication patterns or other reasons?...
How Our Bones Inspire Architecture, Chairs and Cars
By Tom McKeag, January 27, 2010
Material is expensive and so is the energy used to make it. You should put the material where it is needed and take it away from where it is doing no good. Living bone is actually doing this all...
Apple's new iPad is Deep Green, but a Planet-Saver? Nope.
By Matthew Wheeland, January 27, 2010
Apple's long, long, long-awaited new tablet computer has finally been released to the wild, and while the iPad is a pretty nifty looking machine, it's unlikely to be a game-changer for the planet...
What Does the FDA's BPA Decision Mean for Companies?
By Richard Liroff, January 25, 2010
When the Food and Drug Administration earlier this month expressed for the first time some concern about bisphenol A, it no doubt caused some panic among potentially impacted firms -- but it also...

Green Innovation Becomes a Great Idea: The State of Green Business 2010
By Joel Makower, February 05, 2010
As the parade of progress marches inexorably forward, a growing number of innovations have a distinctly green tinge, significantly reducing material, chemical, water and energy inputs. ...

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The New Normal and the Need for 'Radical Evolution'

Joel Makower, May 18, 2009

GreenBiz.com launches our second annual Greener By Design conference today. The focus this year is on how companies are transitioning to greener product design amid rapidly changing, but still...

Nanomaterials: Why Your Company Should Sweat the Small Stuff

Richard Liroff, September 09, 2009

Nanomaterials are an industrial revolution in a microcosm with the potential to yield extraordinary health, environmental and other global social benefits. But they're substantially unregulated,...

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Greener Fleets Hit the Streets: The State of Green Business 2010
By Joel Makower, February 08, 2010
While individual car buyers stayed out of showrooms with disastrous results, corporate and institutional buyers proved a bright green spot for the industry with increased purchases of hybrid-...
Green Innovation Becomes a Great Idea: The State of Green Business 2010
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The State of Green Business 2010: Alive and Kicking
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Winter Olympics Get Bronze for Environmentalism
By Luke Walsh, February 08, 2010
Organizers of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics deserve only a bronze medal for environmentalism, according to a Canadian green group. ...
Green Innovation Becomes a Great Idea: The State of Green Business 2010
Dulux Cuts Carbon, Water Footprint of Paint in Half
Kraft Sheds 150 Million Pounds From Products, Meets Packaging Goal 2 Years Early
Sainsbury's Targets Tinned Tomatoes in War on Packaging GreenerDesign.com
Company To Pay $1.25 Million For Selling Lead-Tainted Thomas The Tank Engine Toys GreenerDesign.com

State of Green Business 2010

In the just-published State of Green Business 2010 report, we take an extensive look at the data behind the move toward making mainstream businesses greener.

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State of Green Business Forum Highlights

In 2010, we're bringing our acclaimed State of Green Business Forum to San Francisco and Chicago, digging in to the research in the annual State of Green Business report to discover recent trends in green business and hear from industry experts about what the future will hold. Read all our coverage of the events here.

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Exploring Opportunities for Doing Green Business in China
The People's Republic of China is going green faster and more thoroughly than almost...
How Companies Look at Carbon Management After Copenhagen
With the rise and fall of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, the business world is sizing up...
Carbon Management After Copenhagen
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Saul Griffith: The Why and How of Putting the Planet on a Carbon Diet
This video of Saul Griffith's lightning-paced presentation at the State of Green...
Putting IT to Work on the Other 98 Percent
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These tools and resources from some of the world's largest IT companies serve as a...

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How a Kindergarten Mentality Can Drive Widespread Energy Efficiency
By Marc Gunther, January 20, 2010
The CEO of OPower talks to GreenBiz.com senior writer Marc Gunther about how a simple smiley face can get energy hogs to become energy misers, and how utilities are seeing the light in using...
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