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Welcome to GreenBiz 2.0!
We've been working long hours behind the scenes to make GreenBiz.com and our sister sites even more useful and information-packed. At last, we're ready to unveil it.
We have redesigned the look and feel of GreenBiz.com and all our sister sites to make it easier for you to navigate and explore. All the same great news and resources are still here, and here is a short overview of all the new additions and changes to the sites.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about the new design, send a note to Carlie Peterson at carlie@greenerworldmedia.com.
Thanks for reading!
Joel Makower, Executive Editor
- Beyond Recycling: Responsible Paper Purchasing
Companies can make an enormous difference in the global environment and forest communities by adopting strict purchasing policies. ...
- On The Need for Green MBAs
Experts of all stripes are predicting that green innovations are the last best hope for us to solve our environmental crises. In order to make the innovations a reality, we ...- Toward a Real-Time Macroethical Assessment for Sustainability
As shown by the current uproar over the use of food crops as stock for alternative fuels, we need to incorporate a flexible and highly adaptive system of ethical guidelines ... - On The Need for Green MBAs
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Two Steps Forward
Exxon, the Rockefellers, and the Future of Big Oil
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Corporate America
A $3 trillion climate-change battle
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Marketing Green
Reframing Global Warming Across the Political Spectrum
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The Triple Bottom Line
Timberland And Stonyfield Farms--Two Little Guys Showing The Big Guys How It's Done
TerraCycle: Worm Poop and So Much More
Tom Szaky, CEO of a company that made its name selling fertilizer made from worm castings, talks to GreenBiz Radio about making the greenest possible products from other people's trash, turning the production cycle on its ear, and other ways that companies can design products that turn waste into gold.
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Small Business
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.
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Seth Goldman, the founder of Honest Tea, says his deal with Coke is a way to remain true to his mission, as well as how socially responsible companies can make a real impact on society.
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Something old is new again. GreenBiz.com, of which I am executive editor, has just relaunched with a new, improved format.
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Brainstorm: Green, Fortune’s first conference on business and the environment, turned out well, judging from the feedback I’ve had since the gathering last week in Pasadena.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will award $1.75 million to 25 small companies to spur development of new environmental technologies through the Small Business Innovation Research program.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- A £24m program to deal with London's commercial and industrial waste has been launched which could see waste companies bid for funding before a 'Dragons' Den'-style panel of experts.
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HAYWARD -- More than 2,500 businesses in this suburb southeast of San Francisco participated in an energy efficiency program that will save one megawatt of energy annually. That translates to roughly $700,000 a year in energy savings.
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LONDON, -- The United Kingdom's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is facing £300 million in budget cuts, and green groups say the government is targeting essential business support programs around waste reduction and climate change.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The amount of plastic, paper, wood and waste recycled by 90 percent of the state's grocers in 2006 was 100 million pounds more than in 2005.
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Small businesses, by their sheer numbers, have the potential to make a huge impact on the environment, and groups organized at the national, state and local level are working to spread sustainability to independent companies that want -- and need -- to go green.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Green collar jobs are high quality, poised for growth and have low barriers for entry, according to a report released last week.
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Working for green businesses is climbing quickly up job-seekers' list of requirements; here are the tricks you can use to make sure you hire employees with both the business skills and sustainability mentality your business needs.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The manufacturer of consumer products made from recycled materials beat nearly 1,000 small businesses for the $100,000 grand prize.
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Chambers of Commerce may seem like unlikely partners for environmental work, but they have the potential to create perfect partnerships: they work in every community, serve as the local economic catalyst, community service group, and small business support group -- and with a little creative thinking, they can also be the local eco-champion.
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UNITED KINGDOM, -- A majority of United Kingdom businesses think it's important to be environmentally friendly and would like to see the government provide more assistance to businesses going green.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Top officials from government, business, nonprofit and academia met here on Tuesday in a first-of-its-kind event to discuss how they can work together to position the region as a national leader on environmental sustainability by developing regional, shared goals.
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