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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.
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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 whole purpose of Fair Trade.
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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,...
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 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......
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...
Startup company AguaVia thinks it's found a solution to the world's looming water crisis that offers much more than a drop in the bucket....
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.
The Internet, shale gas technologies and Google search engine all had their origins in research funded by the U.S. government. These are just a few examples, and show why now is exactly the wrong......
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......
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......
Andrew Shapiro, one of the most prominent sustainability advisers in corporate America, is leaving GreenOrder, the consulting firm he started in 2000.
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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