In the latest edition of this highly-acclaimed annual report, Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com® answer the question: How are U.S. businesses doing in their quest to be greener and more environmentally responsible? It updates the GreenBiz Index, a set of over 20 indicators of progress, tracking the resource use, emissions, and business practices of U.S. companies: carbon, materials, energy, and toxics intensity, clean-tech investments, e-waste recovery, paper use, employee commuting, and more.

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• Speakers
• Joel Makower, Chairman and Executive Editor, Greener World Media.
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    Makower is executive editor of GreenBiz.com and its sister sites, conferences, and research services, all produced by Greener World Media, of which he is co-founder and chairman. Previously, he was editor of The Green Business Letter, an acclaimed monthly newsletter on corporate environmental practices, which he founded in 1991. He is author of more than a dozen book; his newest, Strategies for the Green Economy, has been called “a clear and compelling vision of what's possible when companies harness environmental thinking” by Stonyfield Farm founder Gary Hirshberg; and “hopeful vision of companies transforming challenges into opportunities, re-imagining not just their products and processes, but themselves,” by noted green architect William McDonough. He also writes “Two Steps Forward” (www.readjoel.com), a popular blog on green business, clean technology, and green marketing. The Associated Press has called him “The guru of green business practices.”