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While the big guys have their consultants and advisers — not to mention Wall Street-caliber budgets — smaller firms are mostly left to their own scrappy devices.
by Joel Makower
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A new company is offering entrepreneurs with a green or cleantech business idea a crash course in the skills and insights needed to succeed. It's modeling its curriculum in real time.
by Joel Makower
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GreenBiz.com Executive Editor Joel Makower talked with Green Business Base Camp founder, Carrie Norton.
by Joel Makower
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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.
by Joel Makower
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Even in the midst of the deepest recession of the last 20 years, shoppers from São Paolo to Shanghai were ready to shell out more cash for eco-friendly products. Is the tide turning for the green marketplace?
by Joel Makower
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(Episode 101): Since its founding six years ago, the Presidio Graduate School has been at the forefront of sustainability business education, and Seyed Amiry, the head of the school, talks about the future of green business education, especially in tough economic times.
by Joel Makower
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As 2009 sputters to an end, it's perhaps unsurprising that we're in the midst of a torrent of studies and findings that all offer some roadmap of where to go from here.
by Joel Makower
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I had expected the conference to be a showcase of how, when green goes mainstream, good intentions and high standards give way to the lowest common denominator of the mass market. Happily, I was wrong.
by Joel Makower
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Today marks the launch of the first comprehensive monthly poll aimed at tracking Americans' attitudes about and confidence in their leaders and institutions, nationally and locally, on the subject of environmental responsibility, as well as in their own understanding of issues and their willingness to make green purchasing choices.
by Joel Makower
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It's an open question, and public opinion polls do little to tell us how the world's citizens feel about the issue; but a recent
by Joel Makower
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(Episode 98): GreenBiz.com Executive Editor Joel Makower speaks with Cara Pike about her new research report, how not to describe global warming, and how to get people to really care about the climate.
by Joel Makower
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With 100 years of credibility under its belt, the Good Housekeeping seal of approval has reached the pinnacle of consumer confidence. But will its green stamp be a game-changer for the green marketplace?
by Joel Makower
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The vision: green rooftops, not just as gardens, but as urban agriculture hubs for herbs and edible greens, grown in renewable energy-powered greenhouses, allowing city dwellers to grow and sell food locally.
by Joel Makower
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For years, LCA languished in the back rooms of companies, a geeky system of accounting that was of interest to few outside of a small number of engineers and environmental managers; but in recent months LCA has moved to the forefront of corporate environmental efforts.
by Joel Makower
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Can the company that tamed financial accounting do the same for carbon accounting?
by Joel Makower
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Joel Makower writes from the annual gathering convened by the cleantech venture fund VantagePoint Venture Partners, which is meeting in Northern California's wine country this week.
by Joel Makower
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Nancy Sutley, the head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality -- and Van Jones' new boss -- talks to Joel Makower about how the federal stimulus package will be a boon for the environment, and areas where companies might benefit from that spending.
by Joel Makower
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Despite nearly limitless hope and hype around the green jobs movement from the mainstream media and Washington, D.C., we're still not 100 percent sure what a green job is, so how will we be able to bring them online quickly?
by Joel Makower
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A week before a recessionary Christmas, a new report urges companies to move beyond simply greening their products and services to making it a core of their operations. It's a tall order -- and is it one that companies are ready to hear?
by Joel Makower
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Although it often takes a back seat to managing carbon, energy and water use, managing trash from offices, manufacturing and packaging has become a "normal," even habitual, practice. And a profitable one, to boot.
by Joel Makower
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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.
by Joel Makower