Green Business Solutions

Articles on green business

• Bioplastics surge - then move out of California... Hmmm Green business development is like an ecosystem. It's a system in which we ALL operate, and when we lose a significant "species"...the system is drained of sustainable resources. Cereplast is an example.
  
• Got Green? Media Planet Green Business Supplement in LA TIMES - May 14 Green businesses can tap the LA Green market in this LA TIMES "Green Business" Supplement - publication date: May 14, 2010. Call Carolyn for more info: 310-736-4770.
  
• Crowdsourcing Is the New Source for Jobs -- and Creative Self-employment Crowdsourcing is the New Crowdsourcing Is the New Source for Jobs -- and Creative Self-employment
  
• Your Health Depends on Genetics, Lifestyle and Environment, Your Place History Matters GIS atlas information provides maps about your "history of place"... a key element of your health profile.
  
• Standard for Hand Sanitizers with USDA BioPreferred Support Healthcare, food service and other retail operations can now green their operations and health and safety practices with certified biobased hand sanitizers.
  
• New Product Releases...in THIS Climate !#?$? Whether you sell wholesale or retail green products, we've reached a new level of buyer expectations. And green isn't good enough any longer!
  
• Learning Climate Change Risk Avoidance from SEC Guidance Green business thrives on coping effectively with climate change. We have a huge economy to re-engineer in greener, cleaner methods, and climate change reporting provides information to shape better strategies.
  
• UC Berkeley Energy Symposium Accepting Poster Submissions for March 2010 Event Marketing of new technology starts with research and policy awareness. UC Berkeley makes your innovation visible to their conference attendees. And it's free.
  
• Local & Urban Retail Are In, Even for Big Box Stores Green business thrives with its community - and when that community is urban, and growing more so -- you can count on this marketplace attracting big box stores and global players. How do you compete?
  
• Green Marketing Insights with John Grant Corporate responsibility starts with individual human will.
  
• Supply Chain Recognition by Northrop Grumman in SoCal Local California companies can supply major manufacturers with green alternatives to meet their compliance needs for both environmentally sustainable materials and small business requirements required in federal contracts. Northrop Grumman is one of those Southern California companies that seeks and supports small businesses with green solutions.
  
• AAA Hotel Ratings to include Eco-Ratings Hotels and restaurants can soon add their eco-rating to listings in AAA guides and websites. This will make it easier to find green accommodations for travel and vacations.
  
• Webinar 11/11 on Secrets of Successful Green Business Launch Free webinar on green business startup with Glenn Croston and Jim Simco
  
• Graphics Gone Green is a Guide to Practical, Purposeful Marcom Design Green business has a heart of green communications. And green design. And thoughtful sourcing. Here's how...
  
• GreenLines Newsletter, October 2009 Welcome to the October 2009 edition of the California Green Solutions "GreenLines" newsletter. We appreciate your visit...and hope you will tell us about your green solutions so we can pass the word along! This month's issue is filled with resources to help our readers find green products, green services and green job training...and jobs. Enjoy... and pass it along to someone who wants green options.
  
• Fixture-level Lighting Control System for Daylighting and Energy Savings Balancing natural light and industrial lighting system control can save energy, especially when retrofitting is simplified.
  
• Ecological Intelligence and Green Choices, Daniel Goldman Ecological Intelligence and Green Choices, Daniel Goldman
  
• Googlizing Books with Distributed Book Publishing Book publishing has been the vehicle for sharing ideas. The physical printing of books has been a heavy load borne by trees and trucks. Digital distribution has joined forces with paper-based presses...for the next phase of the printing revolution that has rocked the world...for centuries!
  
• Clean Green Guy Launches Deal Making ad Events for Green Startups The Clean Green Guy's Deal Marketplace is an online investor road show for clean and green companies.
  
• Sustainable Cities: Green Trade Network Summit - Santa Cruz, Sept 25, 2009 MBITA holds regular events to educate and connect regional companies with international business opportunities.
  
• Metric of Value: Value of Statistical Life or VSL Understanding intangible concepts such as economic impacts, value of life, and social good require deep analysis...and creative solutions. Here are several analysis methods to consider in the campaign for a more sustainable world.
  
• Sustainable Communities Require Organic Change We're facing a new challenge -- rebuilding our cities from the subsoil to the sky. Sustainable cities are about the entire urban system that includes food, water, shelter, transportation, jobs, and education...and more, of course.
  
• The Santitation District's Role in Water Conservation Green marketing is about more than advertising and promotion. It is also about being a reputable member of your community -- and letting the public know what you do to protect and serve them.
  
• Augmented Reality Between a Magazine and YOUR Web Screen New Web technologies usher in new immersive and interactive communication technologies that marry magazines, web pages and webcams.
  
• CSR Provides Standard Operating Procedure for Real Efficiencies Corporate social responsibility is also smart business that provides energy and cost efficiencies. This IBM report outlines some of the significant savings that can result from supply chain optimization and better information management.
  
• Have green product ideas? Yahoo! Kicks Off ‘Make It Green’ Promotion Do you have ideas for green products? Now you can submit them to a central database and take your chance on getting them made and getting paid for your ideas!
  
• February 2009 GreenLines Newsletter February 2009 GreenLines news and solutions.
  
• Patenting Green Earthen Plaster Formulation - American Clay Enterprises Green building and green business involves intellectual property management -- patents, etc. Here's a case study in how and why a patent and a family developed together.
  
• UN Presents Confronting Climate Change through Co-operative Enterprise Cooperatives are a grass roots, sustainability solution. Coops combine the best of localism, bartering, community building and smart economics. And the UN agrees! They celebrate an annual day to give visibility to the cooperative way of doing business that's good for communities. Here is the 2008 message about cooperative business and community value and promise.
  
• Cooperative Resources from the UN for Sustainable Community Development The benefits of cooperatives are broad -- and are very beneficial forms of business for green and sustainable services for local and regional community vitality.