Take Your Green Business Idea to the Next Level
Starting a green business isn't easy, but these days even the most established companies are trying to find ways to go green. The market is open to entrepreneurs with big ideas.
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How to Break Into the Green Energy Business
As the international race to efficiently use renewable energy escalates, more money is being thrown at making green energy widely available. Here's how to break in and find your niche.
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How to Bring an Eco-friendly Product to Market
With more sophisticated consumers and a stricter FTC, creating a green product is no longer a magic bullet to sales. But done right, it can still help you stand out in the marketplace.
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How to Start an Office Recycling Program
As much as 90 percent of office waste in the average workplace can be recycled. Here's how to get started.
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10 Ways to Mark Earth Day at Your Company
Celebrate Mother Earth by launching these sustainable initiatives at your company.
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How to Lower Your Company's Energy Bills
How to use less energy and lower your business's utility bills Read more
Cashing In on Clean Technology
Despite the credit crunch and falling oil prices, venture capitalists say green energy is still a good bet. Read more
Report: Consumers Still Shopping Green
Despite the recession, buyers are spending more for eco-friendly products. Read more
Entrepreneurs Looking for Green Vendors
Small business owners seek out green vendors with competitive prices and make other small 'green' changes. Read more
Business Owners Wary of Cap and Trade
Although supporters say the policy will help fight global warming, some contend that cap-and-trade legislation could provide a dangerous new commodities mark... Read more
$1.1 Billion for Green Tech and IT
Khosla Ventures raises the largest amount of VC since 2007 to invest in clean technology and IT companies. Read more
9 Ways to Cut Energy Costs
Energy costs have been rising in recent years and new taxes are on the horizon, so every business has a reason to become more efficient. Here's how. View slideshow
Small Businesses Exempted from Emissions Law
The EPA exempts businesses with greenhouse gas emissions of less than 25,000 metric tons per year under the Clean Air Act. Read more
Totes From Trash
TerraCycle and Kraft have joined forces to turn used packaging into purses, backpacks and other products. Read more
Going Green at Work
By approaching going green strategically, businesses can ease the transition and make the eco-movement work for them. Read more
Has the Greening of IT Gone Too Far?
When companies go green, how do the cost savings measure up against server agility? What should companies be aware of when vendors want to sell them energy-e... Read more
Green Computing Choices
Small business has no exemption when it comes to helping preserve the environment. Here's why you should make eco-friendly computing choices for your busines... Read more
Will Your Customers Pay to Go Green?
Take a simple paradigm: plastic bottles. The cheapest way to make a plastic bottle is to use 100 percent virgin plastic (the worst thing for the environme... Read more
How Do We Know You Aren't Just Green Washing?
As the CEO of a company that proudly touts its products as eco-friendly, I am often asked by reporters, investors, and others, "How do we know you aren't ... Read more
Carbon: To Tax Or Trade, Revisited
A couple months ago, I wondered why all the candidates... Read more
Republicans Stall, Democrats Abandon Climate Bill
Climate bill, we hardly knew ye. I thought I'd have more time to gather my thoughts on the massive global warming legislation that the Senate Read more
Nothing But Green Skies
Enterprise Rent-A-Car is one of the nation's top family-owned businesses, a $12 billion behemoth that dominates its industry. But CEO Andy Taylor feared it a... Read more
Clip File: Republicans Warm Up To Climate Change
Al Gore's Nobel win may have some Republicans crying politics, but an ... Read more
Carbon: To Tax Or Trade?
Turns out I'm not the only one to notice that in the ... Read more
Republicans Debate Climate; Moderator Loses (And Huckabee Surprises)
I'm still trying to sort out why I found the exchange on global warming in yesterday's Republican debate so surprising. Was it my imagination, or did the ... Read more
How to Dispose of Your Computer Equipment
Recycling and other forms of proper computer disposal are available in the digital age. Read more
Strategies for Reducing Your Environmental Liability
Today, a comprehensive web of environmental laws regulate the use, disposal and remediation of hazardous materials. This regulatory scheme includes federa... Read more
A Reading List For Nervous CEOS
Guides to help companies comply with EPA regulations the Clean Water Act. Read more
Hazardous Waste Threatens CEOs
Accelerating EPA small business prosecution the expense of compliance. Read more
A Charge For The Good
Help environmental causes by using an 'affinity' credit card. Read more
Reduce and Recycle
Free booklets on waste-reduction programs. Read more
Down In The Dumps
Business can't afford it. Government can't enforce it. But this month a new law regulating the hazardous wastes of small companies goes into effect anyway. Read more
Behind Bars;
TAPED TO THE FRONT DOOR AT THE Justice Department's Environmental Crimes Unit in Washington is a cartoon showing a business executive speaking to five oth... Read more
When Uncle Sam Sneezes
A business that depends on the whims of Washington better hope the government doesn't change its mind too often Read more
Going Green Isn't Just about Doing Good
Going green isn't just about doing good. It's also smart business for a lot of companies on the Inc. 5000. Read more
Cut Your Staff
If American businesses can slim down, they're more likely to win the productivity race. Read more
Clean Air Act
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Clean Water Act
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Comprehensive Environmental Response Cleanup and Liability Act (CERCLA)
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Environmental Audit
Environmental audits are reviews of a company's operations and processes to determine compliance with environmental regulations. Audits cover buildings an... Read more
Environmental Law and Business
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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Green Marketing
Environmentally-responsible or "green" marketing is a business practice that takes into account consumer concerns about promoting preservation and conserv... Read more
Green Production
The color green is closely associated with environmen-talism—and therefore "green production," "green enterprise," "green business,"and similar tags... Read more
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