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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The Business of the Sea Lion Exhibit at the Louisville Zoo
Here’s a look at the companies that provide the herring, faux rocks, animal ID tags, and water-filtration system as you enjoy feeding time at the sea lion exhibit.
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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. Read more
Andy Dunn, Co-founder of Bonobos
Andy Dunn, co-founder of Bonobos, an online men's apparel retailer based in New York City, talks about building a successful business on the Web. Watch video
CEO Passions: Falconry
Bill Mixon, co-founder of real estate and development firm Brothers Company, trains red-tailed hawks to hunt. Read more
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
Passions: Scott Mitic, CEO of TrustedID
"Watching the bees interact is mesmerizing. Bees have a bad name, but they are docile creatures." 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
House Committee Approves Energy Bill
The House Small Business Committee this week approved legislation aimed at helping small businesses cope with rising energy costs. The Small Busine... Read more
D-Link Launches Green Ethernet Products
D-Link has introduced a line of environmentally friendly Gigabit switches for small offices and home offices. Green Ethernet technology promises to reduce... 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
Researchers Urge Environmental Responsibility
July 14, 2005 --A report released Tuesday by an international panel of experts offered stern warnings to businesses on the environment whi... Read more
It's Easy Being Green
March is the month for St. Patrick's Day, and you know what that means -- it's time to be green. But in addition to wearing green clothes or drinking gree... Read more
Save Money on Energy Costs
The deregulation of the energy industry is a hot new market for some start-ups, as Emily Barker reveals in the 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
Capitalism for Credit
New business manufactures and markets device that attaches to fishing nets and keeps whales, dolphins and seals out. Read more
Uncommon Markets
Start-up company showcases rats and other rodents performing tricks and acrobatic stunts at parties. 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
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