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Inexpensive Green Tips for Your Small Business

BY JD CarrThu Aug 6, 2009 at 10:10 PM

Amid growing concern for our environment, several businesses have been thinking of turning green. One of the major concerns of employers is the costs this change will incur (a very common misconception). However, being green need not involve an expensive and major redesign of your entire office. There are several inexpensive ways to start making a difference to the world and the environment while actually reducing some costs too.READ»

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20 Ways to Fund Green Business

BY Meredith GosslandSat Aug 1, 2009 at 11:33 PM

Adding 10 per day, I'll be listing 100 ways to get funding for green business. From bootstrapping to angel investors and Grants there is plenty of money to go around! Check it out!READ»

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200 Green Business Ideas

BY Meredith GosslandThu Jul 23, 2009 at 1:19 PM

Just for starters....in virtually every industryREAD»

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Releasing the Energy Efficiency Floodgates

BY Glenn CrostonTue Jul 21, 2009 at 3:48 AM

The Growing Opportunity to Do More With LessREAD»

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Status of Stimulus Funds for Green Businesses: Pools and Channels

BY Glenn CrostonTue Jul 7, 2009 at 3:19 AM

Greenies to Gov: Show us the moneyREAD»

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A Vote Against the Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill is a vote for the Do Nothing Tax of 2009

BY Glenn CrostonWed Jul 1, 2009 at 4:09 AM

With so many challenges facing our country and the U.S. government, many people have doubted whether we would see significant action on climate change this year. They may still prove correct, but with the passage of the ...READ»

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Gotham Greens Building First Hydroponic Rooftop Farm in NYC

BY Ariel SchwartzMon Jun 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM

New York City imports $1 billion in vegetables every year to feed the city's constantly growing population. In the future, the majority of the city's produce might be grown a little closer to home if Gotham Greens gets its way.The ...READ»

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How to Succeed in Green Business Without Really Trying

BY Glenn CrostonFri Jun 5, 2009 at 3:04 AM

Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and our back is hurting. The down economy has strained a great number of small businesses, which while viewed as essential for the economy are not too big to fail. Byron Kennard ...READ»

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Genomatica: Green and Profitable Chemistry with Microbes

BY Glenn CrostonThu Jun 4, 2009 at 2:01 AM

The global chemical industry, worth trillions of dollars a year, has relied heavily on oil and natural gas. While we often associate the green business world with solar panels and electric cars, change is brewing in industries ...READ»

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10 Trends that Will Keep the Green Economy Growing

BY Glenn CrostonWed May 27, 2009 at 4:07 AM

There is no saying what the business world will do the in short term, but these long term trends are a good bet to keep growing the green business world in the years ahead: 1. Oil will cost more There’s only ...READ»

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It’s Okay for Green Businesses to Make Money

BY Glenn CrostonSun May 24, 2009 at 11:21 AM

When people talk to me about the green business they're working on, it will sometimes become apparent as we talk that at least part of the problem they are encountering may not be what they think it is. Rather than being an issue ...READ»

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Six Strategies to Thrive in the Conserver Economy

BY Glenn CrostonSun May 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM

Where the green economy meets the lean economyREAD»

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Going MiaGreen in Miami

BY Glenn CrostonTue May 5, 2009 at 3:01 AM

Riding the green wave to MiamiREAD»

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Green Opportunities in the Hudson Valley

BY Glenn CrostonSun May 3, 2009 at 2:58 AM

I spoke at a couple of events on April 29 in the Hudson Valley, talking about green business opportunities. One was a workshop I did sponsored by SUNY Ulster in Kingston New York, and the other was a luncheon with GET (Gateways to ...READ»

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Growing Legs to Leap to the Next Opportunity

BY Glenn CrostonSun Apr 19, 2009 at 1:59 AM

In recent weeks I’ve been watching tadpoles in a small pool in a drying creekbed. The tadpoles are small but they tell a big story. The pool they’re in lies in a canyon surrounded by trees and grasses. It has been another ...READ»

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A Changing Climate for Green Leaders

BY Glenn CrostonThu Mar 19, 2009 at 12:35 AM

Certifying the leaders of the green biz revolutionREAD»

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We’re Not in Kansas Anymore, and We’re Not Going Back

BY Glenn CrostonSun Mar 15, 2009 at 4:41 AM

Its time to wake up and get moving again, in a new and better direction.READ»

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Polar Bears, Shmolar Bears

BY Glenn CrostonTue Mar 3, 2009 at 1:01 AM

I belong to a few environmental groups and so I receive a steady stream of flyers from these groups in the mail, more often than not highlighting the plight of whales, polar bears, and wolves. Even today as the world goes through ...READ»

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A Stimulating Green Package

BY Glenn CrostonTue Feb 17, 2009 at 12:12 AM

On Friday the US Congress passed the final version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the “stimulus package”, and President Obama is slated to sign it on Tuesday. If you want you can read ...READ»

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Clean Coal: It's Not a Misnomer, But is it the Answer?

BY Melanie WarnerTue Feb 3, 2009 at 5:35 PM

Advances in clean coal are promising -- really! -- but the industry and society shouldn't celebrate just yet.READ»

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How the Stimulus Package will help Small, Green Businesses Help us All

BY Glenn CrostonSun Feb 1, 2009 at 12:54 PM

What's small and green and will get the economy moving again?READ»

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Hail to the Chief Green

BY Glenn CrostonSat Jan 17, 2009 at 2:53 AM

In just a few days President-elect Obama will be President Obama. The economy remains the main agenda item, but this does not mean that environmental initiatives are being left behind. With just a few days left before he takes ...READ»

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How to Find Environmentally Friendly Hotels

BY Glenn CrostonFri Jan 16, 2009 at 2:50 AM

As more businesses work to do a better job at reducing their environmental impact, they are looking at the impact of meetings that they hold, including the venues like hotels that are used for offsite meetings and travel. More and ...READ»

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Getting Invited to the Green Party

BY Glenn CrostonFri Jan 9, 2009 at 3:43 AM

One of Thomas Friedman’s messages in his latest book, “Hot, Flat, and Crowded” is that the green economy is not having a real impact yet on the huge problems like climate change that we face. In his chapter “205 Easy Ways ...READ»

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Five New Years Revolutions for a Green and Prosperous 2009

BY Glenn CrostonFri Jan 2, 2009 at 4:02 AM

New Years resolutions are not enough these days. Rather than just make New Years resolutions for 2009 to change my own bad habits, I’m making New Years revolutions to encourage personal green revolutions among entrepreneurs, ...READ»

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