Topic: Green Business

Tokyo Eco-Startup Fullcircle Innovations Is Announced as a Finalist in Red Herring 100 Asia Prize

Solving climate change is a big challenge that will require cooperation and innovation on a global scale. Tokyo startup Fullcircle Innovations is taking on this challenge with its offerings at GreenITers.com and EcoAppsFree.com.READ»

US Sustainable Business Spending to Double to $60 Billion by 2014

Independent analyst firm Verdantix finds that spending on sustainability initiatives will grow from $28 billion in 2010 to $60 billion in 2014. The sustainable business market forecast finds that growth of 11% in 2010 will increase to 16% in 2011 and 24% in 2012. The study covers all industries and all sustainability initiatives from energy efficiency to spending on strategy, risk and brand. READ»

5 Steps for Your Small Business to Get Credit and Get It Right

Small businesses have the power to get our economy moving again, creating jobs and real growth, but they continue finding credit difficult to come by, or shy away for fear of hidden traps. Congress hopes that the Small Business Jobs ...READ»

India's Clean Energy Investment Potential: Report

The World Resources Institute says there's a $2.11 billion market for clean energy among India's rural poor.READ»

How Green Entrepreneurs Pave the Path to Real Economic Recovery

In the aftermath of the Great Recession we could be in a single dip or a double, heading for deflation or hyper-inflation. But one thing seems clear - we're not getting out of this mess by shuffling money around. We need real ...READ»

Green Revolution Gives Students Careers for the Future

College students gain work experience and earn money working as Green Consultants.READ»

Greenforce Initiative Brings Clean Energy Jobs to Community Colleges

Corporations and governmental organizations have poured billions of dollars into clean energy initiatives over the past few years. But with those investments comes a need for qualified green collar workersREAD»

Steven Stone on the Greening of Sub-Saharan Africa

In the past year, African nations, such as Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda, have been investing billions of public and private dollars in green technologies, like renewable energy and organic agriculture. Economist Steven Stone of ...READ»

Business Malady #1: The Waiting Game

There's a game called the Waiting Game that works like this: you sit on the sidelines, waiting for everyone else to go first. And then you skip a turn. Or a hundred turns. And before you know it, the game's over. Everyone else is ...READ»

Sshhh, It's Green Innovation

Have sustainable brands suddenly gone shy? Why else wouldn't they be talking about their green advantage?READ»

From Confucius to Communism: How the Past Is Affecting China's Green Future

For China, the world's largest economy, going green may be as much about understanding the past as it is about embracing the future: the country's cultural, social, and ethical values play an overlooked and largely underestimated role in China's ability to shift toward sustainability.READ»

DoSomething Winner Returns to Save His Stricken Hometown

After he graduated, development major Mark Rembert applied for the Peace Corps, thinking he could help developing countries strengthen their communities. But when his hometown's largest employer shut its doors, Rembert found that rural Ohio needed him most.READ»

Samsung Champions the Environment, Disses the Elderly

Samsung's CSR program needs to brush up on its elderly appeal.READ»

Aspen Institute Amplifies Green Jobs Collaboration With Energy and Environment Awards

Blue Green Alliance named winner in Non-Governmental category.READ»

Good Cop, Bad Cop: the Evolving Form of Business-NGO Partnerships in China

A recent trip to China to speak at the Annual Summit of China Green Companies revealed an interesting tension between NGOs, businesses, and the Chinese government: everyone agrees that better policing of environmental performance is needed. But no one can agree on exactly how this should be accomplished. READ»

The Rise of the Conserver Economy

More people are returning to the values of a conservative past where nothing went to waste and we spent within our means. I call this shift the "Conserver Economy", moving away from the consumer economy with its emphasis on spending and consumption. Their motivations are often about spending less money because they simply have less money to spend.READ»

Greening Up the World's Cell Phone Towers

Within five years, something like 5% of the world's cell phone tower base stations will be powered by one form or another of green energy. If that doesn't sound like much, the figure's just 0.11% today. And with cell phone use ...READ»

Certifying Green Businesses With Green Irene and the Green Business Bureau

While almost everyone wants to do the right thing for the planet, a variety of factors can hold businesses back from taking the sustainability plunge. One of them is uncertainty about what going green really means. When the definition ...READ»

Trust, Meet Vested Interest

Last week, I attended the Ignite Clean Energy Cleantech Open's Northeast Academy, essentially a cleantech startup bootcamp (in wildly overgeneralized terms). The Northeast's best and brightest startups were selected to become a part ...READ»

Join Us for Oakland, California's Fast Cities Breakfast!

Want to see how an innovative city of the future is created? Join us for our Fast Cities panel on June 22 at the Washington Inn in Oakland, California. A variety of speakers, including Fast Company's own Anya Kamenetz; Ian Kim, ...READ»

What Will L.A.'s Cleantech Corridor Look Like?

L.A. isn't known as a leader in the cleantech industry. In California, that distinction falls squarely on the Bay Area--specifically Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Now L.A. hopes to get up to speed with the CleanTech ...READ»

Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics: Nokia Keeps Its Top Spot, Toshiba's Rank Drops

Greenpeace has released its quarterly edition of their Guide to Greener Electronics, with some dramatic shifts in their ratings of electronics manufacturers. The guide keeps Nokia in the top spot, and Nintendo remains in last place.READ»

U.S. Patent Office's Green Tech Fast Track Program Expands Its Reach

The United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Green Technology Pilot Program, launched in December to fast track green tech patent applications, has been good to many companies--Skyline Solar, for example, received a ...READ»

The Future: The Continued Growth of Green

After looking back on the 50 years of "green marketing", Landor Associates' Chief Strategy Officer, Russ Meyers, will outline what the future holds through trends in sustainability. In this series, we’ve looked at the history of ...READ»

• Slideshows: 50 Years of Green Marketing

A History of Green Brands: 2000's Thousands of Flowers Bloom

This decade was a tipping point for the sustainability movement and this piece, written by Landor Associates' Russ Meyers, looks at the promotion and expansion of green brands.With the beginning of a new decade came new interest in ...READ»

• Slideshow: 50 Years of Marketing