People always ask me to show them a great example of a green business and now I think I have found the perfect green business model. I was in total shock when I watched the following video because it really encompasses everything that a true green business is.
Two University students [...]
One of our goals at Green Business is to showcase wonderful people and the impact they are having in the field of green business, and to offer inspiration and perhaps advice to those who are seeking to get into a similar vocation. Maybe you want to help the environment, but [...]
As solar energy gains popularity in providing electricity to businesses, it also is becoming more popular with home owners, as shown in the following video. Solar panel installers has emerged as a new and important job within the green technology movement. Instead of a traditional type of construction job, [...]
One of our goals here at Green Business is to offer ideas to our readers to help them start their own green business. Â Another excellent example of a green business is a green janitorial service, maybe even cleaning LEED certified buildings. These green business owners and workers use environmentally friendly [...]
It is difficult to start any type of business, so if you want to start a green business you better find out what your motives are. If you decide to begin the search, start by looking at the pioneer of green business, Mr. Ray Anderson. He will tell you his [...]
It never seizes to amaze me the amazing ideas people come up with in terms of creating unique green businesses. I recently came across a green business that is an original. The green business I am referring to sells eco-friendly products to throw  sustainable parties for large and small [...]
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created a program called Energy Star to help reduce energy use. The Energy Star website is a vast online resource that offers a wealth of information  to help everyone create a more environmentally friendly workplace. The site also offers tips and tricks [...]
The City of Santa Monica is doing everything it can to help its citizens go green with the Santa Monica Office of Sustainability and the Environment’s website. Some of the areas the website covers are: buying green, education, energy, green building and hazardous materials. A superb idea and amazing [...]
A pilot program in Trenton, New Jersey offered by the Center for Energy and Environmental Training (CEET) teaches unemployed people how to perform energy audits in homes throughout the city. Along with being a heart warming story the following video is a fabulous representation of the growth and importance that [...]
The following video presents some interesting views on how retailers, specifically Walmart, are turning green to increase profits. The reputation of Walmart has not been the greatest over the last few years, but their image is slowly changing because they are making real changes in their company. While green washing [...]
Bullfrog Power is a leading renewable energy producer providing electricity to homes and businesses in the three Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario. They claim to be Canada’s leading 100 per cent green electricity provider. Bullfrog Power generates its electricity by using wind turbines and injects clean [...]
I have been lucky enough to be receiving a lot of media invites to sustainability expos from around North America due to our humble, little blog. Our reach on the topic of green business has been growing in leaps and bounds since we started it in the Spring of 2007. [...]
I stumbled on a home based, small green business that I thought everyone should know about. It is a green service that both homes and businesses alike could use. It is called ECO-audit and it helps homes and businesses become more environmentally friendly.
A list of the company’s reasons for performing [...]
The following video made me smile and I immediately knew I had to post it at Green Business. It comes from a participant at Green Business Camp who perfectly exemplifies the spirit that many green business owners possess. He truly is an inspiration. What do you think!
So you want to start your own green business but you don’t have the necessary capital to get something off the ground. You don’t need to be rich to start your own green business, just make it a small green business. Ideas can be hard to come by at times, [...]
SPIN farming is part of organic horticulture and is this weeks focus on green business. SPIN farming stands for Small Plot INtensive farming. It is essentially a small scale gardening method but organic gardeners with business savvy use a collection of urban lawns, either rented or bartered from the [...]
The Vancouver Convention Center has been designed with sustainability in mind. Green architecture is rapidly gaining speed to becoming a fundamental area of sustainability. Vancouver’s convention center is such a colossal project that without incorporating even a minimal amount of sustainability, it would have been devastating to the ecosystem in [...]
What does building green mean and why is it necessary? Greening a company encompasses many different aspects, not just recycling or stopping use of toxic materials and replacing it with something more environmentally friendly. Turning your company green includes green building practices. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, more commonly [...]
Like the Phoenix rising from the ashes the green economy will be a significant participant in bringing an end to the current worldwide recession - the key reason being the enormous investment in alternative energy. Â When we look back, 2009 will be viewed as a monumental year in terms of [...]
Here at Green Business we like to profile small businesses that are environmentally friendly. We decided to do something a little different this time and profile a large company that is a leader in the creation of alternative energy - specifically solar power. Just to make things clear to our [...]
Tomorrow the Province of Ontario, in Canada, will publicly introduce the Green Energy Act. There are a number of goals for the act. First and foremost, the act is to aid the Province in relying less on non-renewable energy. Secondly, Ontario hopes to create at least  50,000 [...]
If you have never heard of CleanSkies.tv you must visit their website and watch some environmental television. Offering both live and recorded newscasts focused on energy and the environment, this channel has taken a major step in presenting green issues in an entertaining and informative way. If you are [...]
With the immense popularity that social media is seeing on the internet I thought it might be interesting to see how subscribers at Twitter are doing their part. We have an account at Twitter and we are fortunate enough to have a number of followers [...]
Investing in green technologies has become the most logical way to stimulate the economy on a mass scale by creating green jobs by the millions. The effects of this will be felt well into the future as the infrastructure of all of these cities will be green. The short-term benefit [...]
We have forgotten about those businesses that were green businesses before the term was even part of the average person’s vocabulary. A green business that has been around a long time that most people do not give a second thought to is organic seeds. Sellers [...]
In my opinion the biggest question entering 2009 is will Barack Obama be true to his word and invest in green technologies to the extent he promised he would during the presidential campaign? If he is a man of his word and billions upon billions [...]
The CEO of Nestle Waters NA, Mr.Kim Jeffery, and his peers in the bottled water industry have been under intense scrutiny in the media recently over the effects bottled water is having on the environment. With most empty bottles ending up in landfills, Mr.Jeffery seems to be on a [...]
Green Job Trends
An interesting fact that not many people look to can be found in Google Trends. Scanning the number of web searches using the keyword term ‘green jobs’ reveals a major jump in the year 2008. By reviewing the graph below one can see a leap in search queries [...]
An exciting forum focusing on environmental issues in the media is going to take place in Los Angeles on December 8-9, 2008. This green media forum includes a number of interesting keynote speakers, most notably Gary Wilk who is VP of World Wide Operations & Green Ambassador of Walt Disney [...]
Sustainable agriculture is, in my opinion, a viable green career choice. The following video focuses on a small farm operation. These farmers care about what they do. From top to bottom, the owners and managers offer a hands on approach to farming. Mostly selling to local markets, they sell a [...]
As my current focus seems to be on green jobs, I want to share this video with you - a 3 minute excerpt from a larger discussion. Carnegie Ethics Studio presents Norine Kennedy who speaks about the environment, jobs and sustainability. Ms. Kennedy believes that the business community, by [...]
I have been on sort of a tangent lately with regards to careers in the green marketplace. Sorry if anyone out there is getting a little bit annoyed, but I found another great site that is focused on finding green jobs and I would like to share it with you. [...]
With massive job cuts going on in America at the moment I wanted to add a resource to help anyone and everyone search for a green job. The website TreeHugger has a very impressive job board that is updated daily. I hope it helps in your quest for a [...]
One might say that a more traditional form of green business is a farmers market. A non-profit organization, eatlocal.org located in Vancouver, BC, Canada offers vendors a medium to sell their organic fruits & vegetables, free-range chickens and a vast array of other amazing eco-friendly products. The market offers [...]
The builder in the accompanying video follows Leed certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). Some very important information about green building practices can be found at the U.S. Green Building Council website.
The following are four points that Rex the builder says are key factors in building green.
1-Recycling [...]
First things first, who is business.gov. From their site:
Business.gov, the official business link to the U.S. Government, is managed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in a partnership with 21 other federal agencies. This partnership, known as Business Gateway, is a Presidential E-government initiative that provides a [...]
Yesterday I wrote a little bit about greenwashing. The subject is so compelling that I did some more research and stumbled upon the following video - a very entertaining piece from RANvideo (Rainforest Action Network). They talk about Wal-Mart’s sustainability initiative and the potential that the company has [...]
The marketing of green businesses and the products they sell is on the rise, and so are ethical concerns. In the following video Dave Michael Garg investigates the relatively new phenomenon of greenwashing. The term greenwashing has to do with businesses misleading the public as to the true environmental impact [...]
One of the things I love doing is promoting green businesses. A cool online green business I recently found is BuyGreen.com. Check out the site below to find all the earth-friendly products you will ever need. On a side note, this company not only sells eco-friendly products but they are [...]
An amazing green business is located near the Northern California town of Redding. The Gaia Anderson Hotel is an eco-friendly hotel offering the following packages: rafting, fly fishing, spa, golf and romance.
If you want a getaway and you are environmentalist, check out what The Gaia Anderson Hotel.
I recently found a digital magazine focusing on green business. The cover below is from the May/June 2008 issue. Easy to navigate with well written articles, this is a magazine that should be read by everyone who has a passion for green business. The magazine is published by [...]
How environmentally friendly are those green products you are buying? This video answers the question and makes us ask a few more. This video originated from our friends at living green channel
The following green business video focuses on Google and what they are doing to advance the movement towards sustainability. When multi-billion dollar companies make a conscious effort to protect the environment and minimize their carbon footprint, things are changing. I personally hope that other major corporations realize that taking action [...]
I came across the following site and I just smiled. Here you will find a company dedicated to our four-legged friends. Paw Luxury, an online store, specializes in providing dogs with organic food and other eco-friendly products. From beds & mats to clothing, Paw luxury has all the bases [...]
Rugula Appenzeller is owner of the green business Hank&Cheef. Using organic cotton ethically sourced from Turkey, Hank&Cheef has brought back the handkerchief, finally. Kudos to them for reinventing an indispensable but forgotten product. I hope they are successful.
The following video is about a program in Santa Cruz that officially certifies businesses as green if they follow county guidelines. So far over 70 businesses have been certified as a green business in Santa Cruz. The program is called the Green Business County Program and we salute Santa [...]
Here is a really cool video that follows Pizza Fusion. This pizza parlor sells only organic pizzas and they are thriving, selling franchises at a rapid rate. In my opinion pizza is one of the most popular foods in America, and Pizza Fusion is doing it right, selling great [...]
I just saw the following video by United Natural Foods Inc. This company is a distributor of certified organic foods. Yeah, it is a bit of an infomercial, but it drives the point home that business can maximize profit by being sustainable. Reducing costs and reducing negative impact on [...]
Just in case anyone is interested there is an expo dedicated to everything green. The Earth Now Expo will be at the Las Vegas Convention Center from June 4-5, 2008. The focus of this expo will on selling green products and services. You can click the image below for more [...]
The CEO of Stoneyfield Farm, Gary Hirshberg, offers his views on organic farming, specifically how organic farming can not only be profitable but actually reduce production costs. The following is a two minute clip from the talk. If you want to view the entire talk just click here.
I just received an email from an account executive at Special Ops Media requesting me to help promote an Eco-Fair at Universal Studios. It is on April 26 and runs from 10:00am-4:00pm. From what I read Universal is pushing its little own green business these days.
Major players in all forms [...]
We are so proud to be part of the green section at Alltop.com. You can check us out by clicking the image below. Alltop.com links to all the best sites on the internet and offers their rss feeds for a really convenient way to stay up to date.
I found an excerpt of a video that really makes me smile. The speaker talks about how far green business has come over the past two or three years. Clean and affordable energy seems to be spearheading the green business movement, but along the way other businesses will make the [...]
The Georgia Straight, a free weekly newspaper, puts out a supplement every season and Spring 2008 is devoted to “The Green Life”. This issue includes articles about sustainable homes, greenery, and an interview with environmentalist David Suzuki. If you click on the magazine’s front cover below it will lead [...]
The Green Living Show is coming to Vancouver, BC, Canada. This show will offer new green products, services and advice from 200 exhibitors. Luckily I am from Vancouver so I will definitely be checking out this expo. It runs from February 29 to March 2 and will be held [...]
I just wanted to thank the guys at Alternative Energy News who published my interview with Gary Thompson, CEO of Sierra Geothermal Power Corp. It was a great experience talking with the head of a company specializing in creating alternative energy. If you want to read the interview [...]
Even in the best of times looking for a job can be a tough task, but if you’re looking for a job in the environmental marketplace it may seem near impossible. Check out these sites and get a meaningful job - it can be done. I hope that these resources [...]
No one really knows how much the green market has penetrated traditional markets but I have come across some interesting information from Morgan Stanley. They have focused on alternative energies, specifically the impact it will have in terms of penetrating the energy market as a whole.
Green Market Penetration Forecast
Up. I question a lot of companies motives but that is just my jaded self writing. As it stands now more than a number of companies are getting on this bandwagon, a public relations bonanza to say the least. I accept it for what its worth regardless of a company’s [...]
In response to recent power shortages in South Africa, the national power company, Eskom, has begun calling on individuals and industry alike to cut power usage. Employing a strategy called "Demand-Side Management", they're engaging customers to limit their consumption, even going so far as to pay industrial plants [...]
Home-based wind power solutions are, as of now, not extremely practical. A lot of them require significant height, a big initial investment, and some unfortunate regulatory hoops that must be jumped through.
But Helix Wind is attempting to overcome some of those obstacles with their 2 kilowatt [...]
Silicon Valley's solar boom continues with Ausra, a Palo Alto startup backed by venture capitalist heavyweights Vinod Khosla and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, filing an application to build a 177-megawatt solar power plant on California's Central Coast.
Ausra's lodging of its 1,000+ page "application for certification" with [...]
Inflatatable solar? Yeah, sounds kinda fishy, but I've been reading up and I'm starting to think that Cool Earth Solar is for real. They've created a new technology that uses traditional photovoltaics and a new inflatable concentrator. We've seen plenty of mirror concentrators before but this [...]
Well, a brief update on the Aquobuoy. It is no longer bobbing in the waves off the Oregon coast. In fact, it is well underneath them.
the 72-foot-tall buoy began taking on water late last week and sank just one day before engineers were going to [...]
Is EEStor's ultracapacitor-based storage device for real? Will it meet its ambitious -- some would say unrealistic -- claims? And even if it does, can we realistically expect the product to just instantly change the market? After all, developing a game-changing technology is one thing, but the process of changing [...]
Green Wombat happened to be chatting with BrightSource Energy CEO John Woolard yesterday at the solar power startup’s Oakland, Calif., offices when an executive burst into a conference room with big news: the California Energy Commission had accepted BrightSource’s application to be build the first large-scale solar [...]
Qualcomm has developed a new energy-efficient display technology based on lightwave interference. Their technology, an interferometric modulator (IMOD) display, works by setting up interference patterns in light. If light reflects off two surfaces that are within one light wavelength apart, a destructive interference pattern sets up that [...]
GI Joe has got it wrong, according to Majora Carter, the dynamic Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx. Carter, who works to connect poverty alleviation and the environment in ways that benefit both concerns, argues that "showing up is more than half the battle."
