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Nominate Your Favorite Green App
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Monterey Abalone Company: Selling Into The Green Supply Chain
Monterey Abalone Company is the first of four companies I will be profiling that have pioneered best practices for making money selling into the green supply chain. The other three profiled companies are large international companies. I wanted to begin this four-part article series with a small business to demonstrate that the opportunity for selling [...]
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The Solar Bottleneck
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Feeding Seven Billion People: The Emerging Farm Tech Revolution
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Care2 is “the largest online community of people passionate about making a difference.” When I interviewed Care2’s President/CEO Randy Paynter in August 2011, the website had approximately 16.5 million members. In only one month, Care2 grew by 500,000 new members to over 17 million. During the day I wrote this article the site’s membership grew [...]
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America is searching for a path that will restore jobs, the economy and our environment. The Green Builds Business program created by the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation with funding from Walmart is doing just that. As the Green Builds Business implementation-coach, I have worked this summer with business owners in Milwaukee, Irving Texas, [...]
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You know Coca-Cola. But do you? What consumer doesn’t recognize the distinctive red and white Coca-Cola logo as the most popular soft drink in the world? Would you be surprised to know that Pepsi is no longer number two, having been displaced by Diet Coke? Would you be further surprised to learn that Coca-Cola sells [...]
Cohn & Wolfe’s Annie Longsworth On Green Brand Leadership
A Green Economic Revolution is accelerating among American consumers. No less than 73% of now say “it is important to buy from green companies.” This is one of many new findings from the recent Cohn & Wolfe 2011 consumer perception survey. The survey is one of the year’s most important studies on how consumers perceive [...]
CFO Engagement on Shareholder Social and Environmental Expectations
This post is part of a series on Stakeholder Engagement sponsored by Jurat Software. Deloitte’s CFO Signals report summarizes the issues that CFOs are increasingly confronting with 4 words: Major Change Initiatives Stress. 56% of CFOs cite this stress with more than half placing it as a top three stress. One of the “Change Initiatives” confronting [...]
Innovation: Aluminum Shipping Pallets
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Shelton Group’s Research: The Green Tipping Point is Here
According to Shelton Group, “a tipping point in American consumer interest in green products has occurred with 70% of consumers in our surveys saying they are searching for green products where green is defined as more energy efficient, natural, sustainable, etc.” Specifically, a few of Shelton Group’s market research findings in support of this green tipping [...]
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Interview: Tom Quinn of Lunera on the LED Lighting Revolution
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Dispatch From Milwaukee: Successful Launch of “Green Builds Business” Entrepreneur Bootcamp
The American dream is being realized in Milwaukee. Local Hispanic business owners are designing and implementing green projects that will accelerate the restoration of local jobs, their economy and our environment over the next 120 days. Milwaukee was the launch city the week of June 6, 2011 for the Green Builds Business program created by the [...]
Interview: Straus Family Creamery’s Deborah Parrish on Values-Based Financial Models
Gaining the Finance Department’s approval of a sustainability project is often a major implementation barrier for many companies. Deborah Parrish is CFO at Straus Family Creamery and is pioneering innovations in local farming and the sale of organic foods. I interviewed Deborah to get some tips on how sustainability advocates should approach CFOs to get [...]
Walmart Grant Gives U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce a Green Business Initiative for its Members
The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) received a grant from Walmart to conduct a city-by-city initiative tailored to Hispanic entrepreneurs and helping them “go green”. TriplePundit contributor Bill Roth, author of The Green Secret Sauce, will spearhead the campaign, developing one day workshops and coaching programs for Hispanic entrepreneurs. The goal of the [...]
First Light Ventures: Social Investors Share Their Best Practices For Raising Funds
How do I raise seed money? That is the top question I receive from entrepreneurs looking to start a company. And even more so from entrepreneurs who are attempting to start a company to create social and environmental good. First the good news. As of 2010, $3 trillion of professionally managed funds were following Socially [...]
Interview: Craig Wichner of Farmland LP On Converting Chemical Based Farmland To Organic
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Exclusive Interview with Blissmo CEO on Groupon for the Green Set
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Interview: SunRun’s Lynn Jurich on “Pocketbook Environmentalists”
How many companies can boast of a 100%+ annual growth rate in customers, especially in today’s economy? Would you be even more impressed if the answer was a solar company? SunRun is hot, hot, hot. They have grown in just a couple of years to a leadership position in residential rooftop solar systems with over [...]
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Webinar: Feb 17Greening Stonyfield Farm: As a consultant with Stonyfield Farm for the past 12 years, Switzer Fellow Tim Greiner will discuss efforts to broaden and deepen sustainability within the company. He will discuss the company's efforts to track its environmental impacts, barriers the company had to overcome.Webinar: Feb 29Product Scorecards for Sustainability: Product scorecards that detail and evaluate environmental and sustainability aspects of products are increasingly adopted by leading companies. This webinar covers the best practices in this area and a case study by Seventh Generation.NY: Mar 19-20Wall Street Green: The longest running and most comprehensive environmental market event in the industry. The Wall Street Green Summit covers cutting edge content, industry developments and features the practitioners and the leaders of tomorrow. Bay Area: Mar 22-23GRI Certified Training: Demand for sustainability experts is growing rapidly as companies look for proven professionals. For companies, GRI trained employees mean faster implementations and better use of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework. Join our partner ISOS group for this two day session. Early bird discounts apply!SF: Mar 26-28Cleantech Forum San Francisco: The 2012 Cleantech Forum San Francisco will mark the 10th anniversary of Cleantech Forums, the annual gathering of the global clean technology innovation community. Our theme this year is “The Power of Global Partnerships,” an exploration of how strategic relationships are playing an ever more important role in the future of clean technology. For a $300 Discount use code "VIPofTriplePundit " More Info.SF: April 10-12 Navigating the American Carbon World: The must-attend event for professionals in the carbon landscape. Over the past decade, NACW has consistently provided informative content, thoughtful discussions and outstanding opportunities for collaboration.Have your event listed here.
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