Continuing a line of previous posts on terrific eco-stats coming from David Suzuki’s Green Guide (on energy, food, ecopsychology, and travel), here is a summary of eco-stats that don’t fit into any particular category, but may be of marketing use for green businesses.

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Continuing a line of previous posts on terrific eco-stats coming from David Suzuki’s Green Guide (on energy, food, and travel), here is a summary of eco-stats related to the ecopsychology (mental health results of living a green lifestyle) that can be used by any green business in the wellness industry. First of all, what is [...]

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Continuing a line of previous posts on terrific eco-stats coming from David Suzuki’s Green Guide (on energy, food, and travel), here is a summary of eco-stats related to the production, consumption, and disposal of STUFF that can be used by any green business in the STUFF industry. Americans generate 189,200 pounds of waste and pollution [...]

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Continuing a line of previous posts about terrific eco-stats coming from David Suzuki’s Green Guide (on energy and food), here is a summary of travel-related stats for the eco-conscious that can be used in marketing for any green entrepreneurs in the travel industry. More Americans have died in car crashes than in all the wars [...]

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California has had 4 “rushes”. First was the Pioneer land grab, followed by the gold rush, then the information rush of the dot-com era, and now, finally, the green rush. I’m thrilled to say it’s not confined to Berkeley, San Francisco, Oakland, and Silicon Valley. Last week, I wrote about the city of Richmond, California, [...]

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It’s been popular in New York and other places where open space is at a premium, so San Francisco figured, “eh, why not?” The first reclamation of street space to create a pedestrian plaza opened last week on San Francisco’s famous Castro Street at the intersection with 17th St. It’s a small space, maybe 1000 [...]

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Launching for Mother’s Day 2009, GreenMoms.com aims to help Moms bring healthier and more environmentally-friendly living to their families, their communities, and their world. GreenMoms started as a San Francisco Bay-Area group of women who met regularly to discuss their childrens’ health, eat eco-friendly vegetarian food, go berry-picking, and generally get active in their community. [...]

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The top green business stories for the week: SAP Moves Further Into Sustainability Arena, Acquires Green IT Leader Clear Standards. Triple Pundit’s own Andrew Burger reported that the software giant had announced a deal to acquire Clear Standards in a move that brings serious financial muscle into the emissions reporting IT industry. Of its announced [...]

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Following the lead of an organization called the East Bay Green Tours, the city of Richmond, CA, long considered a crime-ridden afterthought of the more well-heeled East Bay cities of Oakland and Berkeley, is making strides to help a small but fluorishing green business community take off. Tomorrow, I will attend their first green tour [...]

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Pop quiz: What are the 2 most commonly traded commodities on the planet? If you guessed bananas and wheat, you’re wayyy off. But who would guess bananas and wheat? Maybe if you just finished eating Shredded Wheat with chopped bananas you might have it on the brain, but odds are if you just did finish [...]

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Welcome to Friday’s Green Business Roundup from around the blogosphere! I’ll be filling in for the lovely and talented Jen Boynton for the next two weeks on this regular column as she finishes up her Green MBA at the Presidio School of Management. Send her positive energy and caffeine telemetry! The City of San Francisco, [...]

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“Eco-driving”, or “Hypermiling” are terms used to describe driving habits that maximize fuel efficiency. Using these techniques, drivers were recently able to get 1,445 miles on a single tank of gas in a Ford Fusion Hybrid, which is double what Ford originally suggested the car could attain. While this may or may not turn out [...]

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Ray Anderson, founder and Chairman of Interface, gave the keynote address this morning at the Sustainable Industries Economic Forum. Anderson had a tough act to follow in this, the third Economic Forum put on by Sustainable Industries. Last year’s keynote was Van Jones, after all. Anderson quoted Einstein as he talked about the thinking that [...]

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Frito-Lay has announced plans to partner with ‘Upcycler’ Terracycle to give their chip bags a second life. Frito, which on Earth Day of 2008 unveiled a solar thermal generation facility at their manufacturing plant in Modesto, CA, with the capacity to power that entire plant, is making public its desire to reduce the environmental footprint [...]

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Triple Pundit’s good friends at Sustainable Industries are hosting a panel discussion tomorrow, May 7, at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, focusing on the economic realities of working in the sustainability sphere during this economic downturn. From everything I’ve gleaned so far, the mood will be one of cautious optimism as Ray Anderson, [...]

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While the economy putters along at a snail’s pace, it is sometimes hard to see the trees for the forest. Sure, the economy is tough right now, and it’s easy to get lost in all the economic data and large-scale trends. But if you look, there are opportunities for long term success that will also [...]

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Any restaurant, caterer, CSA, farm, wholesaler, manufacturer or distributor of food that works in the sustainability arena can benefit from the use of simple statistics that their customers and the public can easily wrap their brains around. It’s a simple fact–people are busy, and we live in a sound bite culture. So if you can [...]

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By Scott Cooney, M.S., M.B.A. The Health Department is taking all the necessary steps in case the swine flu virus develops into a full-blown pandemic. Will American agribusinesses, who moved their swine operations to Mexico to avoid higher labor costs and environmental standards here in the U.S., have to pay the bill? My guess would [...]

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As a writer, I am constantly on the lookout for the best eco-stats. Say, for example, I’m looking to write a blog post for Triple Pundit about the impact of a town’s Master Plan. It is incredibly helpful to have a handful of relevant statistics at the ready about the ecological footprints of large lots [...]

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In January, President Obama signed an executive order asking the courts to review a Bush era ruling that stopped California from limiting carbon emissions from passenger vehicles. When the dust settles after multiple legal hoops, California and 17 other states (called the CARB states) who have signed on to California’s plan will inevitably, it seems, [...]

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A month ago, I attended a Pitch-A-Thon the Future Leaders Institute (FLI) hosted in which students pitched their ideas for building a better tomorrow and received feedback from community leaders (respondents) in the sustainability and social change fields. FLI challenges students to research and identify societal problems, and come up with a plan for how [...]

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Two sets of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCV) had made public campaigns calling on Barack Obama to rip out part of the expansive White House lawn and plant an organic garden. Dan Simon and Casey Gustowarow championed the WHOFarm (White House Organic Farm) Project, while Amanda Fuller and Justin Mog (RPCV-Paraguay) created their campaign around [...]

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