Green Business

Tallying Your Company’s 2011 Sustainability Performance

Tallying Your Company’s 2011 Sustainability Performance

It’s January – time to wrap up your company’s performance for 2011.  You’re focused on sales, profits, changes over 2010, and preparing for financial auditors.  It’s Read More

Sustainability: 5 Things To Include In Your 2012 Budget

Sustainability: 5 Things To Include In Your 2012 Budget

“Sustainability” can be difficult to include in annual budget planning.  If you’re lucky enough to have a full-time Sustainability Manager, s/he may have priorities for your Read More

Sustainability: Burden or Opportunity?

Sustainability: Burden or Opportunity?

“Sustainability” is the concept of organizations moving beyond traditional financial metrics to define their company, and using a “triple bottom line” approach to incorporate economic/ Read More

Waste Reduction: the Foundation of Green Business Thinking

Waste Reduction: the Foundation of Green Business Thinking

Many otherwise well-informed business leaders, when asked about green business, leap to images of solar panels, windmills and other renewable energy solutions that they cannot Read More

Teleworking can cut your costs AND benefit the planet. Here’s how.

Teleworking can cut your costs AND benefit the planet. Here’s how.

Teleworking simply means doing your job primarily from home. If you’re a retailer or a company that repairs building HVAC systems, teleworking obviously isn’t possible Read More

3 Ways in which Green Business Will Improve Your Bottom Line

3 Ways in which Green Business Will Improve Your Bottom Line

Green business – often called sustainable business – involves thinking about how your operations are impacting the natural or social environment in which you operate: Read More

Green Business: What’s In It for Smaller Companies – Part 1

Green Business: What’s In It for Smaller Companies – Part 1

Pick up a copy of just about any mainstream business publication these days and you’ll find at least a couple of articles about “green business” Read More