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The latest BizBooks, hosted by Slate's BizBox, will take place this Thursday with Scott Cooney--author of Build a Green Small Business--taking questions on how to build a company that is both eco-friendly and profitable. Submit questions now!  More...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming more prevalent in our global economy. The other night, a TV commercial informed viewers that a car company is operating a manufacturing plant that has achieved zero landfill status - nothing from its manufacturing efforts goes into a landfill. Going carbon-neutral is also gaining a lot of press. Se  More...
A new software application for tracking carbon footprints is being developed by a start-up in the UK that uses GPS on mobile phones to figure out whether you’re walking, running, driving, flying– you get the picture– and then estimating the impact this has on the environment.  More...
The number of Gamma women in America - those who influence a wide network of consumers and generate and disseminate new ideas and trends - is estimated at 55 million and growing, according to a report from Meredith Corporation. As the social and technological environment becomes more suited to their communication styles, their influence in the  More...
Bucking the perception that environmentalism is a youth movement, a new survey finds that male and female consumers over age 55 are the most prolific users of green products in the United States.  More...
Hugh Ballou, the author of Tranforming Power, has over 40 years of experience as a choir director and now he works as a motivational speaker, coach, and a leadership trainer. It may be difficult to see how those two careers tie together, but this book shows a wide variety of examples of the way that transformational change can help any type of org  More...
Small business advocates want to make sure the Environmental Protection Agency gets their input before they issue regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions.  More...
In launching TerraCycle's lines of liquid fertilizer, cleaners, repellents, etc., I realized something: Almost all products that are sold as liquid in a bottle -- from window cleaner to ant repellent -- are in fact extremely similar to bottled water. In most cases, the difference is only 1% to 2% of the contents. In other words, these products ar  More...
Tom Szaky has often been told that he is crazy. At age 19, he dropped out of Princeton to start TerraCycle, a business revolving around selling an all-organic liquid plant food made from worm feces—and no, that's not a typo. When he first started out, he had a hard time raising capital and people often laughed him right out of the office. But thi  More...
Environmentally Friendly Inventions Everyone Should Know About. 300 HP Magnetic Motor, Magnetic Generator, Solar Power Break-Through, Water For Fuel  More...
In the profit-centered business, customer happiness is merely a means to an end: maximizing profits. In the customer-centered business, customer happiness is an end in itself, and will be pursued with greater interest, passion, and empathy than the profit-centered business is capable of.  More...
Going Green and saving on your electric bill. Restaurant Industry News in Atlanta Georgia by Atlanta Restaurant Exchange  More...
From article: One of my vacation reads this year was "Famous Last Words" by Jonathan Green. This sometimes funny, frequently poignant compilation of deathbed quotations offers a glimpse at the characters of famous people as revealed by their final words. Whatever words you may utter if your business collapses, the failure can often be traced  More...
A post I wrote asking about how professional or unprofessional it would be to show up to meet a client with a green, red, or blue laptop. Please visit and comment if you have an opinion!!  More...
Check out these top 100 blogs to help bolster your business acumen. HR World's list includes classics like top selling business authors Tom Peters, Charles H. Green, and Bob Sutton, along with some exciting new blogs that might surprise you.  More...