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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...
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...
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...
Though 46% of US adults say they neither think nor act Green, the 2% who fall into the Green Advocates segment are among the most tech-savvy consumers, according to Mediamark Research & Intelligence’s Survey of the American Consumer. The six consumer segments produced by MRI highlight differing attitudes toward the environment and actions take  More...
The selection of environmentally friendly clothing gets bigger every day. That's because younger shoppers are finally translating their passion for purer and more organic foods in their kitchens to purer and more organic clothing in their closets, reports Iconoculture.  More...
Not only can going green save you money, but it’s a great way to give something back to your country. Our country is at war; young American men and women are fighting and dying every day in Iraq. Not wanting to make this a political position piece, I will go so far as to state that the war in Iraq has something to do with oil. And what is oil?  More...
Many, if not most, consumers want to do their part to help the environment, and retailers can help by stocking, at minimum, a few green items. Start with just one shelf. Perhaps paint it green. In a clothing store, you might stock that shelf with clothes made from natural or organic fibers. A bed and bath store could feature cotton shower curtains  More...
Small-business owners are starting to embrace the kind of "green" values that typically are associated with far larger companies and a far greater investment of time and money, taking small-but-earnest steps for the cause of conservation.

In some cases, ecologically conscientious entrepreneurs are even finding that "green" sensibilities are  More...