Green Business

If you have never heard of CleanSkies.tv you must visit their website and watch some environmental television. Offering both live and recorded newscasts focused on energy and the environment, this channel has taken a major step in presenting green issues in an entertaining and informative way. If you are looking for the latest news about [...]

With the immense popularity that social media is seeing on the internet I thought it might be interesting to see how subscribers at Twitter are doing their part. We have an account at Twitter and we are fortunate enough to have a number of followers there. When we post an article at Green Business [...]

Investing in green technologies has become the most logical way to stimulate the economy on a mass scale by creating green jobs by the millions. The effects of this will be felt well into the future as the infrastructure of all of these cities will be green. The short-term benefit is job creation while the [...]

I was dumbfounded when I discovered the following environmentally friendly toy. Made from 100% soy bean fiber by Aurora , this teddy bear perfectly illustrates how a business can make steps towards becoming greener. Aurora is coming out with a ‘green’ plush line of toys to meet the demands of consumers and at the same [...]

We have forgotten about those businesses that were green businesses before the term was even part of the average person’s vocabulary. A green business that has been around a long time that most people do not give a second thought to is organic seeds. Sellers of organic seeds focus on the primary building blocks of [...]

In my opinion the biggest question entering 2009 is will Barack Obama  be true to his word and invest in green technologies to the extent he promised he would during the presidential campaign? If he is a man of his word and billions upon billions of dollars are invested in the ‘greening’ of America it [...]

The CEO of Nestle Waters NA, Mr.Kim Jeffery, and his peers in the bottled water industry have been under intense scrutiny in the media recently over the effects bottled water is having on the environment. With most empty bottles ending up in landfills, Mr.Jeffery seems to be on a campaign to turn around this negative [...]

Green Job Trends
An interesting fact that not many people look to can be found in Google Trends. Scanning the number of web searches using the keyword term ‘green jobs’ reveals a major jump in the year 2008. By reviewing the graph below one can see a leap in search queries for ‘green jobs’ from the [...]

A wonderful place to start if you want to learn and expand your knowledge of green and sustainable businesses is Wikipedia. The user moderated website offers a number of important websites on the topic.

An exciting forum focusing on environmental issues in the media is going to take place in Los Angeles on December 8-9, 2008. This green media forum includes a number of interesting keynote speakers, most notably Gary Wilk who is VP of World Wide Operations & Green Ambassador of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. You can [...]