Just in case anyone is interested there is an expo dedicated to everything green. The Earth Now Expo will be at the Las Vegas Convention Center from June 4-5, 2008. The focus of this expo will on selling green products and services. You can click the image below for more details.
I just received an email from an account executive at Special Ops Media requesting me to help promote an Eco-Fair at Universal Studios. It is on April 26 and runs from 10:00am-4:00pm. From what I read Universal is pushing its little own green business these days.
Major players in all forms of industry have created their own green initiatives. To me it further proves the impact green business is having on a mass scale. When theme parks push green business you know the environment is mainstream.
Thumbs up to Universal Studios for a day of green. Hopefully more and more businesses jump on the green bandwagon.
I found an excerpt of a video that really makes me smile. The speaker talks about how far green business has come over the past two or three years. Clean and affordable energy seems to be spearheading the green business movement, but along the way other businesses will make the shift and become more green. The snowball will get bigger and bigger as time passes.
The Green Living Show is coming to Vancouver, BC, Canada. This show will offer new green products, services and advice from 200 exhibitors. Luckily I am from Vancouver so I will definitely be checking out this expo. It runs from February 29 to March 2 and will be held at BC Place Stadium.
Harbor Air, the largest all-seaplane airline in the world, has chosen to go carbon neutral. They report that they will be the only air carrier in North America to be 100% carbon neutral.
This may seem like an insignificant piece of news to many, but it is interesting that a small company from Canada’s pacific north west is deciding to go green. When companies choose to become a little more green it is proof that business is changing. Companies can, and will, be financially successful while being concerned about the environment. Maybe another company will read this story and research how they can become greener - creating a snowball effect.
Could your company reduce its emissions by using solar energy?
Research, change, care.
The criteria was strict and the decision was difficult to make but here they are, the ten best environment websites in the world.
1. Alternative Energy News - This web site has always been a favorite of mine when looking for news about alternative and renewable energies. I have had the pleasure of meeting its founder and webmaster Alex Ramon. He’s dedicated and passionate about all things environmental, and lucky for us he started this website a couple of years ago. Incorporating up-to-date videos and well written articles, Alternative Energy recently integrated its sister site, Energy Planet, a renewable energy directory, into the mix. Alex has also created a search engine focusing on the environment. Alternative Energy is, and will continue be, the leader in environment news. This makes Alternative Energy News the best environment website in the world. Congratulations, Alex!
3. Live Science - Easy to read, entertaining, and fact driven are just a few of the reasons that I have Live Science rated as the third best environment website in the world. It reminds me of National Geographic, but with more text to go along with beautiful photography. Definitely a website for both the serious and the arm chair environmentalist. One beef I do have is that I saw an advertisement for British Petroleum. That aside, this is an excellent site.
4. About My Planet - A web community devoted to the environment, About My Planet has very well written articles by a number of knowledgeable people. Consistently updated and beautifully designed with a wonderful balance of inviting images and text, this is a website that stands head and shoulders above many others. A recent addition to About My Planet is a service called Grow. Entirely based on stories from it readers, Grow creates wonderful and intelligent dialogue from its users. About My Planet has done it right and I am a regular visitor.
5.BusinessGreen blog - Based in the UK, this is a blog filled with well written articles by author James Murray. Geared towards readers interested in green and sustainable businesses, BusinessGreen blog offers its readers a well thought-out perspective in this fast-growing area of the world’s economy.
6. Meet the Greens - This site keeps the kids in mind. Smartly focusing on educating our children in a fun way about the environment, this site is highly interactive. Using animation and other highly visual techniques to keep its readers attention, Meet the Greens is a website for all ages.
7. National Geographic - Yes, the one and only National Geographic. Their main site is wonderful, but don’t forget to go to the link titled environment. Beautifully laid out, like the magazine, their online version is full of stunning pictures. Their writing team is pumping out some top quality articles at the site, adding to its overall appeal. It is obvious that the transition that the magazine made to the current online version was a successful one.
8.Digg - Many people aren’t even aware that Digg has an area at its site devoted entirely to the environment. With thousands of articles in its archives, it is a great tool to browse for your own enjoyment, or to do some serious research.
9.Inside Greentech - A website full of articles and up to date news about green technology. Growing in leaps and bounds over the past few months this is a website that could easily crack the top five in a year or two.
10. Green Business - I couldn’t make a list of the ten best environment websites and not put Green Business on it. We offer articles and news about businesses that focus on keeping the planet livable - hopefully for generations! Some articles will be serious, while others will be more light-hearted. The one thing in common is that they will be written with my love of our planet in mind.
There you have it, the ten best environment websites in the world. As the internet grows, as well as our consciousness about our fragile planet, new and exciting environmental resources will emerge. These resources will provide two fundamental things, they will both educate and offer us hope for a fantastic future.
Not since the invention of sliced bread has their been such interest in a new product. With precision and silence this new device, rivaled only by goats and cows, is making inroads into suburbs across America and forever changing the face of the landscaping industry.
Without the need of fuel and producing no greenhouse gas emissions, the push-mower may one day go down as the world’s most ingenious device.
Move over, iphone. Step aside, time machine. There’s a new kid on the block!
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Environment friendly cars have put Toyota over the top, finally. Consumer demand for environment friendly cars has helped make Toyota the largest seller of cars in the world, for the first quarter of 2007.
General Motors has long been on, or near the top of the heap in auto sales. Toyota’s investment in hybrid cars is finally paying off. Koji Endo, who is an auto analyst with Credit Suisse, believes that Toyota’s image, with regards to reliability AND ecological technology, has resulted in the excellent showing this quarter. Leading the pack has been Toyota’s Prius. This is one Hybrid that the world has been talking about for years. People have now stopped talking and have opened their wallets. Green business rocks!
Source:Yuri Kageyama
Associated Press
Image via Square-mag.co.uk
A fascinating development has occurred in the area of green business. It seems Hollywood has finally jumped on the bandwagon. If money can be made, and people can be entertained, Hollywood will be there. Leave it the entertainment industry to exploit green business, but in this case I welcome it.
The CW Network, owned by CBS, will air television shows with themes geared towards environmentalism. This is one kind of green business that I personally had no idea existed. It looks like CBS has targeted these shows to the ever popular 18-34 year old audience. This is a perfect example where environmentalism and business have merged. I know first hand that people in “T.V. land” aren’t solely doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. They believe that they can make a buck by doing this.
Personally, I say go for it! If environmental awareness can spread and people can make a living off of it, no matter how honorable their intentions are, I say it’s a decent partnership. Is the heart of CBS in the right place? Probably not, but it’s a powerful example of how environmental issues are becoming mainstream. It may not be a marriage made in heaven, but at least it will be an interesting courtship.
Source: MEG JAMES
Los Angeles Times
