Green Business

One of our goals at Green Business is to showcase wonderful people and the impact they are having in the field of green business, and to offer inspiration and perhaps advice to those who are seeking to get into a similar vocation. Maybe you want to help the environment, but you also have the desire [...]

As solar energy gains popularity in providing electricity to businesses, it also is becoming more popular with home owners, as shown in the following video. Solar panel installers has emerged as a new and important job within the green technology movement. Instead of a traditional type of construction job, these construction workers install solar panels [...]

It never seizes to amaze me the amazing ideas people come up with in terms of creating unique green businesses. I recently came across a green business that is an original. The green business I am referring to sells eco-friendly products to throw  sustainable parties for large and small groups. How smart is that?
The name [...]

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created a program called Energy Star to help reduce energy use. The Energy Star website is a vast online resource that offers a wealth of information  to help everyone create a more environmentally friendly workplace. The site also offers tips and tricks to help your business become more [...]

The City of Santa Monica is doing everything it can to help its citizens go green with the Santa Monica Office of Sustainability and the Environment’s website. Some of the areas the website covers are: buying green, education, energy, green building and hazardous materials. A superb idea and amazing resource from a city offering indispensable [...]

A pilot program in Trenton,  New Jersey offered by the Center for Energy and Environmental Training (CEET) teaches unemployed people how to perform energy audits in homes throughout the city.  Along with being a heart warming story the following video is a fabulous representation of the growth and importance that green collar jobs is having [...]

The following video presents some interesting views on how retailers, specifically Walmart, are turning green to increase profits. The reputation of Walmart has not been the greatest over the last few years, but their image is slowly changing because they are making real changes in their company. While green washing has unfortunately become common place [...]

I have been lucky enough to be receiving a lot of media invites to sustainability expos from around North America due to our humble, little blog. Our reach on the topic of green business has been growing in leaps and bounds since we started it in the Spring of 2007. We have built our readership [...]

I stumbled on a home based, small green business that I thought everyone should know about. It is a green service that both homes and businesses alike could use. It is called ECO-audit and it helps homes and businesses become more environmentally friendly.
A list of the company’s reasons for performing an ECO-audit:

Improve air quality
Reduction of [...]

SPIN farming is part of organic horticulture and is this weeks focus on green business. SPIN farming stands for Small Plot INtensive farming. It is essentially a small scale gardening method but organic gardeners with business savvy use a collection of urban lawns, either rented or bartered from the lawn owner, to create a green [...]