Green Business

The CEO of Stoneyfield Farm, Gary Hirshberg, offers his views on organic farming, specifically how organic farming can not only be profitable but actually reduce production costs. The following is a two minute clip from the talk. If you want to view the entire talk just click here.

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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 Georgia Straight, a free weekly newspaper, puts out a supplement every season and Spring 2008 is devoted to “The Green Life”. This issue includes articles about sustainable homes, greenery, and an interview with environmentalist David Suzuki. If you click on the magazine’s front cover below it will lead you to the electronic version [...]

If you are thinking about a green business MBA you might want to check out the school I have linked below. Although I do not endorse the school or its program, I do endorse an MBA focusing on sustainability.

No one really knows how much the green market has penetrated traditional markets but I have come across some interesting information from Morgan Stanley. They have focused on alternative energies, specifically the impact it will have in terms of penetrating the energy market as a whole.
Green Market Penetration Forecast

World-wide sales from alternative energy sources [...]

Up. I question a lot of companies motives but that is just my jaded self writing. As it stands now more than a number of companies are getting on this bandwagon, a public relations bonanza to say the least. I accept it for what its worth regardless of a company’s true intentions.
Green market Penetration
Right now [...]

I asked myself a simple question the other day, “Why did I start a blog about green business, and have the my original reasons changed over the course of the past few months since writing about the topic?” On the surface it may seem like a simple question, but it really digs deep into my [...]

I am an environmentalist.
The reason for writing this article is to counter many of the unrealistic views that I have been reading concerning renewable energy. My goal is simply to offer a different perspective on a subject that we are all so passionate about. Oil is, and will continue to be, the dominant player in [...]

You don’t have to try to be perfect. Just do a few things to start making your life and your business green – common sense things.
One thing that many people forget is that even small changes are important. Reducing green house gases on a large scale, for example, through the use of alternative energy, is [...]