Comments on: Where The Green Business Market Is Going http://www.futureofbusiness.info/where-the-green-business-market-is-going/ News and information resource. Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:31:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: richard http://www.futureofbusiness.info/where-the-green-business-market-is-going/comment-page-1/#comment-4086 richard Sat, 31 May 2008 07:16:46 +0000 http://www.futureofbusiness.info/where-the-green-business-market-is-going/#comment-4086 Are we getting back to the 1970s when the high energy prices started the alternative energy movement? I think it was then that people started making their own energy devices - wind, solar and biomass. The innovation was wonderful. Too often we see high priced products that just won’t pay and are difficult to maintain. With a low cost DIY project you can get the energy you need at a low cots, recycle parts around you, and have some great fun too!! Are we getting back to the 1970s when the high energy prices started the alternative energy movement? I think it was then that people started making their own energy devices – wind, solar and biomass. The innovation was wonderful. Too often we see high priced products that just won’t pay and are difficult to maintain. With a low cost DIY project you can get the energy you need at a low cots, recycle parts around you, and have some great fun too!!

]]> By: Cary http://www.futureofbusiness.info/where-the-green-business-market-is-going/comment-page-1/#comment-3767 Cary Thu, 15 May 2008 18:26:32 +0000 http://www.futureofbusiness.info/where-the-green-business-market-is-going/#comment-3767 Most of the popular green press is talking about how colleges are changing to energy efficient light bulbs or publicizing recycling programs. These are great, but they never address the damage that college admissions contributes to the environment. They never factor in the amount of paper they waste as they calculate their carbon footprint. It is estimated that colleges require us to process 755,000,000 paper documents each year as an incoming class. Students’ mailboxes get flooded with direct mail pieces from schools they’ll never attend. They have to fill out paper form after form as part of the applications sometimes to say the same things, over and over again. And the paper trail continues until these students get to campus, where apparently we can now recycle. StudentsPlantTheSeed.com is a website that helps us identify this problem. It also gives us a collective voice to tell high schools and colleges that we want them to start using technology available now to eliminate paper. Students today are required to follow the same paper-based processes that their parents and even their grandparents had to follow. It¹s time for a change. You can make a change by telling these institutions how you feel. Login to StudentsPlantTheSeed.com and sign the petition. Most of the popular green press is talking about how colleges are changing to energy efficient light bulbs or publicizing recycling programs. These are great, but they never address the damage that college admissions contributes to the environment. They never factor in the amount of paper they waste as they calculate their carbon footprint.

It is estimated that colleges require us to process 755,000,000 paper documents each year as an incoming class. Students’ mailboxes get flooded with direct mail pieces from schools they’ll never attend. They have to fill out paper form after form as part of the applications sometimes to say the same things, over and over again. And the paper trail continues until these students get to campus, where apparently we can now recycle.

StudentsPlantTheSeed.com is a website that helps us identify this problem. It also gives us a collective voice to tell high schools and colleges that we want them to start using technology available now to eliminate paper. Students today are required to follow the same paper-based processes that their parents and even their grandparents had to follow. It¹s time for a change.

You can make a change by telling these institutions how you feel. Login to StudentsPlantTheSeed.com and sign the petition.

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