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Executives at many companies have found that no matter how invested the c-suite is in sustainability initiatives, a business must engage and inspire its employees from the ground up in order to succeed in improving its environmental impact. The Human Resources section explores ways that companies are bringing employees on board to make sustainability work for the long term.
Seeing more athletic companies pick up the pace on sustainability is a welcome trend. One business at the front of the pack is Brooks, whose modest marketing approach has left its efforts less...
Since its founding six years ago, the Presidio Graduate School has been at the forefront of sustainability business education, and Seyed Amiry, the head of the school, talks about the future of...
As we view the whatever-it's-called decade in the rearview mirror, it's tempting to assess what's transpired since the good old days of Y2K to see how far we've come — and how far we haven't...
What to make of the 20 most-read stories among the 2,350 (or so) articles and blog posts we ran during 2009? It's hard to make head or tails of them. ...
As the sun began to set on 2009, we asked some of our readers and partners to share their innovations, commitments, and passions for the coming year. ...
When improving fuel economy, there is no one strategy that trumps all others. Ford has taken a four-part approach, focusing on design efficiency, aerodynamics, weight reduction and high-value fuel...
The latest in our series of GreenBiz Reports explores and outlines the 10 best practices for bringing all your employees on board with your company's sustainability projects. ...
Researchers at the University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate and CB Richard Ellis find that people who work in green buildings are more productive and call in sick less often...
The founder of Interface shows how being a tree-hugging environmentalist and the head of a thriving, $1-billion a year carpet company don't need to be mutually exclusive ...
The co-directors of Walmart's Sustainability Consortium, one key plank of the company's larger Sustainability Index, explain how the group will work -- and what companies get for the six-figure...
GreenBiz.com's senior writer Marc Gunther speaks with Eric Gillespie, the CIO of Onvia about how his firm's website, Recovery.org, is helping companies track federal stimulus spending -- and get a...
Peter Beadle, the founder of GreenJobs.com, talks to GreenBiz Radio about the ways in which finding a green job is just like finding any other -- and the ways green jobs are different. ...
You've seen the encouraging reports about the growth of green jobs. Now Forbes shares a list of the top green jobs that rake in $100,000 or more a year. ...
"The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems" offers a look at the ways that investing in green jobs can save the economy and the environment at the same time. ...
The second half of this two-part podcast series with Jim Hartzfeld of InterfaceRAISE looks at how the company took a cue from nature to break new ground in carpet design. ...
Rachel Patterson of San Francisco's Hanson Bridgett law firm offers a snapshot of the year it took her company to become a certified green business. ...
Frank Marquardt, author of the Green Careers Insider Guide from Wet Feet publications, joins GreenBiz Radio to discuss the paths people take to landing a job related to the environment or...
A Pacific Northwest green building group will add a nine-month certification course to the newly formed Cascadia Sustainability Academy. ...
The U.S. Green Building Council is compiling the top green building educational programs and is looking for classroom courses to support with grants. ...
A new report from market researcher SBI finds that the booming green building market will continue its rapid expansion through 2011, more than doubling in size to $4.7 billion in the next four...
In the just-published State of Green Business 2010 report, we take an extensive look at the data behind the move toward making mainstream businesses greener.
Click here to read all of our in-depth coverage of the State of Green Business, and to download the report.
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In 2010, we're bringing our acclaimed State of Green Business Forum to San Francisco and Chicago, digging in to the research in the annual State of Green Business report to discover recent trends in green business and hear from industry experts about what the future will hold. Read all our coverage of the events here.
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