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Sustainable NYC Wins 2011 People’s Choice
Wed Dec 07, 2011
New York's popular eco store concept Sustainable NYC has been named winner of the Green America People's Choice Award for Best Green Business. Watch them win on video! Read more »
Green Tuesday: A New Tradition for Green Holiday Shoppers
Wed Dec 07, 2011
This holiday shopping season, Green Tuesday connects businesses to holiday shoppers who want to save and be greener. Green America launched Green Tuesday, a new tradition to make the Tuesday after every Thanksgiving a green shopping day. Read more »
Member Spotlight! Who’s Using the New Interactive Seal?
Wed Dec 07, 2011
These members have been spotted using the new Seal on their website. What is your website wearing? Read more »
Experience the 10th Anniversary Green Festivals – and Reserve for 2012
Wed Dec 07, 2011
Take a video tour of the Green Festivals as we celebrated our tenth anniversary. Check out the packed exhibitor floor and get inspired for next year! Plus find out how to reserve NOW for New York City, April 2012.
Read more »Green Business Seminars at New York International Gift Fair
Wed Dec 07, 2011
Green America will offer two seminars at the New York International Gift Fair on Jan. 30, 2012, in New York City. Join us to build a roadmap to sustainability for your business. Our panel of experts will explore tools, trends, and best practices. Read more »
Holiday Green Gift Guide
Wed Dec 07, 2011
Our Green Gift Guide makes green gift giving easier with special offers from businesses listed in the National Green Pages™. The Green Gift Guide brings you to the greenest shoppers in the marketplace this holiday season. Read more »
Get Into the GreenBox – By Dec. 20
Wed Dec 07, 2011
Get your product in the “GreenBox” from GreenDeals and Green America! Be part of this new monthly package of various product samples, coupons, and discounts from Green Business Network Members. Read more »
GBN Members Speak Out Against the Pipeline
Wed Dec 07, 2011
Over 800 businesspeople, including Green Business Network members, signed a letter opposing the Keystone XL Pipeline, which Green America hand-delivered. And read an op-ed from the co-founder of Climate Ride against the tar sands pipeline. Read more »
Was There BPA In Your Thanksgiving Dinner?
Wed Dec 07, 2011
As Green America senior writer Sarah Tarver-Wahlquist reported in her "Plastic(-free) Monday" blog post, there's a problem with toxic chemicals in our canned food. Read more »
Better Paper Project’s Buying Club
Wed Dec 07, 2011
Folio Magazine shone a spotlight on how the Better Paper Project has helped publishers commit to recycled paper despite economic challenges, and plans for a recycled paper purchasing co-op. Read more »
Featured Business Network News
Collective Roots Wins SF Ford Community Grant
Tue Dec 06, 2011
At every Green Festival, attendees vote for a local organization to receive a $5,000 Ford Community Green Grant. The winner of the San Francisco Green Festival was Collective Roots. Read more »
YES! Magazine Releases First Book on Occupy Movement
Tue Dec 06, 2011
Just two months after the initial Occupy encampment at Zuccotti Park in New York's financial distric, Berrett-Koehler Publishers and YES! Magazine published the first substantive book on the Occupy Wall Street movement. Read more »
Lotus Foods Wins International Biodiversity Award
Tue Dec 06, 2011
The Union For Ethical BioTrade recognized Lotus Foods with the Leadership Award in the 2012 Biodiversity Awards. The international awards recognize companies promoting biodiversity conservation and sustainable use in their supply chains. Read more »
Faces of the Green Pages: FaeriesDance.com
Tue Dec 06, 2011
For the second year in a row, online clothing retailer FaeriesDance.com received enough nominations from its loyal customers to earn a coveted spot among the top-ten green businesses competing for Green America's People's Choice Award. Read more »
GreenBiz Forums, January 2012
Tue Dec 06, 2011
Framed by the 2012 State of Green Business report, the 2012 GreenBiz Forums will convene key thought leaders and sustainability executives to define the trends, challenges and opportunities in sustainable business today, and chart the course for the future. Read more »
TrueBody Launches Community Financing Initiative
Tue Dec 06, 2011
TrueBody Products, maker of affordable, all-natural soaps, has launched a Community Supported Enterprise financing model to support small businesses in the challenging position of growth between start-up financing and later-stage capital raising. Read more »
New Leaf Paper Profiled in Forbes Impact 30
Tue Dec 06, 2011
Jeff Mendelsohn, President and Co-Founder of New Leaf Paper, was profiled in Forbes Impact 30. The Forbes Impact 30 list features thirty social entrepreneurs tackling the world’s most intractable problems, as selected by a panel of leading experts. Read more »
Featured Green Business Trends
Poll: Citizens United Hurts Small Businesses
Tue Jan 31, 2012
Two-thirds of American small business leaders believe the controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United v. FEC case handed down two years ago on January 21 hurts small companies.
Read more »Cosmetic Companies Fulfill Safe Products Pledge
Tue Dec 06, 2011
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics announced today that 321 cosmetics companies have shown leadership in avoiding toxins and fully disclosing product ingredients, including many of our members. Read more »
Activists Convince Obama to Delay Tar Sands Pipeline
Tue Dec 06, 2011
Individuals and businesses from the U.S. and Canada succeeded in persuading President Obama to postpone the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project. Business voices were critical, and our members played an important role as voices of sustainability.
Read more »State Department Creates Energy Bureau
Tue Dec 06, 2011
The State Department has established a division focused exclusively on "vigorous diplomacy" on energy issues, to steer the world toward a global clean energy future. Read more »
New Report on U.S. Jobs: How to Shift Power from Wall Street to Main Street
Tue Dec 06, 2011
The New Economy Working Group released the report A Main Street Fix for Wall Street's Failures, produced in collaboration with the New Economy Network to form a policy agenda that will deepen the jobs debate in the U.S. Read more »
EPA Boosts Green Cleaning Products with Design for the Environment Label
Tue Dec 06, 2011
Since its inception in 1997, the U.S. EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics's voluntary Design for the Environment (DfE) label has been earned by over 2700 products. The label helps consumers identify all purpose cleaners, laundry detergents and other products that have met performance measures and are known to... Read more »
Goodwill, Habitat and Lowe’s Partner on Green Affordable Housing
Tue Dec 06, 2011
Goodwill Industries, Habitat for Humanity, and Lowe’s Companies have set up a model partnership to educate low-income communities about energy efficiency and make energy efficiency homes available to people in Charlotte, NC. Read more »
