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·         How does environmental regulation affect your small businesses?
o    Additional taxes?
o    Ability to get loans? Credit?
o    Required compliance to unnecissary rules?
·         Are self governing goal setting more effective? How have you been able to get out in front of the economic or environmental climates by
o    Aligning with government initiatives?
o    Joining groups that develop strategies [...]

In the past few years, we have seen a dramatic shift in the way we talk about our environment. From heated debates in Congress about amending our energy policies, to the fervor generated by Al Gore’s award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, to millions of businesses changing their company cultures, “greening” has entered into the discourse [...]

Thanks for the great response and feedback to my last post, I’ve got a queue of businesses I’ll be profiling over the next few months and will report on findings in coming posts
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Social entrepreneurism is a business model that is marketed squarely under the “green” banner. The more I dive into this topic, the more [...]

Overwhelmingly, online consumers prefer green products over similar products that aren’t green. (Sounds like a toothpaste commercial, but it’s true!)
A brand new study shows that 83% of consumers will choose the greener of two products that are similar. Pretty compelling.
The study can be found be visiting this link at Doubleclick Performics.
Further, surprisingly in this tough [...]