6 Things Small Businesses Can Do To Green The Country

ecopreneurist.com:

This morning I found myself thinking about inaugurations past. In particular, John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address. That, along with meeting Auden Schendler Executive Director of Sustainability at Aspen Ski Company a few weeks ago, got me thinking about my ideas of greening small businesses.

What would happen if we reframed the issue: ask not what the country can do to green you; ask what you can do to green the country?

We all know that in order to be a green business we have to walk the walk, as well as talk the talk. And, walking the walk needs to be more than greening your individual business. Changing your business practices is only one piece of the greening puzzle.

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Comments

[LazarusLong]

Join this, sign up for that and put up a sticker.

What crap.

[DrVeruju]

Just supporting, investing in, your small and local businesses and farms is a step in the right direction. (e.g. reduced food/product miles)

[KillTheMessenger]

Sounds like blue-eyed optimism to me. Most small businesses couldn't care less. That's why we need hard core regulations. If you can't talk them into it, you need to force them. That's how that works.

[frantaylor]

Hard core regulations are not necessary. Economic incentives are the way to go. Make it cheaper to do the right thing. It goes down easier.

[deluxebrand]

Here's an example of a great Green Business.

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