CA Chambers of Commerce Members Prove Energy Efficiency is Profitable

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Small Business California has published a new booklet 32 Examples of Chambers of Commerce & Chamber Members in California: Leading the Clean Energy Economy. The booklet profiles local California chambers of commerce and their members who are demonstrating how recovering profits through energy efficiency can help strengthen the chamber, its business members and the community. From the Booklet: [...]

Conference Discount: Communicating Sustainability 2010

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Next week industry experts in sustainability, corporate social responsibility and green business practices will be meeting in Santa Clara, California to discuss how to ‘best integrate social responsibility into an organization’s DNA’ at Communicating Sustainability 2010. Ecopreneurist Readers can use promo code ecop200 to get $200 off the registration for both days. More than 20 [...]

Traveling With Green Style

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Traveling for business can sometimes feel lonely and can be tedious if on the road a lot.  It also can become expensive for the employer.  But it doesn’t mean you have to give up environmentally friendly practices while on the go.  Many hotels are serving up eco-friendly options for their guests and even helping find [...]

Wine Industry Trend? Innovative Small Biz Financing

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I recently became involved with Toast Wine Lounge, a start-up wine bar in my new neighborhood (did everyone catch that disclaimer…).  The founders, Heather and Kristen, have so much going for them and their business plan that’s its hard to single out what really caught my eye.  That said, there was one thing that really [...]

First Net-Zero Affordable Community to Break Ground

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Bravo to the Capstone Development Group. They are setting out to prove what we know to be true: Alternative energy saves money and that makes sense for everyone. Using solar panels and wind turbines to eliminate customer utility bills, this affordable housing project proves that green communities do not have to be only for the [...]