Green & Sustainable Business Ventures: For Entrepreneurs & Investors
I’m a big believer in procurement setting policies for greener purchasing. Whether your business is engaged in making something, selling something, or serving something, you use all kinds of materials and products in the process. Greening your purchasing involves thinking about your entire inbound supply chain with this overriding purpose in mind: to select and [...]
This is a guest post by Stefan Doering. Recently I’ve met with a couple of green businesses, at opposite ends of the spectrum. The first one is a manufacturing company making all-natural chemical cleaning products for commercial use. For the past several years they have had an annual sales growth of over 100%. This year [...]
Much has been written, including by myself, about the fact that small business organizations range form neutral to hostile on green issues. There is a perception that environmental progress will cost small businesses resources they don’t have. The truth is that not much research has been conducted to prove or disprove that notion. Yesterday a [...]
Chuck Sathrum, a program manager for the North Carolina State Energy Office, once told me: I come from the metering industry where there’s an old saying: If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Managing what you use starts with measuring. Measuring your activities allows you to generate data about how you spend your [...]
This is a guest post by Colleen Mcguire. A North Carolina State University team has shown that water gel-based solar devices (called: “artificial leaves”) can behave like solar cells to create electricity. The analysis has been published on-line in the Journal of Materials Chemistry by Dr. Orlin Velev, an Invista Professor associated with Chemical and [...]
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