Green & Sustainable Business Ventures: For Entrepreneurs & Investors
How about packaging that is grown (not manufactured), renewable, compostable and biodegradable? Oh, and also moisture resistant, heat resistant and strong? Hell yes! EcoCradle™ packaging from Ecovative Design, uses rapidly growing renewable resources like mushroom to design durable and effective packaging.
Rivers and streams are like the veins of an ecosystem that are now drying up because of over-usage all across the United States. Rob Harmon (an expert on energy and natural resources policy) brings up one particular watershed in Montana- Prickly Pear Creek, where he has implemented an ingenious market mechanism to bring back water and restore the ecosystem. Rob brought together breweries; with a corporate policy in reducing their water footprint, and farmers; lacking incentives to conserve water due to a broken “water-rights” system, to form a mutually benefitting relationship that restored the damaged ecosystem.
Water is an important issue globally, and with the world’s population hitting 7 billion this year and the impact of climate change growing, water will only grow in importance. But the need for clean water and sanitation is not a new problem, and some wonder why the rate of progress seems so slow. As the CEO of Water for People, and as someone who was worked globally on delivering clean water to people for many years, Ned Breslin is creating new solutions for this old problem.
SC Johnson will stop using the “Greenlist™” logo in its current form on Windex® products. The company has reached an agreement on two lawsuits regarding use of its logo and the parties have agreed to an undisclosed settlement.
The Greenlist™ logo was intended to signify that the Windex® products had achieved the highest internal ratings according to the company’s patented Greenlist™ process. The lawsuit resulted as plaintiffs opined that Greenlist™ was an internally developed process rather than that of a third-party and that the logo implied the products included environmentally friendly ingredients.
The US economy is slowly recovering we hear but for many people it doesn’t feel that way, with high unemployment and slow economic growth still challenging millions of Americans. As hard as it can be our changing economy is also creating great opportunities for businesses that deliver sustainability, creating healthy, balanced, and productive lives. The greater our challenges the more we need solutions like these and yet most of us still don’t know how to unlock the potential of sustainability. The key is- sustainability training and education. Here are some option on how you can jump-start your green career.
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