2011 October

Sustyparty Helps Green Your Party and Sponsors a Halloween Giveaway!

October 11, 2011 By Priti Ambani

Sustainable Halloween Party Supplies via sustyparty

A lot of folks find it easy being green and sustainable in their everyday lives but when they are entertaining or having a party, its harder to keep it both green and easy. Emily Doubilet, founder and CEO of sustyparty saw an opportunity in all the waste that was generated, especially with plastic cups, at events like concerts and parties and even at sustainability-themed conferences! And so sustyparty was born, offering a great range of green party supplies!

And they are so cool, they are sponsoring a giveaway on Ecopreneurist!
The prize: Edible Face Paint, just in time for Halloween!!!

Today’s Better Businesses Are Green

October 10, 2011 By Guest Contributor 1 Comment

There is an expense to pursuing environmentally aware business practices. Companies who do it spend time and money implementing their efforts. However, those entrepreneurs who do it well find high returns on investment in the first year, and the recurring savings in terms of energy use and government incentives makes going green a business decision that pays dividends in the long term.

Are the Proposed Revisions to LEED Forestry Standards Greenwash?

October 7, 2011 By Priti Ambani 1 Comment

Yesterday, during the world’s largest green building conference, ForestEthics and three other organizations ran an ad in the Toronto Star warning that new forestry standards proposed by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) would drastically lower its standards, and would effectively greenwash clearcuts and other destructive practices which the USGBC and Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) were ostensibly designed to rise above. But is that really so?

University of Arkansas Students Launch Start-up to Manufacture Biodegradable Plastic

October 6, 2011 By Priti Ambani 2 Comments

cycleWood Solutions Inc. was formed in July 2010 by four graduate students at the University of Arkansas, who launched a startup company that would manufacture biodegradable plastic shopping bags. They harness the technology developed by University of Minnesota biochemist Simo Sarkanen, The founders formed the company after creating a business plan around the technology for an entrepreneurship class, whose aim was to build a viable business.

The Unreasonable Institute Helps High-Impact Social Entrepreneurs Take Flight

October 4, 2011 By Priti Ambani Leave a Comment

There is a growing consensus that entrepreneurs will be the force behind economic, social and environmental development this century. There are hundreds of thousands of budding entrepreneurs with world-changing ideas that need the right platform and training to take off. An organization called the Unreasonable Institute aims to help these audacious gen-next entrepreneurs take flight!
Intensive training, effective collaboration, international exposure, and expert guidance from the world’s best ensure that the ventures they work with take flight.