Green & Sustainable Business Ventures: For Entrepreneurs & Investors
One hundred economists agree: we can create more jobs by improving our public lands’ infrastructure and creating more parks and monuments. Economists involved with Headwaters Economics, an independent research group, wrote a letter to President Obama outlining how paying more attention to public lands can improve our economy, too.
On any trip to a salon or beauty store you’ll find scores of products with ads and labels suggesting they’ll make you look young, healthy, ravishingly beautiful, and wildly happy as well. A growing number of these products claim to be natural and good for the planet as well as good for your skin. How do you know what to believe?
Planet People Announces Finalists for the “Who cares about this Planet?” Challenge: Voting begins today, to determine the winner of up to $5000 in funding.
Planet People, the manufacturer of eco-cleaning products including iQ – The Smarter Cleaner, announced the 5 finalists for its “Who cares about this Planet?” Challenge. The challenge revolved around motivating individuals and groups to submit innovative green projects for a chance to win up to $5000 in funding. In the next and final phase of the challenge, voting is now open to the public to select the winner, with every vote contributing to a dollar raised for the winning project. Head over to the Facebook page for the challenge and view the project videos and sales pitch!
The Green Bay Packers are selling “stock” to fund stadium renovations and changing the rules to how non-profits can create ownership value.
What makes the Packers unique is that they are community-owned and managed, the only team in the NFL that is a non-profit and publicly owned!- yes, you can own stock in the team. This makes them slaves only to their fans and the game. One of the most interesting business stories, the team is kept viable by its unselfish fans. Why unselfish? Because other then the pride that comes from "owning" their most favorite football team, fans don’t gain monetarily from owning stock! Can this business model extend to other conventional non-profits?
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