About Green Plus
Green Plus is a green and sustainable small business certification and education program that gives employers affordable, practical support in succeeding financially while being good to their environment, employees and community. Green Plus gives chambers of commerce, trade associations, foundations and local governments a new way to support their small business and non-profit stakeholders.
If you're a small business, sign up for Green Plus by clicking here.
The Institute for Sustainable Development partners with chambers of commerce to offer Green Plus to their members, and licenses the program to philanthropic foundations and local government as a triple bottom line education tool for their grantees and small business constituents. The Institute comprises public and private university partners, chambers of commerce, and philanthropic organizations dedicated to providing smaller employers affordable access to sustainability expertise. In 2008, the Institute's partners received the national Business Civic Leadership Center's Siemens Sustainable Community Award for its effort to build a public-private coalition to advance sustainability.
Click here if you're a chamber commerce for a quick video on Green Plus partnerships, or contact Chris Carmody, Director of the Sustainable Business Initiative, at ccarmody@sustainablefoundation.org.
ISD News
Green Plus recently received the honor of taking an insider’s look into Winning Workplaces’s selection process for its “Top Small Workplaces” award. Winning Workplaces is a non-profit whose mission is to help small and midsize organizations create high-performing workplaces. Winning Workplaces does a tremendous job of highlighting the fact that it is the little things [...]
Three small businesses from the landscaping, restaurants, and IT sectors discussed how sustainability in general and Green Plus in particular help them improve operations, save money, and become better environmental and community stewards. The businesses included Bland Landscaping, the Chapel Hill Restaurant Group, and iContact. The Triangle Success Forum is an annual forum hosted by [...]
Recent Green Plus Profiles
Unpacking the Stimulus Package, Vol. 5
Oneiva, a Seattle-based company that tracks government spending, has launched a website to track all Stimulus Act spending by federal, state and local government agencies. The goal of www.recovery.org is to ensure that small and medium businesses have the same access to RFPs and bids for projects associated with the [...]
Unpacking the Stimulus Package, Vol. 4
On June 15th, the Small Business Administration began accepting applications for their short-term deferred-payment ARC loan program. By the end of the first week, however, only four national banks had signed on to the program and only 72 of an estimated 10,000 loans had been approved nationwide, none of which [...]
Recent Posts
Test your sustainable business IQ!
Learning about ways to cut costs and improve business practices while doing something good for the environment and employees is one of the missions of the Green Plus program. If your business hasn’t yet taken the dive into the Green Plus certification (or even if you have), here are some interesting and enjoyable ways to [...]
Shedding Light on the Lightbulb Debate
CFLs, LEDs, incadescents… there are so many options out there for lightbulbs these days, and each has its own advantages and drawbacks. Incandescent bulbs are the traditional lightbulbs that we all grew up with, and have been commercially popular since the days of Thomas Edison. However, incandescent bulbs emit not only light but also heat, [...]
