The Institute for Sustainable Development announced its 2010 Green Plus™ North American Sustainable Enterprise (NASE) Finalists. The awards are designed to recognize smaller enterprises in a variety of sectors for the example they have set in advancing triple-bottom-line sustainability. The awards, presented by GlaxoSmithKline, bring together academic, business, and philanthropic leaders from around the country [...]
Five businesses achieve Green Plus™ Certification, Forty-one others complete first phase of certification process Forty-six businesses were recognized for their dedication to triple bottom line sustainability in the Green Plus TM by the Institute for Sustainable Development. Five businesses in North Carolina and Pennsylvania obtained Green Plus TM certification, while thirty-nine others throughout the Midwest and [...]
The first annual Green Plus North American Sustainable Enterprise Awards will take place Friday, June 18, 2010, from 7:45 to 9:45am EST, in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park. In partnership with the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, the Institute for Sustainable Development will recognize organizations in a variety of categories for the example they have set [...]
The North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce Convention & Visitors Bureau became the first business association to offer the Green Plus™ sustainability education and certification program in South Carolina to its members. “The focus of the North Myrtle Beach Chamber is on a sustainable economy for our city and region. We see Green Plus™ as [...]
Cleveland, October 14, 2009 — One of the largest American chambers of commerce, the Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE), has become the first business association to offer the Green Plus™ sustainability education and certification program to Ohio’s smaller enterprises. Green Plus™ is a three-part program to help smaller enterprises improve their performance through becoming more [...]
Representatives of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce and Institute for Sustainable Development discussed the Green Plus program with U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Dennis Hightower and 40 U.S. Senate and House staffers Tuesday at the invitation of Partners for Livable Communities and the American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE). The day long program was [...]
The Taylor Companies, founded in 1816 and believed to be the oldest furniture manufacturer in the United States, became the first Ohio company to be Certified Green Plus™ by the Institute for Sustainable Development. The firm was recently featured in Business Week article “When Going Green Isn’t About Marketing” for its efforts to approach zero [...]
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