Cutting the amount of energy you use in your business is an easy way to do a favor for both the environment and your bottom line. Businesses waste electricity all the time – by leaving appliances plugged in (even when turned off, many appliances still use electricity – think of the digital clock on your [...]
The New York Times on Sunday covered the new technologies that are being explored to make incandescent lightbulbs more efficient. This is not exactly news, as we covered it two weeks ago and our friends at EcoGeek were talking about it before that. But it’s good to see that the issue is getting national attention, [...]
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, [...]
98% of all businesses have under 100 employees, yet regulators and activists insist on targeting large businesses when advocating more environmentally friendly business practices. Recognizing this large absence in targeting small and midsized businesses, Intuit has developed a new program called Green Snapshot, which calculates carbon footprint for small and midsized businesses. The program is [...]
photo by isiria Small business owners know that assessing their financial situation is critical to running a successful and sustainable business. Increasingly, this philosophy is being extended beyond financial accounting, and businesses both large and small are finding ways to account for other things – beyond money – that matter to their performance. But what [...]
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