BrownFlynn, a corporate sustainability consulting firm and the first U.S. certified trainer for the Global Reporting Initiative, recently partnered with the Institute for Sustainable Development. Through this partnership, BrownFlynn will be able to provide its expertise in sustainability strategy and impact planning, goal setting, brand enhancement, stakeholder engagement, sustainability reporting and other internal and external [...]
Originally incubated as a program of the Chapel Hill -based Foundation for a Sustainable Community, the Institute for Sustainable Development has been spun off as a distinct non-profit organization with its own board and staff and a new vision and mission. Tony Waldrop, Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development at UNC Chapel Hill, will [...]
“Green Up and Stay in the Black:” The April 2010 COSE Update profiles Certified Green Plus Taylor Companies and the Green Plus program itself.
Green Plus, Climate Savers Computing and Tech Soup provide non-profits tools to go green as well as non-profits. Alice Korngold on Leading Companies for Good at Fast Company.
“The Green Plus program helps businesses become less wasteful.” ABC Campus News talks with representatives of two participating Green Plus organizations – the PTA Thrift Shop and Chapel Hill Restaurant Group- about how the program has helped them save money through green measures.
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 [...]
Rogers Lowell First Chamber of Commerce in state to offer Green Plus. With the launch by the Rogers Lowell Chamber of Commerce, Arkansas became the third state where businesses can gain a Green Plus Chamber Partner discount. Four area businesses, including Brick Street Botanical, Don’s Cold Storage & Transportation, Stitt Energy Systems, Rock Fish Interactive [...]
Partnership To Make Green Plus™ Available to 1.2 million U.S. & Canadian Businesses The American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) announced today that it will partner with the North Carolina Research Triangle based Institute for Sustainable Development to offer Green Plus™, a program to help small businesses succeed while becoming stronger stewards of the environment [...]
(July 6, 2009 – North Carolina Research Triangle) The Institute for Sustainable Development appointed a new Director and announced its new staff, including two Senior Fellows. Chris Carmody, a social entrepreneur who was hired by the Institute in 2008 to launch its Green Plus program, will direct the programs of the Institute overall. Carmody has [...]
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