Call for Applicants: Institute Seeks Candidates for 2010 Sustainability Fellowships The Institute for Sustainable Development is seeking qualified applicants for its 2010 Sustainability Fellowship program. Fellowships pay a competitive stipend and will run for eight weeks during the summer of 2010. The Institute will select at least eight Fellows and perhaps more depending on the [...]
“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.
The Metro South Chamber announced a new initiative which allows businesses to achieve a credible “green” certification in order to convey their commitment to responsible and sustainable operations. Green Plus is a program developed for small and medium businesses by the Institute for Sustainable Development. It is designed to educate, motivate, and reward small businesses [...]
November 20, 2009 (Greensboro, NC) – The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce has partnered with the Institute for Sustainable Development to become the first North Carolina Triad area organization to offer Green Plus. The Institute is a partnership of chambers of commerce and universities to help small business owners become more competitive through sustainable practices. Green [...]
(NB: As the author correctly notes, the Institute for Sustainable Development is partnered with the American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE). The ACCE is a distinct and separate organization from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. According to the organization, “ACCE’s mission is to support and develop chamber professionals to lead businesses and their communities. The [...]
The Redwoods Group, headquartered in Morrisville, NC, is a privately held, socially responsible commercial specialty insurance company. The business and social mission of The Redwoods Group – whose motto is to Serve Others® – is to protect and improve the quality of life in the communities it serves. The Redwoods Group has built into their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Green Plus™ offers free informational webinars to Chambers of Commerce in the US and Canada. During this webinar you will learn: How your small business members can benefit from the Green Plus™ small business sustainable certification process and how the program works, How the program can help you position your Chamber as a leader in [...]
Fresh off the presses, and addressed in The New York Times, Treehugger, GreenBiz and Slate’s business site The Big Money, is Wal-Mart’s new sustainability index – an effort to assess the sustainability of every single product that Wal-Mart sells. The corporate giant will formally announce the index on Thursday, July 16. The index will be overseen [...]
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