Climate Launchpad team has created the world’s largest cleantech business idea competition to challenge. Hundreds of applicants from 35 countries will present their best green business ideas to solve climate change.
Curious about green business trends? Wanna get inspired by great new cleantech ideas? Looking for opportunities for your company? Or are you simply ready for some optimism on fixing one of the world’s biggest issues? Join the CleanTechnica team at the Climate Launchpad event in Cyprus, 17-18 October.
The TRUE Zero Waste rating system is a compliment to the LEED green building rating system, and helps businesses and facilities define, pursue and achieve their zero waste goals. TRUE focuses on helping businesses, industrial sectors and schools quantify their performance and find additional ways to move toward zero waste. There are currently 88 certified facilities including Tesla, Microsoft, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and more.
Important Media is hosting the Sustainability Unconference in San Francisco on January 28. Learn more about an Unconference, what you can learn from fellow attendees, and get a discount code to register for the event.
Most people know about renewable energy in the form of solar, wind or geothermal power, for example, and the biggest and best firms in the world are pouring resources towards finding better ways to produce longer lasting products with less input.
Green building hasn’t always been a good investment for the retail and hospitality markets, but growing consumer demand and economic benefits have changed the equation – more than half of all new US projects will be “green” by 2015.
A new survey shows growth rates for green products and services are rising faster than conventional goods in America’s economy, outpacing the overall economy during the depths of the recession, and creating opportunity for the 88% of US businesses classified as “microbusinesses” with five or fewer employees.
New research conducted by the UK’s Confederation of British Industry has reported that the country has the opportunity to be a global front-runner in low-carbon products and services, while also adding £20 billion to the annual GDP by 2015. However, the CBI was firm on the fact that the government needs … [continued]
Here’s an interesting guest post, more of a reflective piece, on the greening (or, in some cases, non-greening) of businesses. Worth a read, I think: There have been a lot of interesting shifts in the way that people think about their lives. As technology and education improves, so too … [continued]
Automakers dominate the 2012 Best Global Green Brands ranking of green business, with Toyota taking the top spot. Other tech brands also ranked high, filling out much of the top 10. […]
