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Sustainability and Value Creation: Investors Are Paying Attention

Posted by Nick 1154 days ago, popular 1154 days ago (http://www.triplepundit.com)
Category: Business | Tags: green investing venture capital
Companies that fail to link their sustainability reporting and activities to an overall corporate strategy likely will fail to connect with investors[...] read more »
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How to Amplify Microfinance Effectiveness: Don't Pay People Back!

Posted by GreenSmith 1168 days ago (http://www.greensmithconsulting.com)
Category: Entrepreneurship | Tags: base of pyramid microfinance microloan
Opt In Now is doing something that most public facing microlenders are not: Not paying back the original lender, you, but instead, effectively framin[...] read more »
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The Finance Public Utility

Posted by Nick 1183 days ago, popular 1182 days ago (http://www.triplepundit.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: government
What if there’s a way we can treat this current calamity as an opportunity to regain control of our monetary systems and provide hope for a secure, s[...] read more »
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A Simple, Smart, Free Way to Green Your Office

Posted by GreenSmith 1188 days ago (http://www.triplepundit.com)
Category: Green | Tags: greening greenoffice printer
How do you reduce the amount of ink you use in your office printing everyday things? Simple: poke holes in your writing. Come again? Ecofont removes [...] read more »
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Risk, Recession, and the Future of Green Markets

Posted by Nick 1193 days ago, popular 1192 days ago (http://www.triplepundit.com)
Category: Green | Tags: green markets recession stimulus
Green markets and related financial products have continued to thrive, although their growth has been dampened by the global slowdown. read more »
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Google: Leading the Way To Smarter Home Energy Use?

Posted by GreenSmith 1195 days ago (http://www.triplepundit.com)
Category: Green | Tags: energy google smart grid web
Google has recently begun testing PowerMeter, a service that they say "...will show consumers their electricity consumption in near real-time in a secure iGoogle Gadget." Translation: You'll be able to know what is using how much in your house. F read more »
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The Most Effective Way to Green a Home?

Posted by GreenSmith 1202 days ago (http://www.triplepundit.com)
Category: Green | Tags: green building renewables weatherizing
Sustainable Spaces has found a golden formula for being a successful home retrofitter: Be vertically integrated, start w/energy efficiency, reduce major systems to match, then get the reduced amount of renewables you need. read more »
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2009 State of Green Business Forum: Progress, Caution, Hope

Posted by GreenSmith 1208 days ago, popular 1207 days ago (http://www.triplepundit.com)
Category: Green | Tags: green business joel makower
This Monday GreenBiz.com held their first State of Green Business Forum. Built around the 2nd annual publication of their report of the same name, it served as a marker of progress, or in some cases lack of it, towards a more sustainable world. read more »
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Can Capitalism and Corporate Consciousness Happily Co-exist?

Posted by bandolier 1221 days ago, popular 1221 days ago (http://www.triplepundit.com)
Category: Business | Tags: csr green profit
Yellingbo Gold demonstrates the possibility of running a profitable, socially responsible business outside of a formal CSR structure while still prod[...] read more »
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Why You Should Check Out EDF’s Innovation Exchange

Posted by bandolier 1221 days ago (http://www.triplepundit.com)
Category: Green
IE is a wealth of information about making a company more environmentally-friendly. IE suggests two ways to create a plan to reduce emissions: creat[...] read more »
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How to Find Green Businesses with Your Phone

Posted by GreenSmith 1222 days ago (http://ecopreneurist.com)
Category: Green | Tags: android blackberry iphone mobile apps
GPS enabled phones such as the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry have made getting around so much easier, and in the case of geocaching, more fun. But [...] read more »
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Current Financial Structures Deplete Soil Fertility: How to "Slow" Money Down

Posted by bandolier 1222 days ago (http://www.triplepundit.com)
Category: Economy
Fast money does violence to the web of relations on which the health of communities and bioregions depends. It is not enough to steer money in new di[...] read more »
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Greening the Lunch Truck, Hold the Greenwash

Posted by GreenSmith 1223 days ago, popular 1222 days ago (http://www.triplepundit.com)
Category: Green | Tags: carbon locavore organic solar
What's for lunch? It's a universal question that many of us working stiffs have to figure out every day. You have a finite amount of time, and don[...] read more »
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The Obama Bounce: Wall Street Digs Cleantech

Posted by bandolier 1225 days ago, popular 1224 days ago (http://www.triplepundit.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: cleantecn
Wall Street's earnings season is once again upon us.
Investors are paying particularly close attention this quarter in reaction to continued econ[...] read more »
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How to Recession-Proof a Solar Company

Posted by bandolier 1228 days ago (http://www.triplepundit.com)
Category: Business | Tags: energy solar
The solar industry has taken a beating lately. At their low in November, solar stocks were down 70%. Natural gas and oil prices have plunged, reducin[...] read more »
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