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Founded in Arlington Heights, IL, in 1955, Clearbrook is a human service agency that helps adults and children with disabilities. Clearbrook employs almost 900 employees, with over 70% minorities, and serves over 3,000 clients. It offers holistic services at over 40 facilities throughout the Chicagoland area and the state of Illinois. …

Marc Pons of Chapel Hill Tire Car Care Center and Jim Beley of The Umstead Hotel & Spa are  finalists for the Triangle Business Journal‘s 2012 Clean and Green awards. Both Chapel Hill Tire Car Care Center and the Umstead Hotel & Spa are long standing Certified Green Plus businesses. …

Founded in 1995, NewCourtland is a nonprofit provider of community services, affordable housing, and nursing homes for seniors in the Philadelphia, PA area. Services and programs include: community-based senior centers and an adult day center; a program modeled on the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) that provides …

Ararat Nursing Facility, a 196 bed skilled nursing facility for the elderly, is located in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1993, under the auspices of the Ararat Home, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1949 to care for elderly Armenians in Southern California. Over 95% of its residents’ stays …

Join Green Plus and EarthShare North Carolina for a state of the environment briefing and networking breakfast.   When: August 9, 2012 from 8:30-9:30am  Where: Durham Chamber of Commerce, 300 West Morgan Street, Ste. 1400 Durham, NC 27701   This event brings together sustainability-minded businesses and leading environmental nonprofits to get an insider’s view on NC’s …

Four of the earliest adopters and Certified organizations of the Green Plus program have recently earned Re-Certification.    Chapel Hill Tire Car Care Center, The Redwoods Group, Warfel Construction, and Laser Plus, are four of the 11 organizations to become Green Plus Certified in the first year of the Certification’s …

By Intel’s Gary Niekerk for the Business Civic Leadership Center “Today, businesses are using their passion for innovation to develop and build new technologies that can address some of the world’s most pressing environmental and sustainability challenges. For example, the development and application of “smart” technologies to manage buildings, transportation systems, …

The most important P in the triple bottom line of People, Planet, Performance is People.  This may sound funny coming from an “ecycling” startup that, in 4 short months, has kept nearly 25,000 pounds of e-waste out of landfills and considers Mother Earth to be our #1 client. But to …

Optimax Systems, Inc., founded in 1991, manufactures optics prototypes. With over 140 workers, Optimax brings in revenues of nearly $15 million with a steady stream of defense, semiconductor, medical and aerospace clients. They have a lean management staff with 90% of their workers making up the manufacturing team. Rick Plympton, …

Lundberg Family Farms, founded in 1937 in Richvale, CA, grows 17 different crops which are then turned into over 150 different products representing over 70% of the organic rice and rice cake markets. The company takes pride in being known as a quality employer in the region, where workers can …