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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.

(January 6, 2010) Public Radio reporter Dan Bobkoff talks in depth with CEO Jeff Baldassari about how Taylor Companies has reduced its costs by $20,000 through waste reduction and $80,000 through energy conservation efforts. Taylor Companies was the first company in Ohio to become Certified Green Plus. In 2004, Taylor …

  (North Carolina Research Triangle) Thirty-one businesses in the Green PlusTM program were recognized by the Institute for Sustainable Development for their exceptional efforts toward triple bottom line sustainability. Seven businesses received full Green PlusTM certification, and twenty-five were recognized as Green PlusTM Movers – businesses that have completed the …

(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 …

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). …

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 …

Thirteen Businesses in Three States Receive Green Plus Recognition Four North Carolina Businesses Become Green Plus Certified; Companies in Pennsylvania and Connecticut Complete First Stage of Certification Thirteen businesses in the Green Plus program were recognized by the Institute for Sustainable Development for their exceptional efforts toward triple bottom line …

(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 for Sustainable Development named its six 2009 Summer Sustainability Fellows: Amanda Campbell, Dale Hammer, Elizabeth Liedel, Brooks Rainey Pearson, Teddy Salgado, and Napoleon Wallace. The Fellows, currently graduate and undergraduate students at Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, bring a wealth of experience from …