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The BrownFlynn, Green Plus Partnership

The BrownFlynn, Green Plus Partnership

BrownFlynn, a corporate sustainability consulting firm and the first U.S. certified trainer for the Global Reporting Initiative, recently partnered with the Institute for Sustainable Development. Through this partnership, BrownFlynn will be able to provide its expertise in sustainability strategy and … Continue Reading

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New Directions: Institute Spins Off, Assembles New Board to Support Sustainability in North America

New Directions: Institute Spins Off, Assembles New Board to Support Sustainability in North America

Originally incubated as a program of the Chapel Hill -based Foundation for a Sustainable Community, the Institute for Sustainable Development has been spun off as a distinct non-profit organization with its own board and staff and a new vision and … Continue Reading

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Council for Smaller Enterprises Update: “Why Businesses Are Saying Sustainability Is Worth the Effort”

Council for Smaller Enterprises Update: “Why Businesses Are Saying Sustainability Is Worth the Effort”

“Green Up and Stay in the Black:” The April 2010 COSE Update  profiles Certified Green Plus Taylor Companies and the Green Plus program itself.

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From Fast Company: Green Plus, Climate Savers Computing, Tech Soup provide non-profits with tools to go green

From Fast Company: Green Plus, Climate Savers Computing, Tech Soup provide non-profits with tools to go green

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. Continue Reading

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ABC News: Businesses Saving Money by Going Green

ABC News: Businesses Saving Money by Going Green

“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 … Continue Reading

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COSE First to Offer Green Plus™ in Ohio

COSE First to Offer Green Plus™ in Ohio

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 … Continue Reading

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Chambers, Institute Present Sustainability Efforts in D.C.

Chambers, Institute Present Sustainability Efforts in D.C.

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 … Continue Reading

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Green Plus Launched in Arkansas

Green Plus Launched in Arkansas

Rogers Lowell First Chamber of Commerce in state to offer Green Plus. With the launch by the Rogers Lowell Chamber of Commerce, Arkansas became the third state where businesses can gain a Green Plus Chamber Partner discount. Four area businesses, … Continue Reading

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American Chamber of Commerce Executives Announces Green Plus™ Partnership

American Chamber of Commerce Executives Announces Green Plus™ Partnership

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 … Continue Reading

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Institute for Sustainable Development Names New Director, Staff & Senior Fellows

Institute for Sustainable Development Names New Director, Staff & Senior Fellows

(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 … Continue Reading

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