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Green Business Award Nominations Deadline Extended to February 17

Green Business Award Nominations Deadline Extended to February 17

Green Plus recognizes smaller enterprises for their excellence in green and sustainable practices each year.  Each year, we recognize outstanding small and medium-sized employers from around the U.S. for their leadership in sustainable enterprise – combining cutting edge business, environmental, employee and … Continue Reading

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Making Money with Garbage: A Green Plus Podcast

Making Money with Garbage: A Green Plus Podcast

Green Plus Community Coordinator Amanda Komar had the opportunity to sit down with Jeff Baldassari, President & CEO of The Taylor Companies, the oldest furniture manufacturing company in the country and a Green Plus Certified business.  One of Jeff’s biggest … Continue Reading

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Green Plus Panel: Bottom Line Savings, Top Line Growth, 2/24 from 5:30 to 7pm

Green Plus Panel: Bottom Line Savings, Top Line Growth, 2/24 from 5:30 to 7pm

Come network and learn how modern small businesses are changing to make positive impacts on their communities, environments, and bottom lines by incorporating sustainability practices and thinking into their businesses. There is rarely a magic sustainability solution, but these businesses … Continue Reading

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Creating True Sustainable Value — Free Webinar from The Taylor Companies

Creating True Sustainable Value — Free Webinar from The Taylor Companies

Would you like to learn a better approach to finding sustainable solutions for your clients-solutions that transcend the furniture that you specify?  Do you understand that LEED™ points for furniture, although important, are only part of the sustainability story? Title: Creating True Sustainable Value-a … Continue Reading

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Generation Foundation Grant Provides Green Plus Scholarships to Strengthen Cleveland Businesses

Generation Foundation Grant Provides Green Plus Scholarships to Strengthen Cleveland Businesses

Green Plus Targets Small Business Sustainability Gains “In an economy where only the strong survive, the City of Cleveland is providing opportunities for small businesses and nonprofit organizations that adopt sustainable business practices not only to survive but to prosper. … 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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Tonight on NPR’s Marketplace: Certified Green Plus Taylor Companies Saves $100,000 through Energy Conservation and Waste Reduction

Tonight on NPR’s Marketplace: Certified Green Plus Taylor Companies Saves $100,000 through Energy Conservation and Waste Reduction

(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 … Continue Reading

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Sustainability: A Business Opportunity

Sustainability: A Business Opportunity

“The sustainability movement started gaining traction in the United States at the beginning of this decade. Businesses are now recognizing that sustainable value is not only transforming their respective business models but they are now enjoying the fruits of the … Continue Reading

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Seven Businesses in Arkansas, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania Earn Green Plus™ Certification; Twenty-Five Others Complete First Stage of Certification

Seven Businesses in Arkansas, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania Earn Green Plus™ Certification; Twenty-Five Others Complete First Stage of Certification

  (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 … 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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