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It’s time to make your business more green

Looking for ways to make your small business more environmentally conscious this year? It could be a very smart move and certainly a timely one. You can feel good about helping the planet and your business also benefits in customer loyalty as buyers recognize and appreciate your efforts. Many marketing-savvy small businesses are projecting a positive image with customers by promoting their environmental efforts.

Now is a good time to “green” your business. The movement is rapidly expanding and there is more business-minded information available on the practical, profit-producing aspects of making a business more environmentally friendly. Access to environmentally-preferable products and services is also widening ­ especially for small business.

Most of what your business does, from buying office supplies to disposing of old electronic “stuff,” can be accomplished with “green” products and services. For timely information, practical tools and sound advice on making a business more environmentally conscious, www.GreenBiz.com is an excellent resource.

GreenBiz, a service of the Washington, D.C.-based Green Business Network, offers a full range of hands-on help for small businesses that want to get greener, from how to finance greater manufacturing efficiency to alternative cleaning solvents and processes. The organization’s Web site is loaded with helpful information and is geared toward helping businesses take an environmental stance that may well help the bottom line.

The GreenBiz site provides descriptions and links to nearly 100 helpful organizations and Web sites -- many of them by state. There are also hundreds of books and reports geared to specific industries. Google “small business” on the grey pull-down menu for tons of information on taking your business down the green path.

Another fantastic resource is the Small Business Environmental Home Page, www.smallbiz-enviroweb.org, which helps business owners access pollution-prevention assistance programs of all types nationwide. It also offers a list of links to state environmental agencies and small-business programs.

The Buy Recycled Business Alliance is a group of companies and nonprofit organizations working to promote the market for recycled-content products. Its mission supports the development of meaningful partnerships with corporate, government and nonprofit leaders to bring about important changes in the way we use, manage and recycle natural resources. Check out www.nrc-recycle.org.

 

 

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