Posts by: Scott Cooney

Can You Trust Carbon Offsets?

By On February 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Sustainability Information, Sustainable Business Strategy

So, you’re a small business owner and you’ve got your hands full with credit card readers, vender accounts, customer complaints, and advertising cold-callers…and do we even have to mention the recession?  Still, you want to do your part to help reduce the impacts of climate change, and you’ve heard that one of the ways your […]

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What Can We Learn From Environmental Non-Profit Groups About Maintaining Passion in your Business?

By On February 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Sustainability Information

Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jack Norris, co-founder of Vegan Outreach, an organization committed to advocacy for a lower carbon and more compassionate diet.  At the age of 41, and after 15 years of advocacy, Jack could be forgiven a little fatigue, but you’ll find not a single […]

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Hunkering Down for the Great Depression

By On February 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Policies of Sustainability

So the recession deepens.  It’s looking more and more likely that it’s going to get worse before it gets better, and unemployment is getting dangerously close to 10% nationwide, a level we haven’t seen in decades. With every cloud is a silver lining, of course, and I think one that we must focus on is that we should […]

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Growing Entrepreneurship Among Networking Gurus in the Green Community

By On January 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Marketing Green

Networking and word of mouth is often described as the best advertising money can’t buy.  It’s also often described as the best advertising…period.  Some entrepreneurs have found that their best advertising turns into another business.

Take Green Drinks, for example.  Green Drinks is a social networking group that brings folks who […]

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Book Review–Ecopreneuring: Putting People and Planet Before Profit, by John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist

By On January 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Start a Green Business, Sustainable Business Strategy

  

“One of the biggest ironies of our growth model is that we’re coming to realize that it has failed to make our society particularly satisfied–indeed, the number of americans who say they’re very happy with their lives was higher in 1956 than it is today, though the standard of living has trebled over […]

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Green Economy Victory Bonds

By On January 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Policies of Sustainability

As the Obama Administration considers its stimulus package and the financial crisis facing the country, it has often been compared to the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Roosevelt’s New Deal helped bring America out of the Great Depression, and had some green components to it (Civilian Conservation Corps, for example).  So despite his detractors, such […]

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Who Are These Ecopreneurs?

By On January 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Start a Green Business

Ecopreneurs come in all shapes and styles.  Big thinkers and lifestyle advocates satisfied with a small business;  poor and rich; opportunists seeing a hot trend and sustainability advocates just looking to do something good with their career.  What do they have in common?  What background do they have?  Did they think about what it […]

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South Korea Plans to Spend $32M for Green Job Creation

By On January 15, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Policies of Sustainability

Stimulus packages and bailouts have dominated the economic headlines of late, but perhaps running a close second in terms of economic trends is that many governments across the world have made serious pushes for creating green jobs.  South Korea is the latest to join the fray, announcing this week a $32.7 billion program to create […]

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