Posts by: Scott Cooney
Mitt Romney has already ceded the 11 electoral college votes that Massachusetts has to offer to President Obama, despite Massachusetts being Romney’s home state. Romney trails Obama in Romney’s home state by over 20 points in recent polls, indicating just how far from his roots he has come in order to curry favor with the […]
Just yesterday, MSNBC covered a story about the Pacific Garbage Patch having grown 100-fold in the last 40 years. In places in the gyre, as it’s called, there are 46 times more plastic bits than there is plankton. Plastic does not biodegrade and persists in the environment for eons, so seeing a pile […]
I gave up on organized religion a long time ago. While I didn’t have any idea “what else”, I knew my path didn’t lie with any one faith.
Growing up Catholic, I had an epiphany perhaps as early as age 10 that it just didn’t seem right that any one religion could be “right” more […]
Consumers regularly report being willing to pay a price premium for green products, but it doesn’t always translate at the point of purchase. A recent survey put out by the research group TNS looks at global trends in green consumerism. The firm surveyed over 15,000 citizens in 20+ countries, and found that at least 52% […]
At GreenBusinessOwner.com, we appreciate the concept of crowdfunding. It’s one of the big game-changers in the social entrepreneurship field, helping people not just to raise money for a great idea, but to actually test whether it is, indeed, a great idea. If people will pre-buy your products before you’ve produced them, then it’s likely that […]
A natural foods co-operative is a grocery store specializing in whole, healthy foods, and is organized business-wise as a co-operative. Many times these co-operatives are worker owned, but many times community members are owners of their local food co-op as well. Natural food co-ops, like the Mariposa Natural Foods Co-operative in Philadelphia, the Community […]
Jobs are being created. Consumer confidence remains high. Housing starts are up for the first time in years. The global financial markets are, for the time being, stabilized. All of these are good signs if you are the campaign staff for Barack Obama. Sitting presidents tend to do better when the economy is going well, […]
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