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Sustainable Landscape Design: Sage’s Way Landscape & Design of Salt Lake City

By On March 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Interview, Start a Green Business, Sustainable Business Strategy

Spring is in the air, and in many places, it’s the time to start planning the garden for 2009.  A terrific green business opportunity exists for aspiring eco-entrepreneurs to do landscaping work.  Landscape Design refers to the design and setup of a landscape environment around a house or other building.  By designing a landscape with […]

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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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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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Do You Have What It Takes To Be an Ecopreneur?

By On January 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Start a Green Business

Everyone’s had a dream to start a green business.

Well, at least everyone reading this blog.  But where to begin?  You have an idea.  You have some skills.  Maybe you have some experience in the field.  Perhaps you have some startup capital.  Are these things enough for you to become a successful ecopreneur?

 

Let’s […]

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