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Stormwater Management – Time to Rebuild our Green Infrastructure
It has been a challenging week. The county has introduced legislation to create a guaranteed fund for repairing and enhancing our stormwater infrastructure here in Howard County. This is not a minor thing. The county and the development community have … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Environment, Opportunities
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Business Community Gets Behind Cleaner Energy and Climate Change Policies
The large rally on the DC Mall today offered a number of insights into the mood in the country for implementing cleaner Energy and Climate Change policies in the US. From the interviews I conducted the 40,000 plus crowd was … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Energy, Environment, People
Tagged business, carbon, Green
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Learn about sustainability and eat well at MOM’s Organic Market
My wife and I have been shopping at the local MOM’s organic market for years due to the great selection of produce and the friendly staff. I also really enjoy all the signage they have touting their efforts toward becoming … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Business Profile, Energy, Marketing
Tagged carbon offsets, organic, wind
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Sustainable Growth’s 2013 Corporate Sustainability Plan
We are publishing here our 2013 Corporate Sustainability Plan as an illustration of how a small business can set goals to become more sustainable. We challenge you to do the same for your firm, no matter how large or small … Continue reading
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The winter malaise – it’s time to take your team outside
These short, gray days of winter are in fact hard on many of us. Seasonal affective disorder (also called SAD) is a type of depression that occurs in the fall and may continue into the winter months, sapping your energy … Continue reading
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The State of Sustainable Business in America – Help us help you
We have posted over 150 Green Business Matters blogs during the last year and a half and thought we should step back for a moment and take a look at the service we are providing. To do this we would … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Environment, Marketing
Tagged 2012, Baltimore, Columbia, feedback, Green, green business, green business profiles, hocoblogs@@@, Howard County, Ned Tillman, sustainability
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Russians tackle sustainability
I just finished leading an all-day seminar with 18 delegates from Russian businesses. It was sponsored by the Department of Commerce. The seminar was one day of a 10 day visit to the US to learn more about how we … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Environment, Opportunities, Technology
Tagged Department of Commerce, Europe, Russia, Russian, Russians, state-of-the-art, sustainability
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Christmas trees: cut, live, or plastic?
For the sake of full disclosure, I grew up on a tree farm. We planted 30,000 trees as our main cash crop, and selling trees put me and my sister through college. So I know they are a good way … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Opportunities, Technology
Tagged Christmas, Christmas tree, live, live cut, nursery, plastic, root ball, tree
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Sustainability in the Fortune 500
I recently visited some colleagues at URS Corp. that I’ve known for more than 20 years. Over the past several years, URS has grown into one of the largest engineering design and technical services firms in the world with more … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Business Profile, Opportunities, People, Technology
Tagged Fortune 500, Germantown, Green Team, LEED, Maryland, systemic sustainability planning, URS
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