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In the Spotlight: Promoting Green
Business
Business for Social Responsibility:
Founded in 1992, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) is a national association
of businesses, with more than 1,400 members and affiliated members. Collectively,
BSR member companies have a sizable impact on the economy: their revenues total more
than $1 trillion, and they employ nearly five million workers. BSR provides assistance
to companies seeking to implement policies and practices which contribute to the
long-term and responsible success of their enterprise and which fairly balance the
competing claims of key stakeholders: their investors, employees, customers, business
partners, communities, and the environment. BSR offers products and services on a
range of corporate social responsibility issues related to audits and accountability,
community involvement, the environment, ethics, governance, human rights and the
global economy, the marketplace, and the workplace.
The BSR Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization affiliated with BSR.
Its mission is to work with the entire business community and others to help companies
sustain their commercial success in ways that honor high ethical standards and benefit
people, communities, and the environment.
The BSR Education Fund’s Business and the Environment (BATE) Program assists BSR
members and the general business community in developing policies, practices, and
tools which increase value to customers and shareholders while decreasing companies’
environmental footprint. BATE’s mission is to help companies integrate environmental
considerations into business decisions and strategies and to help create more sustainable
systems of commerce. BATE has a number of initiatives underway, including projects
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote resource productivity, reduce environmental
impacts through green product and green building design, foster adoption of sustainable
business practices, and help companies "close the loop" with customers
and suppliers.
Sustainable Business Network
(SBN): is an internet network that provides:
The SBN Journal delivers information to internet users in the form of a free,
online-only monthly publication. Rather than re-developing the wheel, the SBN Journal
culls the most compelling news and articles from a wide variety of leading trade
publications in sustainable business. The journal covers every sustainable business
sector from renewable energy to social investing, from green building and construction
to organic agriculture.
The SBN Journal offers a succinct snapshot of thinking and activity in the sustainable
business community to keep interested individuals informed, energized, and inspired
about the many positive developments in our burgeoning field.
Sustainable Business Opportunities helps green businesses find resources they
need to grow investors, partners, distributors, licensees, solicitations to further
the transition toward a green economy. With 400,000 visitors each month, all specifically
interested in sustainable business, SBN is an essential network to foster these connections.
Green Dream Jobs is the first job and internship listing service devoted
to helping people find jobs with green businesses and organizations. The green economy
is growing; you no longer have to be an engineer or a forester to work in service
to the environment. But how do you find jobs in sustainable businesses like recycling,
renewable energy, green building, and eco-management? The SBN Green Dream Jobs section
is a great place to begin your search.
SBN Library is a thorough collection of resources on sustainable business
and is updated monthly. It includes organizations, government agencies, publications,
databases, mailing lists, funding sources, and university programs. |
