75 Green Businesses You Can Start to Make Money and Make a Difference

75 Green Businesses You Can Start to Make Money and Make a Difference
Author: Glenn Croston
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1613080352

With environmental concerns a top issue for consumers everywhere, the green market is the next big boom industry for entrepreneurs looking to make money—and make a difference. Discover 75 green startup ideas in multiple industries, including eco-tourism, small wind power, green schools, water conservation landscaping, green investment consulting and more. For each business, Croston shows you the market, product to be delivered, resources needed, major hurdles ahead, competitors and strategies for success.

Green Entrepreneur Handbook

Green Entrepreneur Handbook
Author: Eric Koester
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1439817316

Written by a practicing business attorney with startup experience in the environmental and technology sectors, this comprehensive handbook assists entrepreneurs in tackling the wide variety of opportunities to go green. A one-stop resource for entrepreneurs, it helps readers incorporate clean technology, environmental practices, and green business approaches into the work environment. The book discusses how to sell to utilities, explores fundraising outlets for green businesses, covers government incentives, presents key startup tools aimed at green businesses, and addresses challenges of many new businesses, such as raising money and making sales. Additional resources are available on the book's website.

Green Careers For Dummies

Green Careers For Dummies
Author: Carol L. McClelland
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2010-01-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780470529607

Everything you need to start a green career As you look for ways to contribute positively to the global economic and environmental crisis, getting an eco-friendly job provides a two-prong solution. Green Careers For Dummies, a 2010 Green book Festival award winner, introduces you to the wealth of opportunities in the rapidly expanding sustainable career genre. This book explores the green frontier of careers and shows you how to find a field that is best suited to your primary interests, skills, and goals, and then translating that into the sustainable job sphere. Career opportunities in the environmental science, renewable energy, smart grid, green building, transportation, manufacturing, sustainability, policy, and more. Job search 2.0 techniques (new media, online, networking, and electronic communications) Emerging green jobs that will be created in the next 5 years and beyond Whether you're a recent college graduate or looking to make a career change, Green Careers For Dummies is your one-stop source for finding your fit in an environmentally responsible job. If you are a career counselor, this book gives you a solid overview of the ever-evolving world of green career possibilities you cn refer to in your work with students and clients.

NV Magazine

NV Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2008-02
Genre: African American businesspeople
ISBN:

Starting Green

Starting Green
Author: Glenn E. Croston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Green movement
ISBN:

"Green entrepreneur and scientist Dr. Glenn Croston outlines green business essentials and helps you uncover eco-friendly opportunities, build a sustainable business plan, and gain the competitive advantage in today's environmentally mindful market."--Publisher description.

American Bee Journal

American Bee Journal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 850
Release: 1887
Genre: Bee culture
ISBN:

Includes summarized reports of many bee-keeper associations.