This post provides a list of links to green-business and sustainable-economy-focused organizations,
associations, websites, books, and other resources, which are useful not only
to people who own, manage, or work for companies (large or small), but to all
of us—as consumers and citizens who are affected by business decisions and corporate
practices every day. The resources are organized into the following categories:
- Local
Economies / Community Investment - Green
Business (general) - Clean,
Green Jobs - Environmental
& Social Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Financing, and Investing - Corporate
Social Responsibility - Confronting
the Corporate Corruption of Government - Ecological
Economics - Books
Local Economies / Community Investment
- BALLE: Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
- LocalHarvest
- Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- Move Your Money
- Slow Money
- Sustainable Economies Law Center
- Transition Network
- Transition U.S.
Green Business (general)
- 1% for the Planet
- American Sustainable Business Council
- B Corps / Benefit Corporations
- California Business Alliance for a Green Economy
- Center for a New American Dream
- Fast Company: Co.Exist
- GOOD: Business section
- GreenBiz.com
- Green America
- Green Chamber of Commerce (San
Francisco Bay Area) - SustainableBusiness.com
- Sustainable Industries magazine
- U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce
- YES! magazine: New Economy
(and Planet) sections
Clean, Green Jobs
- BlueGreen Alliance
- Good Jobs, Green Jobs regional conferences
- Green for All
- Farmer-Veteran Coalition
- Veterans to Farmers
- Veterans Green Jobs
Environmental & Social Entrepreneurship,
Innovation, Financing, and Investing
- Buckminster Fuller Challenge
- CERES
- CleanTech Open
- Echoing Green
- Green Xchange
- Investors’ Circle
- Net Impact
- New Resource Bank
- One Pacific Coast Bank
- Root Capital
- RSF Social Finance
- Social Venture Network
- The Unreasonable Institute
- U.S. Social Investment Forum
- X Prize Foundation
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Andrew Winston’s blog: Finding the Gold in Green
- Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)
- CERES
- CSR Hub
- CSR Wire
- EcoDesk.com
- Environmental Defense Fund’s corporate partnerships
- Future 500
- Global Reporting Initiative
- Green Seal’s green business standards
- Nature of Business radio
show/podcasts - The Natural Step
- SustainAbility
- UL Environment’s 880 standard
Confronting the Corporate Corruption of Government
(e.g.,
the excessive influence of dirty industries and wealthy special interest groups
on politicians, legislators, and judges, to the detriment of society and the
common good: environmentally and economically)
- Corporate Accountability International
- Greedy
Lying Bastards, a new documentary film - League of Conservation Voters
- MapLight
- Move Your Money
- Oil Change International
- OpenSecrets.org
- Public Citizen
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- U.S. Chamber Watch
- “The U.S. Chamber Doesn’t Speak for Me” campaign
Ecological Economics
CASSE
has a great listing of ecological economics-focused organizations here.
Books
Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era,
by Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist:
How Interface Proved That You Can Build a Successful Business Without
Destroying the Planet, by Ray Anderson
Green Recovery: Get Lean, Get Smart,
and Emerge from the Downturn on Top, by Andrew Winston
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next
Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins
Ethical Markets, by Hazel Henderson and Simran Sethi
The Economics of Enough: How to Run
the Economy as If the Future Matters, by Diane Coyle
Betterness: Economics for Humans,
by Umair Haque
Ecological Economics (Second
Edition): Principles and Applications, by Herman Daly and Joshua Farley
This
is not an exhaustive list of books and resources related to green business issues. If
you have another resource to recommend, please submit a Comment below. Thanks!
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