75 Green Businesses
A World of Opportunity
Volcom GJAC
Green On a Budget
Contact Us
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Starting Up Green
PO Box 910133
San Diego, CA 92191
GreenBiz Radio
How to Cash In on the Green Economy: Glenn Croston interview in September 2008, discussing how Starting Up Green and his book "75 Green Businesses" can help green entrepreneurs to start and build successful ventures.
Useful Links
- Entrepreneur
- Wall Street Journal's Startup Journal
- Greenbiz.com
- Signature Green PR - public relations and marketing
- Vator.tv - Pitch Your Company
- Triple Pundit
- Lazy Environmentalist
- Marketing Green
- Sustainable Industries
- Sustainable Businesses
- Treehugger
- EcoGeek
- Opportunity Green
- West Coast Green
- Home Sustainable Challenge
Partner Sites
Best Green Blogs, with just about everything green under the sun.
Strategic guidance and capital raising assistance for green businesses and investors
GreenBusinessOwner.com, a website for small businesses wanting to tap into the green economy
Providing web hosting powered 100% by clean, renewable solar energy
Environmentally Friendly Hotels. Find hotels worldwide committed to the environment and greening the hospitality industry.
Green Contractor Guide, a guide to local green products and services Starting Up Green
Green businesses are the key to a healthy environment, a strong economy, and opportunities for all. Whatever your business or career is today, you can make a positive difference in the world. Starting Up Green and green business expert Glenn Croston can help you and your business to succeed with:
Strategic sustainability consulting for business success
Cost effective media exposure
Training programs crafted specifically for your business
Getting Your Business Noticed
Every business has a story to tell. Telling your story is essential for success - people can't do business with you if you they don't know you. To get media access without busting your budget, contact Glenn Croston at Starting Up Green. It's about way more than press releases. With experienced professional writing, a track record of success, creativity, flexible formats, and our partnership with 3BL Media, you can tell your story to hundreds of thousands of people in the CSR and green business world and beyond.
“I’ve worked with Glenn on multiple projects at this point, and we’re very pleased with the results we get. Glenn’s network in the CSR community is wide and he’s passionate about business that is doing good so he’s eager to help get the word out there. Glenn’s timely and professional approach also makes it easy to recommend his services.”Derek Sabori
Director of Sustainability & CSR, Volcom
Lu and the Earth Bug Crew ZAP the Energy Spikes, Author
“Working with Glenn and 3BL was a great experience all around. Glenn helped me to write an informative, interesting, and timely press release, and the 3BL release helped drive traffic to my site and was picked up by notable news outlets.”
Beth Remmes, founder of Zola Goods
Find the Green Business You Can Start Today
You can make the move toward a better future today with green business opportunities like being an Eco-Consultant with Green Irene, or being a Zola Goods coordinator. Whatever your business is, you can work with the Green Business Bureau to create a plan for sustainability and certify your progress.
Glenn Croston's book 75 Green Businesses describes the immense opportunities for businesses that deliver greener food, water, building, energy, and many other fields, laying out how to start your business today. Give it a read and take the first step.
Getting Your Business Started:
"Starting Green" for a successful green business. Glenn Croston's new book "Starting Green: An Ecopreneur's Toolkit for Starting a Green Business - From Business Plan to Profits" provides a nuts and bolts guide to create a successful green business, including planning, marketing, raising money, government incentives, and some of the hottest opportunities in solar, energy efficiency, green retail, green franchises and direct sales. Insights from Hunter Lovins, Joel Makower, Eric Corey Freed, and many other green leaders show the way to success. See more here.
Buy it now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Borders
Blogs, and other News:
Fast Company Blog: Starting and Growing Green Businesses
Starting Up Green on 3BL Media: Zola Goods, Terramoto, Lu and the Earth Bug Crew, and much more.
I'm creating a new program for people stretched thin financially by the Great Recession, showing them how not just to survive but how to live well while spending less, and helping the planet as well. The program is called the Home Sustainable Challenge, delivering 10 easy steps to a better life that you can start today. I hope you join us. Click here to take the first step.
Volcom helps the homeless with their 2010 Give Jeans a Chance campaign, collecting donated jeans and giving them to homeless shelters. (Here I am with my "Give Jeans a Chance" cap, after donating a couple of pairs of jeans)
Green innovator James Cass develops the Mojave Breeze hybrid air cooler to cool our houses while saving people money and saving the planet. Read more at his website, and at this blog post.
"Business Malady #1: The Waiting Game" on Fast Company, how smart businesses are getting in action while others are waiting on the sidelines.
"How Facebook and Twitter are Changing the Business World. And How They Aren't" on Fast Company. How business is still all about relationships, no matter how you build them.
"The Transition from Consumer Economy to Conserver Economy" on Fast Company, how the down economy is producing opportunities for businesses that help others save more and waste less.
"10 World-Changing Green Trends" on Entrepreneur.com, and how to take advantage of these trends to boost your bottom line - An excerpt from Glenn Croston's new book "Starting Green".
