by Joel Makower
and the Editors of
State of Green Business 2008
In this landmark report, Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com® answer the question: How are U.S. businesses doing in their quest to be greener and more environmentally responsible? It introduces the GreenBiz Index, a set of 20 indicators of progress, tracking the resource use, emissions, and business practices of U.S. companies: carbon, materials, energy, and toxics intensity, clean-tech investments, e-waste recovery, paper use, employee commuting, and more.
- Introduction
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Top Green Stories of 2007
- • Climate Commitments Heat Up
- • Car Companies Finally Get into Gear
- • The Greening of Transport Gathers Speed
- • Green Marketing -- and Greenwashing -- Make a Comeback
- • Companies Get Deadly Serious about Toxics
- • Computing Loses Its Bite
- • The Big Dogs Flex Their Muscles
- • Green Building Elevates Expectations
- • The Greening of Banks Earns Interest
- • 'Zero' Becomes the New Black
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The GreenBiz Index
- • Alt-Fuel Vehicles
- • Building Energy Efficiency
- • Carbon Intensity
- • Carbon Trading
- • Carbon Transparency
- • Clean-Technology Investments
- • Clean-Technology Patents
- • Corporate Reporting
- • Employee Commuting
- • Employee Telecommuting
- • Energy Efficiency
- • Environmental Management Systems
- • E-Waste
- • Green Office Space
- • Green Power Use
- • Packaging Intensity
- • Paper Use and Recycling
- • Pesticide Use
- • Quality of Management
- • Toxic Emissions
- Indicators We Wish We Had
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The Best of 2007: Editors' Picks
- • Tools and resources, reports and research, sustainability initiatives, books and websites, and more.