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Business Network News
March 6, 2009
Faces of the Green Pages—Profiling Good Clean Love
Wendy Strgar started her business, Good Clean Love
(one of the first companies to produce organic and sustainable love products), out of a desire to fund peace work and peace education for children. Over time, she has seen her business grow and her product line expand into health food stores and pharmacies all across the country.
She has also witnessed her business promote peace and love on a personal level, helping couples to sustain their loving relationships. In a recent interview with Green America, Wendy talked about the rise of the sustainable love-product market, what keeps her inspired, and the special challenges of her market niche.
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Green Mountain Coffee Seeks Grant Proposals
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters’ Changing Climate Change program has announced grants totaling $800,000 for organizations working on climate change. The $200,000 awards will go to organizations working on transportation-related emissions, threats to coffee-growing communities, building political will, and empowering individual action.
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The proposals will be available for public comment at a micro-site and through a Twitter account to share the initiative's progress.
TS Designs Announces New Locally Manufactured Organic T-Shirt Line
TS Designs has been in business since 1977 printing and dying t-shirts made from organic materials free of harmful chemicals. They aim to continue their sustainable vision with the unveiling of a new locally produced organic cotton clothing line, hearkening back to the days before outsourcing put as much as 17,000 miles between a t-shirt's manufacturer and its wearer.
T-shirts from the Cotton of the Carolinas line follow a "dirt-to-shirt" supply chain that stays completely within the Carolinas, reducing the transportation footprint down to 700 miles within a 200 mile span. TS Designs views the new line not just as a series of products, but as an educational tool to teach people about the importance of local supply chains.
Last Friday, Congressman Howard Coble (R - 6th district of North Carolinas) visited TSD to find out exactly what Cotton of the Carolinas is about.
Eric Henry, Tom Sineath, and Eric Michel all met with the Congressman for about an hour to discuss the importance of local business as the best stimulus for our ailing economy and Cotton of the Carolina's dedication to that goal.
TS Designs produces the Green Festival™ and Green Business Conference™ t-shirts. Eric Henry, president of TS Designs, serves on the Green America Board of Directors and represents the Green Business Network members.
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Distant Village on Chicago TV
Rich Cohen, founder of Distant Village Packaging, was featured on Chicago television to share his success story as part of the “Live Green with ABC 7” series. Distant Village is a custom packaging company that designs sustainable, hand-made boxes, bags, and baskets for specialty products. They have grown significantly over the past eight years, supplying packaging from over 500 artisans. Distant Village will soon move into Green Exchange, a community loft building able to house more than 100 green businesses and designed to promote a collaborative environment and tenant success.
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Registration open for Investors' Circle Spring Conference & Venture Fair
The theme of this year’s Investors' Circle gathering is Social Enterprise: Seizing Emergent Opportunities. IC will feature workshops and panels to guide your portfolios and chart a path through the recession, as well as a venture fair of 20 top-rated, mission-driven companies. The conference will be held at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco’s Union Square from April 19-21. Early-bird registration has begun and hotel rooms are available at a special rate.
Van Jones in the New Yorker
Van Jones, of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Green for All, was featured in the January issue of the New Yorker. The article showcases Van's work to create "green collar jobs”, leveraging the work of fighting climate change to bring job opportunities and skills where it’s needed most - the urban (and largely non-white) poor. Click to read the article.
More about Green For All and their national Green Jobs initiative at www.greenforall.org.
Accomplishing More by Doing Less
ZBA Associates' Marc Lesser has just published his new book that has a revolutionary premise: get more work done by putting in less effort. LESS: Accomplishing More By Doing Less shows readers the benefits of doing less in a world that has increasingly embraced more—more desire, more activity, more materials, more exhaustion. According to Mark, "Less" is about stopping and the possibility of finding composure in the midst of activity. Marc has previously spoken at Green Business Conferences in San Francisco.
Click to read more. More about ZBA Associates and how they bridge business practices with Zen practice is at www.zbaassociates.com.