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Read our interviews with the innovative green entrepreneurs behind our green business network — business leaders who put people and the planet before profits, and whose sustainable companies help you live a greener life.
This month, we profile one of our newest Green Business Network members, Angel Wind Energy. When the housing market tanked in 2008, the Harrouns (the family behind Angel Wind Energy) were in the general construction trade, and saw their business drying up. So, they took action, and made a switch to a more specialized business -- residential wind energy -- before joining our business network last year, in 2009.
We asked Ben Harroun to tell us more about his company's move into wind energy, their sourcing standards for the turbines they install, and the origin of the "angel" in their name.
February 2010 —
Fair Trade = Equal Exchange
West Bridgewater, MA; St. Paul, MN; Seattle, WA; and Portland, OR
As a founding member of the Green America Business Network, Equal Exchange has a long history of going the extra mile. They were Fair Trade before there really was a Fair Trade movement in this country, and now their efforts to support the workers all along their supply chain go well beyond the already-high bar set by the Fair Trade certification process.
We asked Rodney to tell us more about Equal Exchange's worker-supportive business practices, its most popular products ("our organic Love Buzz coffee or our 71% organic Very Dark Chocolate bar"), and how its new domestic Fair Trade program is supporting pecan-farmers in Georgia, almond-farmers in California, and more...
January 2010 —
A Greener Auto Club
Better World Club, Portland, OR
Imagine you're an occasional driver. You ride your bike for most of your transportation, and you take the bus when you can, but you keep your homemade biodiesel car for weekend getaways and roadtrips. Wouldn't it be great if there were an eco-friendly auto club that gave you discounts for your green transportation steps, and would offer you the same roadside assistance whether you breakdown in your car or on your bike?
Allow us to introduce you to the Better World Club. We asked Better World's founder, Mitch Rofsky, to tell us more about the greenest auto club out there, and we found out there's so much more coming from Better World in the near future. Check out the interview below for the scoop on Better World 2.0 -- a one-stop green travel-and-transportation Web destination that you'll want to know about.
