Green Options

Sea vegetables offer nutrients from the sea that are more sustainable than our fisheries.

Healthy school lunches the key to a sustainable future, lower health care costs, and happier citizens?

Just like many other social phenomena that are good for the environment, the exploding trend of people growing their own chickens in the backyard has its naysayers.  Naysayers come in a wide variety of stripes.  For example, the widespread understanding that global warming is real and that we’re causing it has its naysayers, many of whom stand to lose a lot of money when their oil and coal has to internalize the cost of the pollution they’ve been making us pay for since their inception.  Or those that say that electric cars are not realistic…sure there are naysayers…wait, is there a trend here that the oil industry is against everything good?  Hmm…

But I digress.  Suffice it to say, there are naysayers who don’t want us to live well, to live with a lower carbon footprint by producing our own food.  Kimberly Willis and Rob Ludlow, co-authors of Raising Chickens for Dummies, can be counted among those that are dispelling these myths and empowering the people. 

Clean Tech makes a great teaching tool for those new to the green business world.

Ecopreneurist does a terrific job of educating the public about green business, especially startups.  My own personal blog, EcopreneursGuide, has a variety of pages that also address this topic, though with woefully less information and diversity, since it is only my blog, and doesn’t have the wealth of writers associated with Ecopreneurist.

But the interesting thing is that my blog gets a decent number of hits. Not, mind you, for any of the articles I write, but only for the resources I list.  The page that, overwhelmingly, gets the most attention, is the “Green Business Opportunities” page.  With Google Analytics, it is easy to see that most of the people who come to my blog do so because they are searching for this exact phrase. People want to change the world.  We need to make sure they have the resources to do so.

Previously challenged on CleanTechnica to use its first-ever hybrid ferry as more than just a ‘publicity stunt’, Alcatraz Cruises does a good job of using its vessel to educate tourists about environmental issues.

Economic downturns have historically been times in which there are more startup businesses than usual.  This particular recession is a great time to start a green business.  One easy place to start, for someone without a great deal of startup capital or knowledge base, would be to start a mobile food vendor business.

Sometimes the bain of parents who learn that their kids are spending their lunch money on junk food from mobile food vendors, the business concept is a simple one to go green with. 

Conservatives don’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to protecting our citizens.

Where does municipal compost go?

Peer-reviewed study finds Americans falling behind across all income levels.