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Going Green Is Not Just For Big Business-You Can Grow Profits, Too!
The world of big business is making daily headlines by "going green" after discovering that what’s good for the planet is also proving good for business.
IBM recently announced "Project Big Green, " a $1 billion initiative to reduce energy consumption by offering new lines of energy-efficient IT products.
Wal-Mart is adding solar power to more than 20 stores.
PepsiCo is buying renewable energy certificates to offset its carbon footprint. Even major banks and energy firms are being asked by shareholders to prove that they, too, are going green.
It’s not just the biggest businesses that are attracting new customers and shareholders and reaping huge profits by "going green." Small businesses also are growing eco-profits by embracing surprisingly inexpensive strategies to add value to their products, services and brand.
Consider these innovative examples:
- Bob Smith of Mad River Brewing Company in Blue Lake, California, has attracted positive publicity (and new customers) by promoting his efforts to reduce his small firm’s waste output and take other environmentally conscious steps. In turn, he has received welcome positive publicity from the press. "What PR budget? That is our PR budget, " he told the Albuquerque Tribune about "going green" to market his business.
- In Florida, Natalie Kelly formed Home Therapy Cleaning Services, which uses only nontoxic, all-natural cleaning products for her home cleaning business. She used to sell aromatherapy candles from her home, she told the St. Petersburg Times, but today uses an aromatherapy baking soda blend to freshen carpets.
Here’s what you can do:
- Two inexpensive ways any small business or solo entrepreneur can go green are to change light bulbs to energy-efficient bulbs and use biodegradable cleaning products.
- With that done, tell your customers and the media about these simple ways to go green. You will have just earned instant credibility as a green business, and also as a media resource for simple, effective ways to "go green."
- Many communities online and offline are forming networks to exchange energy-saving ideas for home and business. Form your own energy network, enlisting neighborhood businesses that will welcome another opportunity to show they’re going green, too. The plus for you is that you will have just positioned yourself and your business as a community environmental leader.
- Copy what the New York Times called "Phase 2" of the corporate response to global warming. Partner with an environmental group. Travelocity invites customers to donate an extra $10 to $40, which goes to the Conservation Fund to plant trees to offset the carbon used by a client to take a trip. Whole Foods invites customers to buy a $5 "wind power card" that goes to Renewable Choice Energy to build wind farms. What local environmental group can you partner with to promote on your Web site (and vice versa), to set aside a day that a percentage of profits will go to that organization or to make their fliers available at your business?
- Make use of readily available, free information to hand out with your business literature or to make available in your office. For example, create a one-page flier on your letterhead inviting clients to calculate their own carbon footprint by visiting http://multimedia.wri.org/safeclimate_calculator.cfm.
- Go deeper green! Attend a "green" conference in your community or region, and promote your attendance. (Go to Google.com and type in "green" and "conference" and your area to find out when and where they are scheduled.) Write a "green" article on simple ways you are going green and submit it to one of the dozens of "green" Web sites and blogs that invite reader contributions. It’s a great way to market your smart ideas and your business!
Tushar Mathur We are all About Green at : Talking About Green and selling green products at : Buy Green Article Source: ArticlesBase.com
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The story is about a boy who is trying to live in the world around him and the changes that are happening in a futuristic society.
Genres Science Fiction, Tragedy, Action
The story centers around a 16 year old looking boy named Asher who lives in utopian society of people which are actually Artificial intelligences (A.I.s) powered by a biofuel that is recycled flesh of dead humans. With the community being a controlled social experiment used by humans to test how these new A.I.s function in society. Asher learns from his apprentinceship under the Cartographer on things ranging from history, forbidden literature, to how to fight. Asher's position also gives him a special program that allows him to convert his body into synthetic flesh, experience emotions, and convert parts of his mechanical body into things ranging from computers to weapons.
He also leaves the community to learn that A.I.s are actually slaves under humans who are now obese from having to no longer move because they have machines to do their work. In this society, people are arrogant and dispose of anything that is different. He befriends another Ai called Zach, who tries to be optimistic and even attempts to create a union with other Ais for better treatment.
The humans who do not embrace the ideals of society are called non conformists. Non conformists are generally not obese because they tend to do their own work, they grow real food instead of synthetic ones and many are religious because religions like Christianity are banned because of World War 4 caused by religious ideals.
Asher eventaully leaves and lives in a non conformist community for ten years which he favors more. He lives with a family of devout Christians. He even falls in love with a human girl named Nina. She loves him but she feels unorthodoxed since Asher isn't "human" even though he thinks he is. His time there is peaceful but outside, depleted natural resources resulted in World War 5.
Asher and Nina try to live a peaceful life even though a war is going on but eventually their community is atttacked, most people are killed or captured to be brainwashed to fight in the war. Asher is captured and people try to reprogram him into killing people. During the war, Asher tries to cling to his humanity while he slowly becomes desensitized to war.
Eventaully, he returns back to his old community to kill all the Ais with only the new Cartographer escaping. He snaps when one battle he was in caused him to kill Nina who was captured and had was brainwashed. From the beginning of the story Asher was a kind yet stoic person who now is cold hearted and nihilistic. He tries to break in to a military base which has a machine that cause earthquakes. He was going to use it to create so many powerful earthquakes to cause major volcanoes to erupt, resulting in a volcanic winter which would kill most life on earth. He succeeds and his mind hibernates after he got caught in an explosion.
500 years later, Asher wakes up to find that all life, humans, Ais are now extinct and he is the last person on an Earth covered in volcanic ash. The story then ends with him dead his last thought of him with Nina in a field.
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Which crops does Brazil grow for biofuel?
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Should the President allow the EPA to fine companies for not using a product that doesn't exist?
What does this say about Obama, and the EPA for doing this? And for those who just want to blame the Dems, this law giving the EPA the power to do this was passed in 2007, signed by Bush.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/epa-penalizes-refiners-for-failing-to-use-fuel-that-does-not-exist/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/business/energy-environment/companies-face-fines-for-not-using-unavailable-biofuel.html?_r=1
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