Financing Your Green Business

Financing Your Green Business

Drew Tulchin talks about how to finance green businesses in the U.S. in terms of capital options and sources. He gives step by step practical advice for green entrepreneurs and suggests various things that can be done to help obtain financing. Drew Tulchin talks about how to finance green businesses in the U.S. in terms of capital options and sources. He gives step by step practical advice for green entrepreneurs and suggests various things that can be done to help obtain financing.

Is Sustainability Accessible?

Is Sustainability Accessible?

In this post Andrea argues the case for acting now in order to ensure that the sustainability community avoid becoming an enclave of exclusivity detached from the world’s main and mean streets. Sustainability needs to become a broad based movement with broad appeal and that delivers broad benefits.

Call for Papers for Special Issue on Culture and Sustainable Communities

Call for Papers for Special Issue on Culture and Sustainable Communities

Culture and Local Governance / Culture et Gouvernance Locale is now accepting manuscript submissions for its ‘Culture and Sustainable Communities’ special issue to be published in September 2010. Papers are invited across a broad range of theory and practice of cultural sustainability planning within the municipal context. Potential themes include, but are not limited to, case studies of municipalities that incorporate culture within sustainability planning, new strategic approaches and frameworks of incorporating culture within sustainability initiatives, theoretical examinations and adaptation of cultural considerations within the sustainability paradigm, and the interplay between diversity and sustainability in municipal cultural plans. Culture and Local Governance is a peer-reviewed open access online journal publishing original work, both theoretical and empirical, on the relation between culture and local governance. This special issue takes as a foundational understanding that culture is by nature diverse and evolving, and intercultural realities and relationships must be incorporated as integral to any understanding of culture and sustainability in contemporary cities and communities. These varied, distributed efforts reflect a quickly emerging field of inquiry and practice, which this special issue hopes to reflect.

Choosing the Right Green MBA Program For Career Success: 10 Key Factors to Consider

Choosing the Right Green MBA Program For Career Success: 10 Key Factors to Consider

Discover the 10 most important factors you should be using to select a green MBA program and how to use them to select the right program to put you on a successful career track.