Support Authentic Fair Trade
Join with Us to Support Authentic Fair Trade by Phyllis Robinson – Small Farmers, Big Change, January 7, 2012 Deep controversies in the Fair Trade movement have been simmering over the past decade. Today, the situation has reached a boiling … more
Using Television and other Business Models to Protect the Environment
Environmental degradation caused by human activity is rapidly rendering the planet uninhabitable. For thousands of generations the planet’s resources were sufficiently plentiful and resilient to withstand our destructive activities. No longer. When Jefferson was president there were less people in … more
Sustainability for Events
Like most other areas of our lives, events are usually organized without a commitment to minimize their impact on our ecosystems, health, and sustainability. [Coming soon: Resources to help plan events that have minimal impact on global warming and sustainability, … more
Rights of Nature
As the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) points out in discussing its “Rights of Nature” work, environmental laws “regulating how much pollution or destruction of nature can occur under law”, are actually permitting the environmental harms to occur. CELDF’s approach takes … more
Sustainability in the Workplace
by Rachel LeWitt — In an era where even Walmart has pushed attempts to “go green”, the average consumer has been faced with the sustainability movement and its efforts in many different forms by 2011. Most if not all of these initiatives … more
SBN-LV endorses the call for LV Climate Action.
The Steering Committee of the Sustainable Business Network of the Greater Lehigh Valley, at its 9/23/09 meeting, endorsed the Alliance call for Lehigh Valley 350 actions on 10/24/2009. Janessa Lanning, SBNLV Coordinator, will be sending info to its business and organizational … more
Producing the Good Life: How Can the Economy Work for Us?
The Alliance convenes community dialogues on a variety of subjects that affect sustainability, bringing together organizations and individuals working on different aspects of an issue to promote partnerships and understanding. All Community Dialogues are free and open to the public. … more
Business Sustainability
This section explores ways that businesses can become more sustainable and contribute to community sustainability. The results will be linked below: Sustainable Restaurants – An initial look at how restaurants and food-serving businesses, including those providing take-out food, can operate more … more
Entrepreneurs & Sustainability
In addition to imagination, entrepreneurs need skills for organizing, team-building, managing, and analyzing investment & cost. Perhaps it should have been obvious all along that they also need to understand sustainability. It’s extremely important for entrepreneurs to be aware of … more
Social Entrepreneurs
It’s vitally important to realize that while some social ventures can be looked at as a business that happens to have a special type of mission and product or service, others are not market-driven, market-based, or market-financed. In these ventures, traditional business & … more