Any successful company, somewhere along the way, has developed a critical business relationship. Whether you strike a deal with your supplier for better terms on payment, bulk payments, and exclusivity or you provide your customers perks, lay-away, and weekly specials—the relationship helps you become more successful. What happens if you disrupt the business [...]

I remember during the early dot-com days when companies were deciding whether or not to get a website how many opted not to have one—and when they finally did decide years later, they hired a friend’s teenage nephew to build it for them. Even with overwhelming potential gain in marketing reach and changes in [...]

While opening a sustainable home renovation store may fly in Portland, OR, it may not have the same appeal or staying power in rural North Carolina. The concept of the Level of Greenth simply means discovering where you and your community are at on the spectrum of sustainability awareness and choosing practical, achievable goals to steadily move up the spectrum to ensure stability and the ability to follow through with increasing changes year to year. The regional needs, economic conditions, type of biosphere, and the level of understanding of the principles of sustainability determine a region’s “Level of Greenth”.

At a recent conference in New York for US/Spain business and sustainability, former Vice President Al Gore outlined three crises we face as a human race: Global climate change, the downturn of the world economy, and challenges to security—namely the vulnerability of an aging US infrastructure such as the electric grid and dependency on [...]