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Thought Leaders

These 8 Women Lead Sustainability at Companies Like Amazon, Daily Harvest, and Johnson & Johnson. Here’s How They’re Helping the Planet.

From zero carbon initiatives and recycling designer handbags to using recycled fabrics, here's how industry leaders are tackling our time's greatest challenge.

By Entrepreneur Staff

Sustainability

Can Technology Help Us Fight Climate Change?

By Adrian Nita

Building a Business

How to Get Funding and Grants for Green Startups

By Dayana Mayfield

Sustainability

This Is Why Your Business Should Prioritize Environmental Efforts

By Mo Ghoneim

Thought Leaders

This Mayan Beekeeper Formed a Swarm of Environmentalists to Combat the Growth of Genetically Modified Plants in Her Native Mexico

When Leydy Pech saw what was happening to the agricultural balance and the beekeeping community, she decided to take a stand to protect her people, her land and her bees.

By Julia McCoy

Business News

How This Environmentally-Conscious Entrepreneur Is Following Her Passions

Catherine Morris didn't launch her biodegradable packaging business because that's where the market was going. She launched knowing there was a problem that needed to be solved, and now the market is coming to her.

By Nadine von Moltke-Todd

Thought Leaders

Protect the Environment, Protect Your Business

If your company depends on abundant natural resources, supporting environmental causes is smart business -- but it's also so much more.

By Leigh Perkins, Jr

Business News

Can Even Small Companies Have an Impact on the Environment? Yup, These 2 Have.

Proud Source Water teamed with Fishbone Packaging to help eliminate plastic from the bottled water industry.

By Stephen Key

Business News

The Fight Over Water: When Business and Politics Collide

Controversial water project is back up for debate.

By Sherry Gray

Business News

VW to Pay More Than $10 Billion for U.S. Emissions Scandal

As part of the settlements, Volkswagen will to help boost zero emissions vehicles and introduce a program to offset excess diesel pollution from the offending vehicles.

By Reuters

Building a Business

Why Environmental Responsibility Is Good for Your Bottom Line

A foam insulation company retooled its spray foam products and improved its finances, along with the planet, in one fell swoop.

By Doug Kramer

Building a Business

Florida Woman Closes a Clothing Boutique to Open an Eco-Friendly Cleaning Business

After owning several businesses, Martekei Plange turned to franchising with Coverall as a way to refocus her entrepreneurial career.

Thought Leaders

3 Environmental Problems Entrepreneurs Can Help Solve

Part of the global entrepreneurial challenge is to build profitable business without causing social and environmental harm.

By Firas Kittaneh

Business News

Volkswagen Shares Plunge Amid Emissions Scandal

The car company could face up to $18 billion in penalties.

By Reuters

Building a Business

Is Small Business Getting a Dirty Deal With Clean Water Act Changes?

A change to environmental law is being viewed as a massive land grab that hurts many small companies.

By Susan Solovic

Sustainability

How Sustainability Disclosure Creates Competitive Advantage

Today's entrepreneurs can position themselves ahead of the pack as more investors integrate environmental factors into their decisions.

By Jean Rogers

Business Accounting

This Entrepreneur Plans to Save the World, $1 Trillion at a Time

Jigar Shah wants to help the environment -- and he's getting the money to make it happen.

By Dennis Price

Thought Leaders

How a Focus on the Triple Bottom Line Is Captivating Young Workers (Infographic)

Prioritizing people, the planet and profit is crucial for many millennials.

By Gloria Larson

Building a Business

Keystone XL Pipeline Bill Dies in U.S. Senate

The massive project -- which could have benefited businesses large and small and created thousands of jobs -- faced mounting opposition from environmentalists and politicians.

By Reuters

Business Legal

Illinois Outlaws Beauty Products Containing Non-Biodegradable Microbeads

The tiny, synthetic beads -- found in facial cleansers, hand washes and toothpastes -- have been found to pollute our waters and introduce toxic chemicals into the food chain.

By Geoff Weiss

Business Operations & Logistics

Is This the K-Cup’s Fatal Flaw?

If K-Cups are considered the future of coffee, new research is calling into question the future of the K-Cup.

By Geoff Weiss

Building a Business

Engage Employees When Launching a Workplace Environmental Program

Win over leadership as well as rank and file workers with clear overarching objectives, specific goals winning plans and preliminary results from test groups.

By Diana Glassman

Thought Leaders

Honor Among Business Owners: These B Corps Are Building a New Code for Corporate America

Take care of your employees, give back to your community, be gentle on the environment and run a business. Sound like pie in the sky? It's not. Here are 10 companies that are doing it.

By Catherine Clifford

Sustainability

7 Trends in ‘Green’ Business, Not Just for Tree-Huggers

Environmental responsibility is a hot trend for companies, whether or not they target the granola set.

By Catherine Clifford

Tech

How to Dispose of Old Devices Without Losing Data or Harming the Environment

Before you throw away your old computers and smartphones, make sure what's inside them won't harm your business -- or anyone else.

By Riva Richmond

Marketing

Green Power: A Low-Cost Boost to Your Brand and Bottom Line

An EPA program offers business owners an easy and relatively inexpensive way to take care of the planet and also improve their image among employees and customers.

By Catherine Clifford

Building a Business

The Business of Building Artificial Reefs

An aquatic exhibits designer crafts a plan to reinvigorate his state's marine life and fishing industry.

By Gwen Moran