Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News

Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com attempt to answer the question: How are U.S. businesses doing in their quest to be greener and more environmentally responsible? "The State of Green Business 2008" introduces the GreenBiz Index, a set of 20 indicators of progress, tracking the resource use, emissions, and business practices of U.S. companies: carbon, materials, energy, and toxics intensity, clean-tech investments, e-waste recovery, paper use, employee commuting, and more.

The report also features the 10 key green business trends of 2007 as well as dozens of "Editors' Picks," lists of the best books, websites, reports, business initiatives, and other resources of the past year.

Contents

* Introduction
* Top Green Stories of 2007
o ? Climate Commitments Heat Up
o ? Car Companies Finally Get into Gear
o ? The Greening of Transport Gathers Speed
o ? Green Marketing -- and Greenwashing -- Make a Comeback
o ? Companies Get Deadly Serious about Toxics
o ? Computing Loses Its Bite
o ? The Big Dogs Flex Their Muscles
o ? Green Building Elevates Expectations
o ? The Greening of Banks Earns Interest
o ? 'Zero' Becomes the New Black
* The GreenBiz Index
o ? Alt-Fuel Vehicles
o ? Building Energy Efficiency
o ? Carbon Intensity
o ? Carbon Trading
o ? Carbon Transparency
o ? Clean-Technology Investments
o ? Clean-Technology Patents
o ? Corporate Reporting
o ? Employee Commuting
o ? Employee Telecommuting
o ? Energy Efficiency
o ? Environmental Management Systems
o ? E-Waste
o ? Green Office Space
o ? Green Power Use
o ? Packaging Intensity
o ? Paper Use and Recycling
o ? Pesticide Use
o ? Quality of Management
o ? Toxic Emissions
* Indicators We Wish We Had
* The Best of 2007: Editors' Picks
o ? Tools and resources, reports and research, sustainability initiatives, books and websites, and more.
Published January 30, 2008
Free Download of 64 page report is available at:
http://stateofgreenbusiness.com/
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