GB Green Business Organizations

Good Business organizations focused on environmentally responsible and sustainable business practices.

Center for Environmental Leadership in Business
Creating solutions to critical global environmental problems in which industry plays a defining role.
http://www.celb.org/xp/CELB/

Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES)
A network of investors, environmental organizations and public interest groups working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change.
http://www.ceres.org

Echoing Green
Sparks social change by identifying, providing startup grants, supporting, and connecting social entrepreneurs and their organizations.
http://www.echoinggreen.org/

Forum for the Future: Action for a sustainable world
Developing an enriching and enjoyable way of life that does not threaten the global environment or rob future generations of resources.
http://www.forumforthefuture.org.uk/

Green Hotels Association
“Green” hotels are environmentally-friendly properties whose managers are eager to institute programs that save water, save energy and reduce solid waste--while saving money--to help protect our one and only Earth!
http://www.greenhotels.com/

Natural Capital Institute
Founding by social entrepreneur and environmental powerhouse,Paul Hawken, NCI, and its eco-business arm, WISERBusiness (The World Index of Social and Environmental Responsibility) is an "an open source knowledge base upon which a global standard for responsible business behavior." Helping society move towards a socially  just and environmentally restorative existence.
http://www.naturalcapital.org/wiser.htm

The European Sustainability Reporting Association (ESRA)
Improve sustainability reporting by sharing trends and best practice across European countries.
http://www.sustainabilityreporting.eu/

REALeadership Alliance

"To drive world-wide sustainable abundance by inspiring leaders with mind-blowing business ideas they act on."

http://www.thoughtrocket.com

Rocky Mountain Institute                                                                                                                                                                        Non-profit institute headed by a Harvard and Oxford trained physicist, a financial investment CEO, a conservation lawyer, architects, and other envrionmentalists creates a powerful combination of business & society activists. RMI shows businesses, entrepreneurs and governments how to profit from sustainable use of natural resources.  www.rmi.org

U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
A non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings accessible to everyone within a generation.
http://www.usgbc.org/

World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Provide business leadership as a catalyst for change toward sustainable development, and support the business license to operate, innovate and grow in a world increasingly shaped by sustainable development issues.
http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD5/layout.asp?MenuID=1

WWF One Planet Leaders
A sustainability program which enables business managers and senior executives to explore, challenge and apply the latest thinking on sustainable business practice.
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/how_we_work/businesses/training/index.cfm

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