sustainable business

The ultimate question: How can we make money off of our forests without destroying them? Answer that, and we will have the answer to many of our environmental, social, and even economic problems.

 Rebounces, a new business, collects old tennis balls and re-purposes them through a patented technology to be re-used again for tennis lessons, practice and recreational use.

Building your green business, or greening an existing one, is a journey. And like any journey in life, you may have to blaze your own trail.

From a 30 years old sustainable German company coming to the US market to a Childcare organization in Uganda, more and more options are available to the conscious consumer when shopping.

With the dizzying array of options for green and sustainable certification av

Schumer Urges FEMA And Army Corps Of Engineers To Meet With Re-Tread Products And Examine The Product’s Potential; Calls Re-Tread A Win-Win-Win For NY, The Gulf Coast And The Environment In Wake Of Last Year’s Hurricanes, Retread Products Is Designing A New Construction Material To Be Used In Flood Control And Levee Construction That Will Bend, Not Brake, Made From Recycled Waste Tire

Re Tread Products Inc. (RTP) is researching the commercial development of a new building material made from recycled tires called the "Tire Log". The Tire Log is a patented innovation made from waste tires with a unique and energy efficient approach to recycling tires. RTP recycling method is based on a simple procedure that helically wraps the steel belted tread of the tire around a core of tire treads to essentially any length or diameter. The net result is a building material that engineers say could revolutionize flood control, earthquake survivability and homeland security.

Re-Tread Products is a startup company based on the development of our recently patented Tire Log that is made from recycled waste car and truck tires.Our top goal priority at this point is to develop a team of professionals that can visualize the potential of our simple yet effective product and turn that potential into reality.

Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com answer the following: How are U.S. businesses doing in their quest to be greener and more environmentally responsible?

Greennbiz.com introduces its 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."

"Illuminating Green Business" stands as the University's first large scale event wherein participants will consider the verity of Green Business Opportunities and Sustainable Capitalism.