Green Business Resources

What Do You Mean by "Green?" An eloquent essay by Chris Lowry, network director of Green Enterprise Toronto, about evaluating economic activity from an integrated perspective, not just an environmental one.

Greening Your Business: A Primer for Smaller Companies. This GreenBiz Essential offers tips and resources for small and mid-sized companies. The links in this document are culled from the more than 2,000 resources found on GreenBiz.com.

Footprint Scanner uses expenditures data to create an estimate of the carbon and ecological footprints associated with all the products and services an organization uses. It shows the impacts of different spending categories, and where in the supply chain are the most impactful everyday purchase decisions that the organization is indirectly responsible for.

The Center for a New American Dream's Responsible Purchasing Network (RPN) is a national network of procurement-related professionals dedicated to socially responsible and environmentally sustainable purchasing.

The Green Merchant Alliance provides payment processing services for small businesses at reduced rates, then donates 15% of their revenues to purchase 100% certified Green-E carbon offsets. Their membership programs fund the development of new clean energy projects and educate consumers about global climate change.

Doing Business in a New Climate, downloadable free from the Suzuki Foundation, provides guidance and resources for the key activities that make up a greenhouse gas management program, including measuring, reducing, and offsetting emissions, and developing a communications strategy around the program. The guide also profiles leading businesses that are benefiting from greenhouse gas management.

Toronto Corporate Video Productions videotapes the monthly GET Smart speaker evenings put on by Green Enterprise Toronto, many of them on topics related to greening one's business.