Business & Economics

Fort Lewis College

Environmental Center Sustainable Business Project - Check out the EC's work on sustainable business.

Durango & La Plata County

Green Business Roundtable - The Green Business Roundtable helps INSPIRE, EDUCATE, and IMPROVE the business community on environmental issues through a monthly lunch networking event

LOCAL - The new independent business alliance for La Plata County, LOCAL stands for Local Organizations Cooperatively Advocating Local.  Find out about their Be Local Coupon Book.
 

Region & State

Boulder Independent Business Alliance (BIBA) - The Boulder Independent Business Alliance (BIBA) is a grassroots collaborative organization of locally owned independent businesses in Boulder County. 

Colorado Alliance of Sustainable Business Associations - The Colorado Alliance of Sustainable Business Associations (CASBA) supports the promotion of sustainable and socially responsible business practices in Colorado.

Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association Be Local Coupon Book - The Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association's mission is to educate people and communities in the Rocky Mountain region to make healthy sustainable choices.  Their Be Local Coupon Book for the Fort Collins area is a national model for "buy local" campaigns.

Santa Fe Alliance - The Santa Fe Alliance is working to build a diverse network of local businesses, community members, and non-profit and governmental leaders to educate them about the importance of buying goods and services from our locally-owned businesses. By doing so, we help to create more and better job opportunities and successful businesses that enrich our community and create a prosperous regional economy.

Nation

American Independent Business Alliance - Independent Business Alliance is a coalition of locally-owned independent businesses, citizens and community organizations united to support home town businesses in a community or geographic region.

Bainbridge Graduate Institute - Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI) offers both an MBA in Sustainable Business and Certificates in Sustainable Business and Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship. In both programs, students work with distinguished faculty from top business schools to master proven sustainability practices.

Business Alliance for Local Living Economies -  Our mission is to catalyze, strengthen, and connect local business networks dedicated to building strong Local Living Economies.

Center for a New American Dream – Helping Americans consume responsibly to protect the environment, enhance quality of life, and promote social justice.

World

Business for Social Responsibility - Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) provides socially responsible business solutions to many of the world’s leading corporations. Headquartered in San Francisco and with offices in Europe and China, BSR is a nonprofit business association that serves its 250 member companies and other Global 1000 enterprises.

Global Reporting Intitiative - The GRI's vision is that reporting on economic, environmental, and social performance by all organizations is as routine and comparable as financial reporting.  The GRI network accomplishes this vision by developing, continuously improving and building capacity around the use of a Sustainability Reporting Framework, the core of which are the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. Other components in the Reporting Framework are Sector Supplements and Protocols. This reporting guidance - in the form of principles and indicators - is provided as a free public good.

ISO14000 - A series on international standards pertaining to Environmental Management Systems, Environmental Auditing, Eco Labeling, Life Cycle Assessment, Environmental Aspects in Product Standards , Environmental Performance Evaluation.  ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on 23 February 1947, the organization promulgates world-wide industrial and commercial standards. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Social Venture Network - Social Venture Network (SVN) transforms the way the world does business by leveraging its members' collective strengths of leadership, knowledge and enterprise for a more just and sustainable economy. SVN's Mission is to inspire a community of business and social leaders to build a just economy and sustainable planet.  Founded in 1987 by Josh Mailman and Wayne Silby, Social Venture Network (SVN) is a nonprofit network committed to building a just and sustainable world through business.

CorpWatch- counters corporate-led globalization through education and activism. They work to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalizationa diverse movement for human rights, labor rights and environmental justice.

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