Whether you're looking to network and promote your green business with likeminded entrepreneurs, or whether you want to learn (or teach) green business principles, here's a partial listing of organizations that offer a wealth of information and opportunities!
Byregion
Note: Contact Byregion for a discount on an 18-month membership through Your Words' Worth!
Byregion is a richly diverse business network and directory for conscious businesses and holistic practitioners, offering many promotional and web development services for a very affordable price!
Chesapeake Sustainable Business Network
As a BALLE network, the CSBA promotes local sustainable businesses, educates the public on the importance of supporting the local economy, and encourages businesses and consumers to be environmentally sustainable and socially responsible. Their Buy Local Baltimore campaign offers consumers a discount for buying from member businesses.
Co-op America
Co-op America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982. Their mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. To do this, they offer a wealth of information on greening your life and business, including the online and offline National Green Pages, a networking listserv for green businesses, four yearly Green Fest expo/conferences, and much more.
SustainLane
SustainLane has taken a three-prong approach to bringing green to the mainstream by targeting businesses and consumers at SustainLane.com, and governments at SustainLane Government. Currently they're finalizing improvements to their upgraded business directory, which they’ll be rolling out in March along with an online space where people can share information about their favorite green products, services, and businesses like yours! For a video profile of SustainLane, click here.
If you can recommend other great networking sites for green business or conscious enterprise, please contact me and share the information!
