Small businesses employ more than 52% of working Americans, according to the Small Business Administration, and comparable percentages in other developed countries. It follows that small businesses generate a substantial portion of the business world’s environmentally harmful waste. To help small business owners and employees minimize their environmental impact, here are 20 simple ways to [...]

I wrote my book, Build a Green Business: Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur, specifically to help people start green businesses.  I wanted readers to explore the world of green business, and what running one of these wonderfully synergistic entities that combine social activism, human rights, and environmental protection, with free market, self-sustaining, good old [...]

Never in the history of our planet has the human species come so close to exhausting the natural resources of the planet that gives us life. Statistical evidence and scientific research point overwhelmingly to the urgent need for business to produce, trade and consume responsibly. The Brundtland Commission’s 1987 definition of sustainable development as conducting [...]

Some of the words we keep hearing are “double dip recession” and “credit squeeze on housing loans”. World economic crisis effects each and any business market, still there are some markets that are effected much more then other. Real estate business as among those which depend on the economy and also on the banks providing [...]

The Property magazine has rounded up the top 10 choices for today’s eco-conscious businessman, from a solar briefcase to life-like video conferencing. 1 Pocket solar power Your phone does suck energy. Fortunately, there’s a range of chargers out there that use solar energy to power your gadgets. The Solio, can power all the standard gadgets [...]

Water Rhapsody have established 16 franchisees in water conservation over the past 6 months from the Cape to the Limpopo. They are still looking for ecopreneurs who want to own their own green businesses in the Free State, North West province and in the Northern Cape. Water Rhapsody has been in business offering water conservation [...]

Every now and then a brilliant idea comes along and one needs to find that unique individual to match the opportunity. Usually its the other way around – by this I mean there are lots of good people looking for opportunities, but no good ideas ! At Ecopreneur we are going to help find one [...]

Monitoring how much power your home uses isn’t just frugal but an “in” and green idea. Google and Microsoft are already players in the home energy market but Apple is looking to change the game with two patent applications. There’s a simple reason for Apple to get into the smart grid market and that’s money. [...]