{"id":9131,"date":"2010-10-29T10:28:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=9131"},"modified":"2010-10-29T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:28:47","slug":"green-business-blog-carnival-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/green-business-blog-carnival-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Business Blog Carnival #21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7358\" alt=\"gbbclogo\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2010\/06\/gbbclogo.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gbbclogo.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gbbclogo-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, step right up&#8230; it&#8217;s time once again for the greatest show in the green business blogosphere: the <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/green-business-blog-carnival-introduction\/\">Green Business Blog Carnival<\/a>! Each week, green bloggers from around the Internets bring you some of the best green business content from the past seven days. Last week, our co-founder Triplepundit played host; next week, you can head over to the Eco-Libris blog for the Carnival&#8217;s next stop.<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s get this show on the road&#8230; grab your refreshments, find a seat, and get in the mood with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euchronia.net\/sotc\/cy22.m3u\">some appropriate background music<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>This week&#8217;s Green Business Blog Carnival&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Are you a Climate Hawk?<\/strong> Let&#8217;s face&#8230; green or not, business people often like to associate themselves with a sense of ruggedness&#8230; so executives and entrepreneurs promoting sustainability may not warm up to labels like &#8220;treehugger.&#8221; Chris Oestereich at<a href=\"http:\/\/dystopianpresent.wordpress.com\"> Dystopian Present<\/a> discusses a new label chosen by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-10-20-introducing-climate-hawks\"> the folks at Grist<\/a>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dystopianpresent.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/23\/climate-hawks-are-circling\/\">climate hawks<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editor&#8217;s choice &#8212; new regs for more efficient trucks:<\/strong> Tim Hurst at <a href=\"http:\/\/earthandindustry.com\">Earth &amp; Industry<\/a> discusses the the technological requirements that will allow trucks of all sizes to meet <a href=\"http:\/\/earthandindustry.com\/2010\/10\/6-ways-trucks-will-meet-new-fuel-and-emissions-standards\/\">new fuel economy standards<\/a> just announced by the Obama administration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The case for green publishing:<\/strong> Raz at Eco-Libris is getting warmed up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecolibris.net\/greenbookscampaign2010.asp\">Green Books Campaign<\/a> (in which we&#8217;ll be participating) with <a href=\"http:\/\/ecolibris.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/green-agenda-of-green-book-campaigns.html\">a profile of publisher FIELL Publishing<\/a> and their efforts to green up their books and business.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editor&#8217;s choice &#8212; Get your green copy found on Google<\/strong>: I&#8217;ve become a real SEO junkie over the past year and a half, so I really enjoyed Sara Radjenovic&#8217;s post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenmarketing.tv\/2010\/10\/28\/top-10-seo-tools-to-help-green-your-copy\/\">10 great tools to help with optimizing your content<\/a> for the search engines at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenmarketing.tv\">Green Marketing TV<\/a> (and I&#8217;m also a huge Market Samurai fan!).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Buy a solar system online?<\/strong> Might sound a little scary, but Kriss Bergethon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spheralsolar.com\/\">Solar Sphere<\/a> gave us some great insight into how they work with customers around the world in <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/solar-power-systems-retailer-solar-sphere\/\">another sustainablog Approved profile<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New business model for small nuclear reactor companies:<\/strong> Nuclear energy&#8217;s still pretty controversial in the green space, but certainly has its proponents. Tamar Cerafici of <a href=\"http:\/\/ansnuclearcafe.wordpress.com\">ANS Nuclear Cafe<\/a> reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/ansnuclearcafe.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/28\/small-nuclear-dow-wall-street-primer-on-smr-financing\/\">a gathering of small modular reactor (SMR) vendors and suppliers<\/a> to discuss business prospects&#8230; and how old models may not provide the most profitable paths forward.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editor&#8217;s choice: A greener supply chain through systems thinking:<\/strong> How do you green your company&#8217;s supply chain when you don&#8217;t control every aspect of it? Julie Urlaub of Taiga Company thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/2010\/10\/25\/systems-thinking-for-a-green-supply-chain\/\">systems thinking<\/a> could help&#8230; and discusses her ideas at <a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\">The Inspired Economist<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>HP as global citizen: <\/strong>Andrea Newell at <a href=\"http:\/\/triplepundit.com\">Triplepundit<\/a> discusses the evolution of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.triplepundit.com\/2010\/10\/charity-foresight-business-evolution-hps-csr\/\">Hewlett-Packard&#8217;s corporate social responsibility efforts<\/a>&#8230; including a few rough spots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s our Carnival for the week&#8230; see you next week at Eco-Libris! Want to get a post on green business from your own blog featured in the Carnival? Submit it via the form at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.triplepundit.com\/green-business-blog-carnival\/\">Triplepundit<\/a>. And if you&#8217;re interested in hosting, <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/green-business-blog-carnival\/\">check out the schedule<\/a>, and let us know what open date you&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, step right up&#8230; it&#8217;s time once again for the greatest show in the green business blogosphere: the Green Business Blog Carnival! 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