There are so many good reasons to start a home business. You have control over your hours, your work environment and pretty much everything else in your daily work day. In addition to allowing you to be your own boss, home businesses have an inherently green side that comes with many environmental benefits.
Here at Greener Assets we look at everything through a green lens – all business including home businesses. This post was inspired by Mary Emma Allen who covers the home business front over at HomeBizNotes. Filled with fresh ideas, motivating posts and a world of resources, her blog …read more

Anyone who’s ever been seduced by Origins’ ‘ginger souffle’ or ‘cocoa therapy’ knows that it would be easy for even the most green-minded beauty consumer to forget about pollution, natural resources and any other environmental ill in the pursuit of a little indulgence.
Origins itself has been touted for eco-friendly initiatives particularly in regard to packaging where they use both recycled and easily recyclable materials. They have recently signed on with Community Energy to offset 100% of their CO2 emissions from their North American retail stores and U.S. manufacturing facilities with wind energy renewable energy certificates (RECs).
The offset from their REC …read more

It is going to be an exciting day in the blogosphere on Monday as thousands of blogs around the world unite to speak about environmental issues through the Blog Action Day initiative. Organized by a small, focused group of top bloggers, Blog Action Day will involve over 12,000 blogs from around the planet.
Behind the day are organizers Collis Ta’eed of Eden Creative Communities and NorthxEast, Leo Babauta of ZenHabits and Cyan Ta’eed of FreelanceSwitch. On their own, these bloggers bring so much to the blogosphere, business world and to people’s every day lives. Together and combined with the voices of …read more