Hirshberg uses his 25 years’ experience growing Stonyfield Farm as well as the examples of like-minded companies, such as Newman’s Own, Patagonia, Wal-Mart and Timberland, to illustrate how business and the environment can benefit each other.

An inspiring book for business owners and managers as well as anyone interested in saving the environment, Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World demonstrates how companies can work to save the planet, while achieving greater profits and satisfaction, and how we can all use the power of conscious consumption to encourage green corporate behavior.

Available at Amazon Stirring it Up: How to Make Money and Save the World

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Stirring it Up With Stonyfield CE-Yo

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TH Sit Down with Patagonia Founder

The Footprint Chronicles follows featured Patagonia products from harvest to finished product accounting for the travel, CO2 emissions, waste generated and energy consumed along the way – the environmental footprint of their goods.

Each highlighted product is accompanied with the “Good”, the “Bad”, company thoughts on the process and a request for your opinion on Patagonia’s manufacturing methods. Greenwashing it is not. Instead Patagonia offers a transparency that is rare in retail.

Environmental responsibility is not a new concept at Patagonia. The company’s mission is to: build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis. With Footprint Chronicles, consumers can see for themselves how Patagonia is striving to keep that mission alive.

Via ENN

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Patagonia’s Footprint Chronicles: Tracking Environmental Impact of Consumer Goods

Shopsmart has picked Ben & Jerry’s, yum, for the company’s continuing support of local community projects and manufacturing methods which focus on reducing waste and carbon dioxide.

Also, Clif Bar for being certified organic and taking its packaging seriously with recycled content and no shrink-wrap. And Stonyfield Farms, one of my favorite companies, for their tasty 100% organic yogurt that supports family farm operations. Stonyfield is also big on the recycling with big results.

Burt’s Bees, Seventh Generation, Tom’s of Maine, IKEA, Patagonia and Timberland also made the top 10. In checking out this list, I realized that most of the companies are located or originated in the Northeastern US. I always have this back and forth in my mind about which coast is greener and I usually underestimate the East Coast. I don’t know why. But I like these kind of reminders that there are green companies all over.

Did any of your favorite companies make the list?

Via Pittsburgh Post Gazette

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Consumer Reports ‘Shop Smart’ Picks Top Companies for Social, Environment