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How To: Food Products |
The Green Business Network® at Green America is home to both rising social and eco enterprises and to well-established green businesses, including food products. We provide the resources to help business and entrepreneurs with strong social and environmental commitments thrive in today’s competitive green marketplace.
A key benefit of membership is our certification program. This guide provides an overview for achieving our certification for businesses in the Food Products sector. If your… |
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Sign today: Protect sustainable and responsible investing and business |
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Worker-Owned Green Businesses |
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Take Action: Urge the SEC to Approve & Strengthen Its New Climate Disclosure Rule |
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Breakthrough Soil Health Management Systems |
<p>Focus on the validation and adoption of innovative soil solutions to speed soil regeneration. Field trails embedded in systems to scale start fall 2019. Paper on the science behind breakthrough soil health innovations: fall 2019.</p>
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Policy |
<p>Supply chain education about the role of healthy soil. Webinars, special forums, C-Suite and board briefings.</p>
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Soil SuperHeroes |
<p>Public campaign to build the narrative that soil health is essential for climate and food system solutions. Phase I launched Earth Day, 2019. Phase II launched Labor Day 2019, targeting 40 million through network members’ media channels.<br />
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Poor soil stewardship is creating a crisis in top soil available for food production – at the rate we’re going, according to the international Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) we only… |
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Regional Implementation |
<p>Bringing all of the Center's agricultural initiatives together into large-scale commercial projects. Currently focused on small grains in the Midwest and Dairy in the Northeast.</p>
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Midwest Grains Initiative |
GOAL: Get 5 million more acres of small grains grown in rotation in the Upper Midwest by 2021.
Status: Active
Focus Area: Sustainable Agriculture
Contact: Ed Barker, ebarker@greenamerica.org, 202-872-5325
We are a group of farmers, small businesses, and consumer brands working together to get 5 million more acres of small grains grown in rotation in the Upper Midwest by 2021.
JOIN US!
Small grains like barley, oats, wheat, and rye that were traditionally grown in the… |
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Our Approach |
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<h2>A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO COMPLEX CHALLENGES</h2>
<h3>The Center’s Innovation Network approach is part of a larger community of practice referred to variously as Collective Impact, Social Labs and other social change methodologies.</h3>
<p>Our Innovation Networks are distinguished by our highly-effective… |
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Minority-Owned Green Businesses |
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Veteran-Owned Green Businesses |
Having served in the military, and/or having incurred a service-related disability, veteran-owned businesses are eligible to receive 3% of federal contracting opportunities, due to The Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act of 1999.
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Elect Your Representative to the Green America Board of Directors |
As a Green Business Network Member, you can vote for your representatives to the Green America Board. This year, there is one seat up for election, and we want to hear from you.
Green America's democratically elected Board of Directors represents all of our various stakeholders—our individual members, our business members, and Green America's worker members. Your participation is vital to our ongoing work to grow the green economy.
Browse your candidates' personal statements below… |
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Compare Membership Benefits |
Standard Membership
For green businesses & organizations
Starting at just $150/year for companies with 0-5 employees
Join Today
Marketing & Certification
Earn your Green Business Certification (at no additional cost) and gain exclusive access to Green America’s dedicated national membership. Grow your business through targeted marketing opportunities to reach committed, conscious consumers.
Promote your certification everywhere you do business: Display your seal on… |
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The ABC's of Food Labeling |
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About GMO Inside |
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Green America's Green Business Standards |
We certify businesses that are committed to using business as a platform for social change. Discover what makes a business green »
Green America’s Green Business Certification ensures that companies operate according to these general standards:
They operate a “values-based” social enterprise according to principles of social justice and environmental sustainability (values statement must be featured on website);
They are environmentally responsible in the way they run their operations… |
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Our Team |
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