Glenn Croston is a noted expert on green business strategy and best practices. The author of the books 75 Green Businesses and Starting Green, he has been featured in the LA Times, the New York Times, Greenbiz.com, BusinessWeek.com, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, hundreds of blogs, and other print, internet, and radio outlets.
A regular speaker at green events and sustainability consultant, Croston lays out the greatest green opportunities of our time, the business case for sustainability, and how people from every background can do the right thing for themselves and for our planet by building a successful and profitable green business.
As the founder of Starting Up Green, Glenn Croston is helping the next generation of green entrepreneurs from cleantech inventors to stay-at-home moms to join the sustainable business revolution today.
Glenn lives at home with his family in San Diego with a hybrid car, solar panels, compost heap, and compact fluorescent bulbs. He's always looking for new opportunities to green our lives and our work.
Books In “75 Green Businesses You Can Start to Make Money and Make a Difference” (Entrepreneur Press, August 2008), author Glenn Croston explores the opportunities for people from any background to build a successful business and do the right thing for the environment, including businesses providing clean water, food, energy, buildings, waste reduction, farming, transportation, services, and much more. For more, go to: www.75GreenBusinesses.com. In his e-book “Greening Your Business on a Budget” (Entrepreneur Press, May 2009), Croston provides a checklist of easy steps for businesses in any industry to go green and help not only the environment but their bottom line as well. Released in October 2009, “Starting Green: An Ecopreneur’s Guide to Starting a Green Business from Business Plan to Profits” picks up where “75 Green Businesses” leaves off, going through all of the issues, steps and strategies to start and grow a successful green business. Whether your challenge is planning, marketing, raising money, or many other sustainability related issues, Starting Green delivers solid practical insights to make your green business dream a successful reality. Articles by Glenn Croston
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Blogs Fast Company (Starting and Growing Green Businesses). 