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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: Incentive plans reward consumers who recycle, cut energy use

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Judith Nemes

Two pilot programs launched in Chicago over the last two years are encouraging city dwellers to improve their green-lifestyle behavior by awarding them points redeemable for discounted coupons at local retailers, restaurants and cultural institutions. Recyclebank hit the Chicago market … Continue reading →

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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: Eco-minded media duo spreads green message in Chicago and beyond

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Judith Nemes

If you’ve taken a cab ride somewhere in Chicago in the last week or so, you probably had a peek at one of the latest green projects by a husband-wife team that’s cutting a swath in the green lifestyles and … Continue reading →

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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: Growing Home celebrates Earth Day with new deal to farm more organic veggies

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Judith Nemes

Earth Day at Growing Home on Chicago’s South Side might as well be just another day of trainees, workers and volunteers getting their hands dirty in organic soil in vacant city-owned lots. But the non-profit will celebrate Earth Day by … Continue reading →

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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: Green-biz advocates see red over new city ordinance

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Judith Nemes

Local green business leaders are seeing red over a new green business certification ordinance passed Wednesday by the Chicago City Council. The ordinance will create a green business program run by the city’s Department of the Environment that’s intended to … Continue reading →

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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: ‘Legal incubator’ aims to catapult green entrepreneurs to success

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Judith Nemes

Tom Stevens, an attorney who owns a law firm in the Loop, is helping green entrepreneurs and other start-up mavericks beyond the typical pro bono work that many lawyers do. A former Illinois state tax prosecutor, Mr. Stevens hung up that … Continue reading →

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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: Vending machine entrepreneur offers healthier, local fare

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Judith Nemes

A Chicago entrepreneur intent on bringing healthy, local snacks to students and workers is taking a page from industrialized food giants’ playbook by using vending machines to reach snackers. T Hephner, founder and president of Healthy U, has been installing vending … Continue reading →

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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: Chicago startup aims to turn buildings into batteries

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Judith Nemes

A local energy-efficiency technology startup is helping commercial property owners turn their buildings into batteries. Chicago-based Clean Urban Energy developed a software platform that enables buildings to store excess thermal energy in their own concrete and drywall and then tap it … Continue reading →

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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: Angel investors nurture local-food seedlings

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Judith Nemes

Seven Chicago angel investors — mostly former derivatives traders and entrepreneurs — have formed an investment network to create financing opportunities for small businesses and startups in the local, sustainable food distribution system. Members of SLoFIG, short for Sustainably Local Food Investment … Continue reading →

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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: ReBuilding Exchange rides growth into bigger HQ

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Judith Nemes

Contractors and homeowners looking for reclaimed building materials will soon have a new, more central location in Chicago to find aged window fixtures, doors, bathtubs and much more. Next week, the ReBuilding Exchange, an affiliate of the non-profit Delta Institute, is relocating … Continue reading →

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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: Helping institutions ‘green up’ their food services

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Judith Nemes

Greg Christian Greg Christian became a food sustainability consultant for cultural institutions quite by accident. His original plan was on the other side of the equation: help food-service providers green their operations so they could get more institutional clients who … Continue reading →

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