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15 Steps to Green Your Business

Bay Area Green Business Program
Provides a certification system for local green businesses and tools for businesses to become green.

Natural Resource Defense Council: Greening Advisor

SF Community Power
Resources for small businesses to lower their costs and reduce their eco footprint.

Greening Your Business: A Primer for Small Businesses

Commuter Checks
Employer incentive for public transportation.

The Communication Group
Marketing firm specializing in green business.

Acterra Business Environmental Awards

Demand Response – Get Paid to Flip a Switch!

Food Service Technology Center
Commercial kitchen performance testing for appliances, equipment, HVAC systems, and more.

Bay Area Green Business Program’s List of Certified Green Business

Thimmakka’s List of Green Restaurants in the Bay Area

Energy Star Product Guide
Guide to energy-efficient products and equipment.

Green Zebra
A coupon book, product directory and educational resource for green living.

Sustain Lane
Online peer review network and directory of green products.

Buy Fresh Buy Local
Directory of restaurants, bars and retailers that sell fresh and local food.

Co-Op America’s 10 Things You Should Never Buy Again

TheGreenOffice.com Online ordering of green products for offices.

GreenHome.com
Online superstore for green products.

Cole Hardware

Energy Yardstick for Households
Compare your home’s energy use to others and get tips for energy-saving improvements.

Energy Star
One-stop resource for energy efficiency products, practices, programs and rebates.

Flex Your Power
Energy efficiency tips, information and news.

PG&E Energy Management for Small Businesses
PG&E rebates, information, training and incentive programs.

SF Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)
Rebates and services for saving energy and water.

Business Energy Coalition

SF Environment

Small Business Energy Alliance

SF Community Power

The Food Service Technology Center (FSTC) is the industry leader in commercial kitchen energy efficiency and appliance performance testing.

Urban Solutions’ Blue and Green Bins List
Find out what you can and can’t put in the your blue and green bins.

EcoFindeRRR
Find out where to recycle and properly dispose of just about everything.

SF Garbage Rates

Green Citizen
One-stop convenience for proper recycling of computers, electronics, batteries and more.

Jaco Environmental
Have your old fridge or freezer picked up and recycled.

SF GreaseCycle
Got grease? Find out what to do with it.

SCRAP
Donate extra fabric or other durable material to be reused by artists and educators.

Bed Busters
Bed and mattress recycling.

Bay Area Junk Mail Reduction Campaign

Catalog Choice
Free service that helps you decline paper catalogs you no longer wish to receive.

Green Dimes
Service that removes your name from paper mailing lists and maintains the lists monthly.

Zero Waste Program
City waste-reduction program, including grants for SF businesses.

EcoHaul, Inc.
Removal and hauling company that specializes in reusing and recycling.

 

SF Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)
Rebates and services for saving water, and free stuff like faucet aerators.

H2O House
Take a digital tour of a water-efficient house and get tips for saving water in your home.

Water-Usage Calculator for Your Home

U.S. Green Building Council

LEED Certification

Build It Green

Savings By Design

Green Building Exchange

GreenerBuildings.com

GreenerDesign.com

BALLE

SF Small Business Network

Sustainable Business Alliance (East Bay)

SF Green Drinks

Eco Tuesday

WiserEarth.org

Shop Local, Shop Green Postcard

The Story of Stuff
Neat 15-minute movie about the life-cycle of the “stuff” you buy.

Green Festivals

Earth 911
General environmental resource.

GreenBiz.com
Environmental news and commentary.

Grist.org
Environmental news and commentary.

Greenwashing Index
Online forum that allows consumers to evaluate advertisements making environmental claims.

Bioneers
Forum for connecting environment, health, social justice and spirit.

Acterra
Various programs and resources to bring people together to protect the environment.

Global Citizen Center

Global Exchange
International organization and fair-trade store dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice.

Co-Op America
Various programs and resources for a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.

The Ecology Center
Various programs to promote environmental and socially responsible practices, based in Berkeley.

Buy Fresh Buy Local

CA Federation of Certified Farmer’s Markets

Community Alliance with Family Farmers

Slow Food International

Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Eat Wild

Center for Urban Education About Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA)

Cradle to Cradle

The Omnivore’s Dilemma

The Botany of Desire

Fatal Harvest

Biomimicry

Wake Up and Smell the Planet
Loads of info and tips for living green in a colorful, humorous book that makes good bathroom reading.