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Is Green the New Black for Your Bottom Line?

As we have become more environmentally aware, many business owners are wondering how they can be more green, without adding red ink to their balance sheets.  The Small Business Administration has a Green Business Guide that provides information about resources to help small businesses expand their businesses while saving energy costs.  The Greening Advisor of the Natural Resources Defense Council provides advice for that can help any commercial business or organization to reduce its environmental impacts.

Also, the Evanston Public Library has a number of books that address this issue.  Here are just a few to get you started:

Greening your small business : how to improve your bottom line, grow your brand, satisfy your customers--and save the planet, Kaplan, Jennifer, c2009.  Jennifer Kaplan founded Greenhance LLC, a business consultancy dedicated to providing marketing and communications strategies to small businesses going green. 


The complete idiot's guide to greening your business, Riley, Trish, c2009. This entry in the "Idiot's" series provides the most up-to-date, concrete, and practical steps for readers to follow "to get rich by going green."

Green recovery : get lean, get smart, and emerge from the downturn on top, Winston, Andrew S., c2009.  Includes case studies of companies that have gone green, and explores how going green can aid economic recovery.

Green your work : boost your bottom line while reducing your carbon footprint, Carlson, Kim, c2009.  This book shows managers practical steps to make their companies environmentally responsible while staying profitable and efficient.






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Meeting set for contractors about big grant

An article in Evanston Now announces that Brinshore Development LLC will hold an informational meeting about subcontracting opportunities for the City of Evanston's $18 million federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program housing rehabilitation grant at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 27, at the Civic Center. (Read article)

If your small business can benefit from this opportunity, be sure to make plans to attend.

Small Business Blogs

Do you want to keep up with the best of the Small Business blogs that are out there?  Forbes Magazine has weighted in with their choices for the Best of the Web blogs to follow. Included are recommendations for Duct Tape Marketing, Small Business Trends, and more.

Or ar you just interested in local news?  Both the Chicago Tribune and Crain's Chicago Business have their own business blogs.  Crain's targets entrepreneurs in its blog.  For example here is a recent post to Crain's talking about business lending loosening up, which is good news for local business owners: Crain's video: Ice starts to melt for biz borrowers | Enterprise City | Crain's Chicago Business.  (Posted using ShareThis).   The Chicago Tribune maintains a business blog as part of its breaking news feature, Chicago Breaking Business.

New Small Business Titles @EPL

Here are some recent acquisitions at the Evanston Public Library that may interest the small business owner or owner-to-be:

Awakening the entrepreneur within : how ordinary people can create extraordinary companies,  Gerber, Michael E.  Collins Publishing, c2009.

Michael E. Gerber is the legend behind the E-Myth series of books, which includes The E-Myth Revisited, E-Myth Mastery, The E-Myth Manager, The E-Myth Physician, The E-Myth Contractor, and The E-Myth Enterprise.

	The Wall Street journal complete small business guidebook, DeBaise, Colleen.  Three Rivers Press, c. 2009. a practical guide for turning your entrepreneurial dreams into a successful company, from America's most trusted source of financial advice. It answers would-be business owners' biggest question-how do I fund my venture?-then explains the mechanics of building, running and growing a profitable business. Escape from cubicle nation [electronic resource (eAudiobook)] : from corporate prisoner to thriving entrepreneur, Slim, Pamela. Brilliance Audio, c2009. Life coach Slim shows readers how to navigate the terrifying yet gratifying transition from corporate drone to entrepreneur.  Hating your job intensely, she writes, is not a business plan. What's here is: the nitty-gritty of getting a business off the ground, legal considerations, making the best use of social networking sites, the components of a business model, organized creative brainstorming, financial advice, shopping for self-paid insurance and benefits, and helpful anecdotes of real-life entrepreneurship.