April 19, 2011 Objective: Students will evaluate the importance of creating, implementing, and promoting a Green Policy within an Entrepreneurial startup venture.

Green Policy Everyone today must take individual responsibility to care for the environment and protect the resources in which we live. The words “Sustainable” and “Green” are fast becoming an industry of new forms of businesses that are either bringing more efficient, safer, cleaner, better ways of doing something OR are taking an old form of business – for example, a Dry Cleaner and enabling them to better compete or more uniquely compete when they find a “more green” way of doing business.

Green Technology Videos Green Apple Cleaners – videoId= videoId= Scott Kleeb Terracycle

Assignment 9.3 Here are three categories of sustainable goals and how we as individuals and as business organizations are responsible for: – Pollution Prevention – Product Stewardship – Clean Technology Complete additional outside Internet research on how a business today needs to be sustainable. Use a minimum of 2 additional articles or resources found. Then, put together your initial plans within the above 3 categories. Create a 250 word essay stating your “Green” or “Sustainability” Business Practices Policy that you and your employees will strive to achieve. – Include references to cite your sources. Last – how can you use being a “Green” business as a competitive advantage? Will you be able to use this fact in your marketing initiatives?