The Sustainable Business Incubator

Paula Durand
Senior Venture Officer, Clean Technology
New Jersey Economic Development Authority

The EDA is a state financing and development agency that works to strengthen New Jersey’s economy by retaining and growing businesses through financial assistance, by renewing communities, and by promoting the State’s strategic advantages to attract domestic and international businesses. Paula focuses on working with investors [...]

With an extensive background as a global strategic technology marketing and business development leader at companies in the Internet, telecommunications, and computer services industries, Thomas brings a wealth of corporate and entrepreneurial experience.
Thomas also founded and sold Spacemill Sciences Corporation, an engineering and technology firm that specialized in delivering high quality products for synchrotron, x-ray [...]

(Crossposted at http://greenventuresconference.org/?p=458)
We’ve just released our March Newsletter for the Sustainable Business Incubator, updating our growing network of colleagues and friends about the May Conference, and listing a number of related events leading up to it. Here’s an expanding version, with some of the materials we could not include in the PDF version, for those [...]

I’ve just returned from a five-day workshop in Hohenwald, TN, a remarkable and inspiring event that sought to provide both an introduction to “financial permaculture” and the launch of several new enterprises – including a green incubator – in rural Lewis County (population <15,000).
Lewis County was once a self-sufficient agricultural area, with a small number [...]

The presentation from this event is now available here.

“Demystifying Carbon Markets”
Thursday, March 13, 2008, 7:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Lenfell Hall, the Mansion (Hennessy Hall)
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Madison, NJ
Featuring Speaker: Lawrence Pratt
Associate Director of the Latin American Center for Competitiveness
& Sustainable Development (CLACDS)
Professor, Masters Degree and Executive Education Programs
INCAE University, Costa Rica

What a Way to Go is the strongest statement yet of the multiple crises that are facing us as a planet and as a species today. It differs from the other major documentaries we’ve seen recently – Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s The 11th Hour, in several important ways – both in [...]

Attending this week’s Clean Energy Conference and Leadership Awards, at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, New Jersey, left me wondering if we are really ready to cope with the climate change crisis. And New Jersey is now in the lead – along with California – in mandating significant carbon reduction targets. But if there [...]

FREE AMA WEBCAST
September 11, 2007
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EDT

People – Planet – and Profits is rapidly becoming the new mantra of the 21st century business person. Business leaders and managers are challenged as never before to address a myriad of issues that go far beyond the single profit motive. People issues ranging from worker health [...]

The 11th Hour is clearly a movie that needed to be made – and needs to be widely seen – and Leonardo DiCaprio has done a creditable job in lending his talents and star presence to the effort. Yet in some ways, and perhaps not least in the marketing of it, it still pulls [...]

… and some serious business opportunities, e.g., http://www.climatetrust.org/solicitations_2007_RFP.php, and

In The Black: The Growth of the Low Carbon Economy highlights the startling growth generated by the companies active in renewable energy, biofuels, the manufacture of energy-smart products and low carbon vehicles, and the emerging clean energy and carbon trading markets. These companies – and the growth [...]