State of Green Business in the USA

Greenbiz.com releases an annual State of Green Business report and recently released the newest one.

The report assesses how, and how well, companies are doing from an environmental perspective. The free 62-page report offers 10 trends of the past year as well as their GreenBiz Index, a set of 20 indicators that, in aggregate, provide a picture of U.S. companies' environmental achievements.

Here is the table of contents
Top Stories of 2008............................................................................4

The Green Economy Gains Currency.............................................................. 4

Water Becomes the New Carbon.................................................................... 5

Building Efficiency Rises Again........................................................................ 7

Universities Take Class Actions........................................................................ 9

Green Moves Up, and Down, the Chain of Command................................. 10

Product Stewardship Creates a Material Change.......................................... 11

Green Marketing Suffers a Failure to Communicate..................................... 13

Carbon Becomes a Business Imperative....................................................... 14

Information Technology Plugs Into Green..................................................... 16

Greener Design Comes Out of the Lab........................................................ 17

The GreenBiz Index

Introduction ................................................................................................... 19

Summary Chart .............................................................................................. 20

Building Energy Efficiency ............................................................................ 22

Carbon Intensity............................................................................................ 24

Carbon Transparency .................................................................................... 26

Cleantech Investments ................................................................................. 28

Clean-Energy Patents.................................................................................... 30

Corporate Reporting..................................................................................... 32

Employee Commuting.................................................................................. 34

Employee Telecommuting ............................................................................ 36

Energy Efficiency........................................................................................... 38

E-Waste......................................................................................................... 40

Financial Impacts............................................................................................ 42

Fleet Impacts.................................................................................................. 44

Green Jobs..................................................................................................... 46

Green Office Space ...................................................................................... 48

Green Power Use .......................................................................................... 50

Packaging Intensity ....................................................................................... 52

Paper Use and Recycling............................................................................... 54

Toxic Emissions ............................................................................................. 56

Toxics in Manufacturing.................................................................................. 58

Water Intensity................................................................................................ 60

Credits / About Greener World Media........................................................... 62