Inc.com's "Green 50" Companies List
by John Laumer, Philadelphia on 10.31.06
Writing in a story titled The Eco-Advantage. Inc.com reports that they've listed the "most intriguing" green businesses: "...we narrowed the list to...The Green 50. The range of businesses is astonishingly wide, from high-tech firms making big bets on the future of energy to decidedly low-tech concerns that are simply determined to find a different way to do business. What their efforts add up to is a new way to think about being in business. We're betting that most of them will be around for several business cycles to come". Why not the 'Astonishing 50' - which could be a nice promotional trailer right before "An Inconvenient Truth?" Anyhow, we looked over the Green 50, and copied the list for you below the fold. Inc.com and TreeHugger seem to have common interests.
Readers note: the following list is the same as the "Green 50," except that the links included here are to TreeHugger archival references instead of to other Inc.com articles. You can see the original Inc.com Green 50 here. Where no link is included on the following list, it that means TreeHugger has not posted on it.
. Interface
. Eden Foods
. Clif Bar
. Seventh Generation
. Stonyfield Farm
. Collins Cos.
. Burgerville
. Hayward Corp.
. GreenOrder
. Pantheon Chemical
. Ryzex Group
. New Leaf Paper
. Gridpoint
. Cilion
. CoalTek
. EnerTech Environmental
. Energy Innovations
. Verdant Power
. Nanosolar
. GreenFuel Technologies
. GreatPoint Energy
. BlackLight Power
. ReCellular
. Excellent Packaging & Supply
. TerraCycle
. Recycline
. Frog's Leap Winery
. Comet Skateboards
. New Belgium Brewery
. NaturaLawn of America
. Konarka Technologies
. Memorial Ecosystems
. Seahorse Power
. Southwest Windpower
. Affordable Internet Services Online
. Teko Socks
. Vivavi
. Voltaic Systems
. Zoots
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Where was Patagonia, a true pioneer on this list?
I am surprised by the exclusion of Gaiam from this list. At the least, I would have expected to see Real Goods on there.
Obvious they need missed an important 1 Patagonia. You can bump everything down one and add Patagonia to the list.
:)
I thought I read an article recently about Stonyfield Farm being a factory organic...
Maybe I'm getting the name wrong (and it's something similar)... but wouldn't that be more of a step backwards for an "organic" company?