Webinars

In this webinar, Jonah Mytro, President of GreenDeals.org, a project of Green America, will walk you through the latest benefit of Green Business Network membership: the Green Marketplace, which will offer drop shipped products from green businesses at MSRP. Simliar to Amazon.com's marketplace, the Green Marketplace delivers green products from certified green businesses. He'll show you how the new marketplace works and answer any questions.

How it works:

1. Products are featured on GreenDeals Marketplace 24/7, 365 days/year
2. Consumers purchase products and pay at marketplace.GreenDeals.org
3. Advertisers are responsible for shipping and fulfilling orders
4. Advertisers have real-time access to reporting  to track sales and orders
5. GreenDeals submits payments to vendors each Friday (for previous Friday-Thursday sales)

Watch the webinar below to learn how to get your products listed on the Green Marketplace:

Take an in-depth tour of your newest membership benefit: GreenGain, your personal online sustainability officer and certification tool. 

Since 1982, we've helped businesses go green - and now we've poured our experience into a new online platform that will help you easily:

• Measure sustainability efforts
• Identify and implement new ways to go green
• Save time and money
• and report your great efforts to customers

Join Maren Maier, Director of the Seal of Approval and Standards, for a tour of the online assessment and extensive resource portal and Q&A with our members. Find out how to access your interactive Seal and online Sustainability Report to share your achievements with customers and clients.

Learn about all of the advantages to earning the Certified Green Business Seal, from listings in the National Green Pages, exhibiting at Green Festivals, selling on WorldofGood.com by eBay and other online platforms, AND becoming a Benefit Corporation.

Make the most out of this new benefit of membership. Watch it here:

Watch this webinar that will explain what community development banking is all about, why it matters to green businesses, how to break up with your mega-bank and how to find a green bank or credit union to serve your business.

Green Businesses: Break Up with your Mega-Bank!

Speakers:
Todd Larsen, Green America, Director of Corporate Responsibility Programs
Fran Teplitz, Green America, Director of Social Investing

Since the start of Green America’s long-standing community investing campaign, we've helped move more than a billion dollars away from the mega-banks. Your business can be a part of this ongoing shift from greedy banks to green banks. See our resources at the new Break Up With Your Mega-Bank website. 

In the webinar, Todd and Fran will walk you through the steps. 

Get motivated to make the switch with "10 Reasons to Break Up With Your Mega-Bank." For ideas on how to support community investment if you can’t move all your money, check out "7 Ways to Cheat on Your Bank."

The Green Business Network has tools to help you switch to a financial institution that supports communities, small business, and broad economic growth – especially for underserved populations. Watch the webinar and get started! 

PLUS - Read our toolkit: Break Up with Your Mega-Bank: Everything Your Business Needs to End Your Relationship with Mega-Banks and Start Using Community Development Financial Institutions that Work for People and the Planet. (PDF)  This easy-to-read kit has simple steps you can follow to ensure a smooth transition as you transfer accounts. The kit also includes a sample letter you can send to mega-banks, telling them why you are closing your business account with them. The kit also includes a sampling of community development banks and credit unions that may meet your banking needs!

Join us for an in-depth look at YOUR newest membership benefit: GreenGain, your personal online sustainability officer and certification tool. Take a tour on to learn what GreenGain will do for your business.

Since 1982, we've helped businesses go green - and now we've poured our experience into a new online platform that will help you easily:

• Measure sustainability efforts
• Identify and implement new ways to go green
• Save time and money
• and report your great efforts to customers

In this webinar, Maren Maier, Director of the Seal of Approval and Standards, gives you a tour of the online assessment and extensive resource portal. Learn how to use GreenGain to easily track efforts in your ongoing commitment to sustainability.

GreenGain will give your business the opportunity to earn bronze, silver or gold certification, and let you move up the tiers as you make greater progress. Once you've earned the Seal of Approval, find out how to get your sustainability report to share with customers and clients.

If you’ve already earned the Green America Seal of Approval, learn how to share your continued achievements with your new interactive Seal of Approval and gold-tier status.

We will explain all of the advantages to earning the Seal of Approval, from listings in the National Green Pages, exhibiting at Green Festivals, selling on WorldofGood.com by eBay and other online platforms, AND becoming a Benefit Corporation.

Watch it here:

"Branding: An awful lot of nonsense gets talked about it and companies spend big bucks on stuff that really doesn't matter," says branding expert and TreeHugger contributor, Sami Grover.

Sami's here to show you that branding is not rocket science. It is a practical discipline that offers businesses and organizations the tools to communicate authentically, strategically and effectively with the audiences they want to reach.

He'll provide you with the basic building blocks of an effective brand, and show how to put it all together into a coherent, engaging brand system.

Branding: A Common Sense Approach to Brand Building
& Strategic Communication

By leveraging every point of contact with your audience, and crafting every message so it builds your identity as the messenger, effective branding means you spend less effort, less money, and fewer resources on marketing and outreach. Spend more time doing what you should be doing - running your business and changing the world.

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Sami Grover is an environmental activist and co-creative director at The Change Creation, a creative team offering brand strategy and design for businesses and non-profits who make the world, better, fairer and less predictably corporate. Clients include Larry’s Beans, Canaan Fair Trade and Self-Help.

He is also a regular contributor to TreeHugger, where he writes on a broad range of topics including permaculture, sustainable food systems, the collaborative economy and clean energy, and TLC's Parentables where he muses on parenthood in an uncertain world.

Originally from England, he once vowed never to fly again - then he fell in love with someone on the other side of the Atlantic. He believes that adaptability is a prerequisite for sustainability. Follow Sami on Twitter.