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For
nearly 20 years,
Joel Makower has been a well-respected voice on business, the environment, and
the bottom line. As a writer, speaker, and consultant on corporate
environmental strategy, clean technology, and green marketing, he has helped a
wide range of companies align environmental responsibility with business
success.Makower
is founder of GreenBiz.com,
ClimateBiz.com,
GreenerBuildings.com,...
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For
nearly 20 years,
Joel Makower has been a well-respected voice on business, the environment, and
the bottom line. As a writer, speaker, and consultant on corporate
environmental strategy, clean technology, and green marketing, he has helped a
wide range of companies align environmental responsibility with business
success.Makower
is founder of GreenBiz.com,
ClimateBiz.com,
GreenerBuildings.com,
and other popular web sites. He also is co-founder of Clean Edge Inc.,
a research and consulting firm focusing on building markets for clean energy
technologies. He serves as a senior advisor to GreenOrder, a sustainability
strategy and marketing firm. From 1991 to 2005 he was editor of "The
Green Business Letter," an award-winning monthly newsletter on business
and the environment.
Makower
has consulted to a wide range of companies on corporate sustainability topics,
including GE, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, and Nike.
The
Associated Press has called him "The guru of green business practices.
Makower
serves as a Batten Fellow at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the
University of Virginia. He sits on numerous advisory and editorial boards,
including the Climate Trust, the California Sustainable Business Council, the
Green Guide Institute, and the Journal of Industrial Ecology. He also is an
advisor to VantagePoint Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm
with a strong focus on clean technology.
A
former nationally syndicated columnist, Makower is author or co-author of more
than a dozen books, including "Beyond the Bottom Line: Putting Social
Responsibility to Work for Your Business and the World," about the profit
and potential of socially responsible business practices; "The E-Factor:
The Bottom-Line Approach to Environmentally Responsible Business," on how
companies are responding to environmental challenges in positive and profitable
ways, and "The Green Consumer," a best-selling guide to the
environmental marketplace.
Makower
has been a featured commentator on environmental topics for
"Marketplace," a nightly national business program on public radio,
and appears frequently in both broadcast and print media. He lectures regularly
to companies, industry groups, and business schools throughout North America,
as well as in Europe, Asia, and South America.
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