Building a green marketplace Announcing the formation of the San Diego Enviro Business Consortium by Carolyn Chase nvironmental consumer choices require environmental business choices. Dedicated to sensible environmental stewardship, eleven local businesses have formed the San Diego Enviro Business Consortium. Music for the Planet, Green Field Paper Company, Kung Food Vegetarian Restaurant, Douglas P. Lewis, Certified Financial Planner, and Plan-it Systems. Green businesses challenge themselves to bring the goals of justice, environmental stewardship and quality of life into all of their activities - production and service, employment and investment, community and vendor relations.
Green businesses minimize waste, recycle and make products built to last.
Green businesses create jobs. They also serve as models for the role businesses can play in the transformation of our society to one that is just and sustainable. They care about their customers, communities, workers and the environment. Green businesses spring up in communities other businesses ignore - inner cities, rural and Native American. They are started by the people in these communities who, in turn, bring respect and dignity to the people they employ.