Must-Read Resources for Eco-Friendly Business Ownership

The climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues facing the world today. Many who would like to make their mark in the business world worry about how to start a business that factors the environment in from the start. After all, it’s easy for even a relatively small business to have a significant carbon footprint. 

Fortunately, there are several steps you can take to make sure your business does more good for the planet than harm. Paleoterran is proud to offer these resources business owners can use to create sustainable, environmentally friendly companies: 

Getting Your Business Started 

Business stability empowers you to make a bigger impact: 

• Make sure you have enough funding to keep your business going long enough to become profitable. 

• Consider working with a Colorado registered agent LLC formation service to give yourself legal protections and, in some areas, tax advantages. 

• Work with a financial advisor to ensure you’re using your money in the best ways possible. 

Reducing Negative Global Impact 

Some simple steps can limit environmental damage: 

• Whenever possible, go paperless in your business. 

• Reduce waste by making recycling and composting accessible in your office or shop. 

• Source ingredients, products, and materials from nearby sources to reduce your shipping footprint. 

Being an Agent of Change 

Businesses can have a powerful voice; here’s how to use yours: 

• Join your local chamber of commerce to promote environmentally-friendly business practices in your area. 

• Speak with local politicians and encourage them to enact climate-protecting legislation. 

• Connect with customers about the climate crisis in an approachable, action-oriented manner. 

Business owners can make a serious impact in a community. This means that your entrepreneurial journey can empower you to push real, measurable change in the fight against the climate crisis. We hope this article gives you the tools you need to create a business that helps protect the planet we share. 

Cheryl Conklin
https://wellnesscentral.info

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If you read only one thing on the climate crisis, read this!

“Some climate cascades will unfold at the global level – cascades so large their effect will seem, by the curious legerdemain of environmental change, imperceptible. A warming planet leads to melting Artic ice, which means less sunlight reflected back to the sun and more absorbed by the planet warming faster still, which means an ocean less able to absorb atmospheric carbon and so a planet warming faster still. A warming planet will also melt Artic permafrost, which contains 1.8 trillion tons of carbon, more than twice as much as is currently suspended in the earth’s atmosphere, and some of which, when it thaws and is released, may evaporate as methane, which is thirty-four times as powerful a greenhouse-gas warming blanket as carbon dioxide when judged on the timescale of a century; when judged on a timescale of two decades, is eighty-six times as powerful. A hotter planet is, on net, bad for plant life, which means what is called “forest dieback” – the decline and retreat of jungle basins as big as countries and woods that spread for so many miles they used to contain whole folklores – which means a dramatic stripping-back of the planet’s natural ability to absorb carbon and turn it into oxygen, which means still hotter temperatures, which means more dieback, and so on. Higher temperatures mean more forest fires means fewer trees means less carbon absorption, means more carbon in the atmosphere, means a hotter planet still – and so on. A warmer planet means more water vapor in the atmosphere, and, water vapor being a greenhouse gas, this brings higher temperatures still – and so on. Warmer oceans can absorb less heat, which means more stay in the air, and contains less oxygen – which leaves us with more carbon, which heats the planet further. And so on. These are the systems climate scientists call “feedbacks”; there are more. Some work in the other direction, moderating climate change. But many more point toward an acceleration of warming, should we trigger these. And just how these complicated, countervailing systems will interact – what effects will be exaggerated and what undermined by feedbacks – is unknown, which pulls a dark cloud of uncertainty over any effort to plan ahead for the climate future. We know what a best-case outcome for climate feedback looks like, however unrealistic, because it quite closely resembles the world as we live on it today. But we have not yet begun to contemplate those cascades that may bring us to the infernal range of the bell curve.” 

David Wallace-Wells
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
2019

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