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Who We Are

The Green Business Network™ is the green business program of Co-op America, the nation's leading non-profit educator on socially and environmentally responsible consumption and investing.

Co-op America’s mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, businesses and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. We provide the economic strategies, resources and organizing power to make lasting, systemic change on a range of critical issues faced today, including renewable energy, fair trade, sweatshops and forest protection.

Co-op America currently has 100,000 individual members who seek to green their purchasing and investing through the resources provided by Co-op America. Through our Web sites, publications and national campaigns, we mobilize them to:

• Shift their purchases to companies working on becoming more socially and environmentally responsible.
   
• Rethink their consumption practices.
   
• Use their power as consumers, investors and businesses to demand change—and make those changes in their own homes and businesses.
   
• Invest in more responsible companies. 

A major benefit for the Green Business Network™ and all of its members is being a part of the largest network of consumers and investors dedicated to growing the green economy.
 

Co-op America’s Green Business Network™

Co-op America's Green Business Network™ is the oldest, largest, and most diverse network of socially and environmentally responsible businesses in America.

Formally established in 1992, the Green Business Network™ was launched with the explicit mission of helping the green business sector — businesses with deep social and environmental commitments — emerge and succeed. The Green Business Network currently comprises 4,000 members.

We work by identifying small- to medium-sized green businesses like yours and providing the tools and information you need to help your company emerge and succeed in today's intensively competitive marketplace.

The Green Business Network™ has developed and fostered a major national market for your products and services through events such as the Green Festivals and publications such as the National Green Pages™. In addition, Co-op America's consumer education programs and publications reach over 25 million values-driven consumers each year, encouraging them to shift their spending to support socially and environmentally responsible enterprises.

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