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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

“Our best chance to make the world better is to agree that the choice among corporate structures should be made entirely in service of social impact,” says Rich Leimsider, the Vice President of Fellowship Programs at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests with social entrepreneurs. B corp, or Benefit Corporation. What about the rest of us?

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Business Ethics And Social Responsibility

YoungUpstarts

Forbes notes some of the reasons why Seventh Generation, a Burlington, Vermont-based company that produces and distributes green products, was recognized as the best company for the environment. Another example of combining business ethics and social responsibility is by focusing on benefiting the environment.

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

Up and Running

Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More

Ben's Blog

And you can run green lights and get in accidents. I mean, no one in San Antonio is going to know what you did in Montpelier, Vermont. You can run red lights and get through just fine. So, these things actually are correlated at one, but with resulting, we act like they are. And then the other problem is hindsight bias. Annie: Exactly.

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Reinventing the Office: How to Lose Fat and Increase Productivity at Work

David Teten

Besides the obvious fitness benefits, according to research done by the Vermont Board of Education , exercise is not only healthy for you, but it also increases your productivity. Anything that increases the activity level in the workplace is likely to be beneficial.

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How to Start a Farm: Your Complete Guide to Success

Up and Running

The University of Vermont Extension has a whole lot more to say about hobby farming versus running a farm as a business. Chelsea Green Publishing, and Storey Publishing. For example, before you plant an acre worth of vegetables, plant a much smaller patch, and take the time to address and learn from problems as they arise.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I moved to Vermont to cycle and ski, and to work in a gourmet food operation in Burlington. The name Switchback was first conjured while I was envisioning myself cycling up the Appalachian Gap, an iconic ride in Vermont, which finishes with a brutal set of switchbacks. Photo Credit: Bill Cherry.

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