Sustainable Business Network

Want to get decked out, dine & dance with a few hundred of your closest green friends? SBN’s SustainaBall promises a night full of awesomeness, including: Local Food: A delicious locally-sourced, seasonal menu, brought to you by Cosmic Catering. Local Libations: Award-winning, locally-produced, ales and...

Happy Monday, readers! It’s a big week for us here at Green Philly. Our Big Green Party, cohosted by City CoHo is this Friday! We’re excited to hang out with you in person and talk about sustainability. What else can...

You are invited to the 3rd annual SBN Holiday Party, and Issue Release of the 2015 SBN Directory and December Issue of Grid Magazine! Light hors d’oeuvres will be served. This is a free event, but we are hoping for...

Ready for an inspiring day of discussing local business challenges and innovation? Innovation is essential for small businesses, public sectors & the local economy. And the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) is tackling all sorts of discussions around innovation on November 15th. Find out more, after the jump!

  How can you create actual positive change? Let's think big here: Instead of checking off the sustainability 'to do' list, make an impact. The Responsible Entrepreneur: Move from Doing Good to Creating Real Change workshop with Carol Sanford is approaching on Monday, August 4th at CityCoHo | Philly Nexus. Author of The Responsible Business and The Responsible Entrepreneur: Four Game Changing Archetypes for Founders, Leaders and Impact Investors, Sanford's resume includes consulting for entrepreneurs like Seventh Generation and Google. Here's the full deets:

Happy Monday, Readers! Whether you’re looking to do some gardening, bring the kids out or want to try your own hand at pickling, Philly has plenty of events for you. We’ve rounded up the best green events in the city this week of July 14th:

Still dragging on Tuesday? Many locavores are stuffed and slightly hungover. The Brewer's Plate 10th Anniversary was this past Sunday, March 9th at the Kimmel Center. Check out the recap, after the jump!

Need an excuse to dress up and network with some of the area's best greenies? The Sustainable Business Network's fancy pants night out, the SustainaBall, is returning to Philly on April 12, 2014. The Sustainable Business Network helps local businesses with many goals, like to meet their triple bottom line: planet, people & profits. Therefore, helping them for the SustainaBall is like helping 600+ businesses at once!

There's always a downside to a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. Like most of those fragrances you see plastered with the gorgeous faces of Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian and Queen Bey have a dark side. The US National Academy of Sciences targeted fragrances over 25 years ago as one of the 6 categories of neutroxins (ie toxic to your brain) as perfume; are made from synthetic, petroleum-based chemicals and may contain cancer-causing toxins. So what's a green guy or gal to do? Local Company Spotlight: The Perfume Fountain