NYC Companies Leading the Way in Environmental Progress & Climate Change!

The climate deniers are kicking puppies now exclaimed an article in the Huffington Post recently when referring to the non believers. Since the collapse of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durbin South Africa. This may be the breakdown of large scale climate change movement, and because of that, looking at American and local companies in NYC that have reckognized climate change and where the movement may find itself with governments in financial crisis. These companies are implementing climate based policies to plan future business activities with climate change as a variable that will impact business and subsequently profits and marketshare. These practical sound steps are important in the realization that a new beginning is near for the climate change movement. Large scale climate change organizations or legacy climate change movements as I call them will remain in the conversation, but I wonder what their overall impact will be to foster change? In New York City, a community of local farming, bicycle advocates and non profits, technology, and urban composting organizations will be the new front and most likely have a profound impact on the movement in years to come.

Small practical steps within the following 15 NYC companies offer a roadmap for other companies that need guidance to facilitate change in the corporate world in an integrated collaborative approach. In these organizations, one will find case studies at change for the environment and climate change. The non-profit sector has great ideas and these environmental organizations in NYC will be the focus of future blogs.

The top 25 green New York City companies follow:

1. Ecologic Cleaning Solutions
2. Gotham Greens
3. Green Team
4. Greentech Capitol Advisors
5. Daily Feats
6. Hopstop
7. Liga Masiva
8. Plum Organics
9. 1-800-POSTCARDS
10. Recyclebank
11. Greyston bakery
12. Mission Markets
13. Farmland LP
14. Exponent Partners
15. Ice Stone
16. Revolution Foods
17. Peeled Snacks
18. Freelancers Insurance Company
19. Comet Skateboards
20. Etsy
21. Green Forestry US
22. Ryhme and Reason Clothing
23. Empire State Building Company
24. Dallas Brothers Coffee
25. Green Table

New York City Government (http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030.html) has been one of a few goverments implementing some environmentally sound projects via their PlaNYC, which is realizing a more green NYC.

The top 25 green companies in the United States:

1. IBM
2. Hewlett-Packard
3. Sprint Nextel
4. Baxter
5. Dell
6. Johnson & Johnson
7. Accenture
8. Office Depot
9. CA Inc.
10. NVIDIA
11. Agilent Technologies
12. Hartford Financials
13. EMC Corp.
14. Adobe
15. Intel Corp.
16. Honda
17. Swiss RE:
18. Siemens
19. Amazon
20. Discovery Communications
21. Oricle Corporation
22. Deloitte
23. Totota
24. Google
25. CH2M Hill

This is where change will occur for the big climate change movement. By investing in partnerships with companies until the gridlock over this issue dissolves and geovernemnt financials improve. These legacy environmental firms have a stature and credentials to form alliances and some like NRDC are changing with their Center for Market Research whereby forming aliances with big NYC companies is making change in NYC. Clear succinct progress with this current political stagnation and financial burdens will be a challenge, except when forming partnerships by smaller lean non-profits with social media leveraged as it has been recently, we will see these newer firms become the climate doers.

Thanks for reading and see you in the field!

References:

1 -  http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/html/home/home.shtml

2 -  http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/10/16/green-rankings-2011-america-s-greenest-companies-photos.html