Green Business, Green Building and Bioregional Economy

Provides resources on Hawai'i Island to help you live a more green lifestyle.

Kuleana Green Business Program

Initiated in 2005, the Kuleana Green Business Program is the first program in the State of Hawai`i that promotes ethical and socially responsible business practices and environmental stewardship among every sector of the local economy. Chamber businesses qualify as program members by demonstrating their kuleana (right and responsibility) to generate profits while also creating positive impacts in their social and natural environments. As business citizens, they set high standards of integrity, commitment and respect in their engagement with employees, customers, community, and the environment.

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.

Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)

BALLE is 15,000-member strong meta-network of over 50 local business networks throughout the U.S. and Canada supporting the growth and development of community-based businesses. Members of local networks encourage local purchasing by consumers and businesses and advocate public policies that strengthen independent local businesses, promote economic equity, and protect the environment. BALLE connects its local networks to share best practices, and provides members with tools, business models, and other resources.

Local Currency - Hawaii Dala

The Hawaii Dala is a new private voluntary currency that protects everyone’s purchasing power, grows local business, and creates a strong local economy for everyone’s advantage. Ask for the new local kala throughout Hawaii in $20, $10, $5 Silver Dalas and now the new $1 Silver Dala Certificate.

Steady-State Economy

What is a steady-state economy? find out here are the Encyclopedia of the Earth.

GDP Alternatives: The Human Progress Indicator

Sustainability indicators provide a roadmap for public policy. An effective set of indicators highlights critical social, economic, and environmental problems and provides a way to measure the effectiveness of programs designed to alleviate these problems.

Cooperative Economics

An article on Cooperative Economics by the Heartland Institute.

BD&C Sustainability White Paper Download Center

Green Building Research Papers are available here for free.