Welcome to the perfect storm. Banks are failing, jobs are being lost and businesses are going bankrupt. Add to it the Sub-Prime housing debacle and you have the recipe for a RECESSION. However, today we have a new tool to use to survive the “R” word and prosper afterwards. It is called GREEN. Green solutions inherently do more with less thus save money. There are also new green markets exploding all around despite the economic downturn. In this our first edition of our second year of production, join us as we explore some simple low cost green methods to save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars annually on home office and business operating expenses. In these pages we also learn of new mult-million dollar green market that is City of Phoenix Environmentally Preferred Purchasing.
Table of Contents
Prologue Pg. 5
Publishers’ Notes
Table Of Contents
Staff
Index of Advertisers
Voices Pg.11
Clear Thinking
SnapShot: Light Rail Rolls On
Connections Pg.15
MED Week 2008
Tools Pg.19
SBA talks SBIR (Small Business Innovative
Research Grants)
Trends & Analysis Pg. 24
Green Survival
Navigating the Perfect Storm
Green Recession Survival Guide
The City of Phoenix EPP Program
AzBizGreen 2008 Minority Green Business Conference
Live Green to Prosper
Native Soul Environmentally Save Designs
Execution Makes Reality
GreenWashing
Transformations: Pg. 47
2007 - A Year in Review
Magazines
Creating NxT
NxT Horizon Vol 1 numbers 1 & 2.
Transitions
Rev. Dr. George B. Brooks, Sr. Passes.
Awards
NxT Horizon/Ebony Cactus win the San Francisco region
Minority Media Cornerstone Award.
Events
Happy Hours at the Herberger: The ASU Jazz Lecture Series I,
II & III.
Podcasts:
BUSINESS: How to do business with the City of Phoenix Pt III
and IV.
ENVIRONMENT: Sid Wilson General Manager of the Central
Arizona Project