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Entrepreneur – Taylor Stitch Makes Us Rethink Our Wardrobe

Entrepreneur – Taylor Stitch Makes Us Rethink Our Wardrobe

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

According to McKinsey & Company and the Council for Textile Recycling, the world fashion industry produces 100 billion garments for seven billion people each year, the average American throws out 80 pounds of clothes each year, and 85 percent of all apparel ends...
Entrepreneur – Taylor Stitch Makes Us Rethink Our Wardrobe

Entrepreneur – Chewing Their Way to the Top

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

We’ve often said, “If you really want to change things, put a buck on it.” That philosophy has been recently documented by Nielsen, the leader in CPG market data. The biggest mega trend we see for 2019 is being driven by consumers who want to “vote with their...
NYC Sues Big Oil for Climate Damage Reparations

NYC Sues Big Oil for Climate Damage Reparations

WHO KNEW WHAT AND WHEN?

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

In January, the City of New York joined eight other local governments in the United States in filling a landmark lawsuit holding the major oil companies accountable for climate change related damages. In the May/June 2018 edition of Sierra Magazine, the editor, Jason...
Now is the Time to Start a Climate Change Mitigation Business

Now is the Time to Start a Climate Change Mitigation Business

JUMP ON THE BAND WAGON OR GET RUN OVER BY IT!

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

Want to start a new business? Don’t know what it will be? Take a big hint from the 2nd Anniversary meeting of the signatories to the Paris Climate Accord. Just about any business that addresses, slows down or mitigates the effects of climate change is in demand. The...
5 Ways to Grow and Build Trust

5 Ways to Grow and Build Trust

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/12/2017 From your creditors to your employees, good business relationships are built on trust. Can the people who depend on you, confidently rely on you to treat them fairly? Once you have proven your dependability, they will...
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