Businesses that foster durable internal systems breed long term and sustainable profits. This also applies to green businesses that are past their mainstream “breaking point” and are now in a very competitive market where it is “automate or perish.” Eco-minded companies are benefiting more than just their own bottom line by developing or partnering to develop software that automates green decision making.

In January 2008, the largest printing company in North America, Quebecor, filed for bankruptcy. However, commercial printer Green Printer has seen an increase of 2,000 clients a year after they began. They estimate that their customers have saved 74,645 pounds of greenhouse gases and 38,116 pounds of solid waste. In October 2008, print shops across North America will be offered the Green Printer brand and the full line of recycled papers to its customers.

Workforce Software EmpCenter has achieved more than 200% growth in revenue and profits in the last three years and is tapping into one of the fastest growing, but hardly new, trends in the green workplace: telecomuniting. Sustainable Minds is a green product design software and information service that recently partnered with Autodesk, Inc. This partnership will allow product design teams to be able to estimate the environmental and human health impacts of their design decisions so that they can design greener products from the start.

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