Staff:  Claire Woolley  (312) 494-6724  

cwoolley@chicagolandchamber.org

The Green Business Forum brings together businesses, partner organizations, as well as technology and investment, to further green business opportunities in Chicagoland.  The Chamber established the Green Business Forum to help its members, as well as the wider Chicagoland business community, reap the benefits that green can deliver from reduced operating costs and impacts on the environment.

See our Resources section for the latest information and tools to help your business.

Chambers members are leaders in greening their business practices and many provide cutting edge green products and services. 

In 2009, Newsweek published its inaugural environmental rankings for Amercia’s 500 largest corporates.  In compling the rankings, Newsweek worked with leading environmental researches and developed a ranking methodology based on the companies’ actual environmental performance, policies and reputation.  A number of Chamber members were at the top of the rankings.  The Member Spotlight is dedicated to highlighting their greening strategies, best practices and lessons learnt.

Current Member Spotlight:

As a leader in telecommunications, Sprint has combined innovation and technology to provide new green products and programs.  It has also implemented internal practices to sucessfully reduce its impact on the environment.  Find out more about Sprint's green perspective... see this month's Member Spotlight Questionnaire

Watch green leaders discuss the current state of the business of green in Chicagoland.

Current Episode: Craig Seiben of Sieben Energy Associates and Bill Abolt of Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure, Inc.

Making the Business Case for Green

The Chamber is partnering with Chamber member Deloitte to present a series of Green Business Forum events focused on making the business case for green.  The first event held in March highlighted the incentives available to help businesses with green projects.  Attendees heard from the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the Chicago Department for Environment, the Illinois Finance Authority, ComEd and the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation. See master presentation deck

Check Green Events Calendar for details on the next event

See Resources for additional information on the business of green including case studies from leading green Chamber members.

As a business representative organization, the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce strives to be a working example of how businesses can be green and provide a healthy workplace for their people.  In achieving this objective, the Chamber has policies and procedures in place to increase energy conservation and efficiency and reduce waste by minimizing, reusing and recycling materials.  This positively impacts its business operations as well as the regional environment within which it does business.