Here are some ideas, insights, and resources that can help your business play its part in greening America.

Develop a Plan That Works for Your Business

Green hype is everywhere, which is why it’s important to understand the fundamentals of what being green means and then use very specific tactics and long-term strategies that work within the context of your business.   This article “Greening Your Small Business: Go Beyond the Hype with a Plan that Works for You” includes simple tips for building a green business strategy based on the concepts of reduce, recyle and reuse.

Home businesses can get in on the act too. Get tip

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Become a better Forex trader, learn from our daily All Things Forex broadcast. Oct. 1, 2010 (Allthingsforex.com) – As the market continues to price-in the expectations for additional monetary stimulus by the Fed, next week’s U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls and Employment Situation report will provide an important clue which should help traders in their efforts to solve the quantitative easing riddle. In preparation for the new trading week, here is a list of the Top 10 spotlight economic events that will move the markets around the globe.  1.    AUD- Reserve Bank of Australia Interest Rate Announcement, Mon., Oct. 4, 11:30 pm, ET. Followi Read more…

The emotional weight associated with prom night is difficult for an adult to appreciate. The price tag, however, is a totally different story. As a parent you want your child to enjoy themselves and maybe make a few precious memories, but you also want to avoid taking out a second mortgage to afford the evening. So what to do? Here are a few suggestions.

Gowns and Tuxedos; A Grown Up Look for Less

For many girls the largest expense ends up being the dress. Really, it makes no sense at all to spend several hundred dollars on gown you may never wear again. Cheaper options include consignment shops, borrowing from older relatives, or visiting a dress exchange.

Bridal shops are getting in on the celebration by renting dresses as well.

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Finding new movies on VHS is becoming pretty difficult. It’s becoming a somewhat obsolete format. Sure, you can still find the occasional VHS player and tapes — Amazon even sells a few. But most players are actually combined with DVD players at this point. Most of us with any VHS tapes are coming to a point where we’ll have to buy a new copy of the same movie on DVD (or Blu-Ray or some other digital format) or convert the tapes ourselves. Every time a new format rolls out, money comes out of our pockets. No media is safe — some people are already feeling a need to replace printed books with ebooks.

New Formats Are Dangerous to Our Wallets

When some company rolls out a new format, it’s tempting to jump on board immediately. Higher de

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All Things Forex

Become a better Forex trader, learn from our daily All Things Forex broadcast.

Forex traders, join the daily All Things Forex broadcast- a live one hour program covering Forex and major economic events, trend developments, research, analysis, ideas, education, live traders forum, interviews with some of the most respected names in the trading world, and much more..

In the broadcast today: What does a “Currency War” Mean for the USD? With the topic of “currency wars” heavy on investors’ minds, we examine the currency market environment and explore the potential impact of a “currency war” for the USD, the EUR and other currency majors, we continue to monitor the bullish trend in the EUR/USD currency pair, we analyze the weakness of the GBP vs.

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Our friend Denise Richardson of givemebackmycredit.com has posted an article about a brand new mortgage assistance program that was unveiled on September 8th. But homeowners who are facing foreclosure or are having to deal with crooked mortgage servicers or policies shouldn’t get too excited yet.

Only about 421,000 homeowners managed to get permanent mortgage modifications using the government’s mortgage programs. This is an incredibly unimpressive number since 1.5 million homeowners received trial modifications and there were 3.1 million loans eligible for program aid. Most applications didn’t qualify for permanent modification because of income restrictions or because they quit making payments even after their loan was restructured.

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After all, very few business owners start off as accountants or even have experience in this field and because accounting tasks are often the most confusing aspects of running a business – having an accountant on retainer, or as part of the team, is a must.

But what about a CFO? A

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