Top 10 Environmental Innovations

Item 1: knowledge of environmental protection small hotels: the needs of hotel management, sustainable development, and financial needs: 10 thousand to 99 thousand dollars, starting time: a few months' special challenges: investment in decoration, hard work, and traditional hotels have a negative impact on the environment, and a new type of small hotel has emerged, that is, green hotels.

The key step to create an environmental protection hotel is to lay a good foundation for housing with green environment as the prerequisite.

Most of the traditional hotel operators will redecorate the premises before opening the business, the cost of each room is between 35 thousand US dollars and 50 thousand dollars, and the initial cost of renovation is almost the same.

In order to make your hotel more environmentally-friendly, you can buy environmentally-friendly products with the most simple packaging, use environmentally friendly cleaning products, and pay attention to recycling. You should put recycling bins in each guest room, and purchase and provide local organic food.

Design a water-saving courtyard irrigation system; sheets and towels should be made of pure natural fibers; use energy-saving bulbs; remind guests to turn off lights, turn off the TV and save water.

The addition of a small environmental gift shop is also a good way to increase extra income.

Project 2: knowledge of environmental entrepreneurship financing agents: financial / business experience and human capital demand: below $10 thousand, starting time: a few months' challenges: finding a competitive and reliable enterprise, a new environment-friendly entrepreneur with great vision, but often lacking in capital.

Environmental financing agents and environmental entrepreneurs collaborate to help them get funds from venture capitalists, banks, angel investors, various subsidies and public interest groups.

You can draw a bridge between big companies and entrepreneurs who have enough capital to invest in developing new business ideas. They can also develop a peer to peer platform to help borrowers communicate directly with borrowers.

For example, on the Prosper.Com website, the borrower announces his credit record, indicating the purpose of the loan; the lender estimates the risk according to the material provided by the borrower, and then determines the loan interest rate according to the risk.

To succeed, you have to have huge connections to provide a wide range of financing options.

You have to be handy in finance and rich in business experience so that you can provide useful advice to entrepreneurs and make their business plans more attractive.

You also need to help venture capitalists, angel investors and other types of lenders to screen suitable investment opportunities.

Project 3: Environmental advertising companies need knowledge: graphic design, communication, media demand, capital requirements: $10 thousand to $99 thousand, starting time: a few months' special challenges: be careful of "pseudo environmental advertising", the environmental protection market is still growing, and step by step into mainstream society, and at the same time become more diversified.

How to convey the right information to the correct group is not easy.

At the same time, many consumers began to doubt some of the companies that flaunt their environmental protection.

Advertising companies that can successfully use advertising messages to calm criticism will become the darling of the industry.

The customers of Green Team advertising company in New York include eco-tourism attractions, non-profit organizations and aggressive brands.

The company has developed a wide range of information pmission methods to help customers establish cooperative relations, through environmental audit to ensure that customers do not have the suspicion of "pseudo environmental protection", but to devote themselves to sustainable development.

An environmental advertising agency can start from a small family studio, take advantage of the network to capture the target market, cultivate customers from local enterprises, and use some guerrilla marketing tactics to convey information.

Item 4: Ecotourism tour guide: the demand for Ecotourism: the demand for Ecotourism: the minimum starting time: below 10 thousand dollars: starting time: weeks to months: special challenges: obtaining first-hand information on ecotourism destinations. According to the information provided by the International Association of ecotourism, the eco-tourism industry means that "under the premise of protecting the local environment and improving the lives of local residents, taking a responsible attitude towards sightseeing tours to natural scenic spots" - the growth rate has been maintained between 20% and 34% per year since the 90s of last century.

The scale of the eco tourism market in the United States alone is as high as 77 billion dollars, including environmental protection volunteer activities, adventure sports, field adventures, natural travel routes and natural education.

Many people are looking for green tourism routes, but it is difficult to decide which tourist destinations are really protecting the natural environment through Internet or travel brochures.

This means that people need knowledgeable guides to help them organize real environmental travel.

If you master first-hand information on Eco-tourism spots, you can provide customers with the best experience they need.

Don't just sell tickets or help people to make reservations. They should be experts in ecological travel, carefully investigate destinations from various angles, and thoroughly understand the impact on local natural ecosystems and indigenous peoples.

Project 5: the knowledge of environmental protection and housing pformation: the demand for building, renovation, interior design, sustainable development materials, funds and funds: $10 thousand to $99 thousand, starting time: a few months' special challenges: the prejudice against environmental protection building and decoration. With the popularity of environmental protection construction, housing pformation has also taken the road of environmental protection.

The key to pformation is to help homeowners improve energy efficiency, but people also want the house to look prettier while avoiding the negative impact of many building materials on the environment.

Visual effects, cost, time and reliability are all important factors in building pformation.

Environmental protection housing pformation also needs to consider the process, source and influence on health of various building decoration materials.

The environmental protection banner of your company will make your business unique and open up a new path in this difficult economic environment full of fierce competition.

Start with small projects, and gradually prove your ability to explain the benefits of environmental protection to customers.

Of course, word of mouth is the key.

Project 6: knowledge of environmental protection business consulting: the financial needs of enterprise building and sustainable development: fund demand below $10 thousand: start time: a few years of experience, special challenges: consulting business start up, environmental protection business consultants should have rich experience in dealing with risks and opportunities related to environmental protection, and help enterprises integrate environmental goals into real business.

The problems faced by many enterprises in the process of environmental pformation will affect the core business strategy of the whole industry.

New businesses usually need someone to help them with their business planning, finance, marketing and product design.

Large enterprises need to make strategic consultation on how environmental problems affect the direction of enterprise development.

You can specialize in improving energy efficiency in buildings or pportation and finding suitable renewable energy for enterprises.

You can also find business opportunities from helping businesses reduce waste and improve resource utilization, helping companies cut costs and increase profitability.

Item 7: environmental cleaning services: knowledge and requirements: cleanliness, supply and demand: below $10 thousand, starting time: a few weeks' special challenges: reversing the concept of "high strength chemicals in places where it is not easy to clean." many chemicals that are harmful to our health and environment are often used in building and construction cleaners.

Now people and enterprises are making efforts to make life more environmentally friendly, and more and more non-toxic, non irritating chemicals are needed for cleaning.

The chemicals used in environmental cleaning are not irritating to the skin, no toxicity, and no harm to the environment.

Some cleaning service companies only provide environmental cleaning services, while others use environmental cleaning as additional services.

100% of environmental protection can help you catch the high-end market.

At present, environmental protection and cleanliness does not require any special certification, but some companies will provide evidence on their own initiative.

Providing advanced services beyond basic cleanliness can make your environmental cleaning service company stand out. Why don't you help customers solve the problem of water leakage in addition to the cleanliness of the environmental toilet?

8: hairdressing, manicure and skin care demand: a few weeks to a few months, whether it is a luxury SPA or a small beauty salon in the corner of a mall, and one of the common points in salon and SPA is to use a large amount of chemical agents.

Environmental SPA and beauty salon, which provide healthy natural beauty products, are increasingly becoming the trend of development.

There are many nontoxic materials that can replace traditional cosmetic preparations.

The environmental salon also needs environmental protection decoration, furniture made of recycled materials, and energy efficient equipment and lighting facilities.

You can join the high-end eco salon market, or you can choose an economical salon.

Environmental SPA can start from a small shop run by one person, such as nail or hair care.

You can take over an old salon and pform it into an environmental beauty salon, but you need to market a lot of new changes in the beauty salon, but old salon's old customers may help you through the difficult process of initial business.

Item 9: Environmental furniture needs: knowledge of design, furniture, retail sales, demand for funds: $10 thousand to $99 thousand, starting time: a few months, special challenges: sales process may be very long, furniture is once an investment product, and exquisite furniture can be passed down from generation to generation.

But today, furniture is often just a casual commodity that can be thrown away at will. After a few years, it is thrown into the rubbish dump.

Environmental designers use sustainable renewable materials to make furniture - materials that were once discarded as rubbish.

Peter Danko design studio in Virginia, USA, chooses recycled materials and thick curved wood as raw materials. The wood used is only 15%. of solid wood furniture. If you have artistic talent, the development potential of environmental friendly furniture will be great.

There are available materials everywhere: recycled glass can be turned into a fashionable desktop, old plastic can become a new chair.

Even if you are not interested in the design and production of environmentally friendly furniture, you can also sell environmentally friendly furniture.

Vivavi in New York specializes in selling fashionable furniture made of environmentally friendly and recycled materials.

Project 10: water saving landscape design: knowledge of landscape design, water saving, demand and supply: below $10 thousand, starting time: several months to several years: special challenges: developing landscape design skills and knowledge, with more and more people paying attention to the importance of water saving, business opportunities for design and layout of water-saving landscape design or water-saving plant cultivation are also coming.

It is predicted that most of the arid regions of the United States will become more and more hot and dry, and there are various business opportunities in many areas.

In areas that have long encouraged water-saving landscape design, such as Russell Garth, there are likely to be experts in breeding and landscape design for drought tolerant plants.

In other untapped markets, you can strive to seize the opportunity.

To help customers understand the advantages of water-saving landscape design: drought tolerant plants can save them 25% to 50% water bills, easy to manage, save time and save money.