We loves us some GreenBiz.com here, and their just published State of Green Business 2008 is one reason why.

From the aptly named StateOfGreenBusiness.com Website:

In this landmark report, Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com answer the question: How are U.S. businesses doing in their quest to be greener and more environmentally responsible? It introduces the GreenBiz Index, a set of 20 indicators of progress, tracking the resource use, emissions, and business practices of U.S. companies: carbon, materials, energy, and toxics intensity, clean-tech investments, e-waste recovery, paper use, employee commuting, and more.

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There’s a ton of information here, and unfortunately most of it shows U.S. businesses really lagging behind when it comes to environmental stewardship. We may all be talking climate change now, but on a corporate level it hasn’t progressed much beyond that.

Check out the entire report online here.