To celebrate Earth Day Sageworks recently released our first set of environmentally-friendly business data.  As you can see, sales of recyclable materials have increased over 14% in 2008 despite the recession, and their profits have increased markedly, up 32% from 2007. It seems that going green is gaining popularity. 

There is also data included above on how nurseries & garden centers are doing.  Earth day may have come as a welcome relief to the greenhouse and nursery industry; these businesses have seen significant decreases in both sales and profits over the last year.