You don’t have to go broke going green. Recently, many businesses are trying to make sustainability a priority by installing energy-saving equipments, cutting food-waste and conserving water. While this may seem like a costly endeavor, business are innovating around the costs of going green. Soneva Resorts gives a good example on running a cost effective sustainability program. From recycling plastic, glass and installing solar panels, to creating their own cooking charcoal and growing their own produce-fed compost from hotel waste, according to Forbes. The resorts even hire an environmentalist engineer to make sure that no cement was used in the room’s construction.

You can always pass the costs to that unenlightened consumer: Soneva also imposes a 2% carbon tax levy on visitors to offset direct and indirect carbon dioxide emissions across is operations, including any CO2 emitted by visitors using air travel to reach the resorts. The USD 8 mn funds raised so far from this were channeled towards funding sustainable projects like building wind turbines in India, planting more trees in Thailand and providing safe drinking water to thousands all over the world.