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Paddling, Pedaling and Publishing Sustainable Entrepreneurship

June 29, 2012 By admin

Pebble Publishing, Katy Trail Bed & Bikefest and Mighty Mo Canoe Rentals Rocheport, Missouri Drawn by the meandering and mighty Missouri River, the 225-mile-long Katy Trail – the longest in the United States – and the quirky and scenic river town of Rocheport, Missouri, located just fifteen minutes outside Columbia, Brett Dufur and his wife […]

Filed Under: Bed & Breakfast, Business - family, Business Retention and Development, Canoeing & Boating, Community Development and Design, Energy and Green Building, Energy Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Hospitality, Missouri, Right Livelihood, Rural Business Development, Small Business, Sustainable Regional Economy, Tourism and Recreation

Reservations Recommended at this Off-The-Beaten-Path Fine Dining Restaurant

June 29, 2012 By admin

Final-Go-Round Supper Club and Rieker’s Gourmet Blend Mott, North Dakota Just about in the middle of nowhere — surrounded by sweeping grasslands abundant with pheasant and a few roving cowboys tending their herd of cattle – the Final-Go-Round Supper Club just outside Mott, North Dakota, ropes in hungry homesteaders, ranchers and pheasant hunters alike who […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Community Development and Design, Creating a More Localized Food System, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, North Dakota, Right Livelihood, Rural Business Development, Small Business, Sustainable Regional Economy

Entrepreneurial Spirit Drives Diverse Family Enterprises

June 29, 2012 By admin

Hell Creek Music & More, the Makoshika Dinosaur Museum and E-Tana Glendive, MT Most businesses can sum up their core focus in a sentence or two. For the creative Bury family in Glendive, Montana, you better pull up a chair and sit a spell. Originally from Seattle, Christie and Steve Bury, along with their teenage […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Business - family, Business Development and Marketing, Business Retention and Development, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Marketing, Montana, Music, Natural and Cultural History, Performing Arts, Program - non-profit, Rural Business Development, Small Business, Social Marketing, Social Marketing: Linking Consumers to Producers, Starting a Business, Tourism and Recreation, Youth, Youth Businesses

Resource Revival: Creative Recycling With Rural Inspiration

June 29, 2012 By admin

Glendive Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture Mosier, Oregon With the Columbia River Gorge as an inspiring backdrop, Graham Bergh blends entrepreneurship with innovative green design through his company, Resource Revival, all from a work-at-home base in rural Mosier, Oregon. Transforming bicycle parts otherwise destined for the landfill into hip home and gift accessories such as […]

Filed Under: Business - self, Business - small (<20 employees), Community Development and Design, Consumption and Purchasing, Developing new products, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Green Products, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Oregon, Reused/Recycled Materials, Right Livelihood, Small Business

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