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Todd County: A Community That Gives Back

June 29, 2012 By admin

Full Speed Ahead In the year 2000, through the Blandin Community Investment Partnership (BCIP) 180 people from across this rural area came together to talk. They were from all walks of life and had this in common: belief in each other and their communities. They also had questions: What needs to be done? How can […]

Filed Under: Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Enviromental Learning, Healthcare, Innovative Teaching, Land Zoning - Land Use Planning, Lifelong Learning, Minnesota, Program - community, Public Policy, Schooling, Youth, Youth Businesses

Empowering an Energy Revolution

June 29, 2012 By admin

A powerful new vision for a more sustainable world based upon energy effıciency, conservation, renewable energy and sustainable living is energizing the Midwest. The Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA) combines this vision of its forward-thinking founders with the swelling ranks of mostly rural landowners to create the world’s largest and longest-running Renewable Energy and Sustainable […]

Filed Under: Business Expo, Community Development and Design, Consumption and Purchasing, Energy and Green Building, Energy Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Green Products, Program - non-profit, Renewable, Renewable Energy, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Book

Keating Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Jim and Sue Keating are newcomers to the world of organic agriculture. Prior to moving to the town of Bennington in central Kansas, the couple raised a family in urban Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where Sue was a church secretary and Jim taught civil engineering at the university. When their kids moved out and the couple moved […]

Filed Under: Branding: Certified Organic, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Community Cooperative, Community Development and Design, Corn & Soybeans, Creating a More Localized Food System, Direct Marketing, Direct: consumer buying clubs, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Hay & Alfalfa, Horticultural crops, Kansas, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic farming, Packaging, Processing, Product Innovations, Regionalized Cooperation, Small Grains, Soils & Compost, Value added, Vegetables

Seeding a Community with Confidence

June 29, 2012 By admin

Seeding a Community with Confidence Walking the streets of Omak, your eyes lift to sunny sage-covered hills in every direction. The sun rises and sets quickly in Omak, nestled in the Okanogan River Valley. Townspeople identify with this valley north to Canada and south to the Columbia. Omak serves this valley as well, offering its […]

Filed Under: Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Public Schools, Reservation, Schooling, Service Learning, Youth, Youth Leadership

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