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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

All Paper Recycling, Inc.

June 29, 2012 By admin

Bye Bye By-Products! People living in houses built entirely out of recycled newspaper and phonebooks…using chairs that, if broken, can be smashed to a pulp only to be crafted into another chair…landfills never receiving another piece of paper again…welcome to the future as proposed by Stan Shetka, creator and head of All Paper Recycling, Inc. […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Biodegradable Materials, Biodegradeable, Business - small (<20 employees), Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Developing new products, Energy and Green Building, Energy Efficiency, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Green Products, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Product Innovations, Recycled Materials, Responsible Purchasing, Reused Materials, Reused/Recycled Materials, Rural/urban connection, Sustainable Use, Value added, Visual Arts

Certifiably Organic

June 29, 2012 By admin

Certifiably Organic Medina, North Dakota The Northern Plains, and North Dakota in particular, have been at the heart of both. Maintaining as much acreage in organic production as any other state in the country, North Dakota has also been home to visionaries in a movement that continues to inspire producers and consumers around the globe. […]

Filed Under: Business - mid-sized (>21 employees), Certification Standards, Consumption and Purchasing, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Green Products, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, North Dakota, Organic, Organic farming

Forest Concepts, LLC

June 29, 2012 By admin

Washington · Jim Dooley acknowledges that his product line, despite its careful engineering and serious purpose, has a rather playful association for most newcomers. “Everybody that comes in here calls it Tinker Toys for adults,” he laughs. But Forest Concepts’ toys are larger scale than Tinker Toys, made from the long skinny trees that now […]

Filed Under: Business - small (<20 employees), Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Environment, econ, culture, Forest Preservation and Restoration, Forestry, Green Products, Habitat Restoration, Harvesting Nature, Preserving landscapes, Sustainable Management, Sustainable Use, WA book, Washington, Wetland or Waterway Reconstruction

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