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Haubenschild Family Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Long-Time Dream Fulfilled Dennis and Marsha Haubenschild run their family dairy farm in Princeton, Minnesota. For years they toyed with the idea of turning manure waste into a useful energy source but, until recently, they rejected the idea because they associated it with high risks and costs. However, when their sons, Tom and Bryan, […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Biomass/biofuels, Business - family, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Developing new products, Energy and Green Building, Energy Efficiency, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Livestock, Management Concerns, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Processing, Renewable Energy, Soils & Compost, Value added, Waste Treatment, Water Quality

Mac Watson

June 29, 2012 By admin

Dirt Rich Santa Fe, New Mexico · By Charlie Laurel The story of adobe building is as old as dirt – as old as sun-baked mud bricks, and almost as widespread as human beings themselves. “Eighty to ninety percent of the structures in the world that people live in are earthen structures. It’s only in […]

Filed Under: Adobe, Business - self, Energy and Green Building, Green or Natural Building/architecture, New Mexico, SW book

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

Forest Mushrooms, Inc.

June 29, 2012 By admin

Building a Business Kevin Doyle has always been interested in botany and the natural world. He worked on a potato farm as a kid, studied biology and botany at St. John’s University, and studied the cultivation of peat bogs for fuel in Ireland. Then one day, while he was working on another bio-fuel project at […]

Filed Under: Biomass/biofuels, Business - family, Business - small (<20 employees), Business to Business: Other, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: farmers markets, Energy and Green Building, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Horticultural crops, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, Mushrooms, Renewable Energy, Soils & Compost

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