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Jack Ehrhardt

June 29, 2012 By admin

Going Quiet Kingman, Arizona · By Charlie Laurel Jack Ehrhardt and his contracting company, ACE Builders, built the first “Earthship” in Arizona for a client in Dewey in the early 1990s. An Earthship is a self-sustaining, passive solar home made from used tires packed with dirt, cans, bottles, and other discards. The home was designed […]

Filed Under: Arizona, Business - small (<20 employees), Children, Families and Learning, Energy and Green Building, Energy Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Lifelong Learning, Recycled Materials, Renewable Energy, Reused Materials, Solar, SW book, Wind

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

Earthen Path Organic Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Seasonal Dance On 14 acres in the hill and coulee country above the Mississippi River in southeastern Minnesota, a seasonal dance with the forces of nature takes place. Earthen Path Organic Farm weathers the storms, continues to flourish, and produces organic fruits and vegetables that connect the cycles of planting and harvesting with local […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Business - cooperative, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: farmers markets, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Energy and Green Building, Energy Conservation, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Music, On-farm Workshops, Performing Arts, Permaculture, Poultry, Renewable Energy, Sheep and goats, Solar, Sourced from Cooperative Enterprises, Theater, Tourism and Recreation, Vegetables, Wind

The Hogan Project

June 29, 2012 By admin

Reconnecting the People and the Forest Cameron, Arizona · By Peter Friederici and Roberto Nutlouis From most of the western Navajo Nation, in north-central Arizona, the diamond summits of the San Francisco Peaks are landmarks on the horizon. To the Diné, as the Navajo call themselves, the Peaks are one of the four sacred mountains […]

Filed Under: Arizona, Business - small (<20 employees), Energy and Green Building, Energy Efficiency, Green or Natural Building/architecture, SW book

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