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Solar Design & Construction

June 29, 2012 By admin

Building for the People Flagstaff, Arizona · By Ashley Rood and Peter Friederici When Ed Dunn was a nine-year-old boy growing up in the then small city of Phoenix, his aunt came out from Kansas and rented an old adobe house for the summer. Ed still remembers how that traditional building was much cooler than […]

Filed Under: Adobe, Arizona, Business - self, Energy and Green Building, Energy Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Renewable Energy, Solar, Strawbale, SW book

Zuni Furniture Enterprises

June 29, 2012 By admin

Where Tradition Meets Quality Zuni, New Mexico · By David Seibert Zuni Furniture Enterprises has a slightly different take on the bottom line than a typical business. For this company, while economic concerns are important, cultural principles also guide the work. Zuni Furniture Enterprises, located at Zuni Pueblo in northwest New Mexico, has been a […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - small (<20 employees), Conservation, Conservation Aim, Energy and Green Building, Energy Efficiency, Forest Preservation and Restoration, New Mexico, SW book

Wood Fuel Study

June 29, 2012 By admin

Reusable Refuse Biomass power is a renewable resource in plentiful supply in southeast Minnesota. Low quality waste wood works well as a heating fuel for outdoor chunk wood furnaces. There are many sources of biomass power that can be used to produce heat and keep costs low, including: wood slabs from sawmills old pallets tree […]

Filed Under: Biomass/biofuels

Earth Elements Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Micro-farm Adds Value In More Ways Than One Lexington, Oklahoma Sometimes personal adversity and limited funds foster an environment of innovation and creativity. For April Harrington, the sole proprietor-farmer of Earth Elements Farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, it’s led to an agricultural operation that is practically 100 percent value-added. On 3/4-acre of her five acre farm, […]

Filed Under: Business - self, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Consumption and Purchasing, Developing new products, Direct to customer/user, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Energy and Green Building, Energy Efficiency, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Greenhouse Production, Healthful Products, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Mail/Telephone Order, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Oklahoma, Processing, Product Innovations, Strawbale, Value added, Weed Control, Word-of-Mouth

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