Tag: Business

  • Baby Boomers Should Consider Selling Their Companies To Employees When They Retire

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    In his Oped in the New York Times, Gar Alperovitz highlights a tremendous opportunity to create worker-owned businesses in the coming years: Over the next decade millions of business owners born during the baby boom will retire. Many, with no obvious succession strategy, will simply sell their companies, the backbone of Main Street economies across…

  • Sno Pac Foods – Organic since 1943

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    CALEDONIA, Minn. — The Gengler family and its Sno Pac Foods Inc., founded in 1943, are pioneers in frozen organic food. In fact, the Caledonia business says it was the world’s first grower/processor of frozen organic vegetables. Today, it also sells frozen fruit and frozen juice concentrate. This summer, the 70-year-old company is expanding into…

  • This Week’s Rant

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    Under the category “Sustainability”, I find endless titles like: Sustainability is a “commerical imperative” – with a £1000bn reward The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)  counts Unilever, P&G, GM, Nestle, Coca-Cola, BP, Monsanto and Shell among its members. Ratings and rankings: How competition promotes corporate sustainability Here’s an interesting quote from Ratings and rankings: “At Ingersoll…

  • And you thought it was bad here

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    From Ally Bruschi’s article in The Daily Mail: Endless food scandals throughout the past few years have Chinese consumers growing suspicious and weary of their grocery store produce —enough so for more well-off families to begin seeking organic alternatives to their traditional foods. For example, Catherine Ho Wai-man and her family have stopped buying produce from…

  • Water Drops, Daisies and Bumblebees

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    The photo above provides a wonderful demonstration of the physics of light in water drops as well as the attraction of water molecules to plant molecules and to one another. In this case, the liquid drops result from rain and fog. A drop of liquid behaves like a simple lens – just like a camera. Therefore, the refracted image is upside-down when viewed through the drop. Somehow, bees,…

  • Food Hubs – The Key to Expanding Regional Food Systems

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    It was 2004, and the re-emergence of local and regional food systems was still relatively novel across the nation—perhaps especially in the Southeast United States (despite the fact that until the last half-century, local and regional food was all there was). And yet it was in Durham, N.C., that some industrious individuals, with the help…

  • Tesla’s 90 Second Battery Swap System

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    Chris Velazco rates the new “battery swapping” system introduced by Tesla Motors and finds it “more impressive than most of us imagined.” It’s not exactly a secret that the Model S’s battery pack can be switched out as needed, but the company saw fit to keep the details under wraps until today. For the process…

  • “Benefit Companies” Focused on Sustainability Now Legal In Oregon

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      By: Cassandra Profita Gov. John Kitzhaber has signed a bill that allows companies to register as “benefit companies” in Oregon – businesses that offer environmental and social benefits in addition to making profits.The designation recognizes businesses that conserve natural resources and provide employees with better quality of life, much like the B Corp certification offered by the…

  • The Conservation Fund And Its Branches

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    The Conservation Fund has been working with communities, government and business partners to save millions of acres of land and water across the United States.   In the nearly 30 years of their existence, they’ve protected 7 million acres of land and water in all 50 states. In 2001 they founded the Natural Capital Investment…

  • 19th Century Technology Fuels 21st Century Sustainability Project

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    By: Chris Vedelago It’s a bold 21st century sustainability project that will be fueled, ironically, by 19th century technology. Excess energy from the powerful boilers that run the CUB Brewery in Abbotsford are being retasked to meet the energy needs of a nearby office building, turning it into a hub of environmental sustainability and design. ”We…