NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
1999
Vol. 21, No. 6
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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1999 Vol. 21, No. 6 |
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12 | HEMP INDUSTRY PREPARES TO GROW Mari Kane As more and more Fortune 500 companies monitor hemp’s legal progress, start-ups are pushing the envelope of product development and markets. |
| 14 | WHOLESALE SOURCES FOR HEMP PRODUCTS | |
| 15 | ENTREPRENEURS TAKE BAMBOO TO NEW HEIGHTS Bob Feinbaum With varied uses in construction and home design accessories, fast growing, renewable bamboo will be getting more attention — thanks to creative small businesses. |
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| 16 | BAMBOO FURNITURE | |
| 17 | GINSENG AS AN ECONOMIC REVITALIZER | |
| 18 | BUILDING A MARKET NICHE IN CHEWING GUM Florida firm sets up supply lines with chicle harvesters in Central American rainforests and is triple certified for its management practices. |
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20 | CHICKEN WINGS, CHEESECAKE ... AND MORE KITCHEN INCUBATOR CREATES NEW CAREERS Molly Farrell “Build a commercial kitchen in a business center, and they will come.” That’s the story in La Crosse, Wisconsin. |
| 22 | FOSTERING SUSTAINABLE SMALL BUSINESSES | |
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23 | BEHIND THE SCENES THE NATION’S LARGEST NATURAL FOODS CO-OP Adrienne P. Touart With seven markets, Puget Consumers’ Cooperative has created a sales outlet for locally grown products and sustainable programs that support the community. |
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25 | WHEN HOME VISITS PAY OFF ENVIRONMENTAL HOUSE DOCTORS David Biddle Pennsylvania company uses not-so-sexy sustainable techniques to provide customers with comfortable energy-saving living space. |
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| 28 | GREENHOUSE-STYLE BARNS ANIMAL HOUSING GOES SOLAR Vermont company links up with a greenhouse manufacturer to market structures with better air quality and more light for farm animals. |
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| 30 | NEW PRODUCTS FROM OLD FINDING MARKETS FOR YESTERDAY’S WASTES “I love the challenge of figuring out a use for something that someone else calls waste,” says Mike Daley who launched two companies to profit from those challenges. |
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| 32 | WINNING ON THE BACK END Jerome Goldstein The wood industry provides more and more examples of how to replace expensive disposal costs with profitable reuse methods. |
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MAKING GREEN FUEL OUT OF GARBAGE Kay Martin Commercial facilities known as biorefineries use a process “as natural and time-tested as grandpa’s still,” writes the author, with the potential to replace polluting petroleum-based products. |
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| 35 | BUSINESS CLIMATE IMPROVES FOR BIOFUELS | |
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PERSONAL FINANCE NATURAL INVESTING FOR FINANCIAL WELLNESS Hal Brill, Jack Brill and Cliff Feigenbaum Evaluating the beneficial effects of using social, environmental and ethical criteria when making investment choices. |
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SUSTAINABLE COMMERCE Rob Young The Undiscovered Country |
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