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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER
2002

Vol. 24, No. 5

  Page Article
    ECONOMIC MERRY-GO-ROUND
  10 THE ROAD TO SUSTAINABILITY LEADS TO RESTORATION ... AND VICE VERSA!
Storm Cunningham
The good news is that this report is not a wishful dream — it’s about what is already the largest and fastest-growing new field of business opportunities.
  12 DISCOVERING A SECRET TRILLION-DOLLAR INDUSTRY
  13 DECONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY GROWS IN THE RESTORATION ECONOMY
Marnie McPhee
Companies that disassemble buildings to sell component parts illustrate the growth potential of emerging business opportunities in the restoration sector.
  16 IMPROVING THE COMMON GROUND IN CALIFORNIA’S WINE COUNTRY
Linda Peterson
Napa Wine Company uses “least toxic” methods for growing 600 acres of organic grapevines — renovating soils and pleasing neighbors — while building sales..
   
    MANAGING WITH VISION
  18 GUIDE TO “GROWING IT SMALLER”
Jamie S. Walters
The author traces the steps to achieve a business that is neither rooted in “growth at all costs” myopia nor in the poverty consciousness of “enterprise ascetics.”
 
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IMPLEMENTING BIG-VISION PRINCIPLES
   
    REDUCING PETROLEUM USE
  20 NEW POWER IN BIOENERGY
Jerome Goldstein
Companies are finding ways to utilize renewable energy sources and create biobased products in groundbreaking, technologically advanced, profitable ventures.
  21 BIOBASED PRODUCTS HIT THE MARKETPLACE
  22 FEDERAL INCENTIVES FOR BIOPOWER COMPANIES
Jeremy Ames
Energy provisions in the 2002 Farm Bill offer a unique opportunity to promote development of agricultural-based biopower, biofuels and biobased products.
   
    RAISING CAPITAL
  26 ANGEL MONEY AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
William Wetzel
In 1989, the director of the Venture Capital Network based at the University of New Hampshire told In Business readers: “If you’ve got the economics and ecology together, go after the angels out there.”
 
29
ANGEL INVESTMENT ACTIVITY 2002
Survey results provide significant data on numbers and attitudes of angel investors.
    COLUMNS
 
31
GREEN MARKETING
Jacquelyn A. Ottman
What To Do Next?
 
32
SUSTAINABLE COMMERCE
Robert F. Young
The Dogs Of War
     
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