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JANUARY/FEBRUARY
2003

Vol. 25, No. 1


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  10 FIRST FRIES, THEN BIODIESEL FOR A FAST START-UP
Dan Emerson
Five-year-old firm with plants in Nevada and California has become the world’s largest producer of biodiesel made from used cooking oil.
  13 MORE FIRMS DEVELOP WAYS TO CONTROL PLANT DISEASE WITHOUT PESTICIDES
From organic growers to landscape contractors, from golf course managers to backyard gardeners, compost tea may soon be a top-selling all-natural beverage.
  16 THE BREWERY WITH A BIG GREEN FOOTPRINT
Using primarily sustainable systems, the award winning New Belgium Brewery has grown to be the eighth largest brewery in the U.S.
  18 A COACH FOR HOME-BASED BUSINESS
Joan Retsinas
Wherever he has lived, whatever organization he has been affiliated with, Ken Proudfoot has launched a home business.
  20 PUBLIC AGENCY GIVES SUPPORT TO LOCAL ECONOMY
Erv Sandlin
Manufacturers in the Puget Sound, Washington region get help to build sales
for the goods they make with recycled content feedstocks from a county program aptly called “LinkUp.”
  24 FROM BEDROCK WITH LOVE
In nine years, Maria Ruano and her Seattle-based Bedrock Industries have used their hearts and creativity to bring beauty to the marketplace.
  26 ORGANIC WINE GROWING IN NAPA
Linda Peterson and Jerome Goldstein
California’s Napa Wine Company is getting good results and producing world class wines by following a long family tradition of environmental stewardship.
  28 REDUCING COMMERCIAL WASTE BUILDS CUSTOMERS ... AND PROFITS
Profiles of projects throughout North America provide meaningful lessons in how businesses can change the status quo at the “back end.”
  30 RESEARCHER ON A RENEWABLE POWER COURSE
Princeton University physicist Stephen Paul looks at the waste stream and sees an alternative fuel that cuts greenhouse gas emissions and carbon monoxide gas by 50 percent.
 
31
SPEAK UP TO BUILD SALES
Carter Henderson
Here’s sound advice to overcome the fear of standing up in front of an audience and giving a talk.
    COLUMNS
 
32
BALLE BEAT
Michelle Long
More Networks Create More Power To Revitalize Local Economies
     
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