DEFEATING GLOBALIZATION

In Business, September-October, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 31

SUSTAINABLE COMMERCE

Robert F. Young

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW

In Business, September-October, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 30

BALLE BEAT

Judy Wicks

THIRTY YEARS IN COMMUNITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP

In Business, September-October, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 28

In his new book, The Company We Keep, the author describes his start-up and growth experiences since cofounding the South Mountain Company.

TEN-POINT PLAN FOR REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS

In Business, September-October, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 26

Reconstruction and cleanup methods to be used in New Orelans offer an opportunity to address sustainability on a scale that has not been tried before.

Alex Wilson

Navigating The Household Waste Stream

In Business, September-October, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 24

Alternating between personal observations and statistical barrage, the author of Garbage Land dwells on trash, tactics, and the search for moral (as well as amoral) clarity.

Jennifer Weeks

OREGON FOOD GUIDE TARGETS LOCAL GROWERS & CONSUMERS

In Business, September-October, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 22

A model for communities throughout North America, the publication helps make some critical connections on land and sea.

Laura Swanson

WITH PLANTS AND PEOPLE FLOWERING, A BOTTOM LINE SUCCESS

In Business, September-October, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 20

Rhode Island Center provides a vocational experience for disabled clients while creating an income-generating market for therapeutic activities.

Joan Retsinas

CREATING MARKETABLE GREEN PRODUCTS

In Business, September-October, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 18

North Carolina project turns restaurant food waste into bagged products, while Massachusetts agency uses public/private partnership to get supermarkets involved with composting.

ENTREPRENEURS LAUNCH BUSINESS THAT PAYS RESIDENTS TO RECYCLE

In Business, September-October, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 15

When Patrick FitzGerald and Ron Gonen came up with the idea to use incentives for residents to separate recyclables from trash, they didn't realize that three years later they'd be running RecycleBank LLC.

David Biddle

A ROAD THROUGH THE PASTURE TO RENEWABLE FUEL

In Business, September-October, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 14

Technology reported in new Sourcebook for renewable power is described as “no cow-pie in the sky” solution - and California has potential to produce the equivalent of
150 million gallons of gasoline.

HURRICANE RELIEF SHIP POWERED BY RENEWABLE FUEL

In Business, September-October, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 12

As an example of sustainable technologies needed to shift solutions in a green direction, Veggie Van brings biodiesel to Gulf Coast.

IN BUSINESS FOR A BETTER WORLD

In Business, September-October, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 10

Unconventional Pennsylvania travel company creates a nonprofit foundation to help the poor at home and abroad.

Elizabeth Killough and Jerome Goldstein

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTS

In Business, September-October, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 8

WORN-OUT CLOTHING TO BE RECYCLED INTO NEW GARMENTS BY APPAREL COMPANY
Michael Crooke, president and CEO of Patagonia, Inc. - a leading apparel company - is asking his customers to return worn-out clothing which can then be made into new garments. Starting this month,

IN BUSINESS WORLD

In Business, September-October, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 4

“GREEN ECONOMISTS” GET GREATER RECOGNITION
Natural resources are being increasingly seen as basic to economic frameworks just like labor and capital, notes an economics professor at Stanford University. “Green Groups See Potent Tool In Economics” headlines the Wall Street Journal in a story reporting how a growing number of economists