Grist points out an article in today’s Wall Street Journal on new companies that offer environmentally friendlier products for sale at fundraisers for schools and non-profit organizations.
As the article observes, selling products that are environmentally (or otherwise) harmful to raise funds for a good cause clearly sends a mixed message. This concern can be elevated [...]

Celsias today highlighted companies that collect waste products and use them to create energy or useful goods through methods that are carbon neutral.
As one of the entrepreneurs quoted in the article notes, “Nature doesn’t make any waste.” When we redesign our processes in a thoughtful way, we can move society closer to the standard that [...]

An article in today’s Jacksonville Business Journal reports on the growing popularity of farmers markets. Many residents of Jacksonville, Florida, like people elsewhere, are showing greater interest in locally grown food and in reducing their driving.
As they flock to the area’s farmers markets in search of fresh local produce, however, a new problem is [...]

Farms that achieve stability and success through the community supported agriculture (CSA) model were among the inspirations for hivethrive. Joe and I have written about CSA farms a number of times here, so it was with interest that we read a prominent article in today’s New York Times entitled Cutting Out the Middlemen, Shoppers Buy [...]

Today’s New York Times examines the continuing draw of food festivals in California, where many of the favorite local foods being celebrated are increasingly threatened. Patterson, longtime home of an apricot festival and self-proclaimed “apricot capital of the world,” is growing fewer apricots these days due to low-cost imports of dried apricots from Turkey. Gilroy, [...]

As energy prices rise, they have an impact not only on individuals, but also on state and local governments, colleges and universities, companies, and organizations of all sorts. In many of these institutions, there is currently little understanding of oil depletion and its far-reaching consequences, let alone a plan for an energy transition. As [...]

Here at hivethrive, we often write about efforts that are planting the seeds of community and creating prosperity in the process. A piece today by a blogger who writes about local food drew my attention to an entrepreneur who has built a business around heirloom seeds, music, and community.

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Even though “reduce” and “reuse” come first in the expression “reduce, reuse, recycle,” they often seem to get short shrift compared to efforts to promote recycling. Fortunately, there are ways to encourage reuse, at least one of which has become extremely popular recently. Besides, shrift isn’t everything.
Here’s a quick look at some ways in which [...]

Earlier this week, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas told what he called a “blogger inside baseball” story. While the story may be inside baseball, a passing remark in that story hints at an aspect of community that is sometimes overlooked.
If you believe that a community should serve a specific purpose, then you might think that [...]

General Motors stock closed below $10 per share yesterday for the first time in 54 years. The stock’s 15 percent one-day drop followed a report by a Merrill Lynch analyst that bankruptcy was within the realm of possibility for GM if current trends continue.
The decline of GM has been long in coming, although it has [...]