According to Bloomberg Businessweek, opening manhole covers, which weigh up to 400 lbs., is difficult at best and dangerous at worst. Dave Roberts, 51, who spent 25 years lifting them while working for waste-water authorities in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, decided to find a better way. A perpetual tinkerer, Roberts designed a machine to remove the […]
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In September 2008, Joe DeLoss took a job as director of social enterprise at Lutheran Social Services, a 300-bed homeless shelter in Columbus, Ohio, reports Businessweek. His main task: creating businesses that would employ shelter residents and help them develop job skills. A former investment analyst who “ate a lot of really crappy boxed meals”
Main Street Connect is a network of 52 community-based news websites. Inc. has up a video interview with the founders Jane Bryant Quinn and Carl Tucker. The video is below.
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The Associated Press is reporting that Wal-Mart Stores plans to double its sales of locally sourced produce in the U.S. by the end of 2015. The move by the world’s biggest retailer is part of a new sustainable agriculture strategy that looks to steer more business to small and medium-sized farmers globally while also reducing
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One of Patricia Barnett’s favorite memories was of having ice cream with her father. When he died she decided to honor that memory by starting her own shop reports The Oregonian. Barnett’s creation, Gelato and Yogurt Lounge at 13611 N.W. Cornell Road, also aims to serve up a scoop of community involvement along with its
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I would like to dedicate this Labor Day holiday to the 14.9 million women and men who, through no fault of their own, lost their jobs in the economic downturn. I’ve been there. I feel your pain. Days upon days looking for a job. Just looking for a job becomes a job, a non-paying job.
Lewiston-Auburn, Maine has begun the race to find a young entrepreneur. Not just anyone, though. They are on the lookout for someone with a connection to their community that is interested in building there. There are a few catches, of course: you have to be willing to locate that business in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine’s second largest
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The New York Times is reporting that for six weeks, a group of people have been engaged in an unusual project in Bedford-Stuyvesant that they are calling the Brooklyn Free Store, where everything is available for the taking and nothing is for sale. The name of the store is painted on a purple banner hanging
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The peace of an otherwise quiet summer weekend is often muddled by the sound of lawn mowers and leaf blowers. NPR reports that In Los Angeles’ business district, an old-fashioned method of ground control provides an alternative soundtrack – the munching of goats. In a steep hillside city park on Bunker Hill, right next to
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The Boy Scouts of America do good, we all know that. And now they do invention. According to Fast Company, the 100-year-old organization has teamed up with MIT’s Lemelson program, founded by the father of modern invention in America, Jerome H. Lemelson, to provide a new merit badge: that of invention. Aside from defining what
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