While on a trip to India when Jaswinder Salh was a teenager, she swore to herself that someday she’d have a job that would make a positive difference in the world. It is now two decades later and Jaswinder has kept that promise reports TheStar.com. She’s the founder of Keep Leaf, a Toronto-based company known […]
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Tom Quinn isn’t the kind of entrepreneur who needs help getting his ideas in front of the right people. So why is he pitching his latest idea–a portable system to convert food scraps and other waste into ethanol–on a website frequented by basement tinkerers and dorm-room startups? Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Quinn’s E-Fuel is among
Jim Piazzo was looking forward to becoming a green entrepreneur with the help of San Jose. While he still might become a green entrepreneur it probably won’t be with much help from the city reports The Mercury News. Here’s Piazzo’s story: Young tree surgeon tires of paying big dumping fees for tree limbs. He sees
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With their children strapped to their backs, Angie Freeman Shephard and Theresa Perez get to work with their diaper delivery business, Happy Bottoms Diaper Service, reports Anchorage Daily News. When Angie Freeman Shephard and Theresa Perez were pregnant last year, they tried to find a cloth diaper pickup and delivery service in Anchorage, but they
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It only takes one moment to realize that a gathering Santa Clara University isn’t the traditional Silicon Valley get-together reports Mike Cassidy for the Mercury News. Rajnish Jain has ducked out of a session on developing markets and forecasting revenues to tell me about his latest venture. No. Not the next “FarmVille” or the next
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Joe Larter has proven his green credentials by setting up a recycling business using unwanted glass to craft various products reports Advertiser 24. Mr Larter’s latest venture sees bottles of unusual shapes and colours melted down and crafted by slumper Laurence King into useful household items such as dishes or cutting broads. He came up
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According to a story in The New York Times, Jane Slupecki with the Connecticut Department of Agriculture, took a group of dairy farmers to a brainstorming dinner. She had a small grant to try to find possible solutions to a big, stinky problem: cow manure, tons of it. Cow poop is cow poop,” said Slupecki,
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Steve Johnson opened his business, Lightwave Solar Electric LLC, in 2006. He offers a full-service solar panel installation and he has been involved in some of the largest projects around Tennessee reports the Tennessean.com. The Nashville-based company, which also designs rooftop photovoltaic systems, posted $2.7 million in sales last year and expects to double that
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In 1983 Paul Sellew started a company that converted farm waste into a fertilizer. Fifteen years later his company, Earthgro, was sold to Scotts for $47 million reports Forbes. Nearly three decades later Sellew, 52, is on his sixth eco-company, called Harvest Power, in Waltham, Mass., which aims to build multiacre facilities around urban and
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The USA Solar Store is a chain of independently run shops that offer alternative energy products. With 24 stores in 11 states, from California to Vermont, it is their goal to help bring renewable energy to everyday people all over the US. Inspired by Helen and Scott Nearing, Dave Bonta and his wife moved to
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