When executive David C. Cole left high-flying AOL, he was a millionaire many times over. He bought a family farm in Virginia and settled in, but with no intention of retiring as a country gentleman. Instead, he saw an opportunity to propel the organic foods market into the mainstream, and eventually add to his fortune.Continue reading "How the Milesnicks Found Markets"
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Golf courses, once considered wicked over-watered stews of pesticides, fertilizers, and alien plant life, have gained new luster with the environmental community. As homes and businesses continue to spread across the landscape, golf courses are often providing the open spaces that communities crave. Increasingly, these open spaces are offering up wildflowers, native plants, bluebirds, turtles,Continue reading "How the Milesnicks Found Markets"
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Salt deposits can destroy farm land, but at long last, one scientist has found a crop that will tolerate irrigation by sea water.
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After years of national control, governments allow local people to share the resource.
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As fishers flocked to their trout streams, a Montana ranch family discovered how to spur cooperation.
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It's fire season again. The blazes signify deeper problems at the Forest Service.
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If congressional efforts to curtail interstate trash disposal succeed, costs will go up.
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