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Donald Reid

Possible Club Investment - how a small investment can benefit both the NGO/ONG and the community farmers

This idea is being discussed by our directors .... we have a small area on the farm owned by Christian, where we could do this project with a very small investment. The resulting 'humus' produced by raising earthworms could provide benefits for our community farmers, and also produce income by selling it to nurseries, and gardeners in the cities nearby.
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Posted by Donald Reid on October 24, 2009 at 10:51am — 2 Comments

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An example of how an non-profit can help family agriculture in a developing or poor country - Peirre Rabhi

We are working with Family Agriculture in the poor northeast of Brazil. Peirre Rabhi works in Africa, but the conditions are the same. Some 30 years ago I also worked with FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Peirre's story had become sort of a 'guideline' for our NGO/ONG (Christian, one of our directors is also French). Christian stated this morning that to do a project like this .. Family Agriculture .. one must love the land .. the earth can give us so much. One w… Continue

Posted by Donald Reid on October 24, 2009 at 9:56am

3BL Media

First B Corporation Annual Report Released

B Lab, the nonprofit that certifies B Corporations (“B” is for benefit), will publish the first B Corporation Annual Report in collaboration with Sustainable Industries, the business source for leaders of the New Economy. The report will include a summary of B Lab’s progress to date in building a new sector of the economy through the growing community of certified B Corps, creation of a new corporate form, and a new rating system for imp… Continue

Posted by 3BL Media on October 1, 2009 at 2:11pm

Jeff

Ocean Renewable Power Receives $1.3M in DOE Funds

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded more than $1.3 million to Portland, Me.-based Ocean Renewable Power Company to develop two projects, according to this article in SustainableBusiness.com.
The DOE will contribute up to $750,000 for two years for the company to design a mooring system for devices that will be moored below the sur… Continue

Posted by Jeff on September 20, 2009 at 11:31pm

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Business Lessons From the Spiny Dogfish
Crisis for one is opportunity for another. Commercial fisherman and the fish-eating public exploited an abundant resource (the Atlantic cod) to near extinction, and the dogfish raced in to fill the niche thus opened up. The cod's (and cod fishermen's) crisis created opportunities for the dogfish and for fishermen in other parts of the world who… Continue

Posted by SustainableSeas on September 13, 2009 at 7:28am

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An alternative smaller worm raising system that can be used by individuals for their own use.
October 24
This is what a small earthworm raising facility looks like. For less than US$ 3000, we can build a facility like this on Christian's farm that with approximately 8 hrs. work per week we could feasibly generate some $ 15,000 in products every 60 da...
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