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Growing a successful business is about meeting the needs of customers—and, by extension, the needs of the entire community. Turn your business into a good citizen and you can help ensure its success and contribute to making your community a great place to live and work. Growing Local Value shows how to build a values-driven business that is deeply embedded in local life. Drawing on real-world examples from Greyston Bakery, Wild Planet Toys,
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2001.
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This summary report presents findings and recommendations resulting from an evaluation of selected demonstration projects that received funding in 1999 and 2000 from the Four Corners Sustainable Forests Partnership Demonstration Grants Program. It describes project-level activities taking place in communities where timber, forests, and public land have played historically significant roles in their social and economic makeup. It begins to identify...
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"In this engaging call to action, Daron Joffe teaches us not only to create sustainable gardens but also to develop a more holistic, community-minded approach to how our food is grown and how to better live our lives in balance with nature. Here is an indispensable resource packed with advice on establishing a biodynamic garden, composting, soil composition and replenishment, controlling pests and disease, cooperative gardening practices, and even...
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With a vibrant, fresh style Suzanne Woods Fisher brings readers into the world of a young Amish woman torn between following the man she loves--or joining the community of faith that sustains her, even as she questions some of the decisions of her elders. Her choice begins a torrent of change for her and her family, including a marriage of convenience to silent Daniel Miller. Both bring broken hearts into their arrangement--and secrets that have been...
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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
37) Pollyanna
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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An abridged version of the tale of orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna, who comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, bringing happiness to her aunt and other members of the community through her philosophy of gladness. Pollyanna knows the secret to finding a smile -- even when really bad things happen. From the moment she arrives in Beldingsville, she shares her Glad Game with everyone around her. But the person who needs Pollyanna's help...
39) Summarizing the community economics of community forestry: Wallowa resources, Wallowa County, Oregon
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Economic development report volume EDR07-3
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[2007]
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