Entrepreneur Profile: Adnan Durrani and Saffron Road

In 1989, Adnan Durrani started a company called Vermont Pure Spring Water when he was just 26 years old. He took the idea, along with a business plan predicting quickly rising Continue reading →

Fred Kirschenmann Interview: Ag of the Middle

Fred Kirschenmann is the Distinguished Fellow at the Iowa State University Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, where he is also a professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy. Kirschenmann is Continue reading →

Tender Greens Entrepreneur Profile

August 22, 2012 Tender Greens Uses Close Farmer Relationship To Expand the Market for Healthy Farm-To-Table Fare When Erik Oberholtzer opened Tender Greens in Culver City, CA six years ago, Continue reading →

Newest Crop of Young Farmers

June 20, 2012 - From GOOD.is In a time of deep economic uncertainty and concerns with our food system, interest is gaining around one of the oldest and most noble vocations. From Pittsburgh, Continue reading →

Selling Power Back to the Grid

July 5, 2006 Carl Baldino, a plant manager for a textile finishing company in Philadelphia, is moonlighting as a small-time energy tycoon. In his second job, he’s got the kind Continue reading →

Senator John Kerry: Crusading for Small Business

July 25, 2006 John Kerry (D-Mass.), the ranking Democratic member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, has been working with the committee’s chair and ranking Republican member, Continue reading →

IDEO Interview: Ryan Jacoby

June 5, 2010 Ryan Jacoby studied Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia, then spent four years as a Deloitte consultant before attending business school at Stanford. Before the Stanford Continue reading →

Secrets of Small Farm Success

December 14, 2011 In farming, it seems that size is often rewarded. Government subsidies, economies of scale, and the use of chemical pesticides all conspire to make life easier for Continue reading →

Growth of Entrepreneurship at Middlebury College

September 7, 2011 Vermont’s fanciest liberal arts college embraces entrepreneurship Intellectual isolation has long been a selling point for Middlebury College [1]. Nestled in rural Addison County, the small, highly Continue reading →

The Intersection of Design and Education: Emily Pilloton Interview

September 24, 2010 Emily Pilloton is the founder and executive director of Project H Design, a non-profit team of designers, builders, and teachers with a current focus on using design Continue reading →

Food Writer Barry Estabrook Interview

December 6, 2011 Barry Estabrook is a journalist and former contributor to the now-defunct Gourmet magazine, who reports on food politics for various publications, and his blog “Politics of the Continue reading →

Seventh Generation on Life Cycle Assessment

August 17, 2012 Martin Wolf is Director of Product Sustainability and Authenticity for Seventh Generation, the Burlington, Vermont-based maker of green household and personal care products. When we approached Martin Continue reading →

Vinod Khosla Talks Shop

October 04, 2006 To many entrepreneurs, the name Vinod Khosla is synonymous with Silicon Valley, startups and venture capital. Khosla co-founded Sun Microsystems, and as a former general partner at Continue reading →

Growth Company, Small Market

August 19, 2011 Images of Burlington, Vt., are more likely to conjure up thoughts of ice cream or icy weather than JavaScript or fast-growing dotcom start ups. And that perception Continue reading →

Young Farmer Profiles

Prepare to be inspired by the new generation of agricultural pioneers!       Below are several of the profiles.  Visit FarmPlate to see the rest of the over 30 Continue reading →

Vermont Hydroponic Brings Fresh Regional Food All Year Long

August 18, 2012 Islands have always had a local food problem. Granted, they’re often located in warm environments, have rich soil, and enjoy the kind of tourists who might want Continue reading →

Leveling the Local Food Playing Field

March 29, 2012 The numbers clearly show that demand for local food is growing. According to the USDA, the market for local food “sales to intermediaries, such as local grocers Continue reading →

Spurring Revolution Through Competition

June 23, 2011 When former professional basketball player Ashley Day entered the scrap metal business around 2000, the industry hadn’t change much over the decades. Not willing to settle into Continue reading →

Beginning Farmers Using New Media to Advocate for Old Profession

June 13, 2012 America’s farmers are poised to start retiring in large numbers. In the next five years, something like 125,000 farmers will retire, says Lindsey Lusher Shute, Executive Director Continue reading →

Three Revolutions: Kickstarter for Local Food

July 18, 2012 On July 17, 2012, Three Revolutions launched the world’s first crowdfunding platform dedicated to farm and food ventures! Here’s how the platform works: Farmers, food processors, and Continue reading →

DripTech: Irrigating the Perfect System

Thursday, September 9, 2010 Design for the BoP: Irrigating the “Perfect Solution” with DripTech’s Peter Frykman Peter Frykman is founder and CEO of DripTech, a low-cost drip irrigation company based Continue reading →

Creativity Comes to B-School

March 26, 2006 As more institutions set up courses stressing innovation, students are learning all sorts of techniques to help them think outside the box Before you read this, take Continue reading →

What the Nobel Prize Means for Microcredit

October 13, 2006 Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus promotes peace not by brokering treaties, but by uprooting poverty through entrepreneurialism On Friday, Oct. 13, Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and its Continue reading →

Jeff Skoll: An Entrepreneur Who Cares

June 15, 2005 Jeff Skoll thinks — and cares — big. He caught the entrepreneurial bug long before 1995, the year he earned his MBA at Stanford University Graduate School Continue reading →