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Randy Chatterjee's Blog – January 2012 Archive (2)
Grist: Why fixing up old homes is greener than building new ones
This old house: Why fixing up old homes is greener than building new ones
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A Cooperative Farmer's Market Model
Vancouver has some significant experience with local farm produce selling coops and other services, including NOWBC (www.nowbc.ca), Home Grow-In, and Eternal Abundance (www.eternalabundance.ca). Not all such ventures have been or are successful, especially when competing with heavily-subsidized industrial agriculture and its…
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