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BHE Renewables Has Become One Of America's Quiet Clean Energy Powerhouses
2+ hour, 11+ min ago (770+ words) The Business Download | BHE Renewables Has Become One Of America's Quiet Clean Energy Powerhouses Near the small town of Ryan in eastern Iowa, twenty wind turbines have been turning since late 2021, sending power onto the grid under a contract with…...
In Freeport, Maine, A Filmmaker Built A Business Around Telling Other People's Stories
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (662+ words) The Business Download | In Freeport, Maine, A Filmmaker Built A Business Around Telling Other People's Stories Suzi Pond describes herself as a "once geeky Gen X kid with lots of time and a mid-'80s Macintosh to master." She spent years working…...
A Utah Reporter Traded The Anchor Desk For A Refill Company
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (721+ words) The Business Download | A Utah Reporter Traded The Anchor Desk For A Refill Company What pulled her back toward the environment was not another assignment. It was her two young children. She told Voyage Utah, "After my children were born,…...
How POET's Iowa Biorefineries Turn the State's Corn Into Fuel for the Country
2+ week, 3+ day ago (957+ words) The Business Download | How POET's Iowa Biorefineries Turn the State's Corn Into Fuel for the Country In the late 1990s, Howard Roe kept watching trainloads of corn leave town. Roe, a banker in Manning, Iowa, and then-president of the Manning Betterment…...
Frontiersman Sourdough Keeps An Alaskan Tradition Alive In Anchorage
2+ week, 4+ day ago (773+ words) The Business Download | Frontiersman Sourdough Keeps An Alaskan Tradition Alive In Anchorage The prospectors who poured into Alaska and the Yukon during the gold rush carried something more valuable to a hungry camp than any pan or pick: a pouch…...
How Salt Lake's Publik Coffee Roasters Put The Sun To Work And Cleared The Air
2+ week, 4+ day ago (763+ words) The Business Download | How Salt Lake's Publik Coffee Roasters Put The Sun To Work And Cleared The Air The lesson that shaped Missy Greis's company came from a third-grade classroom. Her daughter had been learning about Salt Lake City's air,…...
Twin Rivers Paper Company Marks A Century Of Making Things In Maine
2+ week, 5+ day ago (735+ words) The Business Download | Twin Rivers Paper Company Marks A Century Of Making Things In Maine In Madawaska, the northernmost town in Maine, the St. John River marks the line between the United States and Canada, and the paper mill has…...
How A Lip Balm Made On An Iowa Stovetop Grew Into A 100-Person Cedar Rapids Company
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (601+ words) The Business Download | How A Lip Balm Made On An Iowa Stovetop Grew Into A 100-Person Cedar Rapids Company In the mid-1990s, Andrea Danielson whipped up a small batch of lip balm on the stovetop for Steve Shriver, who had "larger-than-life…...
At Pike's Waterfront Lodge, Solar Power Holds On Through The Long Alaskan Winter
3+ week, 1+ day ago (886+ words) The Business Download | At Pike's Waterfront Lodge, Solar Power Holds On Through The Long Alaskan Winter The land along the Chena River in Fairbanks has been earning its keep since before Alaska was a state. Lloyd Pike homesteaded the spot…...
In Utah's Silicon Slopes, Texas Instruments Is A Pillar Of America's Chip Comeback
3+ week, 2+ day ago (672+ words) The Business Download | In Utah's Silicon Slopes, Texas Instruments Is A Pillar Of America's Chip Comeback Four years ago, a sprawling plant in Lehi, Utah, belonged to Micron Technology and made memory chips. Today, it belongs to Texas Instruments (TI),…...