ECOpreneuring (and Rural Renaissance) In the News

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reverse global environmental and social degradation."
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ECOpreneuring (or Rural Renaissance) In the News

As the green economy starts to take hold, just about every major media outlet has featured green themes or dedicated issues to the emerging and rapidly growing sustainability and relocalization movements and the ecopreneurs who are leading them. Below are a few of the many publications capturing the explosive growth in ecopreneuring.

Hobby Farms (on-line edition), "Marketing and Management - Farming and Entrepreneurial Life"
Best Practices Manual for Ecotourism Accommodations featuring Inn Serendipity on pages 10 - 13 (PDF file)
Renewable Energy in Tourism Initiative published a set of manuals outlining current best practices in the use of renewable energy among the tourism industry. They are funded by a 2007 seed grant program from the University of Colorado Energy Initiative, the National Renewable Energy Lab, and the North Carolina Center for Sustainable Tourism, East Carolina University.
HomePower Magazine, August/September, 2004, "Inn Serendipity: Sustainability as the Bottom Line" (PDF file)
E Magazine, "Putting the 'Eco' in Tourism: 10 Journeys That Just Might Change the World...or At Least Your View of It"
MSNBC, March 2006, "Wisconsin certifying 'green' tourism businesses"
Read more at Kivirist or Ivanko's blogs on GreenOptions.com:
- blogs from Lisa Kivirist
- blogs from John Ivanko

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Order your advance copy of ECOpreneuring today at a 22% discount off list price (a PDF file order form).
The book will be shipped when available, most likely in May, 2008.