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How Businesses Can Be Sustainable And Profitable

The Startup Magazine

A huge example of this is playing out right now in California. the electric provider for the vast majority of Northern California, has not been responsible for proper maintenance on their power lines and facilities. Microgrids can provide energy for individual businesses or small communities. Microgrids. Self-Reliance.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. You see sustainability of farms as a key attribute in The Bouqs or Green & Blacks chocolate. Get Physical!

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How to Open a Marijuana Dispensary

Up and Running

We talked with two dispensary owners from pioneering states: Mitch Woolhiser, owner of Northern Lights Cannabis Company in Denver, Colorado, and Lincoln Fish, CEO of OutCo Labs, which manages the dispensary Outliers Collective in San Diego, California. If you’re in California, he also recommends reading Proposition 215 and Proposition 420.

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A Look Inside the Fascinating Cannabis Branding and Marketing Boom

crowdSPRING Blog

For all the stereotypes about lazy, hapless stoners out there, those peddling green in states where recreational or medical marijuana use is legal sure know how to hustle. Make no mistake: the legal marijuana industry is booming, creating huge business opportunities and massive tax revenue incomes for their communities.

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How to Start a Farm: Your Complete Guide to Success

Up and Running

What if, as you’re getting ready to harvest your first batch, you then find out that all the demand for passion fruit is centered in Southern California, and not in Miami like you thought? If you’d taken the time to do your market research, you would have learned there was no demand for passion fruit in Florida. Other resources.

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The Future of Transportation

Feld Thoughts

Two factors: cost and range (and charging infrastructure, to a lesser extent, but that will be remedied when there is more demand). Nevada, Florida, and California have already legalized them, suggesting this may be less of an issue than anticipated. Green power reduces the energy efficiency advantage of trains and the hyperloop.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

A finalist in Hyper-Connected Communities , which will pitch at 5 pm Saturday, March 9, UbiGro is a nanotech-enabled greenhouse film by UbiQD, Inc. We have struggled to keep up with UbiGro film demand, and so we are planning to significantly expand our production capacity this year. What are your goals for UbiGro in 2019?