Do Small Communities Foster Entrepreneurship?
While studies, practitioners, and scholars have long flogged the importance of entrepreneurs in revitalizing rural areas, do small communities do the same thing?
Brian Whitacre and Lara Brooks examined five rural Oklahoma towns with successful entrepreneurship examples to determine just that … and captured their findings for the Daily Yonder, an online compendium of rural news.
In their study, [...]
The Rurban Fringe ‘Eat Local’ Challenge: Day 100
That’s a wrap, folks! I’ve reached the end of the challenge … but not without a few struggles, highlights, and revelations along the way. I’d like to take some time to reflect on what it meant for me, personally, to consciously think about the purchase and consumption of local food items over a period of time … [...]
A Municipal Insighting Initiative
Communities of Tomorrow, a partnership venture dedicated to exploring innovative and sustainable infrastructure solutions, is working with a number of Saskatchewan communities to prepare brainstorming sessions on creative approaches to infrastructure challenges.
Calling the process insighting, the sessions aim to gather everyone from equipment operators to senior engineers together to tackle challenging infrastructure problems and devise solutions.
It’s [...]
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