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Agriscaping
You can make money growing local produce by tying in with Agriscaping Technologies. Agriscaping Technologies has developed a training program that empowers local gardeners and landscaping professionals to go pro as Certified Agriscapers, helping people grow their own elegantly sustainable local foods in their own yards and patios. [...]
California Is Good Place for Business
California is an attractive state for creating and sustaining successful businesses, according to a new report that relies on the U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Dynamic Statistics to calculate exactly where California ranks, compared to other states, across a comprehensive range of economic indicators. California New Business Creation, [...]
How to Recycle Your Used Motor Oil
The very first thing my dad taught me when I got a new car was how to change my own oil. It’s a great skill to have, but his lesson skipped an important step: how to recycle used motor oil. I’ll admit that, until recently, I had no idea that motor oil could be recycled. I also didn’t realize that motor oil never goes bad—it just gets [...]
Shamus Jones of Brooklyn Brine: Don't Get Precious with Your Passions
Listen to Ready For Anything podcast Episode 7, with Linda Lacina and Shamus Jones with the audio player below. Picklemakers know their own. They’ve got Popeye-like forearms thanks to lifting massive glassware cases and cucumber bushels day in and day out. There’s usually a faint scent of vinegar surrounding them. [...]
Clorder Food Delivery
Clorder offers food delivery from the cloud. Clorder is a developer of a proprietary, innovative cloud-based online food ordering solution designed to help businesses enhance their web presence and promote their brand. Currently, more than 300 restaurants use Clorder’s custom-branded technology solution to manage their own online [...]
Is the Video Profile 'Shark Tank's' Kiss of Death?
Remember the red-shirted crewman on the original Star Trek landing parties? You know: the anonymous security man who got zotzed by hostile aliens after only 30 seconds of screen time? As soon as this guy beamed down to the planet surface, viewers knew: “Oh, he’s a goner, for sure.” Related: 5 Surprising Things I Learned From Interviewing [...]
DIY Ring Holder Jewelry Dish
We all have a little clutter around us. Teacup saucers, mugs, plastics figurines, and paint from the backyard DIY you did four years ago. For many of us, living means accumulating, and sometimes there’s just a lot of stuff that’s useful, but not exactly useful to you. Well, what if you could make these things useful again? Welcome to [...]
What You Can Learn from the Startup that Pulled Piano Lessons into the Internet Age
A lot of parents reading this have suffered through childhood piano lessons. They may have been required to take them when they were younger, and/or they may have made their children go through the ritual. I don’t want to give private piano lessons a bad rap here. I’ve played piano virtually all my life and performed Chopin’s [...]
A Great Wood-Fired Earthen Hot Tub
We just completed an amazing hot tub project that is already drastically improving the quality of our lives. It’s a wonderful combination of fire, earth, water, and metal. There are few pleasures in life, I think, as luxurious as bathing in large quantities of hot water. Like naps, hot water makes me a better person. I relax, I breathe, [...]
Protect Yourself from Financial Fraud
Security Tips for the Self-Employed By Christopher J. Bachler The first rule for home businesses and boxers is the same: “Always keep your guard up.” That’s because fraud in the business world today is more common than ever before. Advanced technology, the “shrinking world,” and the ongoing growth of a “virtual economy” are all partly to [...]