A transition is happening right now in our workplaces and organizations: As baby boomers reach the traditional retirement age, many positions where they had worked, served and led for years are changing hands. Read More »
Watch the winds wiggle and bend grasses on an open plain. It’s a rhythmic response on the ground to moving air. This movement, this dance, has been stilled on more than 235,000 square miles of North America. Grasslands have been steadily destroyed during the past century and a half, and that destruction accelerated in recent years as industrial corn and soybean farming spread across the land. Read More »
For years, if you had asked me how I measured wealth, I’d have had a ready answer: time, books and berries in the freezer. Money was nice, sure, but for me the first three offered a more direct route to happiness. Read More »
Is your community wealthy? How you answer that question depends very much on how you define “wealth.” You might picture as a wealthy community a place like Vail, Colo., or the skyscrapers around Central Park in New York City—places with luxury that reflects the full bank accounts of the people who live there. Read More »
Come up with creative ways to connect different forms of wealth in your community. Earn points for quality and humor. The team with the most points at the end of five rounds wins. Read More »
Sometimes, the key to keeping wealth in a local community is providing the means. Read More »
By the late 1990s, Dr. Glenn E. Ullyot had gone far from his roots in Clark. He had retired in 1975 with both great renown and wealth after a successful career in the pharmaceutical industry. But Ullyot had not forgotten his hometown. Read More »
When Carla Sanderson looks out the front door of her lodge, she sees rustling cattail sloughs and rolling prairie grasslands. All she can hear is “the sound of geese and ducks—pure nature. No sounds of traffic noise.” Read More »
David Julian is a small-town guy with big ideas and a steady hand. He hails from Arlington, S.D., and spends most of his free time dreaming up new inventions and new excuses to fire up his plasma cutter. Read More »
Homemakers might not think of their worth in terms of dollars and cents. After all, no one is writing them a paycheck for cooking, cleaning and child care Read More »
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