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	<title>Comments on: Diversification and Filling Ecological Niches: Green Businesses Own a Portfolio of Enterprises</title>
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		<title>By: Ecopreneur Profile: Diversified livelihood allows Brett and Tawnee Dufur to live richly : Ecopreneurist</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ecopreneur Profile: Diversified livelihood allows Brett and Tawnee Dufur to live richly : Ecopreneurist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 20:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] most successful ecopreneurs follow their passions, not the profits, while navigating their often diversified enterprises that thrive with a triple bottom [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Operating a Small, Sustainable Business: Resources for Ecopreneurs &#124; Keys to Natural Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] these owners carefully manage their green business to achieve optimal efficiencies in whatever niche market they serve. Many operate in ways that are placed-based, permanent and do not follow the popular [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Operating a Small, Sustainable Business: Resources for Ecopreneurs : Ecopreneurist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] these owners carefully manage their green business to achieve optimal efficiencies in whatever niche market they serve. Many operate in ways that are placed-based, permanent and do not follow the popular [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Do you Live to Work? Ecopreneurs use their green business to make a life. : Sustainablog</title>
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		<dc:creator>Do you Live to Work? Ecopreneurs use their green business to make a life. : Sustainablog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] We place more value on the quality of our work and the types of projects and their ability to serve our Earth Mission than the size of the advance or magnitude of the fee we could extract from clients. We&#8217;re not extrinsically motivated by money, status or power. Never setting sales goals for our business (not uncommon for many ecopreneurs), we&#8217;ve also never calculated what our hourly wage would have been, for example, working on a book or growing organic tomatoes. We do, however, operate a diversified portfolio of income producing enterprises. [...]</description>
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