2008

Why did Yellow Wood create Green Community Technologies?

Provides an overview of the need for communities to assess their infrastructure needs and make sustainable, systemic decisions about how to address infrastructure and wastewater challenges.
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Getting Smart: Smart Growth, energy efficiency, and public facilities.

This article by Ann Ruzow Holland profiles Yellow Wood’s Green Community Technologies© work in Minnesota, New York, and Vermont in the context of sustainable approaches to rural community infrastructure. Analyzing alternative approaches was in each community’s…
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Green Community Technologies Phase 2 Franklin

Mary Ellen Keith, Supervisor of the Town of Franklin, and Shanna Ratner, Principal of Yellow Wood Associates narrate this film highlighting the results of Yellow Wood's Green Community Technologies© work with the Town of Franklin.

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Assessment of Triple Bottom Line Financing Interventions

Ten financing interventions are profiled in this paper, which looks at how capital investment in combination with other strategies is used to achieve triple-bottom-line outcomes.

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Rural Entrepreneurship Development I: Examples of Effective Practices

Entrepreneurship development is a key part of a sustainable economic development process for rural America that benefits the economy, the environment, and social inclusion. This paper begins an exploration of what makes this approach particularly effective…
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Rural Entrepreneurship Development II: Measuring Impact on the Triple Bottom Line

To gain greater insight into how entrepreneurship development practitioners are measuring the impacts of their work, this analysis began by looking closely at six interventions, ranging from a youth entrepreneurship program to a multi-county entrepreneur…
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Value Chain Best Practices: Building Knowledge for Value Chains that Contribute to the Health of Source Communities

This paper aims to contribute to a tool box of best practices for using value chain strategies, which represent an emerging field in rural development. The objectives of healthy value chains are to better balance risk, responsibilities, and benefits along…
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Yellow Wood Notes, Spring 2008

Ford Foundation, You Get What You Measure©, Green Community Technologies©, What’s New at Yellow Wood?; Spring Puzzler and Spring Reading

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