Economy Section :: Page 51

• Village homes to be featured in national solar tour

  By Megan BachmanOctober 1, 2010

  

  Four homes in Yellow Springs homes are being featured Saturday, Oct. 2, and and Sunday, Oct. 3, as part of the national solar tour, including two new listings.

• YS team innovates efficient skylight

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 25, 2010

  

  While many skylights waste energy, two local building experts have designed a skylight that actually saves energy by ventilating, providing daylight and generating solar power. The patent is pending but the results are already clear at Yellow Springs High School, where two skylights were installed last month.

• GCCC upgrades are good for the earth and pocketbook

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 23, 2010

  

  When local architect Ted Donnell began working with the Greene County Career Center five years ago, he brought with him an environmental ethic that culminated in a $6.1 million energy upgrade over the summer, replete with geothermal heating and cooling and an insulated roof.

• Hatching New Liberty Farm

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 16, 2010

  

  The butter-yellow chicks twittering about in their baby blue swimming pools look and sound happy and healthy. Though in about six weeks, most of them will become someone’s dinner, their brief lives will be spent frolicking with their brothers and sisters with plenty of grains, bugs and grass to eat. The folks at New Liberty Farms would have it no other way.

• Books and cobblers at new cafe

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 9, 2010

  

  At the new Rolling Pen Book Cafe, patrons can relax, read a book and enjoy a cup of coffee with some homemade cobbler. Newly opened in the space formerly occupied by Dolbeer’s Cleaners, the book cafe is the vision of Springfield residents Brenda Stone Browder and her husband, Loren.

• A chicken farm to save the planet

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 8, 2010

  

  When local resident Kat Krehbiel hatched the idea for a local food farm, chickens were only a small part of the plan.

• Affordability is top concern in attracting new families

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 2, 2010

  Creating more entry-level housing, keeping living expenses affordable and more aggressively marketing Yellow Springs to the region — these were some of the ideas offered at a recent meeting that focused on how to attract more young families to the village.

• Scott welcomes village’s young-old

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  In a town with a growing demographic of healthy retired people with skills to offer, the Yellow Springs Senior Center has an important role to play, according to the center’s new executive director, David Scott. During his first day on the job last week, Scott talked about his idea to broaden the center’s membership…

• Eden World offers escape, serenity

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Visitors and residents alike can walk right off the street into an oasis of health and rejuvenation at Eden World Center for Wellness and Discovery at 253 Xenia Avenue. The roster of practitioners, who serve both scheduled and walk-in clients, includes a licensed massage therapist, a reflexologist and two astrologers.

• CBE could be ready in 2012

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 19, 2010

  Good fits for the new Center for Business and Education, or CBE, could be light manufacturers that make parts for wind turbines, or agricultural businesses that cater to people’s growing interest in local food

• Center for Business and Education moves ahead

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 13, 2010

  

  At a public gathering on Weds., Aug. 11, Community Resources board members gave an update on the Center for Business and Education.