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Let Your Voice Be Heard in the State of Small Business Survey - PikesPeakSmallBiz.com The Pikes Peak State of Small Business Survey incorporates insights from the small business community with traditional business metrics.

This is tomorrow! Hope you can drop by and say hi! Or boo!

How do we create a robust local economy before the whole thing unravels?

THREE MARKS OF AN UNSUSTAINABLE ECONOMY - The Pikes Peak Community College Economics Discussion Series asked Becky Elder and Steven Saint Thomas to present on the environment and the economy. The prognosis was not Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! There are three compelling reasons why “sustainable growth” is not possible. Show streams online at 12:30 p.m. Monday and 9:30 a.m. Saturday at KCMJ Radio, www.kcmj.org.

This is Saturday - come on down!

Calling All Foodies! Come visit the first-ever Hillside Village Market, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Aug. 15 at the Hillside Community Center, 925 S. Institute St. Fresh produce from the Sunrise Garden Project and other neighborhood growers will be on sale. Vendors can still book a free table. For more information, email Steve Saint at [email protected].

Anybody looking for a great new urban crop?

IN H**P WE TRUST: After more than 70 years in exile, h**p is now legal to cultivate and use. Colorado h**p pioneers Joel and Jesse Stanley talk about the health benefits of Charlotte's Web, thousands of other products we can make from h**p, and a new era for farming. Streaming online next week: noon Monday, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday or On Demand at KCMJ Radio, www.kcmj.org.

Biofuel is on the move in the ! To join the co-op visit htttp://www.gofundme.com/coloradospringsbiofuel!

Biofuel Co-op eager to provide alternative fuel in Pikes Peak region An idea that's been puttering along for several years has gained enough momentum to generate excitement among local alternative fuel supporters. Members of Colorado Springs Biofuel Co-op, a group that formed in 2013 to increase public awareness and availability of homegrown organic fuels, are puttin…

Localizing healthcare - what a concept! Hear Sara Foster Berry this Friday on www.kcmj.org.

MAY 15: What we call "healthcare" in the United States is largely fixing people's ailments with drugs produced by large, out-of-state pharmaceutical labs. How about just being healthy in the first place? Take a tour of "Local Medicine" with Sara Foster Berry, the permaculturist who co-owns Anna's Apothecary in Manitou Springs. Streaming online at noon or On Demand at KCMJ Radio, www.kcmj.org.

Localization is the path!

MAY 1: I've got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that our economy - a large, centralized system dominated by corporations and run on fossil fuel - is unsustainable. Wait till you hear the good news! Streaming online at noon or On Demand at KCMJ Radio, www.kcmj.org.

Imagine how many jobs could be shifted to the area if we produced our own vehicle fuels!

APRIL 17: “Biofuel: No War Required!" The Colorado Springs Biofuel Cooperative is poised to make biodiesel from used restaurant veggie oil. Locally produced fuels unhook communities from the politically disastrous fossil-fuel grid. If it doesn’t work, Steve will have to push his Jetta TDI. Streaming online at noon or On Demand at KCMJ Radio, www.kcmj.org.

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