Tim Collins, carrying on a family tradition, suggests that for long-term development, we must organize around our relationships to water and to the other communities, urban and rural, along those same waterways.

'Sustainable development' is the new name for an old idea; a group commissioned by Teddy Roosevelt tied rural prosperity to conservation a century ago.

Earthtrepreneurship. It may be tough to pronounce but the term is a great description of green rural growth opportunity

The global economy is changing (and that's putting it lightly). The new world will have a place for rural places that plan, work and cooperate.