Alex Steffen
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 Access to these tools helps city dwellers as much as farmers. small business in Kenya is thriving; it created nearly half a million new jobs in 2004 alone and employed more workers than any other business sector, thanks in part to the spread of mobile phones.
We take for granted in industrialized countries that small businesses rely on phones to gain new customers; until recently, however, few small businesses or independent contractors in Kenya had phone numbers to call. |
David Steinman
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 According to a case study from the Green Gazelle project of the Center for small business and the Environment, NaturaLawn of America now has over seventy-three independendy owned franchise locations servicing over forty-five thousand environmentally concerned customers in twenty-seven states and generating over $24 million in annual revenues. In 2002 alone, NaturaLawn of America reduced the usage of petroleum derivative fertilizers by over 2. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 The National Federation of Independent Businessmen, the biggest and most respected small-business organization in the country, had determined that Glenn and Metzenbaum each voted against small business 70 percent of the time. Only a few other senators in the country were worse. We did find Regula had a plus. He voted for small business almost 90 percent of the time. Regula was, therefore, half good but was a gutless wonder when it came to servicing you with regard to government injustices. |
| I next went to the small business Administration and was directed to a division of the S.B.A. that was relatively new called Advocacy. It was specifically set up to protect small businesses from unjust acts from regulatory agencies. I was turned over to an agent within this division named Jerry Lawson. My first contact was with one of Mr. Lawson's assistants, and he certainly was encouraging. He said, "Keep the faith, baby. We'll take care of you." This all sounded too good to be true, and as it turned out, it was. |
Alex Steffen
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| Think of this approach as "enabling philanthropy": a virtuous action that enables someone else to take a virtuous action, like giving someone a microloan to start a small business that will eventually provide for all their needs. We don't have to give annual checks to umbrella organizations and hope that our money has actually done some good. We can take a relatively small amount of money and aim it at the precise point where it can do maximum good. |
| A number of small business and entrepreneurial individuals are now saving and reselling this salvaged wood for interior use.
Like any antique, a reclaimed-wood floor not only looks beautiful and unique, it holds the character of its past. Think of the story hidden within a wood floor made from the support beams of an old granary or a barn roof. |
| Smaller Circles, Enormous Impact mmmm The virtues of helping a person in the Global South jump-start a small business are undeniable, but what do we do if we can't afford to make a two-hundred-dollar gift on our own? We can turn our twenty dollars into two hundred dollars by coordinating our donations through giving circles.
Giving circles are easy to set up and easy to manage: we donate a small amount of money and ask our friends and coworkers ro match our donation. |
| In due course she succeeds in building a small business out of this, adding a second source of income to the household. However, unlike Raghu's income from manual labor, Vimala's investment continues to grow—to create goods to sell—even when she is not working on it. They have started leveraging the power of credit.
Vimala pays back the loan, and finds that SEWA has begun a new program allowing borrowers to open a micro-savings account through which they can earn some interest. For the first time in their lives, Vimala and Raghu have started levering the power of time and money. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One of those is that if you want to get the real hardcore health information, the hidden treasures of the natural healthcare community, you have to get face to face with the innovative small business owners, the pioneering doctors and researchers, and others who are pushing the envelope of health and nutrition.
If you want to really understand the potential of products in the natural health industry, in terms of both functional foods and nutritional foods, you have to talk face to face with these people. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's why it is harder for the small business. It is possible to run tests -- and I've done this -- and say, "Oh that is what the result is." Before it's all cooked, you take it off the stove, and you can't do this, so the results are reliable.
Mike: These are some fascinating strategies. What's the name of the book people can purchase from you that gives more information on landing pages?
Wilson: How to Develop a Landing Page that Closes a Sale. I also have an e-book about optimizing your landing pages, called How to Optimize your Landing Pages Scientifically. |
David Steinman
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| Energy Star-certified equipment and save more than 3,500 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, worth at least $265 at today's average commercial electric rates.51 The EPA estimates that if all Americans did this with small offices alone, we would save some 21 billion kilowatt hours and 2.3 billion pounds of carbon dioxide. That is equivalent to taking 807,000 cars off the road, she said.
The typical household spends $1,500 a year on energy bills. With Energy Star, you can save up to 30 percent, or more than $450 per year. |
Alex Steffen
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| We can give this money not as charity, but as an investment in the latent ambitions of poor people in villages and squatter cities, on the condition that the recipients magnify this seed by starting a small business or enlarging an existing one. In addition, we can strongly encourage them to take some small portion of their growing investment to help someone else as well.
This is a virtuous circle that keeps on giving, paying its benefits forward generation after generation. It's a beautiful thing, and it's the only type of love you can dispense with money. |
Michael T. Murray
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 However, the long hours and high stresses required to run a small business had made it easy to neglect his health and now he was in my office looking for help. "I just seem exhausted all the time and I can't seem to remember things the way I used to," he said. "Yesterday, I almost drove my pickup off the road because I fell asleep at the wheel. Hey, it was 3 P.M.; that's just not right."
Tom was seriously overweight, he smoked, and his blood pressure was 150/100. Tom looked like a setup for diabetes—really, he was a setup for disaster. His marriage was also under a great deal of stress. |
Marion Nestle
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 The president of the company, Steve Spiritas, characterized USDA's actions as an "all-out assault by the federal government on our small business." He charged USDA with "manipulating the testing results, suppressing critical information,. . . [and] using bullying tactics to support a position that a federal court has told it has no legal, logical, or scientific basis."51 He also pointed out that meat supplied to Supreme Beef bore the stamp "USDA Inspected and Passed," meaning that USDA had certified its safety. |
| Spiritas to complain that his small business was being held to unreasonable, discriminatory, and retaliatory standards. Eventually, he gave up, declared bankruptcy, and threatened to sue the USDA for its harassing tactics. The USDA tried to have the case declared moot because of the bankruptcy, but the courts denied this request. Supreme Beef, with the support of the National Meat Association and other meat industry groups, continued to pursue the case, as so much was at stake. |
Dianne Onstad
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 The fruit is so well regarded by Oriental lovers that the ownership of just one tree can make a man as well off as if he owned a small business. It's a rough life, though, for owners often have to sleep under their trees to guard them. In the late 1920s Durian Fruit Products of New York City launched a product named Dur-lndia as a "health-food accessory." The bottles sold for nine dollars a dozen, about a three-month supply. |
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
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 Corinne Cooper, professor emeritus of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, went into business for herself in Arizona after her academic career and struggled to obtain health coverage as the owner of a small business. She asks, "Is insurance only to protect the people who don't need it?"
Even those who have top-of-the-line health coverage find out belatedly that it's not enough when a major illness strikes.
A TEACHER LEARNS A LESSON
For most of her life, Lynn Oldham was in excellent health. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| He voted for small business almost 90 percent of the time. Regula was, therefore, half good but was a gutless wonder when it came to servicing you with regard to government injustices.
We had gone through just about every elected government official and government agent whom we paid for the service of protecting us from injustice. We were refused from top to bottom, starting with the president down to the lower bureaucratic agencies. We were not only refused but treated rudely and told by many that they didn't even have to give us the reason why they would not help us. |
Ruth Winter
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 The FDA defines a small business as one with food sales of less than $50,000 a year or total sales of less than $500,000. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) defines a small business as one employing five hundred or fewer employees and producing no more than a certain amount of product per year.
• Food served for immediate consumption, such as that served in restaurants and hospital cafeterias, on airplanes, and by food service vendors (such as mall cookie counters, sidewalk vendors, and vending machines). |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 Sixteen Decisions
To begin to grasp the scope of Grameen, imagine this: You pass through the sliding glass doors of Fleet or Citibank and sit down at the customer-service desk to ask about a small business loan. "Sure," says the banker, "we can help you. But here are pledges you must take home and commit to memory. Come back when you can recite them, and then we'll proceed with your loan application."
You look down to discover that in order to get your loan you must pledge not to batter your spouse and to stand up against sweatshop labor abuses. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 For example, let's say you are a small business owner who needs an attorney. A meeting is set up where you can spend up to several hours describing your circumstances. After you leave, the attorney then researches your situation by accessing a legal database to review the applicable law and case histories pertaining to your case. The attorney may even contact a specialist for additional input. When you return to see the attorney again, a complete game plan is in place, which includes printouts of the database research he conducted for you. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Reverse osmosis system manufacturers whose products can claim certification by NSF International and the Water Quality Association include EcoWater Systems and Rainsoft. (See Health and Medical Organizations in the Appendix for more information about these companies.)
BOTTLED WATER
Because of concerns over the safety and health effects of tap water, many people today are turning to bottled water. Bottled water is usually classified by its source (spring, spa, geyser, public water supply, etc. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| It had become obvious that the highest point of susceptibility to devastating regulatory action for a small business comes to that point when they are very visible, yet have no government influence, relatively little money to fight in court, and no large legal staff. This susceptibility really increased when a company trespassed on a protected territory of a vested-interest corporation. Now the reason for the incredibly swift and unjustly severe action by the Consumer Protection Network with regard to our diet bread became quite understandable. |
Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H.
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 It puts small business at a recruiting disadvantage, while big business is able to reap the tax benefit. In a Microsoft website editorial, Joseph
Anthony argues for small business to support universal coverage.8
Divorcing health insurance from being a direct work "benefit"—really wages, but not generally perceived as such—would level the playing field for business, both domestically and internationally. |
| Even for a middle-income person who is self-employed or working for a small business, and who has a preexisting condition that makes buying health insurance prohibitively expensive, it's difficult to afford medications. Filling prescriptions for three common drugs like Prilosec, Lipitor, and Norvasc would cost about $400 a month. The affordability of drugs is becoming an ever-increasing problem not just for the uninsured, but for the insured as well. Seniors (with Medicare) who come to our "safety-net" clinics face the same problems if we can't get them the drugs at a reduced price. |
| A small business owner in Idaho
"/ don't want the government messing with my Medicare."
- An elderly Florida man, 1994
In the American West, where many people—health care providers and patients alike—have an almost innate distrust of government, it is difficult to sell the concept of Medicare for All. Physicians are especially wary and incredulous, especially since Medicare began to crack down on billing irregularities in a manner that doctors perceived to be arbitrary and heavy-handed. When Medicare cut its reimbursement to doctors by 5. |
Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| She teaches seminars and workshops for small business people while also acting as a consultant for people who are setting up holistic practices. Ms. Carpenter is an acknowledged speaker and presenter of humanistic of "win-win" business practices.
The National Holistic Institute, located in Oakland, California was founded in 1977. NHI trains people for careers in holistic health and wellness. The Institute conducts certification training in massage in 11-week or intensive 11-day formats. |
Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H.
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| The millions spent by the AMA in the early '90s to discredit Canada's system, the many more millions spent in 2000 by the pharmaceutical industry on "the bus from Canada," and the millions spent on "Harry and Louise" by the insurance industry and small business to kill Clinton's plan (bad as it was) are but a few examples of the concerted and directed effort to kill or delay meaningful health care reform.
These efforts to keep America clueless have been amazingly successful—to the point of having created inner (almost) dogmas that inhibit rational thought. |
| Target specific groups that could be recruited to be allies in the cause: small business, human rights groups, church groups, unions, big business, sympathetic professional societies (perhaps in that order). Have a coordinated campaign to do the recruitment, probably on a state-by-state level.
Convince state legislators that Health Care for All can save their states money by providing a method to limit Medicaid expenditures. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
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 Shellfish from the state of Maine are relatively clean because chemical agriculture is only a small business in this region. But in Maryland's busy ports along the Chesapeake Bay, shellfish are highly toxic. Sadly, Maine's shellfish are the exception. From Puget Sound in Washington State to Boston Harbor in Massachusetts, fish are often too contaminated to risk eating these days.
There are alternatives for fish-eaters. Commercially grown fish are generally safe, as are fish taken from cold mountain streams. |
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