NARFI - The North American Rural Futures Institute

We profile four rural entrepreneurs – Dave and Chris Shaw, and Wally and Heather Wilson – who are contributing to the health and quality of life of Montana's Hi-Line regional economy while fu...

http://www.narfi.org/rural-entrepreneur-profiles

Leah Noel, NARFI Executive Assistant, recently attended GRASSROOTS AND GROUNDWORK: REDUCING POVERTY AND REBUILDING COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE in St. Paul, Minnesota. On behalf of NARFI, Leah joined a...

http://www.narfi.org/rural-ecodev-leah-noel-report

NARFI Director TIMLYNN BABITSKY met recently with MSU-Northern Library Director CYNTHIA HARRISON to contribute a bookshelf of books and a CD-ROM to bolster the university's information resources ...

http://www.narfi.org/msun-library-gift

Want to entice travelers off the Interstate to come spend money in your town? Here are three different projects that are doing just that in rural America. Click here for Make it clever and they W...

http://www.narfi.org/node/48

CRAIG ERICKSON of BEAR PAW DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION contributes his Future Thinker experience report after attending the 2004 COMMUNITY WIND ENERGY CONFERENCE thanks, in part, to a NARFI mini-gran...

http://www.narfi.org/community-wind-craig-erickson

Read our latest Future Thinker experience report by DON MARBLE, LIBERTY COUNTY COMMISSIONER. Don recently attended the 2004 COMMUNITY WIND ENERGY CONFERENCE thanks to a NARFI mini-grant that help...

http://www.narfi.org/community-wind-don-marble

There is a widely held perception that Rural Electric Cooperatives (REC) are generally not interested in pursuing renewable energy. On closer look, this does not appear to be true. Click here for...

http://www.narfi.org/node/43

$22.8 MILLION IN GRANTS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY - FARM BILL 2004 FUNDING ANNOUNCED. Applications must be postmarked no later than July 19, 2004. click here and also here for more information.

http://www.narfi.org/node/41

Over 250 people filled the community meeting room and spilled into nearby hallways of the HILL COUNTY ELECTRIC CO-OP to attend the USDA FARM BILL WIND POWER WORKSHOP. Folks came to learn about an...

http://www.narfi.org/havre-wind-workshop

Eastern Ohio's Bruce Buren makes a decent living off of what most farmers dismiss as weeds and wasted land. Read this WILD story !

http://www.narfi.org/node/38