Alabama Timber’s Sustainability Stockpile
Did you know that trees from Alabama may be keeping the lights on at Buckingham Palace?
Wood pellets from Alabama and a lot of other...
Comcast Usage Billing: Big Telecoms Big Billing Shadow
Ever-vigilant Internet conspiracy theorists were quick in May to tie the proposed Comcast merger with Time Warner Cable to an announcement that Comcast was...
Billionaires Spending: Put Some Rims on that A320
Billionaires tend to know exactly what they want but that doesn’t necessary help the people trying to sell to them. Airbus might have had...
Save the Family Farm: How Small Farms Can Succeed
Booker T. Whatley, who died in 2005 at age 89 at his home off Court Street in Montgomery, kept a flourishing midtown garden until...
Second Career Farmers Sell Natural Crops Locally
A 1996 civil engineering graduate from the University of Alabama, Trent Boyd was working for a building and excavation contractor in Birmingham when it...
Flood Maps Re-engineered for Big Bucks
Dozens of new beachfront condos built in Orange Beach and Gulf Shores, including many condos built in place of developments destroyed by Hurricane Ivan,...
Durant Accomplishes Many Things Despite Tough Times
When Mike Durant’s Black Hawk helicopter was shot down during combat in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993, he was attacked by a street mob, sustaining...
The Shopping Center Group Selling to Big Box Retail
Two highly visible retail properties in Montgomery totaling $14.4 million changed hands recently with the sale of Promenade Montgomery and The Home Depot shadow...
Farm Technology Continues to Grow on Glenn Acres
Don and Brian Glenn started looking into the use of automated data collection on their Hillsboro farm in the mid-1990s to help improve their...
Maritime Security Industry Tackles Piracy on the Seas
Any new venture requires risk and gumption — but consider one that seeks to tackle piracy on the high seas. Now that’s taking “risky...