Sustainable CBD powers five acres of greenhouses, geothermal heating and cooling systems, plus a CBD processing facility, on a 100-acre farm, powered completely by solar energy.
Hemp in Full Effect
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Office Space
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Who could have imagined the seismic shift in the way we live, work, and play that occurred when Steve Jobs caught lightning in a bottle with a flash of LSD-induced genius and created the iPhone? Jobs is dead but his genius lives on. Today, iPhones shape global connection and commerce. One decade after his invention hit the market, one obvious impact of Job’s personal-freedom principle has been...
Sunday Q & A
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with Demetri Lopez University lecturer, logistics consultant for activism worldwide & “conscious lifestyle” entrepreneur How did Roots & Wings come to be? “I’ve dreamt of Roots & Wings and had it as a vision for probably 20 years. I left Phenix City in 1997 when I graduated high school and went to the Middle East to have a gap year that turned into a gap few years. This started my...
All Systems Go: The Launch of SlumberPod
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Columbus entrepreneur Lou Childs discusses the launch of SlumberPod—“a patent-pending, portable privacy pod to help babies/toddlers to get a good night’s sleep”—at StartUp Columbus, a sleek office space in the 1000 block of Broadway that recently opened to serve as an incubator for local start-ups. ECL: You obviously crushed it on the digital launch platform with Kickstarter. [SlumperPod raised...
Wheelhaus Provisions – Doing things differently
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There’s just something about a passionate lady entrepreneur in love with her business that really gets my blood pumping. Christa Cotton, the creator, curator, and genius behind Wheelhaus Provisions, is one such driven, ambitious woman on-the-move. With her business’ unique concept, she is changing the way people think about food, from what’s on the label to how they get it home, and she’s doing...
New to Columbus, GA: Rolfing®
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Rolfing® Structural Integration isn’t new, but it was to me.
What is RiverCity Foundry?
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RiverCity Foundry Launches StartUp Accelerator Supporting Entrepreneurship & Economic Development Across the River Valley Region. RiverCity Foundry announces the July 8th launch of their 2016 Summer StartUp Accelerator. The launch is a follow-on to the inaugural Columbus Georgia Startup Weekend, a partnership between ColumbusMakesIT and Troy University, that took place in April 2016 at...
Elizabeth White
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Originally printed in Southern Views Magazine By: Stephanie Reeves Elizabeth White took her love of hair barrettes to the next level by sharing her unique hair accessories with any fashion lover who wants to add some “flair to their hair.” Any southern girl knows that hair is just as important as the outfit. Elizabeth spoke with SVM about how she decided to start her business, Elizabeth Heard...
The New, UpTown Hampton Inn
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Four JS Family LLLP, a partnership controlled by Columbus businessman Jack Pezold, is developing a 60-plus room Hampton Inn in the current building at 1201 Broadway, according to Pezold Management Group executive Tracy Sayers. The new, Uptown Hampton Inn will be located at the former Aaron’s Rents building, on 12th Street across from Columbus State University’s new downtown education complex...
Chancellor’s Men’s Store – A Columbus Tradition
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Written by Alia Teetshorn I’m not sure if all our readers know that Chancellor’s Men’s Store has been open in the same location since 1873. It is truly a Columbus institution, if there ever was one! ECL got to talk to Roger Stinson Jr., whose family has owned the store for close to ten years, and discussed what it is like to work in the family business as father and son with his dad...