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Solar power business heating up

Vaughn Prost’s newest company, Missouri Solar Applications LLC, got its start through a conversation with an old college friend who headed Dow Chemical’s research on solar electric shingles...
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How to save energy without really trying

It turns out that I’m going to be saving a whole lot of energy and money. I didn’t plan it; all I wanted was clean windows....
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Columbia’s Wide array of certified green buildings

Building owners, architects and contractors have collaborated on a variety of construction and renovation projects in the city that earned the US Green Building Council’s highest ratings....
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Local website guides consumers to green businesses

Arianna Parsons wants to help consumers do more to help the environment than turn off unnecessary lights. She wants to help shoppers put their money where their beliefs...

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Econ Matters: Do we really benefit from tax credits?

Tax credits have been in the news a lot lately. First, the state of Missouri offered IBM $28 million or so in tax credits. Next, the state legislature,...

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Socket lands Callaway broadband project

“Big city broadband. Rural reality.” That’s how Socket Telecom is touting the fiber-optic network it’s set to build in central Callaway County and a sliver of eastern Boone...
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Golf fanatics unite: Are you up for a marathon challenge?

Let me start by saying I am not a golf warrior. In fact, I’ve never understood why people like to golf. You walk around hitting a little ball...

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Kumon Math and Reading Center: A long-term investment in student success

Originally, Manjula Narasimhan just wanted to keep her daughter occupied. Now, the after-school teaching program she used with her daughter has become so popular that she plans to...

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Imagining downtown Columbia, 2025

H3 Studio's urban planners, hired by the city for $60,000, conducted an intensive week-long planning exercise known as a charrette....
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MU opens neuroscience center in renovated building

The Alzheimer’s Association estimates there are 110,000 elderly residents in Missouri with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and that number will increase by 9 percent in the next...