The phrase "and profitable alternative to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing options or choices that are both beneficial and financially advantageous compared to another option.
Example: "Investing in renewable energy sources is a sustainable and profitable alternative to traditional fossil fuels."
Alternatives: "and financially beneficial option for" or "and lucrative substitute for".
In the Chinese province of Yunnan, where harvests were ruined for three years, they planted poppies as a more robust and profitable alternative to rice, which became one of China's main sources of opium, with devastating and enduring human consequences at home and abroad.
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Surely, I thought, there must be healthful, sustainable, yet scalable and profitable alternatives to our unsustainable food and agriculture sectors.
Gas-To-Liquid (GTL) products have come into the spotlight for alternative energy carriers as an environmentally benign and highly profitable alternative to petroleum resources.
Launched in 1998 and billed as the world's first and only smoke-free ship, the Paradise was a popular and, according to the company, profitable alternative to other ships offering Caribbean itineraries.
Many tribes are turning to the Internet, with online financial services emerging as a profitable alternative to gambling and a critical source of money to meet their shortfalls.
Ice was the only profitable alternative to rocks and, as a result, the ice trade from New England could negotiate lower shipping rates than would have been possible from other international locations.
Even the shepherds in the remorseless flint plains that border Iraq have found a more profitable alternative to goats: drilling boreholes in preparation for the expected influx of Iraqi refugees.The biggest winner, of course, is the Jordanian government, which is set to receive more than $200m of American military aid a year.
With directed help, ONS gives the boys a profitable alternative to crime, starting with a monthly paycheck up to $1,000 for staying out of trouble.
As noted in a 2010 report, "tobacco farming is increasingly considered a profitable alternative to other agricultural crops as it provides a guaranteed, stable market and a steady source of income" [ 35].
The infrastructure to be built for extraction of our minerals should in turn allow farmers to get their produce to markets, giving them profitable alternatives to poppies and thus cutting the Taliban's financing for terrorist attacks.
