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Will political wrangling and self-imposed silence ever end?

The prevailing opinion seems to be that President Obama will give energy and environmental policy more focus in his second term. After a hard-fought campaign in which both the Republican and Democratic candidates were conspicuously silent on global warming and … Continue reading

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Fact check: can renewable energy lower costs AND conserve resources?

Almost all of us would like to see our utility rates go down no matter where the energy comes from.  Most of us would also like to buy energy from renewable sources so we could stop wasting finite resources, polluting the … Continue reading

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Sustainable bricks?

When a Green Business Matters reader claimed that a company named CalStar Products was revolutionizing the basic brick, we were immediately intrigued. As it turns out, the reader was right. As unlikely as it may seem, CalStar has, indeed, reinvented the brick.

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