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Taking on corporate America’s faves
Activists occupy Environmental Defense’s offices.
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Time to slice up the tomato industry?
What happens when a few large buyers dominate a market? Anyone who keeps up with my posts — still there, mom? — knows what’s coming next: The buyers gain the […]
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What should be done with the empty big box?
Last month, Circuit City announced that it would close 155 of its stores, most of them big boxes: those 50,000- to almost 300,000-square-foot warehouse-like structures, often built far from city […]
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One in three toys tested has worrisome levels of toxic chemicals, group says
A study of some 1,500 popular children’s toys sold in the United States found that one in three tested contained “medium” to “high” levels of a range of toxic chemicals […]
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U.N. climate change body has suspended clean energy auditor DNV
Like landfills, oil sands, and “occasional irregularity,” the term Clean Development Mechanism is in the euphemism Hall of Fame. But once a rip-offset, always a rip-offset. Reuters reports: The U.N. […]
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Green tech is still selling
I have been quite critical of the mainstream media for using the global recession to attack clean tech. One reason the storyline was lame is that a recession this deep […]
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Is cheap gas OPEC’s way of robbing Obama of his clean energy initiative?
Why have gas prices dropped so low, so quickly, and so soon after endless proclamations of a future of $200/barrel oil? The New York Times thinks that it has something […]
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As long as the feds are restructuring auto companies, why not drag them into the 21st century?
The New Republic has an interesting article up from two bona fide experts on the auto industry (who are not employed by the industry), contributing to a discussion where ideas […]
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The not-so-fragrant side of fresh-cut flowers
In conventional development dogma, the fresh-cut flower industry makes plenty of sense. Nations in the global south need foreign exchange and jobs; folks in the industrialized north have plenty of […]
