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Somebody’s going to get rich
“There is going to be a generation of Googles and Ciscos in the cleantech area. It’s coming.” — Alan Salzman, co-founder and chief executive of VantagePoint Venture Partners, which has […]
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NYT: Maryland poultry CAFOs snuff out Chesapeake oyster industry
In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat and livestock industries. —– I write this on the second day of December — one among a string […]
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E.U. agrees on emission rules for cars
The European Union has reportedly struck a deal with the bloc’s automakers, agreeing to rules that would see car manufacturers cut their fleets’ emissions 18 percent by 2015 and 40 […]
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Ford planning shift to small cars, company says
Ford Motor Co. is planning a significant product shift that will focus on the manufacture of small, fuel-efficient cars in lieu of its largely failed strategy since the 1990s to […]
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Massive solar installation completed in Southern California
California’s largest solar-panel installation was completed this week atop a warehouse in Southern California; 600,000 square feet of solar panels will produce enough electricity to power some 1,300 homes. The […]
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Take it back!
Electronics TakeBack Coalition runs a Times Square ad entreating Panasonic to take back TVs for recycling — on Panasonic jumbotron:
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How to green your office holiday party
Who brought the lampshade? They say it’s a “no-frills holiday season” this year — with the economy hitting the skids, many companies are putting the brakes on lavish […]
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Mac daddy
Apple continues to tout its ownership of the “greenest family of notebooks” in a new ad:
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Reusing big boxes
This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while: on Slate, Julia Christensen has a slideshow essay showing how some communities have repurposed abandoned big box retail spaces. My […]
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How my intern stood up to Big Auto
Even as it begs for a big taxpayer bailout, GM is still spending billions on marketing, peddling its giant gas-guzzlers to Americans who want them less and less. It has […]