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Between the Devil and the Deep Green Supercenter
Wal-Mart building two experimental green stores Mega-giganto retailer Wal-Mart is conducting an experiment. No, not the world-domination experiment, a different one: It’s constructing two “Supercenters” with green-building features designed to reduce energy and water use. The first, in Texas, will have solar cells embedded in skylights; runoff waste water will be captured and reused; heat […]
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The Offal Truth
Promising clean-energy company may have to leave U.S. to succeed Certain folks take it as quasi-religious doctrine that strong green regulation is bad for economic growth. Tell it to Philadelphia’s Changing World Technologies, a burgeoning clean-energy company that may have to leave the U.S. precisely because of lax environmental laws. Every day, CWT turns 270 […]
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Urbana Renewal
Illinois commission votes to expand state’s clean energy sources The Illinois Commerce Commission has approved a sustainable-energy initiative designed to increase the state’s reliance on renewables, especially wind power. The plan is voluntary, but if it is fully embraced by all of the state’s utilities Illinois could see 8 percent of its electricity produced via […]
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Brussels Pouts
European Union commissioners duke it out over green legislation Today’s meeting of the E.U.’s European Commission is a make-or-break moment for the union’s sustainable-development policies, according to eco-advocates. Since taking office last November, commission president José Manuel Barroso has delayed initiatives on pesticides, the marine environment, air quality, and more, saying they might prevent the […]
