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'Collaborative consumption' can put your underused stuff to work [VIDEO]
Rachel Botsman, coauthor of a book on collaborative consumption, details a 21st century economy rising up to take advantage of all our unused stuff.
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Energy efficiency: the unsung hero of our times
As our economy continues to sputter, one little-noticed industry has been booming for a while now: energy efficiency.
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Carbon accountants stand to profit from EPA plan to regulate emissions
For a host of startups that make software to manage corporate carbon emissions, the EPA action is a holiday gift that will keep on giving year-round.
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Why 'Made in America' is the gift that keeps on giving
We offer here our "holiday wish list" for American workers to preserve an innovation-led economy that makes stuff and creates good jobs here at home.
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Will we make the needed investment in the nation's cities?
The nation's metro areas could be centers of innovation, green jobs, and low-carbon technology. So why do we treat them like stepchildren?
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Blue-collar desert town goes green
Lancaster, Calif., has embarked on a program to solarize the community -- and that includes the home ballpark of the minor-league Lancaster JayHawks.
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Reducing (massive) fossil-fuel subsidies as key as carbon price in the climate fight
In a low-key way, the last few days at the Cancun climate talks accomplished more than I have seen at a climate meeting for some time.
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Helpful raw-milk-drinking mom threatened with prosecution
For the last seven years, Rae Lynn Sandvig, a mother of four, has been helping a local dairy farmer distribute unpasteurized milk to 35 or 40 friends and neighbors in the Minneapolis suburbs. Then she got busted by the food police.
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Top 10 green stories of 2010
From California to China, Bill Clinton to Jonathan Franzen, Monsanto to BP, denial to death, here are the stories that mattered most this year.
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California approves more Big Solar projects
The California Energy Commission on Wednesday approved two more big solar thermal power plants, ending the year having green-lighted a total of nine projects that would generate 4,142.5 megawatts if all were built.
