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Another coal plant bites the dust 4
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago By Bruce Nilles Minnesota and South Dakota residents stopped a coal-fired power plant project and prevented about 4.7 million tons of CO2, or the equivalent of the pollution from roughly 670,000 cars, from entering the atmosphere every year.
More clunker debunkers

Cash for Clunkers brought us ... more clunkers! 29
Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago By Jonathan Hiskes So how did Cash for Clunkers work out from an environmental standpoint? Don't ask. The most common deals swapped old pickup trucks for new pickup trucks that got only marginally better gas mileage.
weasel in sheep's clothing

If you can’t beat ‘em, cheat ‘em 2
Posted 4 weeks ago By Tom Laskawy Issue 2, on Ohio's ballot, is the livestock industry’s attempt to head off restrictions on their worst practices, such as tail docking, battery cages, and gestation crates
technically good ideas

Cleantech Open winners get it done quick and cheap 0
Posted 1 month ago By Todd Woody PET shingles, DIY solar arrays, smart thermostats. This year's Cleantech winners focus on getting products to market as fast and economically as they can.
How the green economy can help low income women 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago By Judy Patrick, Shelley A. Davis With the emergence of a green jobs sector, America has the opportunity to advance women's economic security in a bigger and better way than ever before, providing low-income women with a rare chance to get in on the ground floor of a growth industry and learn the skills to compete for stable, higher-paying jobs.
Nothing like a good profit motive to accelerate public policy

Performance anxiety 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago By Terry Tamminen It’s not just the ads showing a baby-boomer couple sitting in matching bathtubs on a beach at sunset where you can find performance anxiety these days. Try looking in the hardware aisle and at the gas station.
A new direction on research at the USDA? 4
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago By Paula Crossfield Paula Crossfield interviews some experts (more Pollan!) on what we need to know about agriculture.
Open for Business

Cleantech Open has $100,000 for a green startup idea 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago By Jonathan Hiskes The Cleantech Open has helped more than 100 startup companies find their footing since it launched in California three years ago. Now it's expanding in some interesting ways. Competitors in Cleantech's new "ideas competition" stand to win $100,000 in support and advice from business experts.
firing chamber

Corporations call off the old green battle, but Chamber of Commerce soldiers on [UPDATED] 4
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago By Jonathan Hiskes Still more trouble for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the 97-year-old business advocacy group that has been courting controversy by questioning climate change and fighting a clean energy bill. Here are the companies that have quit the Chamber.
Still fallacious

The perfect market fallacy 9
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago By Sean Casten A "market" is nothing more than a description of our collective allocation of resources. Economists refer to markets as being efficient only when they meet a specific set of conditions, at which point the benefits that accrue from Adam Smith's invisible hand are realized through the independent actions of profit-seeking actors. But most markets are inefficient--often woefully so.