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How to find the capital needed for green public investments
What if city hall had to disclose its assumptions like Wall Street does? |
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14 May 2007 |
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| For those unaware, Michigan has been hard hit by the increasingly insistent intrusion of an unpleasant reality (that the era of cheap energy is over). Detroit and Wayne County are especially hard hit, as the economic malady destroying the auto industry hit a city already weakened to the point of collapse by stark racial segregation and disinvestment. What Michigan likes to do is imagine that 'big projects' will save it, so it tends to build enormous temples to optimism, much ... |
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