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How you can help get solar onto more roofs in your community: the Big Solar Co-op

Low Impact

They sell you power from your roof for less than you are currently paying for grid electricity. They are able to give an idea of how much energy the panels will generate for the host site. The solar array will be operated by the BSC which deals with all service and maintenance, cleaning, monitoring and optimisation.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. It’s an easy way to capitalize on the ethical consumer. Greenwashing is more than a question of ethics. Energy Star. For instance, the 60s saw the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. USDA Organic. Green Seal.

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. It’s an easy way to capitalize on the ethical consumer. Greenwashing is more than a question of ethics. Energy Star. For instance, the 60s saw the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. USDA Organic. Green Seal.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

Found in the bookEnergy and Man: A Symposium ” Provenance: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware. He helped develop the fusion bomb, which is immensely more powerful than even the atomic bomb. It takes decades for a new energy source to penetrate the market and he told them in 1980 that it wasn’t too early to act.

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Storing value in a mutual credit world: Chris Cook

Low Impact

This is the third in a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing , that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that book is describing, built around a mutual credit core. It’s both ethical, because of the risk sharing; and it works.

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What Is B Corp? B Corp Certification Guide + Quick Assessment

Green Business Bureau

Does your company have an open-book management process that allows employees to access all financial and operational data? The minimum wage is not enough to meet the basic needs of employees – to cover housing, energy, food, and childcare costs. “[Open-book management] simply work. Monitor and evaluate the plan.