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Good Evening: An unexpected drop in consumer confidence today spoiled what investors had hoped would be a rousing finish to an otherwise strong second quarter for U.S. capital markets. Other data points, including those in the all important housing sector, were mixed. How confidence, home prices, mortgage delinquencies, unemployment, and the financial markets interact in the coming months may decide whether the highly touted green shoots take root or whither. And this process will, in turn,
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Content Keyword RSS | June 30, 2009
In the early days, back when residential solar power was invented, it had very limited uses and was only thought to be of use for larger industries and government. At grass roots level, the most common use of residential solar power back then was among the solar powered calculators only. If you were alive in the early 70’s, I am sure you will remember how we gawped in amazement! Aside from the calculators, residential solar power was used by government on relatively few projects. The siz
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Content Keyword RSS | June 30, 2009
The following is the text of a talk given by Jorge Soberon, Cuba’s Consul General in Toronto, Canada, to a meeting of food sovereignty sponsored by the Venezuela We Are With You Coalition (CVEC). [” Food sovereignty ” is a term coined by members of Via Campesina in 1996 to refer to a policy framework advocated by a number of farmers, peasants, pastoralists, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, women, rural youth and environmental organizations, namely the claimed “right” of
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Content Keyword RSS | June 30, 2009
Happy Birthday Canada! Bonne Saint-Jean (tard, je sais…) and Happy Moving Day ! Canadians don’t seem to hang anywhere near as many Canadian flags on their property, boats, and homes as Americans do - so I thought a bit of blatant patriotism here can be excused for July 1st. For those who don’t know, the image above is the flag of Nunavut , Canada’s newest territory. What a year, Canada… We emerged almost unscathed from the great recession to the south - thanks in part to our amazing Ca
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A proposal announced by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Monday could increase by 70-fold the existing installed capacity of solar electricity-generating plants in the United States. The plants would be located on federal land and eventually provide a capacity of 100,000 megawatts, enough to provide the electricity needs of 15 million to 25 million residences. Today, slightly more than a gigawatt (1000 megawatts) of photovoltaic- generated electricity and 600 megawatts of concentrated solar pow
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