Residents are Banning Together to Get Discounts on Solar Panels
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By Sarah Jane TribbleWhen Bruce Karney heard Portola Valley residents had banded together to buy home solar systems at discount prices, his first thought was to wonder why he hadn't thought of the idea. His second was to figure out a way to get in on the deal.
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By The Baltimore Sun  Mar. 9--Blame it on frustration, say the folks trying to cut the public out of the review process for approving wind farms.
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City officials are considering a proposal to slap a 17-cent surcharge on paper or plastic shopping bags, a debate sure to be watched as a bellwether for other communities.
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Traditional high-energy lightbulb will be taken off the shelves under a government scheme.
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Mar.
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By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 13--Some folks get satisfaction in refusing to help people who refused to help them in an hour or need.
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A deal to get one-third of the city's electricity from wind power is a sign of the times.
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By Matthew Leblanc, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Mar. 12--A local Libertarian group wants to change city law to protect private landowners from efforts by the city to seize their property for economic development.
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Eco-friendly Britons seeking relief from soaring domestic energy bills can now pop down the high street and pick up solar panels for their homes.
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By LAWRENCE LATANE III  Girl Scouts and their leaders opposed to the sale of a beloved waterfront camp last night applauded a county Board of Supervisors proposal to limit development on the property.
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Local officials are using election law to block independent candidates.
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Free hybrid-car parking. Cash rebates for installing solar panels. Low-interest loans for energy-saving home renovations. Money to tear up desert lawns and replace them with drought-resistant landscaping.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 15--HICKORY -- City Council members may have come up with a compromise to protect homes from business encroachment without stifling development.
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Conservation only starts at home. Now businesses are trying to do something about wasted energy at work too
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By Claudia Mel, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 15--It's a commonly held view that farm property owners, left to their own devices, would want their land to be zoned as residential so they could reap the benefits of asking for higher prices for it.
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A coalition of industrialists, environmentalists and energy specialists is banding together to try to eliminate the incandescent light bulb in about 10 years.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled a plan yesterday to encourage the construction of 1 million solar homes in California by requiring builders to offer the systems to all new-home buyers.