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© by Will Driscoll
People who sleep in a top-floor bedroom under a black asphalt roof are likely to lose sleep on summer nights due to the heat from the roof—with serious consequences. Technically, the fix is simple—coat every black asphalt...
by Will Driscoll
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on Mon May 14, 2018 at 02:56 PM PDT
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This guy, Edward DeMarco, has got to go. He’s a George W. Bush administration holdover and is only by default running the agency that regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation’s mortgage ...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Wed Aug 15, 2012 at 06:08 AM PDT
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(first published Friday, Sept. 17, 2010 at StarkReports.com )
The PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) program is simple and brilliant: Cities borrow ...
by Mike Stark
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on Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 09:07 PM PDT
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Republicans in the US House of Representatives have introduced a measure that would green-light a possible Israeli bombing campaign against Iran.
by Latins for Peace
47 comments
on Sat Jul 24, 2010 at 03:19 PM PDT
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PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) is an acronym for a set of programs designed to allow homeowners to finance renewable energy systems in their homes.
It is conceptually quite simple: Instead ...
by jpmassar
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on Sat Jul 17, 2010 at 02:44 PM PDT
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Weekly Mulch: Kicking Our Addiction to AC—Why DC Needs to Step Up by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger This summer, Americans are cranking up their air conditioning. At the same ...
by The Media Consortium
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on Fri Jul 16, 2010 at 06:57 PM PDT
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Amid our financial (economic) travails and a seemingly snail's pace movement toward a clean-energy future, ...
by A Siegel
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on Tue Jul 13, 2010 at 11:00 AM PDT
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My grandfather was given the Presidential Medal Of Freedom. General Peter Pace is being awarded one too. I think I'm going to vomit.
by Rob Dapore
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on Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 12:20 PM PDT
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general Pace is an ass. He has latched onto some arbitrary moral code that defines homosexuality as 'immoral'. Of course this is a toughtless and stupid position and for supposedly educated and ...
by tony the American Mutt
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on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 08:39 AM PDT
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by SGT MAJOR MYERS
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on Wed Mar 08, 2006 at 02:24 PM PST
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