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The Clinton Global Initiative took place in Hong Kong.  Amidst social resonsibility taking the back burner during the current financial crisis, business leaders in environmental consciousness spoke.  The main message throughout the summit: being green must prove profitable…and turning a profit must be green.

New York Times
Kate Galbraith discusses the personal missions of BP’s T. Boone Pickens and Chesapeake Energy’s Aubrey K. McClendon and their traditional strategy of getting their energy message to the masses.

The Observer
Wanna battle global warming at the homefront? Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says (I’m sorry to report) eat less meat. The Indian economist says this is the easiest and most substantial way to decrease carbon and methane emissions…from the processing and packaging plants…to the animal methane gas.

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Siphoning from gas tanks increases as gas prices soar. More citizens use locking devices to lock up their tanks.

www.nytimes.com
Some Exxon Mobil shareholders are pushing the company to take the threat of global warming more seriously. The Rockefeller family is now joining these shareholders in calling for the company to adopt various green measures.

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Floyd S. Butterfield, a California entrepreneur, has made a kit that will allow people to make ethanol in their backyards. After two decades of trial and error, he has finally made a model that he thinks he can profitably sell.

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Six redwood trees are under scrutiny in a southern California neighborhood. The six trees and their owners were found to be in violation of the 1978 Solar Shade Act. Their neighbor, Mark Vargas, filed a complaint when his solar panels became substantially less effective as the redwoods grew. But the redwoods were planted first; the solar panels installed five years following the trees. Now state Senator Simitian works to get a law passed protecting those trees planted before the installation of neighboring solar panels.

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Two married artists in Chicago are using their eye for aesthetic beauty to showcase green improvements to their home. They see their house as a sculpture and are continually looking for ways to make it more energy efficient.

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The Old North Church in Boston – home of the ‘One if by land, two if by sea Paul Revere lanterns’ – has gone green. The church recently replaced their incandescent light bulbs with LEDs. The LEDs are expected to last twenty five times as long as the incandescent bulbs and are placed so as not to disturb the historical integrity of the church.

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A California judge has ordered a couple to chop down their redwood trees which were blocking a neighbor’s solar panels from receiving sunlight. A law in California protects a homeowner’s right to sunlight. This is the first time that someone has been prosecuted under the law.