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		<title>An apple juice puzzle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[My 88-year-old father, who lives in Greenwich Village, is an observant man. I visited today and he asked me to look at two bottles of apple juice from his refrigerator.

He had paid $3.69 for a 64-ounce plastic bottle of Mott’s Apple Juice, the brand we’d had as kids. That’s about 5.7 cents an...<br/>
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		<title>Biofuels: burning up (your) dollars</title>
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		<comments>http://www.marcgunther.com/2009/07/08/biofuels-burning-through-your-dollars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Farm state politicians, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have sold biofuels to rest of us as a way to revive rural America, attack the problem of global warming and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
In response, investors and taxpayers have poured many millions of dollars into corn...<br/>
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		<title>Greenpeace ridicules “Traitor Joe’s”</title>
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		<comments>http://www.marcgunther.com/2009/07/05/greenpeace-ridicules-traitor-joes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Whatever you think of the people at Greenpeace, you’ve got to admit they are environmentalists with a sense of humor. Recently, Greenpeace published a scorecard that ranks supermarket chains on the sustainability of their seafood. It’s a serious analysis, intended to guide shoppers to those stores...<br/>
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		<title>Vanguard’s shame</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Harvard, Yale and Stanford did it. So did the pension funds of 27 states, including California and New York. And investment firm TIAA-CREF.
So why won’t Vanguard, the big mutual fund company, agree to use its influence to get big companies to stop supporting the genocide in Darfur?
At Vanguard’s...<br/>
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		<title>Qteros: Turning mud to big money</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Can we find a clean, planet-friendly fuel to power our cars? Electric cars will take a decade, at least, to have a majorimpact on climate change, while corn ethanol has a slew of well-documented problems. Investors and the government are increasingly focused on so-called next-generation biofuels,...<br/>
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		<title>The Rodney Dangerfield of fuels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the energy and climate change debate, environmentalists are for the most part united in their feelings about coal (very bad), gasoline (avoid &#8220;gas guzzlers&#8221;),  nuclear energy (scary), hydropower (small is better than big),  wind (good unless you worry about birds), solar thermal...<br/>
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		<title>We can solve the climate crisis</title>
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		<comments>http://www.marcgunther.com/2009/06/28/we-can-solve-the-climate-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I learned two things last week about Sunil Paul, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist with a passion for clean tech. One is that he thinks big. The other is that he is very well-connected in Washington.
Paul came to D.C. to release a report called the Gigaton Throwdown that, in his words, “redefines...<br/>
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		<title>Transparency, without taxpayer dollars</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarcGunther/~3/VG0xbBOO_aw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marcgunther.com/2009/06/26/transparency-without-taxpayer-dollars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There are two places on the Internet where you can find out how the $787-billion stimulus package is being spent. One is run by the government. The other by a west coast tech company. Care to guess which does a better job?
Yes, it’s recovery.org, which despite its dot-org suffix, is run by a...<br/>
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		<title>Why I like Marriott</title>
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		<comments>http://www.marcgunther.com/2009/06/25/why-i-like-marriott/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;If the employees are well taken care of, they&#8217;ll take care of the customer and the customer will come back,&#8221; says Bill Marriott, the CEO of Marriott International.  &#8220;That&#8217;s basically the core value of the company.&#8221;
Some things never change at Marriott. The...<br/>
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		<title>What does solar want? Lots.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ordinarily, when an industry comes to Washington to seek special favors from the government, it hires a lobbyist or two, meets with members of Congress, perhaps quietly donates some money  to the right committee chair—but rarely does it hold a press conference to talk about why it wants to be given...<br/>
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