"Inverter deal to help supply solar power to over 350 low-income families in California and Colorado." EXCELLENT! THANK YOU.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/l6jb7c-uq0k/3583076 http://www.care2.com/news/member/517074402/3583076 PLEASE PARTNER WITH GRID ALTERNATIVES.The students learn from experts while they volunteer! "Our partners helped GRID install more than 1200 systems in California and Colorado last year,"The hope is "with their help we'll install as many more in 2013."
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/BCIHmgKt-LQ/3583117 http://www.care2.com/news/member/517074402/3583117 Just one day before Apple's CEO Tim Cook is expected to argue for corporate tax reform on Capitol Hill, a new report claims that the company is avoiding paying taxes on billions of dollars in profits.


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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/j8VrbSg7In8/3583206 http://www.care2.com/news/member/904222254/3583206 After losing a two-year fight with a Fortune 500 company determined to buy their beautiful, 104-year-old property and turn it into a boutique hotel — even though it wasn't for sale — the women of the Anna Louise Inn have to leave the neighborhood.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/UHxErNaP7To/3582421 http://www.care2.com/news/member/864072146/3582421 International corporations have no national allegiance, they care only for profit. Meanwhile, people all over the world are becoming increasingly nationalistic and xenophobic.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/y4xmCTI5i1c/3582890 http://www.care2.com/news/member/775377582/3582890 Each Wednesday, barber Anthony Cymerys sets up his chair in the shade of an oak tree in Hartford's Bushnell Park. For longtime clients, the homeless or those just down on their luck, the fee is always the same: a hug for a haircut..
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/A6DHYKJL7D4/3582004 http://www.care2.com/news/member/610629693/3582004 Shortly after the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) told the press "we really believe in transparency," new documents show the organization directing legislators to hide ALEC meeting agendas and model legislation from the public.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/FF2qip6cw04/3582439 http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3582439 Imagine you were the head of Chevron. In the first couple years since you took over the company its reputation has been continually tarnished by your own actions as well as environmental and human rights crimes.
Would you expect to keep your job?
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/vVAQUavJRec/3581650 http://www.care2.com/news/member/830372471/3581650 A serious web- based game that responds to the industry of tax planning by which multinationals attempt to lower their taxes on profits and other mandatory contributions as much as possible.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/KVssIFpGlGQ/3581407 http://www.care2.com/news/member/830372471/3581407 More and more people see that the current financial system rewards those who hoard their money and invest in risky or damaging ventures such as derivatives and other forms of speculation and are asking: how do we opt out of Wall Street now?
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/CI0JgO9zaqo/3581424 http://www.care2.com/news/member/830372471/3581424 ONLY ONE PHONE COMPANY FIGHTS THE DIRTY KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE. JOIN THE FIGHT!
This is a special offer for subsribers to Green America for a CREDO MOBILE device and contract -check it out.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/5Z61uRt45AA/3580992 http://www.care2.com/news/member/153110506/3580992 It turns out some of Target's products might be so cheap because they are made with slave-picked cotton from Uzbekistan &/or purchased from Daewoo International, a company that accounts for approximately 20% of all cotton processed in Uzbekistan
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/gXYYlWy2iNk/3581143 http://www.care2.com/news/member/833010008/3581143 Energy efficiency is one such area where the economic return on investment could be substantial, creating thousands of jobs and supporting new and existing businesses while saving people money that can be reinvested locally.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/EdtQWYs5t7I/3580327 http://www.care2.com/news/member/460359844/3580327 Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged" fantasizes a world in which anti-government citizens reject taxes and regulations, and "stop the motor" by withdrawing themselves from the system of production. … [but]… rejected taxes are shutting down productive people.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/YXgwmn3lwqo/3580982 http://www.care2.com/news/member/775377582/3580982 After hearing Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries express his desire of not wanting larger-sized women or "not so cool" kids wearing his brand, this guy decided to fight back. He helps a group of people who could really use the clothes that Jeffries tr
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/VTSU8WT2fXY/3580942 http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3580942 Watch our latest video marking the 3-year memorial of the BP drilling disaster. 11 lives lost. 4.1 million barrels of oil released. 200 miles of shoreline still oiled.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/zLMtZJToxjI/3580933 http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3580933 staff at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) claim that Ms. Masters was aware of the company’s manipulation strategies, helped to conceal the schemes and lied to state & federal officials when confronted about the company’s manipulation stra
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/j6_OAKZ7Ri8/3580957 http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3580957 Shale oil has rapidly boosted oil production in the US, presaging a revolution in oil to mirror that in gas production
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/3cX39PYSdv4/3580949 http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3580949 A Montana court ruling has added a legal roadblock to plans by a Spokane company to develop a large silver and copper mine in northwest Montana, including a portion that bores under the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/IMZJbowXKdk/3580959 http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3580959 Please join with Daily Kos and Working Families by signing our petition supporting the journalists and staff at the Los Angeles Times who are willing to quit their jobs if Charles and David Koch purchase the newspaper.


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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/SWE6eqXrSSY/3579529 http://www.care2.com/news/member/904222254/3579529 Most of the largest fast food chains, including McDonald’s, Subway, Burger King, and Taco Bell have all signed on to the CIW’s Fair Food Program. They have agreed to pay an extra penny per pound of tomatoes to raise wages and only buy from fields where...
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/dcZWkVZUNjE/3579846 http://www.care2.com/news/member/830372471/3579846 In the past twenty years, corporate profits have quadrupled while the corporate tax percent has dropped by half. The payroll tax, paid by workers, has doubled.In effect, corporations have decided to let middle-class workers pay for national investments th
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/Yi-o9EyvsJw/3580089 http://www.care2.com/news/member/581423040/3580089 '"We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables," said Dr. Eric Martinot to an audience at the first Pathways to 100% Renewables Conference held April 16 in San Francisco."It's not 1990 anymore."'LET'S GO SOLAR! PLS.NOTE,SHARE
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/wSA2l-Qoyj4/3578867 http://www.care2.com/news/member/517074402/3578867 "I know a lot of passionate people in the solar industry who don’t actually own a solar system, and I’m one of them. ...that may appear hypocritical when you make a living telling people how affordable solar is. “If it’s so affordable,.."PLEASE NOTE,SHARE
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/1RpnZWsEjWg/3578859 http://www.care2.com/news/member/517074402/3578859 GO WIND! gO SOLAR! "Investors plowed $65 billion into Chinese wind farms, solar panel arrays and other clean energy projects in 2012, a 20% increase over the year prior, according to a report released Wednesday by Pew Charitable Trusts and Bloomberg..."
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/noGhC-Xof6M/3578833 http://www.care2.com/news/member/517074402/3578833 ''In Austin, a solar kilowatt-hour will get you 12.8 cents. In CPS's San Antonio territory, that same solar kilowatt-hour will get you about 5.6 cents from the utility via its Value of Solar Tariff (VOST)..." PLEASE NOTE,COMMENT,SHARE. Solar is great !
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/X4am6CYmVKo/3578893 http://www.care2.com/news/member/517074402/3578893 'Inhabitat is reporting live from the Fortune Brainstorm Green conference today, where Verizon just announced a massive $100 million solar and fuel cell energy project that will provide power to 19 of its U.S. facilities....' PLEASE NOTE,COMMENT,SHARE!
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/_21jC-Q6CQk/3578898 http://www.care2.com/news/member/517074402/3578898 'It's hard to believe,but the solar-powered DomoLab in France used to be a dumpy old barn until Encore Heureux Architectes converted the interior into a cand canecolored showcase of Saint-Gobain's most cutting edge sustainable materials.'TERRIFIC! NOTE!
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/e7z01mKNcSE/3578911 http://www.care2.com/news/member/517074402/3578911 Fifty years after the groundbreaking "Gideon" ruling, public defenders are overworked, underpaid—and America's poor are paying the price.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/-ut7L1J8B9I/3578387 http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3578387 JPMorgan’s “London Whale” episode may boil down to a few senior executives attempting to increase their personal compensation.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/SzIsd63hq6M/3578390 http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3578390 Today Public Citizen filed objections to the proposed class action settlement in Fraley v. Facebook, which concerns Facebook's practice of using the images of their millions of users, without their knowledge or consent, to sell advertising.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/oGxhehWQdkc/3578389 http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3578389 One of the first actions taken by the new political group founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been to spend over $1 million in advertisements attacking the environment.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/0hDC_EEOCKM/3577775 http://www.care2.com/news/member/830372471/3577775 Florida’s tomato farms supply 50% of all U.S. fresh tomatoes but have also been called America’s ‘ground zero for slavery.’ Countless workers held against their will, threatened with violence and forced to haul hundreds of heavy tomato buckets a day.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/NODm_TVQm8E/3577458 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3577458 Lowe's & Home Depot still stock their shelves with neonicotinoid pesticides, spreading the ecosystem-destroying toxin to homes & gardens across the United States. As consumers, we need to demand that these retailers pull the devastating pesticides
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/MHsamgrqa8M/3576887 http://www.care2.com/news/member/833010008/3576887 You have heard that term, derivatives. Well now those derivatives have even bought the New York Stock Exchange. InterContintenalExchange, a 12-year-old upstart that specializes in commodities, futures and derivatives trading is new owner.


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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/gC_7kPOj18o/3577299 http://www.care2.com/news/member/901507364/3577299 Now a new report from the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research shows just how widespread the problem is, projecting that as many as 380,000 workers for big companies will end up on the state’s Medi-Cal program by 2019.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/_afRbnsypdk/3577420 http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3577420 Six influential state tax studies by anti-tax organizations including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), are "deeply flawed," include "highly inconsistent findings" & constitute "ideologically charged pseudo-social science published to fu
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/3kvlAFzACWk/3577425 http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3577425 Belize’s Supreme Court declared offshore drilling contracts issued by the Government of Belize (in 2004 and 2007) null and void, providing a dramatic & potentially definitive setback to The Government of Belize and the petroleum prospecting companies is
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/-47hw3UKxYg/3577400 http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3577400 We've all seen the horrific images of hundreds of innocent women burned or crushed to death in factories while making our clothes. In the next few days we can get companies to stop it happening again.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/N09DpdL3Fpo/3576568 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3576568 The United States Supreme Court recently began deliberations in a case that highlights a deeply problematic issue concerning intellectual-property rights. The Court must answer the following question: Can human genes - your genes - be patented?
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/IIE3RY6Hjjk/3576024 http://www.care2.com/news/member/864072146/3576024 As death toll at Bangladesh garment factory that made clothes for US stores passed 650, powerful CA Democrat who's for most of 40 yrs made workplace safety his congressional brief did what few in Congress or the media have the guts to do. Point culprits
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/izk2oN4M4PE/3576047 http://www.care2.com/news/member/597720583/3576047 Workers at the iconic music store Guitar Center are seeing their wages slashed and their benefits gutted by none other than Bain Capital. Sign our petition
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/R4TfjnkyHTA/3575142 http://www.care2.com/news/member/833010008/3575142 The predators on our society will scream about threats to "freedom" as soon as we start going after them, but it's just about trying to protect profits.

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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/0RFLBdYN1tM/3575723 http://www.care2.com/news/member/904222254/3575723 Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox browser, is well-known for battling online tracking.Now it’s set to launch a fresh privacy-protecting offensive: taking on a controversial surveillance company that has been accused of selling spyware to authoritarian re
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-business/~3/ZSIKBOlj4F0/3575681 http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3575681 Please consider going to this site and signing to support LA Times workers who don't want their newspaper sold to the Koch Brothers
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