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| Doughnut
Economics Diagram |
| Carbon
Footprint Related Song Lyrics |
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National
Center for Environmental Economics (maintained by US EPA) |
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Climate
Change News (Climate Home News website) |
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The
Sun is Having a Moment by Bill McKibbon (from The New Yorker
July 9 2025)
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Energy
expert reveals the standard payback period for modern solar panels —
here's what you need to know by Yei Ling Ma (from
The Cool Down March
27, 2025) |
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2024:
An active year of U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters by
Adam B. Smith (from NOAA climate.gov site Jan 10 2025)
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Why
The U.S. Needs A Crypto Tax To Combat Bitcoin’s Environmental Toll by
Andrew Leahey (from Forbes November 26 2024) |
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The
Largest Solar Power Plant In The World Just Got Switched On
by Katie Spalding (post on IFL Science June 7 2024) |
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Looking
at Jobs Can Change Our Minds About Energy By John A. “Skip” Laitner
(from
The American Solar Energy Society
April 6 2024) |
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The
Borrowers Guide to Financing Solar Energy Systems (online copy of 44
page NREL 2009 booklet) |
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Alliance to Save Energy (non-profit
group promoting energy efficiency worldwide since 1977) |
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The
Energy Collective (blog/website: "Power, Policy, Climate--the
conversation begins here") |
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Carbon
Footprint (“the web’s leading carbon footprint calculator”)
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Climate Neutral
Now (UN sponsored site, hosts carbon footprint calculator and
donations to UN approved projects to offset your carbon use) |
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National Tree
Benefit Calculator (estimate the annual economic and
environmental value of individual street trees) |
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The
Actuaries Climate Index (gauges extreme weather events and sea level
rises, updated quarterly) |
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Drawdown
Labs ("works to advance the next level of business leadership on
climate solutions") |
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The
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions ( nonprofit with key
objective of national market-based program to reduce emissions
cost-effectively) |
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EPA
proposes fee aimed at reducing methane emissions (AP story posted on NPR January 12 2024) |
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Study
reveals how much carbon damage would cost corporations if they paid for
their emissions by Seth Borenstein (AP News report August 24
2023)
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Cash
For Climate services (report from The Economist March 4 2023) |
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How
to run your house on clean electricity, no solar panels required by Emma
F. Merchant (story about finding a more environmentally aware utility
company from The Washington Post Feb 9 2023) |
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US
renewable energy farms outstrip 99% of coal plants economically – study by
Oliver Milman (from The Guardian Jan 30 2023) |
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Your
Dog's Carbon "Pawprint" May Be Almost as Bad as Yours by Damian
Carrington (from Mother Jones Nov 19 2022)
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Climate
crisis study finds heatwaves have cost global economy $16tn by Sofia
Quaglia
(from The Guardian Oct 28 2022
) |
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The case for paying carbon taxes on unsustainable food
by Carla Delgado (in Popular Science July 25 2022) |
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“Energy
efficiency guru Amory Lovins: 'the largest, cheapest, safest,
cleanest way to address the crisis’” by John Vidal ( The
Guardian, March 26 2022)
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Biden’s
Biggest Idea on Climate Change Is Remarkably Cheap
by Robinson Meyer (article from The Atlantic Feb 9 2022) |
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"The
ESG Mirage" by C. Simpson, A. Rathi, S. Kishan (skeptical report
about ESG ratings from Bloomberg Business December 10 2021) |
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"Want
to limit carbon and curb wildfire? Create a market for small trees
" (UC
Berkeley report December 13 2021)
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“Most
new wind and solar projects will be cheaper than coal, report finds” by
Jillian Ambrose
(report from The Guardian June 23 2021) |
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Fossil
Fuel air pollution caused
8.7m deaths globally in 2018 (report from The Guardian Feb 9
2021)
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Economics
of biodiversity review: what are the recommendations? (report
from The Guardian Feb 2 2021 says use of GDP as indicator should be
ditched!)
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Doughnut
Economics in Amsterdam by
Ciara Nugent (article in Time magazine Jan 22 2021)
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The
Circular Economy and Cascading: Towards a Framework by Kieran Campbell-Johnson
etal.
(article posted on sciencedirect website January 2021)
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Circular
Economy by Elizabeth Cline (in Sierra magazine January 2021)
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Biodiversity
and the "Eco" in Economics (from The Economist Feb 6
2021) |
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“Fighting
Climate Change, One Building At A Time” (story about saving money
and energy from NPR October 18 2020) |
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1.35
Cents/kWh: Record Abu Dhabi Solar Bid (report about stunningly
cheap solar power from CleanTechnica June 8 2020) |
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Taxing
Carbon (report from The Economist May 23 2020) |
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“Fossil-Fuel
Subsidies Must End” (Oped from Scientific American Feb 25
2020)
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Sustainable
Investing--Green Giant Black Rock
(report from The Economist Jan 18 2020)
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What
is the Circular Economy? (from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation)
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The
Circular Economy—A World Without Trash by Robert Kunzig
(from National Geographic February 18 2020)
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“How
Climate Change Could Trigger the Next Global Financial Crisis” by Robin
Meyer (article in The Atlantic Aug 1, 2019)
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"Staying
Green While Traveling: How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint!" by
Andrew Wan (May 17, 2019 post)
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"How
California became far more energy-efficient than the rest of the
country" by David Roberts (May 31 2019 report from VOX) |
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Renewable
Energy Costs Take Another Tumble, Making Fossil Fuels Look More Expensive
Than Ever
by
Dominic Dudley (article from Forbes May 29 2019) |
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"The
moral assumptions embedded in economic models of climate change"
(from The Economist
Dec 12 2018) |
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"Two
US electric utilities have promised to go 100% carbon-free—and admit
it’s cheaper" by Michael Coren (Dec 13 2018 post on
qz.com) |
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"Bitcoin
Is Terrible for the Environment"
by Emily Atkin (article in Mother Jones Dec 5 2017) |
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“The
Northeast US has a carbon-trading system. It is boosting, not hurting,
state economies” by David Roberts
( report from VOX April 25 2018)
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"How
to improve tax reform: a carbon tax and expanded benefits for working
families"
by Aparna Mathur and Adele Morris (Dec 8 2017 AEI website) |
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"Government
report calls on Trump to act on climate change" by Eli Watkins
(cites cost of extreme weather, from CNN Oct 24 2017) |
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100%
Renewable Energy At What Cost? (article from The Economist July
15 2017) |
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The
Switch: How Solar, Storage and New Tech Means Cheap Power for All by Chris
Goodall (review by Pilita Clark of this 2016 book posted on the Financial
Times)
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"Prominent
Republicans Pitch Carbon-Tax Plan to Top Trump Aides" by J. Dlouhy
and M. Talev (Feb 8 2017 article on Bloomberg News) see The
Carbon Dividends Song in this regard
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Breaking
the Habit: The Future of Oil (special
report from The Economist November 26 2016)
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Off
Grid Solar Power: Africa Unplugged (report from The Economist October
29 2016)
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Washington
State's Carbon Tax (report from The Economist October 15 2016)
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"Measuring
Economies--The Trouble with GDP"
(article from The
Economist April 30 2016) |
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"Corruption
and Natural Resources: a fight for light"
(report from The Economist October 24 2015) |
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"Shell, Exxon, and Carbon:
The Elephant in the Atmosphere" (article in The Economist July 19, 2014) |
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"Petro-Machismo" by Michael T. Klare
(article about how the US energy boom is affecting its foreign policy from
The Nation Mar 24 2014) |
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"China and the Environment: The East is Grey"
( cover story from The Economist Aug 10 2013) |
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"China's
Citizens Must Act to Save Their Environment" by Qiang Wang (May 8
2013 opinion piece published by Nature) |
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Measures
of Well Being: Chilled Out (Feb 25 2012 article in The
Economist) |
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"New
Report Examines Risks of 4 Degree Hotter World by End of Century"
(Nov 18 2012 post on World Bank site) |
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"Costs of Climate
Change Can be Mitigated if Economic Activity Moves in Response" (The Economist
Dec 8 2012) |
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"Climate Bonds: A Dull Shade of Green"
(article in The Economist October 29 2011) |
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"The
world needs a massive carbon tax in just 10 years to limit climate change,
IMF says" by Chris Mooney and Andrew Freedman (article from The
Washington Post Oct 10 2010) |
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Confessions
of a Radical Industrialist by Ray C. Anderson (2009
book re: "doing business by respecting the Earth") |
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"Nothing Grows Forever"
by Clive Thompson (article on no growth economics from May 2010 Mother Jones) |
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The
Power of Renewables, by Matthew Wald (from March 2009 issue of Scientific
American) |
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A Grand
Plan for Solar Energy (January 2008 Scientific American
article) |
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"Sunrise for Solar Heat
Power" by Moises Velasquez-Manoff (August 18 2009
article in Christian Science Monitor) |
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"Studies
Start Linking Climate Change to Current Events" by Janet Raloff (November
17 2012 Science News article) |
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More Profit With
Less Carbon, article by Amory Lovins / with bibliography |
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Carbon Mitigation Initiative
(from Princeton University Environmental Institute) |
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The Carbon Reduction Label (from
non-profit with mission to "accelerate the move to a low carbon
economy") |
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Personal
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Calculator (figure your carbon footprint
using this tool from US EPA) |
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"Companies and Emissions: Carbon Copy"
(article about preparing for a carbon tax from The Economist December 14 2013) |
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"We Have a Winner: British
Columbia Carbon Tax Woos Sceptics" (July 21 2011 article in The Economist) |
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"Putting
a Value on Nature Could Set Scene for True Green Economy" by Pavan
Sukhdev (Feb 2010 article) |
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"A
Refreshing Dose of Honesty" (cap and dividend alternative to cap
and trade, The Economist Feb 4 2010) |
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The Carbon Limits
and Energy for America's Renewal (CLEAR) Act (2010 Senate bill
per Maria Cantwell) |
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"Time to Tax
Financial Speculation" by Sarah Anderson (Feb 11 2010 YES!
Magazine article) |
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"Banking
on Carbon," by Bryan Walsh" (in Time December
14 2009) |
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Misleading
Indicator, by Megan McArdle (why GDP needs to be replaced, from The
Atlantic, Nov 2009) |
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A Mechanism of Hot Air, by Madhusree Mukerjee
(re: carbon offset method, June 2009 Scientific American) |
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"Land of Hope," by Alex
Perry and Kareygorou (re: Africa and externalities; in Time
December 13 2010) |
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America's
Untapped Energy Resource: Boosting Efficiency, by M. Grunwald (in Time
January 12, 2009) |
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"Sizing
Up Carbon Footprints," by B. Walsh and T. Sharples (in Time
May 25, 2008) |
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"CO2--They
Should Bottle That Stuff" by E. Roston and B. Chameides (April,
2008 Time website article) |
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Preparing for Climate Change by M. Mastrandrea and S. Schneider
(more on this 2010 book from MIT Press) |
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Fixing
Climate, by W. Broecker and R. Kunzig (interview w/ Broecker re: his
plan detailed in this 2008 book) |
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Renewable and Appropriate
Energy Laboratory (at UC Berkeley) |
| Earth
Policy Institute (organization devoted to "building an economy
for the Earth") |
| The
Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (non-profit with "mission
to develop and disseminate sustainability accounting standards" to
help corporations) |
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Emissions
Reduction Market System -- An Overview (from Illinois state EPA) |
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US Climate Action Partnership
(coalition of corporations supporting action to curb global warming) |
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The Climate Leadership Council
(group of prominent Republicans have authored a carbon tax plan --
2017) |
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Business
Environmental Leadership Council (assoc. of US corporations focused on
climate change) |
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Conversations
With History: Natural Capitalism with Amory Lovins (2009 UCTV
program) |
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Greenhouse
Reduction - Underground Storage of Carbon Dioxide (2008 UCTV program) |
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"New
Nuclear--The Economics Say No" (November, 2009 Pan Europe
Utilities Citi Report) |
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Natural
Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by P. Hawken, A.
Lovins, H. Lovins (about this book) |
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Natural
Capitalism by Paul Hawken (Mother Jones article March 1997) |
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Ecological
Economics, textbook by Herman Daly and Joshua Farley, Island Press
(about this book) |
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Revisiting
Economic Man, by Alexia Eastwood (2010 article on Share the World's
Resources website) |
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What's
Nature Worth: Opening the Black Box of Ecological Valuation, article by
James Boyd, RFF |
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The
New Economy of Nature, by G. Dailey and K. Ellison, Island Press
(about this book) |
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Human
Well Being and the Natural Environment, by Partha Dasgupta, Oxford
University Press (about this book) |
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The Global
Commons, by Susan Buck, Island Press (about this book) |
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Natural
Capital and Human Economic Survival (about this book) |
|
Beyond
Kyoto: Climate Change and the EU (detailed position paper from
Greenpeace's European Unit) |
|
Green
Accounting (reports on Harvard grad student's research) |
|
New
Economics Foundation ("promoting innovative solutions that
challenge mainstream thinking") |
| The
Tragedy of the Commons, by Garrett Hardin (the classic 1968 paper) |
| Special
Issue, Science Magazine: Tragedy of the Commons? -- Web Resources |
| The
Drama of the Commons (online book from NRC about devising
workable systems for managing shared resources) |
| International
Agreements (from Canada's equivalent of the Environmental Protection
Agency) |
| Towards
Effective Environmental Regulation (approaches to
implementing & enforcing European environmental laws) |
| U.S.
EPA Laws & Regulations Website |
| Environmental
Regulation and the Competitiveness of US Manufacturing (classic 1995
paper by Jaffe, etal) |
| United
Nations Population Division Homepage |
| Population
Connection (resources on the connection between population and
environment) |
| Population
Reference Bureau |
| Population
Council (devoted to improving well-being / reproductive health of
current & future human beings) |
| Red
Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, by James
Gustave Speth (about this book) |
| quotes
and links related to "What's Wrong with Business?" (from
Planet Friendly website) |
| quotes
related to environmental economics (from Andy Kerr website) |
| quotes
from environmental economics guru Amory Lovins |
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