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North Carolina’s New #1

Oct 26, 2011

The proposed merger between Duke Energy and Progress Energy would create the nation’s largest utility provider, boasting a total of 7 million customers.  The new company,…

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Natural Gas: A Bridge Too Far?

Oct 20, 2011

Many energy policy students, like myself, show up to graduate school with noble ambitions and high hopes of making our energy system “cleaner.” Renewable energy…

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Hybrids, Electrics, and Power Grids – Oh My!

Apr 3, 2011

With all the hype around green vehicles we should ask ourselves: is owning an alternative car a pragmatic solution to environmental problems or is it…

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Look to the Sky for an Answer

Mar 20, 2011

A new solution to feeding the world’s burgeoning urban population in a sustainable way may be the introduction of vertical farms. A vertical farm is…

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Who Sets the Standards? Dillon’s Law and Municipal Green Building

Dec 2, 2010

“Municipal corporations owe their origin to, and derive their powers and rights wholly from, the legislature. It breathes into them the breath of life, without…

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