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Sustainable City Network | Portland Energy Retrofit Program Goes Statewide
"The Portland pilot program has been successful in supporting new jobs in the community, expanding the market for energy efficiency products and services, and is serving as a model for other communities looking to adopt home energy efficiency [...]
GOOD | Heroes: Young Woman Who Saved Thousands of Lives
The voice is Miki Endo, a 25 year old public worker in the Crisis Management Department of the city of Minami Sanriku. She is saying, roughly, "Please run away fast." The mess of red beams are the skeletal remains of the building from which Endo [...]
NYTimes.com | The Price We’re Willing to Pay for Oil
When oil prices are high, Americans like to say that the oil markets are broken, driven by speculators, detached from reality, driven by conspiracy. When prices are low, we do not have complaints about the oil markets. Then we say the “markets are [...]
NYTimes.com | Grading New York Teachers – When the Formulas Lie
You would think the Department of Education would want to replicate Ms. Isaacson — who has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia — and sprinkle Ms. Isaacsons all over town. Instead, the department’s accountability experts [...]
