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		<title>Google is diversifying into offshore wind energy, but to whose benefit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cesarotti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google recently announced that it invested in the development of a &#8220;backbone&#8221; transmission project off the mid-Atlantic coast which will hopefully accelerate the development of offshore wind energy. Despite the stated good intentions of Google, are they really doing this to boost their image? If not, then the question instead becomes &#8220;Why is shareholder money [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smashthemirror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1097208&amp;post=387&amp;subd=smashthemirror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>USA Today is now on the marketing payroll of NASCAR</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cesarotti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethanol]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[USA Today ran a story this weekend by Nate Ryan entitled &#8220;Nascar going green, moving to ethanol blend fuel in 2011.&#8221; On this blog, we have spent a fair amount of time talking about both the use of buzzwords such as &#8220;green&#8221; and the pitfalls of biofuels. One post from a couple of years ago [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smashthemirror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1097208&amp;post=380&amp;subd=smashthemirror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could we see a microfinance bubble?</title>
		<link>http://smashthemirror.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/could-we-see-a-microfinance-bubble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cesarotti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[khosla]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vikas Bajaj&#8217;s recent article in the New York Times entitled Sun Co-Founder Uses Capitalism to Help Poor details the story of Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla and his venture into microfinance. His recent investment in SKS Microfinance netted him $117 million after the company issued an initial public offering (IPO). The narrative of the article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smashthemirror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1097208&amp;post=375&amp;subd=smashthemirror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Impact of Globalization on Indigenous Peoples in Mexico and Bolivia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 19:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cesarotti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a paper written for the author&#8217;s PLS 315 &#8211; International Political Economy class. Abstract Globalization has presented itself in many different forms, affecting nearly all people of the planet. While much attention is paid to the extreme positive and negative impacts, the process has created both winners and losers. The same mixed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smashthemirror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1097208&amp;post=361&amp;subd=smashthemirror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CBO Blasts Ethanol</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Costa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenhouse Gases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corn-based ethanol]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article published last Thrusday by the Washington Times suggests that federal support for corn ethanol has large negative consequences and a dubious impact on the environment. It seems that the Congressional Budget Office is catching up to the many critics of ethanol (for some of our own criticism of ethanol, feel free to check [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smashthemirror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1097208&amp;post=359&amp;subd=smashthemirror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green-tech investment falls 50%, but it&#8217;s no time to worry</title>
		<link>http://smashthemirror.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/green-tech-investment-falls-50-but-its-no-time-to-worry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cesarotti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Crisis: 2008]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[american recovery and reinvestment act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first quarter of 2009 saw a sharp decline in all forms of investment in clean-tech and energy both compared with a year ago, as well as the fourth quarter of 2008. Overall, the $13.3 billion invested was down 53% from the previous year and 44% from the last quarter. Investments in new renewable-energy projects [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smashthemirror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1097208&amp;post=351&amp;subd=smashthemirror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>G-20 Protests &#8211; Just Say No to Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://smashthemirror.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/g-20-protests-just-say-no-to-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Cesarotti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As world leaders, activists and the media descend on London for the G-20 summit, there seems to be a clear message from all parties involved:  something needs to be done.  The real question is not whether action is necessary, but rather what is the problem what is it&#8217;s cause.  Politicians have turned their attention to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smashthemirror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1097208&amp;post=348&amp;subd=smashthemirror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crunching Sustainability Pt. 1: Iceland</title>
		<link>http://smashthemirror.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/crunching-sustainability-pt-1-iceland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Costa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Crisis: 2008]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[crunching sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smash the Mirror tries to bring solid economic and rational thinking to sustainability, geopolitics, and current events. To that end, this is a pilot post for a new series on how the Credit Crunch of 08-09 will impact the environmental sustainability of human life. Posts in this series will appear under the tag &#8220;Crunching Sustainability&#8220;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smashthemirror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1097208&amp;post=332&amp;subd=smashthemirror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transatlantic Carbon Trade</title>
		<link>http://smashthemirror.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/transatlantic-carbon-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Costa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times Out of Brussels comes word that the European Union wants to work with the United States to lead a cap-and-trade emissions system for wealthy nations. A well-implemented cap-and-trade system has the perks of providing an absolute maximum for the traded emissions, and of taking advantage of the efficiency of the competitive market [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smashthemirror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1097208&amp;post=329&amp;subd=smashthemirror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intimacy Instead of Consumption</title>
		<link>http://smashthemirror.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/intimacy-instead-of-consumption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Costa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-market goods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Have More Sex to Save The Planet&#8221; reads the headline on this Times Online Green Central Blog Post. Certainly, it&#8217;s quite an attention grabber. Unfortunately the post itself is quite simplistic and does little to create a positive image of sustainability and environmentalism. Humans will have to grapple with shrinking the environmental footprint of our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smashthemirror.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1097208&amp;post=310&amp;subd=smashthemirror&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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