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        <title><![CDATA[Everything you've heard about starting a business is wrong]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Two entrepreneurs have some advice for would-be startup founders: Don't spend too much time planning when you should be selling.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[SunPower ramps up energy storage plans]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The solar company's plans to roll out an energy storage product marks a shift within the industry to offer more services.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirsten Korosec]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Consumer confidence slipping in solar, wind]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The bloom is sliding off the rose of renewables. Electric and hybrid vehicles losing favor too. What about nuclear?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Realpolitik: Japan trades nuclear tech to Middle East in exchange for oil]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe securing country's energy and economic future.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Spray on solar windows inch closer to market]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The big glass panels that are built into skyscrapers could soon produce solar power.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Worthington]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Disruptor | Lyndon Rive, SolarCity]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The South African native is challenging the legacy rules of U.S. power generation and financing, seeking to make clean energy as cost-effective as electricity generated by fossil fuels.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Clancy]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[The secret U.S.-Russian nuclear fusion project]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A small California company thinks it knows how to finally harness fusion power, the Holy Grail of energy. Its latest investor is the Russian government.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-06T13:24:22Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Kick a ball, turn on a light: Can soccer solve one of the globe's intractable problems?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/big-story/kick-a-ball-turn-on-a-light-can-soccer-solve-one-of-the-globes-intractable-problems/430]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Four Harvard University women created a soccer ball that generates electricity for use in off-grid areas of the world. It is having a powerful impact.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Dearen]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Solar plane to traverse the United States]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Daredevils piloting a solar plane will embark on the first transcontinental flight of its kind across the U.S. starting tomorrow]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Worthington]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-03T02:50:16Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Verizon's $100M investment in off-grid resiliency]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Verizon's $100 million clean power project aims to do more than cut carbon emissions and boost its green street cred.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirsten Korosec]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-01T16:28:20Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Small-town mayors: the cutting edge of climate action]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How two mayors of small towns in right-wing America are showing the way to energy and climate progress: through local action.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Nelder]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-01T10:00:17Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Solar outlet gives power from your windows]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Your window might be an unlikely place to plug-in your smartphone, but a team of designers has made that possible with a novel take on the portable charger.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Worthington]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-30T02:31:33Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Shock as solar prices finally rise]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Has the photovoltaic industry's agonizing four-year run of squeezed profits and bankruptcies ended? And will people still buy as the cost climbs?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-24T10:41:00Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Alternative nuclear energy race heats up as Canadian company enters]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Terrestrial Energy's safe, liquid reactor could be ready in eight years.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-23T11:55:25Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[What solar slump? Photovoltaic company sells for $1 billion]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/what-solar-slump-photovoltaic-company-sells-for-1-billion/18128]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Swiss giant ABB paying big bucks for - an inverter maker? This isn't pinup stuff, but it could be rock solid business.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-22T15:53:11Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[World's biggest battery will store solar electricity in Japan]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The $204 million whopper is part of a renewable energy push.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-22T11:35:01Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Solar power produced 100% of new energy on U.S. grid in March]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Solar power added twice as much to the grid in the first quarter of 2013 as it did in all of 2012.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Channtal Fleischfresser]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-22T10:10:59Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[IBM attempts to harness the power of two thousand suns]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can a new project aimed at concentrating sunlight bring solar power back in fashion?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-22T09:38:37Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Solar jobs map reveals leaders, laggards]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The number of Americans working in the solar industry has doubled in three years. California now employs more solar workers than actors. Find out which states lead the nation.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirsten Korosec]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-18T19:56:14Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[The next big utility transformation]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Creating a renewably powered grid is easy compared to crafting a new regulatory framework that will make utility investors whole during the transition.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Nelder]]></dc:creator>
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