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• Clean Energy profits up in smoke – The Australian Financial Review

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• Flabeg Solar US Corp. plant to stay out of business – Tribune-Review

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• Snook pleads guilty to child sex offences – Castanet.net

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• Australian Solar Project Loan Funded By Citizen Donations – Energy Matters

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• Green Bonds to Roll Out in Ontario in 2014 – Alternatives Journal (blog)

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• To cut more emissions, a carbon tax needs to raise less revenue – The Conversation

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• SF plans to revive solar finance program – San Francisco Chronicle

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• NY governor announces energy campus in Buffalo – U-T San Diego

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• Poor countries clamoring for aid slam into ‘hard reality’ in Warsaw – Environment & Energy Publishing

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• DOE invests $7 million to deploy tribal clean energy projects – Electric Light & Power

  DOE invests $7 million to deploy tribal clean energy projects Electric Light & Power Southern Ute Indian Tribe Growth Fund (Ignacio, Colo.) – This project will help install an 800-kilowatt solar energy system to provide energy to multiple Southern Ute buildings. This solar system could help displace nearly 40 percent of the total fuel … and more »

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• RWE Says 2014 Net to Halve on Low Power Prices, Cuts Jobs – Bloomberg

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• BBoxx receives $1.9m from Khosla Impact fund – NewNet

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• Rooftop solar could generate jobs – Los Angeles Times

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• Canadian Solar Reports Third Quarter 2013 Results – Wall Street Journal

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• UN spokesman defends PH response to Yolanda – Solar News Philippines

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• Sydney Intends To Go 100% Renewable By 2030 – CleanTechnica

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• 300 MW Of Ethiopian Solar Farms To Be Built By US Companies – Tadias Magazine

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• With Gateways, Skid Row Gets a Sparkling $28 Million Housing Complex – LA Downtown News Online

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• Italian firm Essentis breathes life into dying art with traditional farmhouses – South China Morning Post

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• Here’s What Gabelli Funds Have Been Buying – DailyFinance

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• Goldwater Institute troubled by secrecy surrounding Apple deal – Phoenix Business Journal

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