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The KITT of Connersville: How Carbon Motors Decided to Build Police Cars in Indiana

It may take a village to raise a child, but it took the rallying cry of an entire town--and a no-cost, 1.8-million-square-foot building--to convince Carbon Motors to locate its manufacturing facility to Connersville, Indiana. Carbon ...READ»

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Drive-Through Goes Green: Burger King Installs Kinetic Generators

A New Jersey Burger King is flipping its image by installing kinetic energy harvesters in its drive-though lane to convert energy from slowing cars to electricity. READ»

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A Clean Energy Economy Generates Job Growth

In news that should surprise no one, Pew Charitable Trusts released a report yesterday showing that the burgeoning clean energy economy is generating significant job growth. In this case, a clean energy economy is defined ...READ»

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GE Co-Invests $10 Million In Household Wind Power

Instead of waiting (and paying) for giant solar farms and mega-scale transmission lines to be built, what if you could start generating your own clean energy tomorrow, for 60 percent below retail prices?READ»

Revving the Innovation Engine with a Killer Social Media App

Energy. Enthusiasm.  Optimism. Hardly words that come to mind when describing a 7:30 am meeting on a chilly Monday morning.  But the main dining room of Soby's on South Main Street in downtown Greenville, SC fairly crackled with ...READ»

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The Best Business Books of 2008

These books run the gamut of what Fast Company is about--innovation, creativity, design, sustainability, technology, marketing, and global business. Their central theme: finding and sharing new ideas is essential to success.READ»

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