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Thought folks might be interested in this note from the Department of Energy: "As part of the Obama Administration's SunShot Initiative to make solar energy cost-competitive with fossil fuels within the decade, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the availability of more than $27 million in new funding to challenge local governments and their partners -- working on a regional basis -- to bring down barriers to small scale residential and commercial photovoltaic (PV)…See More

For years, many of us have hoped that housing would rise to the top of public consciousness. With the credit and foreclosure crises, that may well have happened -- though not in the way we intended. Many of the new images about housing are negative -- families taking out mortgages they can't afford, the "housing bubble," housing dragging down the economy,etc.A related problem is that for-sale housing prices have fallen in much of the country, leading some people to believe that housing…See More