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	<title>The Company We Keep &#187; Energy</title>
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	<description>South Mountain, Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place</description>
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		<title>Emphasizing Energy And Expanding Our Geography</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rodney North, of Equal Exchange, the enduring Massachusetts worker co-op fair trade coffee company, in response to my last blog post, said (I’m paraphrasing here): It’s great to see how SMC is diversifying.  I&#8217;m guessing this evolved out of some mix of client demand/SMC interests in renewables &#38; the need to diversify during lean times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25 IN 2012 . . . AND RISING</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employee Ownership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the first day of this new year, South Mountain began its 25th year as an employee owned company (and its 38th year in business).  It was on January 1, 1987 that we converted from a sole proprietorship in my ownership to a democratically owned worker co-operative.  As I’ve so often said, it was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEVER A DULL MOMENT</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still catching up here, but this post brings us right to the present! August was all about stock market decline and Hurricane Irene.  The first affected us deeply; the second did not (except that we sympathized with all our troubled pals in Vermont). The August stock market decline reminded us once again, that the footing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CATCHING UP WITH A SUMMER GONE BY</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jabrams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deval Patrick]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been neglecting to write.  Time to get back to it. Interesting summer.  July was all sunshine. Hammock weather. Lying in mine I read a provocative new book about our future — The Great Disruption by Paul Gilding, an Australian who is the former head of Greenpeace International and more recently sustainability advisor to corporations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IS ZERO ENERGY POSSIBLE?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indeed it is! Last year we completed an eight house cluster of permanently protected affordable housing designed to be &#8220;Net Zero Possible&#8221;, meaning that if you live carefully in these homes you may be able to produce as much total energy, on an annual basis, as you use. After careful monitoring of the energy use [...]]]></description>
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