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		<title>Emphasizing Energy And Expanding Our Geography</title>
		<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>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.companywekeep.net/25-in-2012-and-rising/</link>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving to All</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s early Thanksgiving morning.  I&#8217;m the only one awake.  I&#8217;m looking forward to family, friends, and food later. I&#8217;m looking back to yesterday.  It was the one year anniversary of my wife Chris&#8217; brain surgery.  Last night, as we ate dinner with a friend, I remembered following the ambulance from Woods Hole to Boston at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEVER A DULL MOMENT</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.companywekeep.net/never-a-dull-moment/</link>
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		<title>CATCHING UP WITH A SUMMER GONE BY</title>
		<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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