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Interesting discussion about the social stock exchange concept... (great positive news blog btw)

Are you looking for support, feedback, and possibly funding for your green business? Idea Blob is a fine way to get all of those, and for you to help out others as well.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) describes a new block grant program to provide funds to cities and towns to allow the localities to experiment with new environmental and energy-saving initiatives.

AP Bank stands for "Artists Power" - power to address pressing environmental issues. The bank was founded by 3 men from Japan's music industry who wanted to do something good for the environment, and knew just another benefit concert was not enough. The bank funds projects related to the environment and alternative energy. And of course, there are also benefit concerts.

(Kazutoshi Sakurai and Takeshi Kobayashi, two of the founders, were were recently profiled by Time as Heroes of the Environment.)

Alan Durning of the Sightline Institute does some calculations on how bike commuting keeps money in local economies - and how investing in bike lanes could be a very smart move for municipalities.

From the esteemed Sietch Blog: The NY Times and others place the cost of the war at well over a trillion dollars, enough to power at least a third of the US with wind turbines. The clean energy sure could have been nice. Not to mention a step up for health care, education, NSF funding... "Perhaps in the future we can ship wind turbines and solar panels to the Persian Gulf instead of our sons and daughters..." ^_^