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Online/Mail Voting for PEC Board Election ends Friday!

Posted in Energy, tagged clean energy for texas, Energy Efficiency, Johnson City, pec on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Do you know some electric coops help their members get solar power and make their homes and businesses more energy efficient? It saves a lot on electric bills. The Pedernales Electric Coop can adapt these kinds of programs… but the direction of the PEC depends on if the newly elected board really cares about clean [...]

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Solar Tint: the Fig Newton for my Energy Efficiency Blues

Posted in Efficiency, tagged Austin, Austin Energy, CPS Energy, Energy Efficiency, San Antonio, solar film, solar screens, solar tint, Texas, utility bills, windows on June 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »

While I’m still a little grumpy and out of sorts because the Lege didn’t pass any major energy efficiency legislation this session, I feel a little better after our office got some solar tint put on our windows on Thursday. My office used to be a heat box. The tint is really impressive. I can [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round-Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aarp, archer fellow, bay area houston, big insurance, big pharma, bluedaze, bosskitty, brains and eggs, burnt orange report, Capitol Annex, diana maldonado, drilling reform, eye on williamson, fox news, health care, Hurricane Ike, lamar smith, land comissioner, left of college station, leo berman, mcblogger, michael burgess, national cash register, off the kuff, robert reich, south texas chisme, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos, todd hill, truthhugger, txsharon, tyler mayor, washington dc, wcnews, whosplayin on June 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »

It’s Monday, and that means it is time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance’s weekly round-up. Neil at Texas Liberal writes about the relocation of the National Cash Register company from Dayton, Ohio to Georgia. Treating people like dirt for 200 years gives Southern states an advantage in creating a so-called business friendly [...]

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