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Newsvine - Iraqi War Veteran Abandons War for Oil to Fight In Renewable Revolution

Seeded on Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:10 PM EST (Newsvine)

It was seven years ago today -- on November 13, 2001 (two months after the largest attack on domestic soil this generation has seen) that Jeffrey Owens enlisted in the U.S. Army. It was shortly after his 30th birthday.

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Chicago Couple Includes Solar In Wedding Gift Registry

Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:59 PM EST

It wasn't the variable of available sunshine in their suburban Chicago neighborhood that inhibited Sarah and Kiril Lozanov from going solar.

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Newsvine - Early Adopter Octogenarians Living Large with Small Utility Bills

Seeded on Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:22 PM EST (TheDailyGreen.com)

Of the 30,000 people who live in Phoenix's Sun City West retirement community, there are two senior citizens who have a particular affection for the sun – even the scorching, 107-degree heat it brings to Arizona's dog days of summer.

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Early Adopter Octogenarians Living Large with Small Utility Bills

Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:15 PM EST

(November, 2008) -- Of the 30,000 people who live in Phoenix's Sun City West retirement community, there are two senior citizens who have a particular affection for the sun – even the scorching, 107-degree heat it brings to Arizona's dog days of summer.

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Iraqi War Veteran Abandons War for Oil to Fight In Renewable Revolution

Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:36 PM EST

(November 13, 2008)

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Drilling for Dollars: Boston Couple "Beats the Street" with Green Home Improvements

Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:30 PM EST

(November 2008) The U.S. Department of Energy predicts that the average residential electricity bill will increase 5% this year – and that it will escalate by another 10% in 2009.

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No Fossil Fuel Fool, Oklahoma Oil Prospector Goes Solar

Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:26 PM EST

Fall, 2008 Dewey Bartlett, Jr. is a third generation oil man. The 62-year-old Oklahoman has been in the oil and gas exploration business all his life. But when it comes to the polarizing energy debate, he's breaking new ground. This oil prospector is going solar.

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Bush to write book; Palin may steal limelight

Seeded on Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:03 PM EST (msnbc.com)

Republicans may have been voted out of power but they could dominate U.S. political bookshelves with memoirs by President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush among the possible coming attractions.� Yet both could be outdone by Sarah Palin,

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