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Is Ohio Saving Solar and Wind for a Rainy Day?

Energy and all its concerns are being solved every day in conversations held by big media pundits and dinner table enthusiasts. The problem is that no one is doing the work – or at least, almost no one. Headlines will often read that jobs are plentiful in solar and wind industries, but this is not…
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OSU’s Secret Plan to Privatize Campus Energy Services: Campus community sweetheart deals hiding behind non-transparency

Privatization is becoming the policy de joure at Ohio State University, but students and university employees are left out of the discussions. As OSU’s leadership has shifted, many community members have become concerned about drastic changes in student life and operations, like the new sophomore…
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Plastic bags: In our trees, rivers and landfills

What if Columbus was a Zero Waste City by 2040? Sound impossible? Interestingly enough, a city with about 30,000 more people aims to reach that goal by 2020. San Francisco has a landfill diversion rate of over 80 percent. A “green team” is employed to ensure residents and businesses help clean up…
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A Capital without rail

History has been made in our lifetime. When President Obama came to office in 2009, he had a progressive agenda that included implementing a national high speed rail plan. Many of his platforms became unsuccessful bargaining chips and the high speed rail plan was hardly popular on both sides of the…

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