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Published: Aug. 20, 2008

Sean Casten has for years been peering into the abyss that is energy consumption in the United States. And for years he's been nagged by the opportunities that drift away - through the staggering amount of heat that escapes out of the nation's industrial smokestacks every day.

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Published: July 30, 2008

"The beer garden is a great example of green building principles," says Patrick Conway, co-owner of the brewery with his brother Daniel. "We can use it not just three months of the summer ... but year round."

It's just the latest in the Conways' quest for "zero-waste" practices. 

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Published: April 23, 2007

Cleveland Councilman Matt Zone pushes forward a brochure for the first "eco-village" built in the country. It's in his ward. "I've defined myself as the environmental councilman," he says. "Ask anybody."

Zone then begins to discuss the recent vote allowing Cleveland Public Power to enter a deal to begin in 2012 drawing energy supplies from a brand-new coal-burning plant in Southern Ohio - a vote that has sparked much criticism.

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