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Hi Dave,
It was a pleasure to meet you at the Meet Up at the Labrador Pub. While it may be too early for this idea, still I'd like to see places and applications where 'going green' is good for business, and good for the bottom line.

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Thank you for hosting such a potent discussion. I enjoyed participating in it. Bad public policy hurts all stratas of the community. As Jefferson said , Governments are instituted among Men, to secure (certain) rights. Where has that ideal been derailed? Government now appears more to pander to lobbyists and industry, rather than address social needs. Healthcare inflates at 6%, and politicians promise a measly tax refunds to cover what? Generic aspirin? Predatory lenders rob the unwary, and as a consequence the stock market crumbles. Who gets bailed out? Bears Stearns? Cheap goods manufactured overseas without the benefit of green engineering mock our own domestic environmental achievements. Why not impose an environmental impact tariff that could fund green industry overseas? Where is the intelligent response from politicians to these difficulties? More want to sling mud at each other//When will politicians begin to work together to build and maintain the government so magnaminously praised to school children and other innocents?

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