Clean Technica

How to Invest Directly into Solar Projects & Finance a Clean Energy Future

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Large solar projects are typically financed by big banks. At the other end of the scale, residential solar is financed by a homeowner and potentially just through their solar company or an affiliated lender. But what about the middle of that wide spectrum? It’s the smallish to mid-size-ish projects that … [continued]

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Great Lakes Now

An ecosystem engineer’s vision: mock beaver dams to restore Wisconsin wetlands

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An ecosystem engineer’s vision: mock beaver dams to restore Wisconsin wetlands

This article, first posted here, was republished with permission from Wisconsin Watch.

By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch

Jay Dee Nichols stamped and packed stiff willow branches between maple wood posts, with muffled crunches.

At 63, the semi-retired handyman from the Wisconsin city of Black River Falls has trapped beavers before.

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