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Amazon, Lifeline or Scourge For Retail-Starved, Rural Communities?

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon prime, Amazon Web Services, distribution facilities, economic development, fedex, free shipping, georgetown maine, jeff bezos, jeff bezos blue origin, logistics, rural, rural economic development, rural juror, sagadahoc county, shipping, ups, USPS, usps dejoy, warehouseing, westport maine, why is fedex so bad

Amazon is committed to a money-losing strategy to try and cop rural market share. But it’s not exactly a great deal for consumers, either. Looking at some examples from Maine and an example from California, we can learn a bit about the challenges facing retail in rural communities as well as how Amazon is (maybe) thinking about this issue.

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Durable, Illiquid, Efficient, and Thoroughly Unsexy: Building Envelopes vs. Climate Change

April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1837 border war, air conditioning efficiency, air source heat pump, amy ellsworth, building retrofit, buildings and housing workgroup, cadmus group, carbon footprint, CDD, climate change, climate zones, CMS, consulting industrial complex, Consumers Energy, decarbonization, DNR, DTE, DTE Energy, EGLE, electrification, energy usage intensity, environment great lakes and energy, EUI, HDD, heat pump, illiquid, insulation, insulation retrofit, jeannette lezaks, jeremy kraft, Leila Mekias, liquidity, mary templeton, michigan council on climate solutions, Michigan DNR, Michigan EGLE, michigan saves, mini-split, mr. slim, residential energy, retrofit, SEER, slipstream, split system heat pump, spray foam, TRC companies, uppco, Upper Peninsula, wsp, Yooper, yoopers

Building envelope retrofits aren’t very flashy. But they’re a crucial way to address the climate crisis.

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