A Clean-Energy Mega-Mall

Who would believe that the next big thing in renewable energy is being driven by a tenacious commercial developer with strong GOP affiliations and 25 mega-malls under his belt?

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May 21, 2005, 11:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Picture a gargantuan shopping complex in upstate New York -- a so-called "retail city" big enough to make Mall of America look like a five-and-dime -- with thousands of shops plus restaurants, theaters, hotels, a high-tech research park for commercial R&D, and a sprawling, climate-controlled biosphere for recreation. Yet another environmental abomination, you say?Not so fast."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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