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As sales wither at home, manufacturers see China, India and Brazil as a customer base of new affluence. With debt-burdened American consumers cutting back in response to the recession, many U.S. companies are increasingly looking outward, toward fast-developing countries such as China, India and Brazil.
More here: U.S. firms look to sell wares in emerging markets (Los Angeles Times)
Mobile commerce has been touted as a major growth prospect for years, but the industry still faces several big hurdles before it takes off in the United States, executives and analysts say.
Continue here: Subway tickets via cell phones a ways away (MSNBC)
Imagine waving your cell phone and being admitted through the turnstile of a subway station, or ordering and paying for a gift without once having to open your wallet or enter a credit-card number.
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Subway rides via cell phones-still a ways away (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
1st-of-its-kind home in Chicago will produce as much energy as it uses Michael Yannell's ComEd bill is almost surely less than yours.
Continue here: Going net zero -- for effect (Chicago Tribune)
1st-of-its-kind home in Chicago will produce as much energy as it uses Michael Yannell's ComEd bill is almost surely less than yours. His first-of-its-kind house will produce as much energy as it uses.
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Chicago's greenest home? (Chicago Tribune)
Intermodal Traffic may be down, but the companies that put containers and trailers on trains aren’t out for the count. In the middle of the worst recession in decades, they are reshaping and resizing their intermodal networks.
More here: Intermodal's New Track (Journal of Commerce Online)
The state is the model for a compromise with U.S. carmakers and the federal government to curb greenhouse gases. The Obama administration plans to announce on Tuesday that it will set national restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles, in what environmentalists are hailing as a major step.
Continue here: Obama to clamp down on cars (Newsday)
Negotiations continue behind closed doors as aides for Waxman and Markey work to find common ground with moderate Democrats from the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment in order to avoid a public dust-up in a mark-up. Major top-level issues continue to be unresolved in those negotiations . . .
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Environmental & Energy (Mondaq)
Amid a deepening economic crisis, the unemployment rate in Elkhart, Ind., has skyrocketed to 18 percent as the town's manufacturing base has collapsed. Paul Solman reports.
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Job Losses, Economic Realities Hit Home in Indiana City (The Online NewsHour)
Talk about downsizing.
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Chicagoans downsize, embrace dioramas (Chicago Tribune)