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Editor, Brad Kane,
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Digital Editor, Grant Welker,
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Staff Writers
Laura Finaldi, lfinaldi@wbjournal.com
(Manufacturing, higher education)
Emily Micucci,
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Editorial Intern, Savannah Donohue,
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Contributors
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Livia Gershon
Research Director,
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Research Assistant, Heide Martin,
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Production Director, Kira Beaudoin,
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Associate Art Director,
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Senior Accounts Manager
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Custom Publishing Project Manager
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Senior Special Accounts Manager
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Marketing & Events Manager
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COO, Mary Rogers,
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Accounting Manager, Valerie Clark,
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Accounting Assistant, Rae Rogers,
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Collections Manager, Raki Zwiebel,
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Human Resources, Kim Vautour,
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Publisher, CEO, Peter Stanton
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Associate Publisher, Mark Murray
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President, Joseph Zwiebel
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V
ery little is more infuriating to
me about politics than how
different groups of Americans
– and different sectors of the
economy – are pitted against each other.
President Donald Trump's attitudes
toward the clean energy economy are
baffling to me, as if jobs selling solar
arrays, installing wind turbines, preserv-
ing natural land and cleaning up pollu-
tion are bad.
In this issue with a Focus on Green
Business, our editorial board on page 25
takes issue particularly with Trump's roll-
ing back of U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency regulations in order
to – according to him – stop environ-
mental regulation from impeding busi-
ness growth, as if the two were mutually
exclusive. Looking at the growth of the
just the commercial sector of the solar
industry in Massachusetts over the last
10 years and tell me environmental pro-
tections are hurting the economy.
Our main Green Business feature arti-
cles in this issue, thankfully, stay away
from all signs of politics. This is by
design, because we are a business-to-
business publication, and for my own
sanity, as politics tends to bring out the
worst in people while business tends to
bring out the best. Digital Editor Grant
Welker on page 12 looks at how
Worcester and developers are reducing
blight to create a more walkable city.
Staff Writer Emily Micucci on page 14
writes about how the College of the Holy
Cross is using the natural landscape of
its urban campus to entice students.
While politics are divisive, business is
about bringing people together to find
the best use of resources to feed the bot-
tom line. At his EPA takedown, Trump
was flanked by coal industry executives
and workers. This is unfortunate for
them because the reality of the market-
place is the public and power companies
have lost their appetite for costly coal
plants, and no amount of political stag-
ing is going to change that, making
Trump's posturing more impotent than
impactful. But, this isn't about saying the
coal industry is out of luck; it is about
understanding you have a workforce
Going green and staying there
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A division of:
NEWS & ANALYSIS
DEPARTMENTS
4 Central Mass. In Brief
5 Flash Poll
12 Focus on Green Business
16 The List: Top commercial contractors
18 The List: Latest green buildings
20 Know How
22 On the Move
23 Photo Finish
24 Business Leads
25 Opinion
30 Shop Talk: Jon Radoff, Disruptor Beam
14 Urban oasis
The College of the Holy Cross is cashing in
on its commitment to lush landscaping, in
this issue's Focus On Green Business.
25 What it takes to be "The Best"
WBJ Publisher Peter Stanton sees the
once good idea of "Best Companies to
Work For" issues slowly sliding into
unverifiable popularity contests.
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