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  • Alumnus builds eclectic business off the grid

    Alumnus builds eclectic business off the grid

    By Rose Cahalan, The Alcalde
    Published: Sept. 29, 2011

    Industrial Country Market, the business venture of Andrew Bretch, is a solar-power education center, an art gallery and a wacky playground.

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      Glenda Stevens said on March 2, 2012 at 5:41 p.m.
      Off grid power is the way of the future. Becoming more and more popular and as prices and ease of installs becomes more attainable we will see more people taking it up. It just makes ense to harness a renewable that is so present as solar.
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      George Bennet said on Oct. 14, 2011 at 8:10 p.m.
      Sounds perfect.

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