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Real Goods, the Glossary

Real Goods Trading Corporation (commonly referred to as Real Goods) is a retail and wholesale e-commerce business located in Ukiah, California, that sells renewable energy systems and resources for people interested in living off the grid or with a low environmental impact.^[1]

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Retail companies established in 1978
Sustainability in the United States

Beehive

A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young.

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Broomfield, Colorado

Broomfield is a consolidated city and county located in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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California Department of Transportation

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is an executive department of the U.S. state of California.

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Cannabidiol

Cannabidiol (CBD) is a phytocannabinoid discovered in 1940.

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Cannabis dispensaries in the United States

Cannabis dispensaries in the United States or marijuana dispensaries are a type of cannabis retail outlet, local government-regulated physical location, typically inside a retail storefront or office building, in which a person can purchase cannabis and cannabis-related items for medical or recreational use.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Common stock

Common stock is a form of corporate equity ownership, a type of security.

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Compost

Compost is a mixture of ingredients used as plant fertilizer and to improve soil's physical, chemical, and biological properties.

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Corporation

A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of statute"; a legal person in a legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes.

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Direct public offering

A direct public offering (DPO) or direct listing is a method by which a company can offer an investment opportunity directly to the public.

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E-commerce

E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling products on online services or over the Internet.

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Electric utility

An electric utility, or a power company, is a company in the electric power industry (often a public utility) that engages in electricity generation and distribution of electricity for sale generally in a regulated market.

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Environmental issues

Environmental issues are disruptions in the usual function of ecosystems.

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Financial capital

Financial capital (also simply known as capital or equity in finance, accounting and economics) is any economic resource measured in terms of money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or to provide their services to the sector of the economy upon which their operation is based (e.g.

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Forest Stewardship Council

The Forest Stewardship Council GmbH (FSC) is an international non-profit, multistakeholder organization established in 1993 that promotes responsible management of the world's forests via timber certification.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City.

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Gaia, Inc.

Gaia, Inc. is an American media company founded in 1988 by Jirka Rysavy in Louisville, Colorado.

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Hopland, California

Hopland (formerly Sanel) is a census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States.

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Hops

Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant Humulus lupulus, a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants.

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Inc. (magazine)

Inc. is an American business magazine founded in 1979 and based in New York City.

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Initial public offering

An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors.

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John Schaeffer (environmentalist)

John Schaeffer was born November 9, 1949, in Los Angeles, California.

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Labyrinth

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (λαβύρινθος||) was an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.

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Louisville, Colorado

The City of Louisville is a home rule municipality located in southeastern Boulder County, Colorado, United States.

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Mail order

Mail order is the buying of goods or services by mail delivery.

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Mendocino County, California

Mendocino County (Mendocino, Spanish for "of Mendoza") is a county located on the North Coast of the U.S. state of California.

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Mergers and acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of companies, business organizations, or their operating units are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization.

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Nasdaq

The Nasdaq Stock Market (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange based in New York City.

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Net zero emissions

Global net zero emissions describes the state where emissions of greenhouse gases due to human activities, and removals of these gases, are in balance over a given period.

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Nonprofit organization

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.

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Off-the-grid

Off-the-grid or off-grid is a characteristic of buildings and a lifestyle designed in an independent manner without reliance on one or more public utilities. Real Goods and off-the-grid are simple living.

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Paper density

Paper density is a paper product's mass per unit volume.

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Paper recycling

The recycling of paper is the process by which waste paper is turned into new paper products.

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Passive solar building design

In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy, in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer.

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Permaculture

Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems.

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Rammed earth

Rammed earth is a technique for constructing foundations, floors, and walls using compacted natural raw materials such as earth, chalk, lime, or gravel.

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Real Goods Solar

Real Goods Solar Inc. was a publicly traded residential solar power integrator doing business as RGS Energy. Real Goods and Real Goods Solar are 1978 establishments in California and solar energy companies of the United States.

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Rebranding

Rebranding is a marketing strategy in which a new name, term, symbol, design, concept or combination thereof is created for an established brand with the intention of developing a new, differentiated identity in the minds of consumers, investors, competitors, and other stakeholders.

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Recycling

Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.

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Renewable energy

Renewable energy (or green energy) is energy from renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human timescale.

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Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa (Spanish for "Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, in the North Bay region of the Bay Area in California.

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Small Business Administration

The United States Small Business Administration (SBA) is an independent agency of the United States government that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses.

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Solar panel

A solar panel is a device that converts sunlight into electricity by using photovoltaic (PV) cells.

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Soy ink

Soy ink is a plant-based ink made from soybeans (Glycine max).

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Straw-bale construction

Straw-bale construction is a building method that uses bales of straw (usually wheatAsdrubali, F., D’Alessandro, F., Schiavoni, S.: A review of unconventional sustainable building insulation materials. Sustain Mater Technol. 4, 1–17 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susmat.2015.05.002 straw) as structural elements, building insulation, or both.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Goods

Also known as Real Goods Trading Corporation.

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Real Goods, the Glossary

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Retail companies established in 1978

Sustainability in the United States

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