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Paradox has long been a part of life here, says Georgianne Christian Allen, who is writing a history of Shermantown, an African-American neighborhood in Stone Mountain. According to oral tradition, the neighborhood was created after Union General William Tecumseh Sherman made his fiery path through Georgia and freed slaves, some of whom congregated in the small area between Main Street and the mountain. Elderly blacks remember the injustice of separatism and Shermantown as one of the last areas in DeKalb County to get sewers and paved roads. But even when separatism was perpetuated by law, "Stone Mountain blacks...
...With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/Wiggins, Anne Berryman/Stone Mountain, Elisabeth Kauffman/Thomasville, Desa Philadelphia/New York and Frank Sikora/Selma
...named their group. It's almost as if some deity simply declared "Let there be 'Episcopal Power & Light,'" and there was Episcopal Power & Light. In a three-year altar-to-altar crusade, they persuaded 30 churches and hundreds of households to buy clean electricity from a company called Green Mountain Energy, only to watch their work--and Green Mountain's nearly 60,000 California customers--smote by deregulation's failure...
...lifted off in 1998 when Green Mountain, based in Austin, Texas, agreed to print educational material and offer churches $35 cash for each parishioner who enrolled. Formerly part of a Vermont utility, the company was sold to private investors in 1997. A cynic might call the setup a marketing V.P.'s wildest fantasy: priests endorsing a product in the name of you-know-who and then pounding the pavement. But that would not be entirely fair. Both sides are vulnerable, and neither has an advantage. It's the Holy Spirit meeting the "invisible hand...
That's fine for the environmentally faithful, but clean-power utilities will succeed only if they can match rates with burners. Green Mountain scored a big victory in February, when an energy-buying aggregate in northeastern Ohio handed over more than 400,000 customers. "It's attractive that Green Mountain has some different energy sources, but that wasn't the paramount issue," says Thomas J. Coyne Jr., mayor of Brook Park, Ohio. "The bottom line is, How do we save the most money for the customers?" Green Mountain beat competitors by 1% to 3%; the buyers' aggregate allowed the company...