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August 2009
Study bumps Montana’s ranking to No. 2 for wind potential
Anyone who has spent any time in Montana could hardly be surprised by the findings.
A Harvard study, released last month, puts the Big Sky State in a tie with Kansas - and second only to Texas - for having the greatest potential in the nation for wind power.....
Why do empty nesters always have to announce their freedom? They maybe the most wild people on the planet. The movie, "About Schmidt" is a perfect example of unspeakable "Empty Nester" behavior. The only thing missing in that mobile home monster was a wet bar and a hot tub. He had everything all figured out, even his last day of work. Down to the last tick of the clock. Although, his planning went awry, at the death of his wife. Ironic times have hit the world, economies balanced on the tip of a moment in time. We never thought a "Great Depression" could happen again. The cycle of recession occurred much sooner than it had in the past. Our parents and grandparents described the bottom of that "Depression" and today's economic slope still looks slippery at the moment. They always gave us warnings about debt and paying cash, it is advice that should still be followed.....
Michigan businesses study potential of clean energy jobs plan
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Joined by State Rep. Ryan Dvorak (D-South Bend), Michiana business leaders today urged Congress to pass a clean energy jobs plan that would boost Indiana’s economy and grow new jobs in the area.....
Researchers: Renewable energy jobs are safer
The push for renewable energies has one more feather to put in its cap: improved health for its workforce and the potential of evading death, at least while on the job.....
JOBS IN THE WIND: Target boosts green jobs
Hundreds of jobs are expected to be generated across the south-west after a deal was brokered yesterday on a stronger national renewable energy target.....
U.S. tour touts green energy jobs
A national transition to a ''clean energy economy'' will keep American manufacturers busy and put millions of people to work. Oh, and help the planet, too.....
Green energy projects will lead to job boom, Smitherman says
Renewable energy projects can create 50,000 jobs in Ontario and help the province finally shut down its coal power plants, Energy and Infrastructure Minister George Smitherman told municipal leaders Wednesday.....
Renewable energy laws pass Australia's parliament
Australia's government struck agreement with opponents on Wednesday for 20 percent of the country's energy to come from renewable sources by 2020, unlocking a $22 billion investment rush and reviving hopes of a later emissions trade deal.....
CIMC partners with USST to develop renewable energy projects and green jobs
Alliance forged under CIMC Green Jobs Initiative aims to spur economic development in tribal communities
The California Indian Manpower Consortium recently announced a statewide alliance with U.S. Science and Technology, a renewable energy project development company.....
Taiwan to invest $1.4 bln in renewable energy
TAIPEI, Taiwan's government will invest T$45 billion ($1.4 billion) in the island's domestic renewable energy sector, it said on Tuesday, in a move it says will help the sector grow nearly eight-fold by 2015.....
In the midst of the worst recession in 70 years, it is not surprising that the Obama administration is trying to mobilize support for the House’s climate change legislation by billing it as a way to create a new generation of green jobs. Energy Secretary Steven Chu adds an extra twist to this pitch: If the United States does not adopt the bill’s carrots and sticks for reducing energy waste and developing carbon-free energy sources, China will leapfrog ahead of us in this field.....
Renewables target delay 'risking jobs'
The Opposition says the Government is potentially putting thousands of jobs at risk by continuing to play politics with its renewable energy target legislation.....
State ‘falling behind’ in wind jobs
Prof says Wyoming should promote alternative energy
Wyoming has lost jobs and other opportunities as it went from fifth to 11th in wind power generation in recent years, and the ability to move electricity to market has little to do with it, a University of Wyoming transmission expert said Friday.....
Energy bill will help solve Houston’s jobless problem
Our state is facing an unemployment rate of around 7.5 percent, the highest it has been in the past 16 years. While this is 2 percent less than the national average, Texas has not seen unemployment this high since 1993. Last month alone, Texas lost 40,600 jobs.....
Commentary: Make every job a green job
In a recent CNN commentary entitled "Green jobs: hope or hype?" Samuel Sherraden argues that green job creation will be insufficient to bring America out of recession. But Sherraden narrowly defines green as a "sector," and fails to see its potential as a strategy for the revitalization of the entire economy.....
Renewable energy sector ramps up pressure for targets
MARK COLVIN: Today's defeat of the emissions trading scheme may not have been a surprise, but it did come as a blow to the renewable energy sector.....
Green revolution, green jobs central to national clean energy summit 2.0
Hosting his second annual all-star gathering of clean energy proponents at University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Monday, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada called for "a new revolution ... a clean energy revolution" to restore American prosperity and global leadership.....
MGT announces plans for second enormous biomass power plant in U.K.
Britain-based MGT Power Ltd. announced on Aug. 10 its plans to build another 295-megawatt biomass power plant in the U.K. It will be the company’s second plant and ties with the first as the largest biomass power plant in the world.....
During the 2008 campaign season, voters heard a lot about green jobs that were going to help reverse slipping employment numbers while reducing American dependence on foreign oil. America, it was said, would lead the world in creating a green economy that would triply silence threats to our economy, security, and environment. So where are all these green jobs? They're coming, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis told the Associated Press Monday, but don't hold your breath.....
Renewable energy is more exciting than cap-and-trade!
I’ve long thought that the message framing around renewable energy is much more appealing (Let’s make clean energy cheaper! Build the industries of the future! Cool technology and jobs for everyone! It’ll be like the dotcom boom all over again! But without the dumb names!) than that of carbon cap-and-trade (Let’s put a price on carbon! Make fossil fuels more expensive!)
Governor Edward G. Rendell today announced $20.7 million of investments in 25 projects to generate and conserve enough energy to power more than 26,000 homes, reducing carbon emissions equivalent to removing more than 17,000 cars from our roadways.....
NATIONAL CLEAN ENERGY SUMMIT: Gore argues for alternative power, conservation
Climate change, dwindling petroleum reserves among reasons cited for going green
An all-day Monday powwow featuring some of the country's best-known policymakers yielded an array of suggestions for boosting the nation's green-energy economy.....
Walmart gives generously from its green jobs initiative
The Walmart Foundation has presented a grant of almost £380,000 from its Green Jobs Training Initiative to the Milwaukee Conservation Leadership Corps (CLC) programme. Presented in conjunction with the US Conference of Mayors, the grant will support local job training and youth work experience in conservation projects.....
Labor sec'y says green jobs hiring will pick up
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said Monday that she believes hiring in the alternative energy industry will pick up in the next 12 months, but it will take longer than that for so-called green jobs to become a bigger part of the U.S. job market.....
Wind Power: New shade of green dominates Iowa landscape
A capricious Mother Nature, brandishing weapons of deluge, drought, scorching heat, and frost, has long possessed a power to destroy the livelihood of farming families populating small prairie towns like Walnut, Iowa. In a state where more than 85 percent of the land is devoted to agricultural purposes, talking about the weather represents a culturally-ingrained aspect of discourse. But these days the focus of that conversation is changing in Walnut, home to the state's newest large-scale wind farm.....
McDonnell focuses on job creation in visit to southside
At Morning Press Conference Unveils: “Economic Vision for Rural Virginia: Good Jobs Everywhere”
Plan Includes Coordinated Statewide Effort to Bring New Economic Opportunity and Prosperity to Rural Virginia.....
The Green Bank is essential for a clean-energy strategy
The new institution will lower energy costs, create jobs, reduce carbon emissions, and protect our national security.....
eSolar blazes trail, new solar power tower creates 300 jobs
The wind and sun provide compelling sources of renewable energy, but so far the challenge has been finding a way to convert it into usable electricity as efficiently as we convert fossil fuels. So far government subsidies have propped up the industry while it finds new ways to make the technology affordable for the masses.....
ALTERNATIVE POWER: Energy summit will help create jobs
While the Congress is in recess, important work goes on. The National Clean Energy Summit 2.0, which will be held in Las Vegas on Monday, will build on the two previous summits which were held in Las Vegas and in Washington, D.C. This year we will focus on how natural gas, wind, solar and other renewable sources of energy will positively impact jobs as we begin to emerge from the worst recession in decades.....
Get wind of the careers that care for the planet
Want a career with a great future that’s environmentally sound? Then go green – “green collar”, that is.
The good news is that even though we’re in a recession, thousands of what are being dubbed green collar careers are being created in areas such as recycling and wind farms.....
American ingenuity is second to none. Pair that with the world-class work force that we have in Michigan, and you're talking about an unstoppable alliance between business and labor that can help make Michigan a leader in the 21st century. That's why I take issue with naysayers who claim moving toward clean energy won't create jobs.....
Renewable ventures completes $200M solar fund
Renewable Ventures, a Fotowatio company, announced the completion of Solar Fund V to finance more than $200 million of new solar energy projects across the United States.....
Wind energy helps boost economy
As a leading clean energy company and one of the five largest wind generators in the country, we have the incredible opportunity to help move the U.S. renewable energy industry forward in a time when we can and must do all we can to decrease our dependence on foreign sources of energy.....
Colorado solar plant generates jobs and energy
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar visted the High-Tech Solar Panel Plant in Longmont, CO to call attention to a reinvigorated U.S. high-tech manufacturing sector. Salazar met with employees of an innovative solar panel company that has created more than 200 ‘green jobs’ in two years and expects to double employment by next year.....
Young adults train for green jobs
Local Job Corps graduates might be green when it comes to work experience, but now they have new "green" skills to set them apart as they enter the job market.....
Global talks don’t have a great reputation for achievement. But the G-8 climate change talks in Italy broke new ground, and offer an opportunity to prove the doubters wrong.....
Leaders hope green jobs will help heal employment void
When Ronald Tucker, a sheet-metal worker who had bounced among at least five New Jersey companies over 20 years, was laid off again in March, he decided it was time to trade a job surrounded by silver for one based on green.....
Here comes the sun: Increasing incentives for solar energy
The sun accounts for nearly 99 percent of the mass of our solar system, provides heat and light to the eight planets and is responsible for all life on Earth, sustaining billions of plants and animals with its rays, while also driving our planet’s climate and weather patterns.....
U.S. Air Force cracks Top-20 list for green power
Joining the ranks of such green notables as San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, the U.S. Air Force has made the top 20 List of On-Site Green Power Purchasers. The quarterly list is a subset of the U.S. EPA's Green Power Partnership program. It includes organizations, businesses or government entities that purchase sustainable power from sources based in the U.S.A., either directly or through the use of Renewable Energy Certificates.....
Downturn isn't halting C. Ore. green-job growth
There's only so many windy patches of Earth-and even fewer patches close to transmission lines.
So for the next five to 10 years, the wind power industry is going to be running full steam ahead, said Mike Costanti, principal with Western Community Energy.....
The government is aiming to create 50,000 new jobs in ‘green’ industries across the country, writes Nick Gibson.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made the promise to delegates at a Labor Party conference in Australia this week.....
'Millions of jobs' to be created in green sector
University leavers looking for graduate jobs with a social responsibility have been given some hope by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which claims positions could be created with government investment.....
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