Cloudless desert skies and the nation’s highest unemployment rate are turning the Imperial Valley into a testing ground for the nation’s push to create green jobs and innovate its way back to prosperity. via Can solar help the jobless? | SignOnSanDiego.com.
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Legislation that would create and save millions of jobs across the US by building a clean energy economy has stalled, while nations like China are forging ahead, the BlueGreen Alliance has reminded legislators. The US alliance, a coalition of union and environmental groups, kicked off a ‘Job’s Not Done Tour’ this week. The 30-city bus tour Continue reading →
A National Science Foundation grant supported a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor’s research on what communities can do to encourage the growth of green jobs, and a first-of-its kind national study on the topic has just been released. The results found that New York is one of just a handful of states with strong policies that Continue reading →
General Electric’s Digital Energy business will be headquartered in the Atlanta area, bringing more than 400 green jobs to the region. GE will partner with Georgia Tech at their Smart Grid Center of Excellence to develop a new energy model. WABE’s Martha Dalton reports. The power grid consists of transmission lines that connect utilities with Continue reading →
The smart grid idea aims to save money, reduce pollution, lower costs and create new “green” jobs. Smart grid is a phrase that refers to a number of things at the same time. It refers to the modernization of the electrical grid itself — the way electricity is transmitted over long distances and then brought to Continue reading →
Sacramento led the state in green job growth in 2008, with an increase in green jobs of 87% between 1995 and 2008, reports Many Shades of Green: Diversity and Distribution of California’s Green Jobs. This report was released by nonpartisan Next 10 and Collaborative Economics, and provides the most comprehensive green jobs accounting to date, Continue reading →
Labor and environmental groups joined with the U.S. government on Thursday to promote high speed Internet access and related technologies to create green jobs and help lift the United States out of recession. “In the same way that building the interstate freeway system brought the United States out of the post-World War Two recession … Continue reading →
In a generally bleak employment picture, the green jobs sector is growing faster than any other. By 2007, a Pew Charitable Trusts report on the Clean Energy Economy counted 770,000 jobs in all 50 states that met the “double bottom line” of economic growth and environmental sustainability. Clean energy economy jobs grew by 9.1% between Continue reading →
In a generally bleak employment picture, the green jobs sector is growing faster than any other. By 2007, a Pew Charitable Trusts report on the Clean Energy Economy counted 770,000 jobs in all 50 states that met the “double bottom line” of economic growth and environmental sustainability. Clean energy economy jobs grew by 9.1% between Continue reading →
Clean Energy Jobs Blow In (not blow up) Coal River Mountain: $250 million per year for 25,000 jobs We often hear about how coal mining is critical due to jobs. Well, West Virginia has seen coal-mining jobs fall from 120,000 to 15,000 due to automation. And, the atrocious war on Appalachia called mountaintop removal really Continue reading →
The Obama administration’s progressive support for renewable energy will result in about 1.9 million green collar jobs, according to a new report published by three U.S. universities. It will also elevate the average household income by more than $1,000 and America’s GDP by $111 billion by 2020. This sets Obama on track to create 5 Continue reading →
For all the national attention that Kansas City’s proposed Green Impact Zone has received, it’s still too early to tell much about what it will look like. Organizers know what they want to do — make the 150-block zone in the urban core more energy efficient — but they’re still hammering out the details of Continue reading →
