Standard economic models do show that measures designed to reduce green house gasses by raising energy prices will lead to some cost in terms of slower economic growth. However, scare stories never put it in any context.
There are many obstacles to transition our dependency on traditional fossil fuels to cleaner energy solutions, and Ritter has demonstrated the courage to confront those obstacles.
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Hallelujah! The latest jobs numbers, though pretty darn ugly, are beginning to throw off some hopeful signs.
How many epidemics and Katrinas will it take to expose the myth that the U.S. economy is somehow exempt from the threats of climate change?
After three years of lectures and spending several hours and nights churning out essays, it was finally time to decide what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
With such heated discussion on the topic of sexual harassment, I asked two of the top experts, Barry Halote, Ph.D., and Allan Gerson, Ph.D., to weigh in on the issue.
We have neglected the manufacturing base of our economy in much the same way we have neglected financial regulation. There simply is no manufacturing policy in the United States.
I have been an environmental advocate for more than 35 years. And throughout that time, I have written policy briefs, magazine articles, and blog post...
For the first time since 1983, over 1 out of every 10 American is out of work. How's that for starting your Friday with some sobering news?
Finland and France have declared internet access a legal right for all citizens. Here's why I hope the United States and all other countries will follow their and grant internet access as a human right.
In the past week, a drama unfolded around the Senate EPW Committee hearings for the new Senate bill on climate and clean energy jobs. Declarations! Boycott threats! Power plays!
Republicans, conservative Democrats, and corporate lobbyists are all eagerly lining up to spin the losses as evidence that Democrats should go slower. That is the worst possible thing they could do right now.
A study I performed on successful CEOs of private equity funded ventures found that their wives played pivotal roles in their success as executives and in their sense of balance.
While the outlook for our country is getting brighter, the outlook for hundreds of thousands of individuals still seems bleak. What can you do if you're one of those folks whose job and/or company is gone forever?
Are theses nonprofit ventures harbingers of bigger and better things to come? It's hard to scale these businesses or even to replicate them.
Have you ever wondered why your achievements in life reached a plateau when they did - how you were on the path of your dream before something got in the way and stopped the surge?
Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Ashley Stewart When I graduated from ...
The optimist in me says Obama can pivot off a health-care victory and launch some new initiatives that palpably and quickly spur job growth. The realist says there aren't any such initiatives.
When I was fired, I pretended it was like a gift to my kids. Somehow, I felt it was my duty to protect them from the pain I was feeling. I sugarcoated the whole thing. Big mistake.
By Michael Grabell, Jennifer LaFleur, Amanda Michel and Christopher Flavelle, ProPublica. When the nearly $800 billion economic stimulus package pas...
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