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Lucia Graves

Environmental Coalition Backs Sen. Sherrod Brown's New Green Jobs Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 07.26.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) joined green jobs leaders Thursday to tout a merger of green development groups and planned advocacy for ...

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What's Green, White and Blue? American Jobs

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leo W. Gerard

Additional wind farms mean more renewable energy freeing the U.S. from reliance on foreign oil. But there's no point in replacing imported foreign oil with imported wind turbines

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Mitigation: The Wrong Way to Look at Green Innovation

Marc Stoiber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marc Stoiber

I had the good fortune to sit down with Guy Dauncey this week. Dauncey is an author and speaker on climate change, and always has great insights into the sociological side of sustainability.

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Stand With Van Jones, A Real Patriot

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sarah van Gelder

Do President Obama and his top staff have the strength to stand up to the right-wing attack machine, and will they carry out the agenda Americans elected them to accomplish?

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Speaking Power to "Truth"

Melissa Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Melissa Bradley

The Right is intensifying their attacks on the nonprofit organizations. These attacks are no longer just the sphere of the right wing blogosphere; now they're going mainstream.

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Senator Brown Calls for New Investments in Clean Energy Manufacturing

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jesse Jenkins

Senator Brown's efforts to advance new investments in clean energy technologies and manufacturing are critical.

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Right-Wing Ups its Attacks on Clean Energy and Green Jobs; Here's How We Need to Respond

Cathy Calfo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cathy Calfo

This is not a vast left-wing conspiracy. We want to make clean energy as American as apple pie.

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GE Moves Green Jobs To China

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Elk

In the last decade, GE has closed over fifteen factories in Ohio and downsized numerous others. Since 1980, employment in GE Lighting has dropped by 68 percent.

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Quit Bailing. Start Building.

Phil Angelides | Posted 05.25.2011

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Phil Angelides

Clean energy isn't a mirage. It's the fastest growing industrial sector in the United States. It is already generating $25 billion a year in sales and revenue, with almost no support from the federal government.

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The Seventy Percent Solution

Marco Trbovich | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marco Trbovich

70 percent of the US economy has been dependent on consumer purchasing to sustain economic growth. The portion of workers in the US who do not have a college education is also 70 percent.

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Building a Green Economy

Adele Stan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Adele Stan

We all say we want to go green, but do we all see the same kinds of change when we imagine an eco-friendly economy? In Denver, Colo., Tom Plant, dire...

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