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Green Economy

Creating Jobs, Investment and Economic Opportunity in the Outer Boroughs

John Petro | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Berkeley-California, Los Angeles, Energy Efficiency, Green Economy, Green Jobs, Solar Power, New York City, New York News
John Petro

What New Yorkers need, especially those in outer boroughs suffering from the housing crash, is a way to channel investment to make green improvements to their homes and businesses.

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Lindsey Graham Rebukes Fellow Republicans: "The Green Economy Is Coming"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Lindsey Graham Climate Change, Senator Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Graham Global Warming, Graham Green Economy, Ssenate, Green Economy, Climate Change, Lindsey Graham, Global Warming, Green News

Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) chastised his fellow Republicans Wednesday for refusing to deal with climate change and said they needed to see green legislat...

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Solar Is Coming to Town -- Price Shifts, Market Changes And Policy Opportunities to Grow the Midwest's Green Economy

Howard Learner | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Solar Energy, Chicago, Green, Environment, Clean Energy, Green Economy, Energy Policy, Solar Power, Global Warming, Green News
Howard Learner

Everyone is in search of which clean energy option will be the US's savior from fossil fuels. While wind looks promising, a perfect storm of opportunities might make solar the best game in town.

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Van Jones' Vision of Green Jobs Will Endure

Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Fox News, Green Economy, Glenn Beck, Green Jobs Czar, Green Jobs, Van Jones, Big Oil, Big Coal, Green News
Frances Beinecke

The ideas Van so eloquently communicates have become mainstream today, and that is threatening to the far right and their friends at Fox News.

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Guess What Else Cost a Trillion

Joshua Keyak | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environment, Green, Fossil Fuels, Health Care, Healthcare, Environmental Policy, Environmentalism, Green Economy, Green Living, Green Energy, Green News
Joshua Keyak

We must live more sustainable lifestyles, not only for our own individual health and pocket book but also for the well-being of others.

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Looking Backwards in Order to Move Forward

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainability, Green Economy, Navajo Nation, Green Energy, Green News
Jonathan A. Schein

The Navajo Nation, currently saddled with a 44% unemployment rate, has become the first Native American tribe to pass green jobs legislation.

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GE Moves Green Jobs To China

Mike Elk | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Outsourcing, Apollo Alliance, Green Jobs, Ge, Impact Act, Sherrod Brown, Clean Energy, Green Economy, Business News
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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Navajo Nation Starting Green Jobs Initiative

Yahoo! Finance | Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press Writer | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Economy, Navajo Nation, Navajo, Green Jobs, Green Jobs Navajo, Green Energy, Green News

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- Supporters of an effort to create green jobs on the Navajo Nation say a newly formed commission will help to spark creation o...

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Will Protectionism Protect Our Workers?

Danny Schechter | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Green Economy, United Steelworkers, Leo Gerard, Protectionism, China, Trade Policy, Tarriffs, Business News
Danny Schechter

Many in China already resent US economic bullying and blame Wall Street for selling them junk loans and infected financial products that have caused vast economic losses.

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The Stimulus We Need

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Zoning, Economic Crisis, Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander, Planning, Green Economy, Metrosprawl, Business, Stimulus, Entrepreneur, Urban Sprawl, Barack Obama, President Obama, Obama, President, Politics News
Stephen C. Rose

We need a vision that will excite businesses and alert them to where investments can be fruitfully made. A vision that exudes confidence about the future.

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Pooping Where You Sleep: Bad for the Economy

David Roberts | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Science, Economy, Environmental Practices, Green Economy, Coal, Green News
David Roberts

Time and time again, an environment-degrading practice often defended as necessary to economic health is revealed, upon closer inspection, to be uneconomic.

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Planet Ocean: Riding a Green Ship to the Future We Want - Project Kaisei

Mary Liz Thomson | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: United Nations Environment Program, Scripps Oceanographic Institute, Social Entrepreneurs, Doug Woodring, Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch, Ocean Clean Up, Project Kaisei, Alternative Energy, Environment, Marine Science, Plastic Vortex, Ocean Pollution, Jim Dufour, Discarded Plastic, Green Economy, Oceans, Diesel Fuel, Green News
Mary Liz Thomson

Hundreds of square miles of ocean, just North West of Hawaii, are covered thick with floating human garbage. The ocean doesn't clean itself.

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The Case for a National Office of Transition

Robbie Gennet | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Green Jobs, Personal Health, War, President Obama, Green, Jobs, Drugs, Justice Department, Green Energy, War in Iraq, Iraq War, Labor, Military, Unemployment, General Motors, Health, Oil, Financial Crisis, Green Economy, Teachers, Iraq, Unions, Michigan, Health Care, Auto Industry, Personal Finance, Politics News
Robbie Gennet

President Obama is seeking massive changes in the way the US is operating when it comes to energy, transportation, agriculture and labor, among others...

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Government Announces Money For Green Jobs, Training From Stimulus Package

AP | DAN ELLIOTT | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Economy, Stimulus Package Green Jobs, Green Jobs, Stimulus Package, Green News

DENVER — Vice President Joe Biden and two Cabinet secretaries unveiled a national program Tuesday to train workers for "green jobs" that will make p...

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Feds To Give Green Job Aid To Ailing Auto Towns

AP | JAMES HANNAH | Posted 06.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Automakers, Auto Dealers, Green Jobs, Cars, Green Economy, Green News

DAYTON, Ohio — The federal government will give car-manufacturing communities $50 million in grants to train laid-off workers for jobs in the en...

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Eco-Hitched

Michael DeJong | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Tree-Hugging, John Muir, National Environmental Plan, Cleaning Industrial Complex, Insecticides, Market-Based Cap, Big Coal, President Obama, Energy Legislation, Carbon Pollution, Household Cleaners, Design for the Environment, Clorox Green Works™, Chairmen Waxman and Markey, House Energy and Commerce Committee, ” “Greenwashing” Niche Market, Big Oil, Dirty Coal, Loyal Consumers, Environmental Protection Agency, ” “Green, Clorox Corporation, House Democrats, Chlorine Bleaches, Clorox Net Earnings of $461 Million, Green Economy, Petrochemical-Based, Addicted to Oil, Sierra Club, “Natural, Green Living, Britta, Green News
Michael DeJong

I hope that the Sierra Club continues to support the new proposed bill more enthusiastically than they have the "greenwashing" efforts of their shot-gun bride, Clorox Corporation.

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Blacks and Latinos Barely Afloat During Recession: With High Rates of Unemployment, Obama's Recovery Plan Not Enough

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, U.S. Economy, Recovery, Labor, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Green Jobs, Economic Stimulus Package, Unemployment, Money, Main Street, Obama Administration, Green Economy, Affirmative-Action, Families, Job Creation, African Americans, Politics News
C. Nicole Mason

In order to cut the unemployment rate in those communities to the projected national rate of 6.5 percent, an additional 1.7 million jobs would have to be created and go directly to Blacks and Latinos by 2010.

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Who's Missing in the Big "Green" Conversation?

Ben Hecht | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Workforce, Green-Workforce, Green Collar Jobs, Green Collar Economy, Green Rebuilding, Report, Green Economy, Living Cities, Green News
Ben Hecht

Many cities seem to be missing the critical aspect of including low-income and under-served urban areas as part of their efforts to reduce their carbon footprints.

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US Outsources 22,000 Green Jobs To India

expressbuzz.com | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Outsourcing, Outsourcing Green Jobs, Green Jobs, Economy, Green Economy, India, Green News

Green offshoring is creating demand for sustainability engineers, marketing and business development executives, data center management engineers, uti...

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The Hypocrisy of Green

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Earth Day 2009, Arbor Day Foundation, NBC Universal, Purchasing Habits, Future Resources, Social Responsibility, Mindfulness, Environment, Green Economy, Personal Sacrifice, Rainforests, Carbon Footprint, Greenisuniversal, Green News
Michael DeJong

Unfortunately, Earth Day for many has become yet another narcoleptic occasion to enact pointless environmental rituals while denouncing the greed and excesses they also find themselves ankle deep in.

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Green Energy Paradox: Activists Fear Renewable-Energy Projects Could Damage Wildlife

Washington Post | Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson | Posted 05.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy Damage Wildlife, Green Energy, Green Economy, Green Energy Paradox, Green News

The SunZia transmission line that would link sun and wind power from central New Mexico with cities in Arizona is just the sort of energy project an e...

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How To Get A Green Job: Newsweek

Newsweek | Christina Gillham | Posted 05.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Green Economy, Green Jobs, How to Get Green Jobs, Green News

Loma Roggenkamp was looking for a new career. Saddled with a huge student-loan debt and an underpaying job in graphic design, the 29-year-old Pennsylv...

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Senator Specter Kicks Off Nationwide Town Hall on Clean Energy Future

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 05.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Arlen Specter, Climate Policy, Senate, Pennsylvania, Focus the Nation, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy Economy, Green Economy, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Philadelphia, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Youth Activism, Global Warming, Green News
Jesse Jenkins

International climate experts say that the next few years is the window for averting irretrievable climate disruption. If there's no action before 2012, that's too late.

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Aventine, Ethanol Producer, Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection

AP | DIRK LAMMERS | Posted 05.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Technology, Ethanol, Green Economy, Green Energy, Ethanol Bankruptcy, Green News

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Ethanol producer Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc. said Wednesday it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. ...

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When America Works Together, America Works

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business

Read More: United Steelworkers, Green Economy, Green Business, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Unions, Waxman-Markey, Nrdc, Green Jobs, Blue Green Alliance, Sierra Club, CWA, Economy, Business News
Jonathan A. Schein

It will probably be months before we know the outcome of the Waxman-Markey bill; in the meantime, it appears that more alliances of strange bedfellows will emerge.

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