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Obama, Global Warming, and the Fast Track to Economic Stability

Frances Beinecke | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Obama, Green Collar Jobs, Green Economy, Economic Stimulus, Green Energy, S Renewable Energy, Global Warming, Obama Economic Stimulus, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Obama recognizes something those cynics may not: that the path to economic stability leads right through global warming solutions.

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Greening Hollywood: Democratizing Sustainability

Paige Donner | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Michael Besancon, Whole Foods, Democratizing Sustainability, Wal-Mart, Patagonia, Business, Fortune Magazine, Barack Obama, Greening Hollywood, Charles Zimmerman, Ucla, Rick Ridgeway, Environment, Sustainability, Green Economy, Solar Roofs, Green Buildings, Government Regulation, Green Roofs, Sustainable Packaging, Green News
Paige Donner

I'll 'fess up. "Democratizing sustainability," is not a phrase I coined nor one I've even used before.

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Booming Biofuel Startup Sets Sights On $2-A-Gallon Diesel

wired.com | Alexis Madrigal | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Amyris, Energy, Gas Prices, Green Collar Jobs, Gas, Biofuel, John Melo, Green Economy, Money Saving, Green News

"We have 203 employees -- and we're growing," John Melo, CEO of alt-fuel startup Amyris, said as he stepped jauntily through the glass doors at his co...

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Oil-Rich Dubai Spending Big On Huge Solar Facility

TreeHugger.com | Matthew McDermott | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Solar Panels, Energy, Dubai, Green Collar Jobs, Oil, Green Economy, Green Energy, Solar Power, Green News

In an area of the world with no shortage of sunlight, awash in oil wealth (and being able to detect the way the cleantech wind is blowing...) and with...

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Gearing Up to Advance the Green Economy

Howard Learner | Posted 12.18.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Obama Energy, Energy, Mass Transit, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Environment, High Speed Rail, Public Transit, Green Economy, Green Energy, Global Warming, Chicago News
Howard Learner

The Midwest and Great Plains states can become business and economic winners in growing the new green economy.

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Greening Hollywood: Grist.org's Russ Walker Weighs In On The Clean Coal Conundrum

Paige Donner | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Energy, Carbon Offset, T. Boone Pickens, Grist, Clean Coal, Green Jobs, New Deal, Economy, Obama, Mccain, Russ Walker, Carbon, Secretary of Energy, Mercury, Oil, Washington Post, Green Economy, Green News
Paige Donner

Walker agreed to this interview while attending the Opportunity Green Conference held this past weekend on UCLA's campus. Media coordination provided by eConnectGroup.

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Tom Friedman: We Need "Overwhelming Force" To Green The Economy

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 12.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Thomas Friedman, Renewable Energy Tax Credit, Green Collar Jobs, Tom Friedman, Fossil Fuels, Oil Subsidies, Green Energy, Green Economy, Solar Power, Green Technology, Hot Flat and Crowded, Friedman Green Economy, Green News

New York Times columnist and Hot, Flat and Crowded author Tom Friedman spoke at the CORE: club last Friday night on the energy crisis facing the Unite...

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Electing The New Economy: Time For An Infrastructure Overhaul?

Media Consortium | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Infrastructure Spending, Infrastructure, Green Collar Jobs, Green Infrastructure, Blue Collar Jobs, Economy, Construction, Green Economy, Business News

"Right now, there's something damn close to political consensus for a transformational investment package," Klein writes, arguing that, "the next pres...

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A Green New Deal Would Require A Broad Coalition

The Nation | Van Jones | Posted 12.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Green New Deal, Green Bailout, Green Collar Jobs, Green Jobs, New Deal, Economy, Environment, Green Economy, Van Jones, Fdr, Green News

In the New Deal period, it was a broad electoral coalition that moved the government onto the side of ordinary people, not FDR alone. Farmers, workers...

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Renewable Energy Now A Crucial Source Of Good Jobs In The Rust Belt

New York Times | PETER S. GOODMAN | Posted 12.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Renewable Energy, Environmental Jobs, Rust Belt, Green Economy, Green Jobs, Business News

Like his uncle, his grandfather and many of their neighbors, Arie Versendaal spent decades working at the Maytag factory here, turning coils of steel ...

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Environment Slips As Key Factor In Virginia Presidential Vote

Mark Meier | Posted 11.21.2008 | Home

Read More: sciencedebate2008, Charlottesville Virginia Election 2008, Cap and Trade, Green Collar Jobs, Virginia Uranium, League of Conservation Voters, Virginia Environment, Assateague National Seashore, Environment McCain, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Offshore Drilling, National Academy of Sciences, Charlottesville Virginia Obama, Environment Obama, Carbon Sequestration, Environment Election 2008, Gallup September, Laura Kolar, Green Economy, Steve Keach, Home News
Mark Meier

The presidential race in Virginia is heating up--so is the environment. In the same week that an autumn heat wave brought 80ยบ days to the Commonwealt...

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Investing in Clean Energy Is A Smart Strategy in these Troubled Economic Times

Howard Learner | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Energy Efficiency, S Renewable Energy, Hybrid Cars, Environment, Green, Clean Energy, Green Economy, Plug-in Hybrids, Green Energy, Global Warming, Green News
Howard Learner

For today, energy efficiency makes even more sense in tight financial times. Businesses can't afford to waste energy and drain their bottom lines from high energy bills.

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It's About the Economy, Not Drilling

Frances Beinecke | Posted 09.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environment, Jobs, Oil Drilling, Economy, Green Jobs, Green Economy, Green News
Frances Beinecke

A clean energy economy isn't just about wind farms and solar roofs. We're talking about hundreds of thousands of jobs in precisely the sectors that are experiencing the greatest difficulties right now.

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Corporate Responsibility: How Can U.S. Economy Stay Competitive, Get Greener?

Envrionmental Capital | Keith Johnson | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Corporate Responsibility, S Renewable Energy, Steel Industry, Corporate America, Economy, U.S. Climate Action Partnership, Gm, Green Economy, Ford, Alcoa, Ge, Green News

Big U.S. companies obviously want a seat at the table when it's time to draw up America's plan to fight climate change. A year after issuing its "Call...

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Green Leadership

Gavin Newsom | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green

Read More: George Bush, Solar, Green Jobs, Wind, Green, Pollution, Van Jones, Gavin Newsom, Climate Change, Environment, Tidal Power, San Francisco, Austin, President Bush, Mayor Newsom, Netroots Nation, Green Economy, Green News
Gavin Newsom

San Francisco is one of the greenest cities in the country because we did not wait for Washington. We are taking action now to green our environment and our economy from the ground up.

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Jeffrey Sachs Wants To Change The Economy And Save The World

Grist | Amanda Griscom Little | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Huffpost Books, Economy, Books, Green Economy, Sustainable Economy, World Economy, Poverty, Sustainability, Green News

Jeffrey Sachs -- the renowned economist who devised a grand plan in 2005 to rid the world of poverty -- is now focused on an even broader ambition: sa...

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Change I Can Be Livin' In: Re-Forming Health and Health Care

Karen Kisslinger | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Healthy Care, British National Health, People Empowered for Health, Health Care Reform, Eric Sevareid, Obama on Health Policy, Green Economy, Politics News
Karen Kisslinger

With private insurance, every provider along the way gets their nickel, even if none of it is actually helping the patient: an unsustainable system.

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Consumer Demand is the Answer

Brian Keane | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Ipod, Tax Policy 2008 Presidential Campaign, Blueprint for a Green Economy, Green Economy, Green Economics, Clean Energy Production Tax Credits, Green Products, Consumer Demand, Green News
Brian Keane

We should insist that our politicians help create a business climate in which an alternative energy industry will flourish by renewing the clean energy production tax credits.

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Fishing for Sustainable Spots in Cape Cod

Zem Joaquin | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Green, Homeowners, Green Living, Cape Cod, Green Economy, Green High Schools, Ecotourism, Green News
Zem Joaquin

Before when I visited it seemed little eco-progress was being made. But this time is different! There are quite a few new businesses with green themes; I think a sea change just might be coming.

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The Rise Of "Green-Collar" Jobs

New York Times | STEVEN GREENHOUSE | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Environmental Jobs, Green Economy, Green Jobs, Green-Collar Jobs, Business News

EVERYONE knows what blue-collar and white-collar jobs are, but now a job of another hue -- green -- has entered the lexicon. Presidential candidates ...

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Green Economy Boom To Create More Jobs

Newsweek | Daniel McGinn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Green Living, Green Economy, Green Business, Business News

Brad Mohring had reached a crossroads. Until recently the 31-year-old design engineer had worked for a Toledo, Ohio-based company that builds manufact...

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