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Monday, February 22, 2010
While President Obama was giving high marks to the $826 billion stimulus package on its one-year anniversary, Jim Jones was taking his students through their forklift finals.
While President Obama was giving high marks to the $826 billion stimulus package on its one-year anniversary, Jim Jones was taking his students through their forklift finals.
“Seatbelt fastened and then you can go ahead and take it off of park,” Jones tells one of his students at Lakewood’s Clover Park Technical College.
The school is preparing students for what the President calls the jobs of the future: clean energy and technology.Read Full Article
posted in: National, News, Washington
Can Green Jobs Fix the U.S. Economy?
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Green jobs are touted by the Obama administration and others as a cure for the economy, a spur to American innovation, and an ecological boon that cannot be shipped overseas. But doubters label them as too expensive to create, unsustainable, and even employment wreckers.
Green jobs are touted by the Obama administration and others as a cure for the economy, a spur to American innovation, and an ecological boon that cannot be shipped overseas. But doubters label them as too expensive to create, unsustainable, and even employment wreckers.
What do you think? Are green jobs a panacea or a pipe dream? Weigh in below and take our poll.Read Full Article
Green Ink: Clashes in Copenhagen, More Green Jobs, and Electric Cars
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Crude oil futures rose above $71 a barrel ahead of an expected decline in U.S. oil inventories, Bloomberg reports.
Crude oil futures rose above $71 a barrel ahead of an expected decline in U.S. oil inventories, Bloomberg reports.
Exxon’s acquisition of XTO energy may signal that natural gas’ time has finally arrived as a big piece of the U.S. energy pie—supplies seem abundant and prices are poised for moderation, in the WSJ.
Things are getting grimmer at the big climate conference in Copenhagen, with protests and clashes with police outside matching the notable lack of progress inside the conference, in the WaPo.
The sharp divisions—between the U.S., Europe, and developing countries—suggest the conference is moving backward right as world leaders start to arrive, in the WSJ.Read Full Article
Top 5 green jobs stories of 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
In my opinion, 2009 may just go down in history books as “The Year of the Green Job.” Okay, perhaps that’s a bit of a bold statement but allow me to explain. The green jobs movement has been around for years, but this year it really made a splash in the media among business owners, at educational institutions, and in neighborhoods across the country.
In my opinion, 2009 may just go down in history books as “The Year of the Green Job.” Okay, perhaps that’s a bit of a bold statement but allow me to explain. The green jobs movement has been around for years, but this year it really made a splash in the media among business owners, at educational institutions, and in neighborhoods across the country.
Prior to 2009, many people wouldn’t have had a clue what a green job was. Thanks in part to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Obama administration’s focus on green jobs, more Americans can actually answer the question, “What is a green job?”Read Full Article
The green economy is dawning
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham recently said at a news conference that “the green economy is coming.” I couldn’t agree with him more. The signs are all around us, from studies that show green jobs are growing 2.5 times faster than conventional jobs to the fact that California’s clean energy industry attracted $6.5 billion in venture capital in the past three years.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham recently said at a news conference that “the green economy is coming.” I couldn’t agree with him more. The signs are all around us, from studies that show green jobs are growing 2.5 times faster than conventional jobs to the fact that California’s clean energy industry attracted $6.5 billion in venture capital in the past three years.
These are just the signs from our own shores. From China to Germany, there is no doubt that nations are beginning to see the financial wisdom in preventing the exorbitant costs of global warming by putting clean energy solutions in place now.
The only question that remains is: Will America be a leader in the green economy?Read Full Article
Clean-tech jobs on the increase, and they’re not just for geeks and experts
Saturday, October 24, 2009
The latest generation of workers in clean technology jobs aren’t all engineers, tech experts and scientists. They aren’t all in Silicon Valley – some are from Detroit or Gary, Ind.
The latest generation of workers in clean technology jobs aren’t all engineers, tech experts and scientists. They aren’t all in Silicon Valley – some are from Detroit or Gary, Ind.
They may come from community colleges or be fresh out of high school.Read Full Article
Vice President Joe Biden Unveils Report Focused on Expanding Green Jobs and Energy Savings for Middl
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Vice President Joe Biden recently unveiled Recovery Through Retrofit, a report that builds on the foundation laid in the Recovery Act to expand green job opportunities and boost energy savings by making homes more energy efficient. Joining the Vice President were Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality; Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy; Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor; Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and Karen Mills, Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
Vice President Joe Biden recently unveiled Recovery Through Retrofit, a report that builds on the foundation laid in the Recovery Act to expand green job opportunities and boost energy savings by making homes more energy efficient. Joining the Vice President were Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality; Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy; Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor; Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and Karen Mills, Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
At a Middle Class Task Force meeting earlier this year, the Vice President asked the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to develop a proposal for Federal action to lay the groundwork for a self-sustaining home energy efficiency retrofit industry. In response, CEQ facilitated a broad interagency process with the Office of the Vice President, eleven Departments and Agencies and six White House Offices to develop recommendations for how to use existing authority and funding to accomplish this goal. These recommendations are described in detail in the Recovery Through Retrofit Report.Read Full Article
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Green Jobs? Mandated Wind and Solar? Cap & Trade? We’ll Pass on that Showcase
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Members of Congress like to play games and they like to spend money. What better analogy to use to describe Congress’s proposed green energy policies than the Price is Right? As Congress seeks to implement policy that would create green jobs by mandating renewable energy projects, three cautionary European tales suggest the U.S. should take a second look at cap and trade and renewable energy mandates. We’ll take you through a Price Is Right showcase style tour of three failed renewable energy initiative.
Members of Congress like to play games and they like to spend money. What better analogy to use to describe Congress’s proposed green energy policies than the Price is Right? As Congress seeks to implement policy that would create green jobs by mandating renewable energy projects, three cautionary European tales suggest the U.S. should take a second look at cap and trade and renewable energy mandates. We’ll take you through a Price Is Right showcase style tour of three failed renewable energy initiative.
Our first stop takes us to Germany where think tank Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung just released its study on the economic impacts of the country’s green energy initiative. Commissioned by the Institute for Energy Research (IER), the report finds with per worker subsidies for solar industry jobs are as high as $240,000. Last year, “the price mark-up attributable to the government’s support for “green” electricity was about 2.2 cents US per kWh. For perspective, a 2.2 cent per kWh increase here in the US would amount to an average 19.4% increase in consumer’s electricity bills.” Government subsidies for wind and solar are projected to be over $100 billion from 2000-2010 and, to make matters worse, as the subsidies run out, so do the jobs.Read Full Article
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Big Labor, Green Jobs
Sunday, October 18, 2009
THE LAST FEW DECADES have not been kind to the folks who brought you the weekend. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are around 16 million Americans on union rolls today. That figure is fully two million fewer folks than were members of labor unions in 1983, an astounding stat considering there has been an increase of more than 40 million in the number of waged and salaried workers in the United States over that period. Today just 12 percent of the workforce carries a union card, down from 20 percent at the kickoff of the Reagan economic boom.
THE LAST FEW DECADES have not been kind to the folks who brought you the weekend. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are around 16 million Americans on union rolls today. That figure is fully two million fewer folks than were members of labor unions in 1983, an astounding stat considering there has been an increase of more than 40 million in the number of waged and salaried workers in the United States over that period. Today just 12 percent of the workforce carries a union card, down from 20 percent at the kickoff of the Reagan economic boom.
Over the last quarter century the unions lost serious ground. The loss of labor’s influence in the econ-omy is even more pronounced when breaking down the numbers between public and private sector unions. The private sector union rate is less than 10 percent today. Labor’s numbers overall have been inflated by the proliferation of public sector employment at all levels during the steroid era of big government.Read Full Article
Faith communities push for creation of green jobs as economy recovers
Sunday, October 18, 2009
As the economy begins its slow recovery from the recession, a nationwide coalition of faith groups is calling upon policymakers to ensure that the new jobs being created give people the chance to become self-sufficient
As the economy begins its slow recovery from the recession, a nationwide coalition of faith groups is calling upon policymakers to ensure that the new jobs being created give people the chance to become self-sufficient. The call for jobs that provide a living wage, comprehensive benefits and safe working conditions came during a nationwide conference call marking the second Fighting Poverty with Faith initiative Oct.Read Full Article
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