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Shami touts solar energy program for new Texas jobs
Monday, February 01, 2010
Eight percent of North Texans are out of work, but a Democratic gubernatorial candidate says he has a plan to change that.
Eight percent of North Texans are out of work, but a Democratic gubernatorial candidate says he has a plan to change that.
Farouk Shami outlined his economic plan during an appearance in Dallas Tuesday morning. The Houston hair care mogul says he will use state funds to create 150,000 new jobs.
“I want to open a solar panel factory in every poor community through the state,” he said. “We will install the solar panels on homes, and guess what? We don’t want any dollars up front.”Read Full Article
Incentives Could Bring Solar Plant To Saginaw
Monday, December 14, 2009
Saginaw city leaders are expected to take their first step toward possibly bringing a solar modular production plant to the area.
Saginaw city leaders are expected to take their first step toward possibly bringing a solar modular production plant to the area.
The City Council plans to vote Monday on whether to approve a redevelopment plan that would earn GlobalWatt, a San Jose, Calif.-based solar industry company, millions of dollars in state tax credits if they located their business to Mid-Michigan.
GlobalWatt has narrowed the site of its $177 million investment to Saginaw and an undisclosed Texas community.Read Full Article
EDF provides map of green jobs, with a side of optimism
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Want to know where to apply for the green jobs that climate change legislation might create? Environmental Defense Fund has a map.
Want to know where to apply for the green jobs that climate change legislation might create? Environmental Defense Fund has a map.
The advocacy group created a U.S. map of companies that would likely grow if Congress regulates the amount of greenhouse gases the nation may emit. The growth companies are those that make or install products to help cut energy use or to generate energy without emitting the gases thought to contribute to climate change.
So, for example, the Dallas portion of the map includes Texas Instruments Inc., which makes solar power inverters and something called a multi strong LED driver, Broadstar Wind Systems, which makes windmill for rooftops, and Atrium Windows and Doors, which makes Energy Star windows.Read Full Article
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Success Proves Elusive For Green Jobs Funding
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
How’s that stimulus funding for green jobs working out?
Kathleen Hartnett White of the Texas Public Policy Foundation reports those jobs are arriving—but they’re temporary, expensive and won’t deliver on the Obama administration’s promises.
How’s that stimulus funding for green jobs working out?
Kathleen Hartnett White of the Texas Public Policy Foundation reports those jobs are arriving—but they’re temporary, expensive and won’t deliver on the Obama administration’s promises.
“Your tax dollars from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) have begun to flow freely to ‘renewable energy facilities’ in Texas,” Ms. White says. “The stimulus bill tagged at least $110 billion for ‘clean’ energy projects. The Penescal Wind Farm in Sarita (near Corpus Christi) recently received a $114 million stimulus grant. Penescal Developers will use the money to double the size of the facility.”
A closer look shows the stimulus money will simply serve to prop up an industry that’s full of hot air.Read Full Article
New green jobs center for youth opens in Austin
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
American YouthWorks unveiled its new Green Jobs Training Center on Monday.
American YouthWorks unveiled its new Green Jobs Training Center on Monday.
The South Austin facility, which houses a charter school for at-risk youth, has already gone through an energy efficiency retrofit paid for by a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce. U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, who helped secure the money, was the keynote speaker at a ribbon-cutting.
The money paid for the installation of an energy efficient HVAC system and new ducts. Solar panels top the facility. The Austin affiliate of the Building Owners and Managers Association and Austin Association of Facility Maintenance Engineers also contributed time and expertise to the project, which is located at 1901 E. Ben White Blvd.Read Full Article
City forms Green Jobs council
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Mayor Julian Castro has formed a committee of high-level individuals to recommend public policy that will help create jobs in the new “green” economy.
Mayor Julian Castro has formed a committee of high-level individuals to recommend public policy that will help create jobs in the new “green” economy.
The Green Jobs Leadership Council will be chaired by Larry Zinn, an informal adviser to the mayor, and will include more than a dozen prominent dignitaries and executives such as Alex Briseno, chairman of the board for the San Antonio Water System, Ricardo Romo, president of the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Mike Burke, chairman and founder of Clean Tech Forum.Read Full Article
City forms Green Jobs council
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Mayor Julian Castro has formed a committee of high-level individuals to recommend public policy that will help create jobs in the new “green” economy.
Mayor Julian Castro has formed a committee of high-level individuals to recommend public policy that will help create jobs in the new “green” economy.
The Green Jobs Leadership Council will be chaired by Larry Zinn, an informal adviser to the mayor, and will include more than a dozen prominent dignitaries and executives such as Alex Briseno, chairman of the board for the San Antonio Water System, Ricardo Romo, president of the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Mike Burke, chairman and founder of Clean Tech Forum.
The council held its first meeting on Sept. 22 and discussed ways to develop green jobs in the context of efforts to build a greener economy.Read Full Article
Houston Solar Tour part of nationwide event
Monday, September 28, 2009
Greater Houston will be one of many metropolitan areas in 48 states hosting a self-guided, open-house tour of public and private solar-power facilities on Oct. 3 when the 6th Annual Houston Solar Tour kicks off.
Greater Houston will be one of many metropolitan areas in 48 states hosting a self-guided, open-house tour of public and private solar-power facilities on Oct. 3 when the 6th Annual Houston Solar Tour kicks off.
Discovery Green, which hosts a pre-tour social from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., is one of several well-known tour stops, alongside its neighbor, the George R. Brown Convention Center, the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Headquarters, the City of Houston Code Enforcement Building and Green Bank on Memorial Drive. There’s even an animal farm and permaculture center north of Sealy on the tour, which incorporates several Houston neighborhoods as well as Bellaire, West University, The Woodlands and Spring.
There are 20 home and business stops on Houston’s tour, which is held in conjunction with National Energy Awareness Month.Read Full Article
What’s a Green Job?
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Austin, Texas, like many other communities, is taken with the idea of creating green jobs. And money is rolling in to do that. But first, the city has to figure out what, exactly, green jobs are, and how to train a workforce for them.
Like communities from Michigan to Massachusetts to California, Austin, Texas, is retooling for a green economy, and the money to do it is rolling in.
The problem is figuring out just what a green job is, how many green jobs there will be, and how to train people for them. In Austin and elsewhere, an all-out effort is being made to solve that problem.Read Full Article
Funding for green jobs flowing — but what exactly is a ‘green job?’
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Greenbacks are rolling into Central Texas to create green jobs, but there are many unknowns when it comes to creating green workforce programs and estimating the number of workers that will be needed to fill those positions.
Greenbacks are rolling into Central Texas to create green jobs, but there are many unknowns when it comes to creating green workforce programs and estimating the number of workers that will be needed to fill those positions.
In hopes of resolving such unknowns, the Texas Foundation for Innovative Communities, which is taking a lead in creating a green workforce development plan, has tapped green energy-focused consulting firm Good Company Associates to study the area’s green workforce needs. And there’s considerable activity going on and money being spent for Good Company to factor into its analysis.Read Full Article
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