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Advanced biofuels could create millions of jobs while greening the economy

January 26, 2012 by Annegrethe Jakobsen
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A new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance - launched during World Economic Forum at Davos - estimates the socioeconomic prospects of deploying advanced biofuels in eight of the highest agricultural-producing regions in the world, i.e. Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, EU-27, India, Mexico and the USA.The report was commissioned... [read more]

Don't Believe the Fantasy Job Claims on Keystone XL: It's Not in Our Best Interest

January 14, 2012 by Nicole Lederer
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Groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable say they speak for the country’s business interests. When it comes to the Keystone XL pipeline, they most definitely do not. Nicole Lederer explains why. [read more]

How Does Energy Efficiency Create Jobs?

November 29, 2011 by Casey Bell
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With unemployment hovering at a stubborn 9%, it is no wonder that job creation has become a hot topic. It is nearly impossible to read the news without encountering an article describing how a policy or industry creates a given number of jobs. Often, job creation is used as a justification for public sector investment in a program,... [read more]

"Jobs, Jobs, Jobs" Rhetoric Hampers Renewable Development

November 4, 2011 by Michael Giberson
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If you believed what politicians say about green energy and jobs, you probably think they fit together like peanut butter and jelly squished between layers of bread. Has there been a renewable power subsidy announcement or ribbon-cutting ceremony where the word “jobs” was not featured in the first two or three sentences uttered by... [read more]

Turning to Energy for Jobs

September 9, 2011 by Geoffrey Styles
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Turning to Energy for Jobs Yesterday's Energy Jobs Summit at the US Capitol, hosted by The Hill and API, focused on the potential of the energy sector to add large numbers of new jobs to help alleviate the national jobs crisis that President Obama will discuss in tonight's speech. The figures presented by API and others were impressive,... [read more]

Romney Endorses Federal Investment in Energy Innovation

September 7, 2011 by Teryn Norris
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Today, the Romney campaign released his 59-point economic plan in a 160-page book (PDF here). While most of the energy policy section is spent debunking the “green jobs myth” and calling for expanded domestic fossil fuel production, it endorses a significant role for federal investment in alternative energy research and development (R... [read more]

The Energy Jobs Promise

August 25, 2011 by Jim Russell
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Michelle Bachmann is promising cheap gas and millions of energy jobs. The hyperbole is absurd and sheds light on similar claims coming from the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) and PA politicians in the back pocket of industry. The latest from Bachmann:“What Barack Obama has done is lock up America’s energy reserves,” she said. “We’re... [read more]

The Facts… Green Energy Does Create Jobs

July 5, 2011 by Don Madden
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Without facts the arguments supporting the growth of green energy become well intentioned rhetoric. The social benifits of green energy often fall into this “fact free zone”. In some quarters it is taken as gospel that going green will create a multitude of jobs in a new vibrant industry sector. Sounds good, but is it true? A recent... [read more]

Biggest Roadblock To Building New Nuclear Plants: Skilled Construction Labour

June 3, 2011 by Tyler Hamilton
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Ontario’s Liberal government says we need to refurbish our province’s nuclear fleet and build another major plant near Toronto. The opposition Progressive Conservative leader, confident he will win this October’s election, says nuclear will be a cornerstone of his party’s energy policy. Indeed, as countries such as Japan, Germany... [read more]

Renewables Industry Faces Skills Shortage

May 11, 2011 by Kate Garratt
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Leaders in the environmental industry took part in a roundtable this morning to discuss the future of renewable energy.Representing both ourselves and our energy PR clients, Aspectus joined the ensuing twitter debate, which covered many of the usual topics – the energy mix, targets, shale gas (following a question from The Guardian’s... [read more]

Can Clean Energy Drive America's Economic Recovery?

March 9, 2011 by Brandi Colander
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Yesterday, a debate was held in New York City to answer this very question: can the investment of billions into the clean energy sector trigger the creation of millions of jobs and innovation? Or are we simply pumping dollars into the myth of a green economy? Bill Ritter and Kassia Yanosek are for the motion with Robert Bryce and Steven... [read more]

Winning Our Energy Future with $15 billion for R&D

February 21, 2011 by Teryn Norris
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Today, we have an op-ed published in the Presidents' Day edition of The Plain Dealer, the largest newspaper in Ohio. The op-ed, "Winning Ohio's energy future," arrives one day before President Obama visits Cleveland to promote the administration's "winning the future" agenda and host a business forum on entrepreneurship and innovation.Co... [read more]

Change starts small in Detroit

June 30, 2010 by Powering A Nation - poweringanationdotorg
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By ELENA RUE for Powering a Nation (www.poweringanation.org) In the course of reporting on a story about energy and employment in Detroit, my colleague Mike Ehrlich and I talked with several people about the resurgence of the city. It's impossible to discuss the future of Detroit without acknowledging the current state of the shrinking... [read more]

Cleantech Development vs Deployment

June 8, 2010 by Christopher Williams
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This comes from our industry insider Matt Marino, founder of Clean Pursuits and Switchback Life. In Boston, Technology and Innovation are personified like Greek gods, but its mere mortals that bring these forces to life. Readers of The Green Light Distrikt are likely also technology and innovation enthusiasts.  We have to be... [read more]

A dramatic story behind a soccer shirt: Carbon neutral manufacturing

June 3, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Devoted fans of Ghana will wear this soccer jersey, designed by Puma, when they cheer on their team this month during 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Fans of Cameroon, meanwhile, will don their team’s green World Cup jersey. Ivory Coast Algeria Puma also sells replicas of the World Cup jerseys for Algeria and the Ivory Coast. What... [read more]