Posted on 07 September 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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With all the talk among the Republican hopefuls for President about opening up more of the US for energy exploration in the name of job creation, here’s an infographic laying out in stark terms how many more jobs can be created, and more energy saved, through energy efficiency</…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 24 July 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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Nobel prize winner and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced a new $2 million student contest to foster clean energy innovation, known as the National University Clean Energy Business Challenge. The idea is to create a network of six regional competitions for student energy inventors, and the winners will compete for a National Grand Prize in early summer 2012. The contest joins the Solar Decathlon as DOE sponsored energy contests for students.
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Posted on 06 June 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Two of photographer Antonio Briceño’s diptych portraits from Rwanda. Photos via Art Works for Change.
The head of a cooperative of honey harvesters, a park guide, and a doctor who uses a garden of medicinal plants to treat asthma and other ailments are among the key “puzzle pieces” in preserving Rwanda’s biodiversity while providing its people with suffi…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 21 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
The Teghut Forest in northern Armenia. Photo via ArmeniaNow
Supporters of protecting the Teghut Forest in northern Armenia from a company’s plans to build an open-pit copper mine there have an uphill battle to fight against the percep…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 01 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
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Can robots make a better, more affordable solar panel? Michigan-based silicones giant Dow Corning is betting on it, and has forged a partnership with Reis Robotics of Germany. The two companies say their alliance will result in “breakthrough solar encapsulation technology” to increase the production rate of solar panels and lower the cost per watt of solar power. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 29 April 2010 by Sustainability Digest
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Recently, the United States Senate has had some trouble deciding on solutions to the big problems challenging the country. Things like health care reform, climate change, clean energy and now immigration policy need well-thought, bipartisan, legislation that provides meaningful change.
But what would such legislation actually look like?…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 31 March 2010 by Sustainability Digest
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In 2008, cleantech investing hit an all-time high, and investors insisted it wasn’t a bubble. However, there was still a failing economy to navigate. After a bit of a stall last year, we’ve heard that cleantech investing is expected to rise once again during 2010, by as much as 35% accor…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 18 March 2010 by Sustainability Digest
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Ever since clean energy reform legislation faded far, far into the background during the last months’ health care reform brouhaha, all we’ve had to go on have been the occasional reminder that Senators Kerry (D-MA), Graham (R-SC) and Lieberman (I-CT) were still indeed working on crafting a bipartisan effort to spur clean energy growth and create green jobs. Now, at long last, some concrete details of their bill has leaked. Here’s what bipartisan clean energy…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 12 March 2010 by Sustainability Digest
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That’s the topic of an ongoing online debate over at the Economist.com. In one corner, green jobs advocate Van Jones, who argues that governments should engage in the active practice of creating green jobs, by, for example, incentivizing clean energy projects. In the other, Andrew P. Morriss, a professor of business and law at the University of Illinois, who argues that green job creation should be left to the marketplace. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 19 February 2010 by Sustainability Digest
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We talk a lot about the growing economic importance of the clean energy sector, the employment opportunities it will provide, etc–hell, so does pretty much everyone these days. But there still seems to be a bit of a perceived disconnect between the concept of clean energy jobs or green jobs and their actual existence: they seem like something that perpetually linger on the horizon,…Read the full story on TreeHugger
