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Everybody’s got one, but some years even our loved ones — not to mention our bosses — fail to ask. But we did.
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Throughout these last two weeks it is clear that there is a tremendous amount of innovation happening as business -- both alone and in concert with governments and NGOs -- develops new technology and pioneers solutions moving us closer to a low carbon economy. Climate change innovation is a powerful engine for economic growth, with the potential to create new industry opportunities and most importantly, jobs.
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Independent power producer Caithness Energy has awarded GE a $1.4 billion contract for 338 of the company’s most advanced wind turbines to build a 845-megawatt wind farm in Oregon -- a size that outstrips all others currently operating worldwide. <br />
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With an annual increase of 2.4 percent per year, jobs in a wide number of green areas have far outpaced employment rates in other industries, according to a new study by Next 10.
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With world leaders poised to begin climate talks, it's time to apply lessons learned locally to the global playing field. We need critical thinking and action by leaders who are willing to apply those local solutions to drive change at a global scale.<br />
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As Republican senators try to stall climate change legislation on grounds that it could harm the U.S. economy, a major study from three universities suggests a robust climate bill would do just the opposite and boost GDP by $111 billion by 2020.
by Cath Everett
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Why is wind-power behemoth GE bothering to invest a relatively tiny amount of money in a small company that makes backyard wind turbines?
by Marc Gunther
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Frances Beinecke's new book -- a straightforward, easy-to-read argument -- attempts to connect the climate issue to everyday concerns like jobs, the economy and national security.
by Marc Gunther
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A slew of reports released during Greenbuild 2009 explore how green buildings are impacting resource use, the job market, facility management and more.
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The chief executive of a leading supermarket has demanded the government tackle a lack of trained workers with green skills.
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Serious Materials, the California company that specializes in energy efficient, eco-friendly building products, is supplying its super-insulating SeriousWindows to the Community and Economic Development Association of Cook County, the largest weatherization agency in the United States.
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At least 30,383 jobs have been created directly or saved by contractors receiving money from the U.S. government's stimulus program, according to new reports.
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As a season, autumn is the time of nature's preparation to renew or reinvent itself. It's also my favorite season. I love the colors, the smells, the intermingling of summer's warm, soft air with winter's steely crispness. There is something anticipatory about the fall.
by Rob Watson
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An Environmental Defense Fund program that pairs MBA students with companies to find energy efficiency opportunities will save host firms $54 million over the lifetime of the projects and avoid 100,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually.
by Emily Reyna
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"Green-Collar Jobs: Realizing the Promise," a new study from the Sightline Insitute, takes a close look at how stimulus funding and green collar jobs are already benefiting the Pacific Northwest -- and how those successes can be spread.
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Financing is the most significant hurdle to getting a green idea off the ground. Venture capitalist Bryan Korba offers an insider’s perspective on what VCs are looking for, how not to look like an amateur, and what to do with the money when you get it.
by Anna Clark
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A management consulting firm released a new report outlining the steps any company can take to get on the path toward environmental sustainability. How many of these has your firm already accomplished?
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The United States could make its buildings more environmentally responsible and create more green jobs by taking a cue from programs in the European Union and Australia, according to new research by the Rand Corporation.
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The city of San Francisco now has over 120 architects, engineers and construction managers who are LEED accredited professionals and are shepherding more than 40 LEED-registered municipal projects through the green building review process.
by Gavin Newsom
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The opportunities for sustainable design are everywhere, says environmental justice advocate Majora Carter, and they are limitless -- from the simple act of pruning a tree or crafting a chair from discarded wooden pallets to transforming an urban wasteland into a park.
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One of the automaker's oldest and largest plants, shuttered in 2007, will be converted to making solar panel and energy storage technologies, and could create as many as 4,000 jobs.
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Thin film solar-panel maker Solyndra Inc., recipient of the DOE's first loan guarantee to back innovative technology, has begun construction of a second manufacturing plant.
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Paid for in part with stimulus funds, the Clean Energy Workforce Training Program aims to prepare 20,000 Californians for green collar jobs, such as green building designers, solar panel installers, and sustainable landscape professionals, among other positions.
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The first time I heard about the conservative, red-baiting crusade against Van Jones, I thought, this is ridiculous, even funny. I’m not laughing anymore.
by Marc Gunther
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A new, two-year associate's degree from the Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Neb., is being touted as the first of its kind to give students an intensive focus on designing and managing green data centers.