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It's about the consumer-friendly product, yes, but for this ex-Googler, it's especially about the right employees.
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The former Greenpeace organizer and co-founder of Sungevity will become the new head of California clean tech fund CalCEF.
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Who else is making progress on renewable energy? Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, the city of Houston and more.
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Experts claim historic leader Vestas is close to losing its lead in the world wind turbine market, if it hasn't already.
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Progressive businesses lobby congress to extend the wind energy tax credit.
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Walmart in particular marks a big leap forward, coming up from 15th place three months ago to land in third place. Generating green power on-site -- where Walmart is the second-biggest green power creator -- is what helped move the retailer up.
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While American media and pundits are bemoaning our inability to create any jobs or compete on green technologies, Asian countries are putting to work -- with great results -- the same ideas that have been killed in US political skirmishes.
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The Internet, shale gas technologies and Google search engine all had their origins in research funded by the U.S. government. These are just a few examples, and show why now is exactly the wrong time to stop supporting cleantech innovation.
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Despite much punditry decrying the president's green jobs funding as wasted effort and money, there are three good reasons why renewables are the key to a new boom in green jobs.
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The two top-tier environmentalists, who have taken very different paths to addressing our environmental woes, sat down last week to talk about the growth of renewables, the need to break the power of the fossil fuel industries, and more.
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The Obama administration is awarding $100 million in Recovery Act funds for smart grid workforce training to prepare an estimated 30,000 Americans for the jobs that are expected to help transform the country's utility and electrical manufacturing industries.
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The League of Conservation Voters highly praised U.S. President Barack Obama for superlative work to foster clean energy and curb climate change during his first year in office -- and then gave the nation's chief executive a B+ for his efforts.
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We have upon us the next Industrial Revolution, where companies who make products that embody energy efficiency now have a worldwide advantage. We can’t let other countries lead the world in this next Industrial Revolution, because this is our calling.
by Kevin Surace
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As the sun began to set on 2009, we asked some of our readers and partners to share their innovations, commitments, and passions for the coming year.
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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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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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"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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A near-Herculean effort, Newsweek's new list of the greenest companies in the S&P 500 Index may be imperfect -- and are sure to be debated -- but they may also be the best effort to date to assess the mainstream corporate marketplace in the U.S.
by Joel Makower
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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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The Alliance for Climate Protection's Repower America campaign is touring the U.S., promoting the jobs that can be created as a result of clean energy policies. And while unions show support for low carbon policies, they also want to ensure the policies are fair to workers.