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Christmas Lights … scrooge or savior? (an annual refrain …)

November 30th, 2009 · Comments Off on Christmas Lights … scrooge or savior? (an annual refrain …)

Do you love those displays of Christmas (or Hannukah or Kwanza or …) lights? Are you awed by those so impassioned that they string up 1000s of lights in awesome displays worthy of a city center? I once did, pausing on cold winter nights, white clouds issuing from my mouth, enjoying being in the glow […]

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Tags: Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · green · lighting · political symbols · pollution

Clean Energy Jobs Fill Labs

November 30th, 2009 · 8 Comments

This is part of a series of brief posts on ‘clean energy jobs‘ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me. Clean Energy Jobs Fill Labs: $4 billion per year for 60,000 jobs . Congress created the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) in 2007 but […]

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Tags: clean energy jobs · department of energy · Energy