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Clean Energy Jobs Go Home: $30 Billion to put 4.5 Million to Work

December 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Clean Energy Jobs Go Home: $30 Billion to put 4.5 Million to Work 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. Investing in building energy efficiency is one of the most effective […]

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Tags: architecture · architecture2030 · building green · clean energy jobs · climate change · Energy · energy efficiency · government energy policy · green · LEED

Make $3 create $10 worth of Clean Energy Jobs

December 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Make $3 create $10 worth of Clean Energy Jobs

This guest post comes from the very thoughtful Alan Drake, who has done some of the best work related to the value of electrifying the national rail system. This fits with the clean energy jobs series. The 30% Energy Tax Credit has been quite useful in creating installation jobs for construction workers and for domestic […]

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Tags: clean energy jobs · Energy · energy efficiency

Clean Energy Jobs Go Swimming

December 2nd, 2009 · 3 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 Go Swimming: $300 million per year for 10,000 jobs Legislation is, they say, analogous to making sausage. Sometimes, in the mixing […]

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Tags: clean energy jobs · Energy · schools · solar · Solar Energy

Clean Energy Jobs come in small and BIG numbers … 10+ million of them

December 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Clean Energy Jobs come in small and BIG numbers … 10+ million of them

This guest post comes from NBBooks), who was a founding (board). This is posted as part of a serious looking at clean energy jobs‘ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things […]

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Clean Energy Jobs Conserve and Create

December 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments

This guest post comes from Tim Lange (Meteor Blades), who was a founding (board) member of Energize America. This is posted as part of a serious looking at clean energy jobs‘ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me At the Jobs Summit coming up […]

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Tags: clean energy jobs · conservation · Energize America · Energy

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

Tips for the Job Summit: Can we say Clean Energy Jobs?

November 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments

This guest post comes from Devilstower and is relevant for thinking about Clean Energy Jobs that should result from the Jobs Summit and a coming jobs bill. Meteor Blades has already written a well-researched and authoritative article on the job summit. So consider this one the completely personal, off-the-cuff alternative cup o’ free advice to […]

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Clean Energy Jobs Go To The Cleaners

November 24th, 2009 · Comments Off on Clean Energy Jobs Go To The Cleaners

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 Go To The Cleaners: $50 million per year for 9,000 jobs Coin-operated laundromats almost require rivers to operate, with their industrial-like […]

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Tags: business practice · clean energy jobs · Energy · solar · Solar Energy

Clean Energy Jobs Blow In (not Blow Up) Coal River Mountain

November 21st, 2009 · 11 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 Blow In (not blow up) Coal River Mountain: $250 million per year for 25,000 jobs We often hear about how coal […]

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Tags: clean energy jobs · coal · Energy · wind power

Clean Energy Jobs Take The PHE-School Bus

November 20th, 2009 · 5 Comments

This is part of a series of 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 Take the PHE-School Bus: $100 million per year for 2,000 jobs There are hundreds of thousands of yellow school buses taking America’s […]

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Tags: bus · clean energy jobs · PHEV · schools · transportation