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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 that [...]

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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 Thursday, [...]

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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
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Congress created the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) in 2007 but ARPA-E didn’t really [...]

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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 our [...]

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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 washing [...]

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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 mining is [...]

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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 children to [...]

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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 Go the Market: $4 billion year for 80,000 jobs
In too many grocery stores across America, turning the aisle into a refrigerated section can [...]

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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 Go to School: $50 billion / year to support 1,000,000 Clean Energy Jobs
America’s public schools are, in some cases all too literally, falling [...]

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Official unemployment is above 10 percent in America. Real un- and under-employment nears 20 percent. There is a reason that President Obama will hold a jobs summit and there is reason that members of Congress are speaking of a jobs bill.
Ealier this year, Congress passed a stimulus package. It is having an effect, but with [...]

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