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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Clean Energy Jobs Fill Labs
November 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments
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Menendez lays down a solar challenge
October 13th, 2009 · Comments Off
One Senator has chosen to pay attention to The Solar Decathlon on the Mall and issue a challenge. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has issued A Challenge to Universities. He opened with a strong statement of praise and support for The Solar Decathlon.
Every two years at this time of year, an exciting thing happens on the [...]
Tags: Congress · Energy · Solar Energy · department of energy · environmental · solar · solar decathlon
The NORTHern Sun Hits The Mall
October 11th, 2009 · Comments Off
Solar innovation has come to The National Mall from the north as part of the 2009 Solar Decathlon, with two Canadian teams out of the 20 energy efficient solar powered homes. Team Ontario/BC took their geography to heat, forming Team North to North House to Washington, DC.
Considering where they come from, no surprise [...]
Tags: Energy · department of energy · solar · solar decathlon
Showing some CURIOsity at The Mall
October 10th, 2009 · No Comments
Thronging The National Mall at this time are thousands of curious people, visiting the Solar Decathlon with the 20 energy efficient solar powered homes, being awed by their designs, their technologies, and their visions for the future. Team Boston has centered their entire project around that very sense of curiosity, with CURIO House having as [...]
Tags: Energy · Solar Energy · department of energy · energy cool · solar · solar decathlon
Inefficient Governance? DOE misses Energy Efficiency Deadlines over and over again
March 8th, 2007 · No Comments
As we struggle to Energize America, there are many challenges … from mistaken impressions as to the costs of options, people seeking silver bullet (single point) solutions (X will solve everything … fill in X), priority challenges, and so on.
One of the key challenges, however, might be bureaucratic inertia.
Energy efficiency — saving power (Negawatts) — [...]
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