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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 . Congress created the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) in 2007 but […]

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When seeking paths for creating an environment for a prosperous America in the reality of a carbon-constrained future, many see the most business friendly general approach as “Cap & Trade”. Society (politicians) determine a “cap”, a top level, of total emissions and then people (businesses) can buy and trade emissions totaling to that cap. This […]

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This guest post from BillLaurelMD provides a window on change in the Arctic — a window that we might prefer not to look through, but look we must. This is the next in an occasional series of diaries on the state of Northern Hemisphere Arctic sea ice, written in memory of Johnny Rook, who passed […]

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While the denialosphere is shouting about “ClimateGate” and traditional media turn their attention to SwiftHack, the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) released a report that should be on the front page of every newspaper, discussed passionately on every talk show, and be heard about by every adult American. While aware of the impacts of burning […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Dear Claire, Perhaps the American public, who are paying your salary (and your health insurance and your retirement), might think that your job is to work on the hard and important problems that require addressing. Emotions can fly high when dealing with hard and important problems. And, hard and important problems often have people with […]

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