Economic Stimulus

Tortoise and the hare -- a clean energy tale

Winning the clean energy race: a new strategy for American leadership 4
Posted 4 days, 1 hour ago You know times are changing when China, the world’s greatest polluter, and other Asian nations are poised to dominate the burgeoning global clean-tech industry by out-investing the United States. That’s the conclusion of a large new report we co-authored called "Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant," released this week by the Breakthrough Institute and Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.
Block party

Obama admin teams with grassroots groups to ‘Green the Block’ 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Green the Block is a new effort by the White House and two grassroots organizations -- Green for All and Hip Hop Caucus -- to bring the benefits of green jobs and clean tech to poor and underserved communities.
Baracking in the free world

Obama’s green achievements at 100 days 8
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
What have Barack Obama and his administration done to meet green expectations in their first 100 days?
Draft punk

Seattle, utility to help pay for home energy audits 3
Posted 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Mayor Nickel's Green Building Capital Initiative will help fund discounted home energy audits and create a loan program for efficiency improvements.
Eat the rich with organic greens

Let millionaires pay to solve our twin environmental and economic crises 10
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Economic and environmental problems are two consequences of one mistake, a mistake every farmer used to know the folly of: eating our seed corn
Letter from Europe

A teaching moment at the G20 summit 0
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
While G20 leaders at the London summit failed to take climate change seriously, Prince Charles told it like it is at an event calling for protection of rainforests.
Brit's Eye View: Where's Britain's green stimulus?

Will a shortage of green investment leave the U.K. behind in the race to develop clean tech? 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
With "green stimulus" all the rage this side of the Atlantic too, there's a fair amount of interest in a) how much we're going to spend and b) on what.
Carbon policy = tax cut 7
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Why not medium-speed rail? 8
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Biden’s Middle Class Task Forces asks some tough questions about green jobs 2
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Takin’ it to the streets ... of NPR 1
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Joe Biden’s Middle Class Task Force hosts summit on green jobs 1
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Chu creates team to distribute stimulus cash ‘wisely but also quickly’ 1
Posted 9 months ago
What does the stimulus fight portend for the climate/energy fight? 7
Posted 9 months ago
Obama says nice things about clean energy as he signs the $787 billion stimulus package 1
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
Money for fossil fuel research in the stimulus could still go to coal 0
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
Apollo Alliance chair talks to Grist about green jobs 0
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
The economic-recovery bill includes green funding and drops nuclear and coal subsidies 10
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
The game plan: starting with a bang 1
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
Senate and House reportedly reach deal on stimulus with $70 billion in green spending 0
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago