Green Economy

Fulfilling his promise as the green FDR

One year after his election, Obama on verge of audaciously fulfilling his promise as the green FDR 1
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago What team Obama has accomplished in the year since he was elected is nothing less than an unprecedented reversal of decades of unsustainable national policy forced down the throat of the American public by conservatives.
Fashion for the Forests

Gucci Group commits to saving Indonesia’s rainforests 1
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago There’s a new fashion trend this fall: saving rainforests and preserving a livable climate.
Young, Green, and Out of Work 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
What you can do

A message from Van Jones 16
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
My family and I want to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and support that we have received over the past week or so.
Big business’s hidden hand in the smear job on Van Jones 2
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
If you thought the targeting of Van Jones for vilification by the right was about his race, his youthful flirtation with socialism, or a petition he signed about the 9/11 attacks, you'd only be a little bit right.
Fox News blurts out agenda: With Jones down, stop cap-and-trade 2
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Having taken Van Jones down, the job destroyers and climate destroyers of the right wing most certainly smell blood.
After Van Jones resignation, Glenn Beck to go after ‘other radicals’ 3
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Following Van Jones’ resignation Saturday night, Glenn Beck has released a statement vowing to go after “other radicals in the administration.”
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.
Policies can work in strange ways

Environmental regulation affects technological change 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Whether the policy domain is global climate change or local hazardous waste, it’s exceptionally important to understand the interaction between public policies and technological change in order to assess the effects of laws and regulations on environmental performance.
Devious!

Glenn Beck: Van Jones is a communist intent on, er, creating private sector jobs 31
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Glenn Beck has uncovered a plot! (Yes, another one.) Turns out Van Jones, President Obama's green jobs czar, is going to coordinate a vast radical/communist/black nationalist takeover of our sweet, virginal land of liberty.
TV Ad: Tell Congress to Pass Obama Green Jobs Energy Bill 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Don't staple a pink slip to their diploma

5,400 students currently training for solar jobs in California 0
Posted 5 months ago
At least 5,400 Californians are training to enter the solar industry with one of 27 solar training service providers, according to a survey we just conducted.
Mustache speaks; you listen

Tom Friedman chats with Grist about the green challenge and globalization 2
Posted 5 months ago
At a Grist gathering in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, we were pleased to host New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman for a chat on the state of green. Our intrepid video expert was on hand to tape the event.
Green sector creates 50 percent of new jobs 1
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
... in Ireland. Where you at, U.S.?
Rallying around a wrench

Does the public need to understand cap-and-trade? 12
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The public doesn't know what cap-and-trade is, but really, does it need to? Is that the real issue?
Cool Companies, Part 1: How the best businesses boost profits and productivity by reducing GHGs 0
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Pence repeats $3000 lie about green economy, accuses MIT economist of playing politics 2
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
This week, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) not only lied twice on national television about the cost of a green economy, but accused the MIT economist who has challenged Pence’s distortion of his work of playing politics.