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Stimulating Indeed
Senators include clean-energy incentives in economic stimulus bill |
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30 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 2:57 PM on 30 Jan 2008 More than 40 senators, of both the Democrat and Republican persuasion, got behind a successful effort to include green-job boosting and renewable-energy incentives in the Senate version of an economic stimulus package. The legislation passed markup in the Finance Committee today and now heads to the Senate floor for a final vote. source: Sierra Club F ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, green jobs, news, politics, renewable energy, US Senate (all these topics) |
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Memo to candidates
Green-collar jobs mean standing up for people and the planet |
Van Jones |
25 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| For those of us who are a part of the movement for 'green-collar jobs,' last Sunday's Democratic presidential debate was a real watershed moment. Van Jones. Clinton, Edwards, and Obama were in the debate of their lives. And all three of them passionately championed the importance of creating good jobs in the clean energy sector. They presented 'green-collar jobs' as a way to simultaneously boost the economy and beat global warming. Their words ... |
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| Topics: economy, elections, environmental justice, green jobs, politics, presidential race 08, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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'Green-collar' jobs
The latest eco-buzzword |
Joseph Romm |
24 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The Washington Post has a good article yesterday on the explosion in the use of the term 'green-collar' jobs. You will no doubt be hearing much more of this term since it is a favorite of Clinton and Edwards; Me and the Center for American Progress are on the bandwagon; and even the super trendspotting Tom Friedman has glommed onto it. No, it's not a perfect term. G-C jobs -- my effort to coin the ultimate eco-buzzword -- won't get you a green uniform and green po ... |
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| Topics: business, economy, environmental justice, green jobs, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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It's the Green Economy, Stupid
At Dem debate, candidates agree on green jobs, fight over everything else |
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21 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 9:10 PM on 21 Jan 2008 Photo: AP/Mary Ann Chastain At the acrimonious Democratic presidential debate on Monday night, the three leading candidates bickered over a whole range of issues, but they all agreed on one thing: the need to invest in creating green-collar jobs. The CNN moderators didn't ask any questions about the environment, but Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, elections, green jobs, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Do They Have Foosball in the Staff Room?
Companies' green record not important to MBAs, says study |
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16 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:38 PM on 16 Jan 2008 Young professionals are our hope for the future, a generation that will value sustainability and push big employers to take environmental factors into consideration ... right, guys? Right? Oh, uh, this just in: MBAs rank a company's environmental record at the bottom of factors they use to select employers, says a new study. In a survey of 527 MBA students, only 34 ... |
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| Topics: business, green jobs, news (all these topics) |
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The elusive green-collar job
With all the upbeat talk about an environmental labor boom, is rhetoric running away from reality? |
Adam Stein |
11 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Someone help me puzzle this out: Proposition 1: A shift to renewable energy and energy efficiency will result in a boom in green-collar jobs -- good service-industry work that can't be outsourced. This proposition is attractive because it holds forth the promise of a grand alliance between greens and the labor movement. See, e.g., Tom Friedman and everyone who posts on Grist. Proposition 2: The optimism over green-collar jobs is a classic example of the make-work bi ... |
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| Topics: climate, economy, energy, energy efficiency, green jobs (all these topics) |
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Remake a Living: New year, new career
Green job planning for 2008 |
Kevin Doyle |
08 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| It's a whole new year! A fresh canvas to paint on. The first page of the brilliant adventure story that will be your green career in 2008. An endless progression of dreary days with that pathetic guy in the next cubicle who spends half his time complaining and the other half in loud personal conversations for which the phrase "too much information" was invented. And that boss of yours? One shudders. GRIST JOB BOARD But fear not. You need ... |
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| Topics: green jobs (all these topics) |
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Remake a Living: Sustained growth
Job market sees growing demand for sustainability managers |
Kevin Doyle |
04 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Way back before the turn of the century (when we partied like it was 1999), I could count the number of real "sustainability managers" on my fingers and toes and still have a couple of digits left over. What a difference a decade makes. Today, I see new job postings every week for sustainability directors, managers, coordinators, and related staff people. Who's hiring? Any institution that has a large number of people and a physical infrastructure that in ... |
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| Topics: business, green jobs, greening biz operations (all these topics) |
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Rebuild the economy by building green industries
The economy is an ecosystem |
Jon Rynn |
03 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| It is increasingly argued by people who used to be climate change deniers that preventing global warming will be too expensive to contemplate; even the Stern report, which was put together by a sympathetic economist, estimates that the world economy would have to decrease annual growth by about 5 percent. On the other hand, reports are emerging that argue that green jobs will reinvigorate the economy, creating an entirely new green-collar job sector. I want to argue so ... |
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| Topics: economy, green jobs (all these topics) |
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The job-creating answer to global warming
A new report lays a road map for creating green jobs while fighting the climate crisis |
Joseph Romm |
28 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| A major new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) provides a detailed roadmap for avoiding catastrophic global warming and restoring our energy security, while maintaining economic development. The report, 'Capturing the Energy Opportunity: Creating a Low Carbon Economy,' is by CAP's John Podesta, Kitt Batten, and Todd Stern. It is well worth reading, and I say that not because I am a senior fellow at CAP, but because the 88-page report lays out th ... |
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| Topics: climate, economy, energy, green jobs, politics (all these topics) |
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The mother of all green jobs fact sheets
A great summary of recent studies on green jobs |
Patrick Mazza |
26 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Clean energy, a job-creation engine already generating impressive performance, will rev up to even higher levels in coming years. A comprehensive new fact sheet (PDF) from the Environmental and Energy Study Institute strongly documents these trends with capsule summaries of dozens of recent studies on the topic. In the last several years, numerous studies have validated the emergence of renewable energy and energy efficiency as a major new economic and employmen ... |
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| Topics: green jobs, business (all these topics) |
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Work It
Climate change could put millions out of work, says U.N. |
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13 Nov 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 10:15 AM on 13 Nov 2007 Not only is climate change not a hoax manufactured by dirty hippies who hope to put every American out of a job, global warming is real enough to, um, put millions of people out of jobs, United Nations officials said yesterday. At a meeting of the International Labor Organization, the heads of the U.N. climate and weather agencies noted that work in the tourism and fisheries industries could be par ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts, green jobs, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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A green wave lifts all boats
Van Jones looks to sustainability for pathways out of poverty |
Anna Fahey |
11 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Will the burgeoning 'green' economy have a place in it for everyone? To a packed auditorium in Seattle last Wednesday, Van Jones said: It can. And to be successful, it has to. In the chorus of voices against climate change, his message rings true and clear: 'We have a chance to connect the people who most need work with the work that most needs to be done.' Van Jones is a civil-rights lawyer and founder and executive director of an innovative nonprofit working to ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, environmental justice, green jobs, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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Remake a Living: Green career tips for locavores
How to find a job in your local area |
Kevin Doyle |
01 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I've been on the road. I started the first week in October at the University of Michigan and ended it at a "career visioning" retreat in the Connecticut woods with students from Yale. My impressions? At both universities, I found aspiring environmental professionals who are committed to building a sustainable society. (I also found great vegetarian food.) GRIST JOB BOARD As we talked about "sustainable solutions" careers ... |
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| Topics: business, placemaking, green jobs (all these topics) |
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Grow locally, manufacture locally
Manufacturing a new economy |
Jon Rynn |
31 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| If we eat food from local sources, we can decrease our ecological footprint, reduce carbon emissions, and eat better food. In addition, any society that cannot produce its own food is vulnerable, as it cannot create one of society's main sources of wealth. It just makes sense to grow food locally. The same principles apply to manufacturing. Grow locally, eat locally; more generally, consume locally, produce locally. In the case of manufacturing, "produc ... |
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| Topics: business, consumerism, green jobs (all these topics) |
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It was inevitable
The Mustache discovers Van Jones |
David Roberts |
16 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Tom Friedman just introduced Van Jones to a large new audience. All he had to do to make it a great column was get out of the way and let Van speak. |
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| Topics: environmental justice, green jobs, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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Connecting the dots: Part I
From black to white: An argument for green-collar jobs |
Jon Rynn |
15 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| 'Spiritually fulfilling, ecologically sustainable, and socially just' is the title of a recent speech by Van Jones, who has been appearing in strategic places for a few years now. As cofounder of the Ella Baker Center in Oakland, he has been attempting to fight environmental pollution that has been poisoning the residents of inner-city areas in Oakland and all over the country. As such, he is in a unique position to bridge a rather wide chasm: the African-American community ... |
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| Topics: business, environmental justice, green jobs, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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Environmentalism and economic justice, sitting in a tree ...
Van Jones has helped push equity to the center of the green discussion |
David Roberts |
26 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Back in March of this year, I interviewed Van Jones of the Ella Baker Center in Oakland, Calif. He was excited because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had adopted his "green-collar jobs" language and agreed to craft legislation around it. In August, such legislation was introduced in the House. Now things are taking off like crazy. Earlier this week the Senate Environment Committee held a hearing on green jobs, where Sen. Barbara Boxer brandished Jones' work and ... |
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| Topics: business, environmental justice, green jobs, politics, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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Green Jobs Act of 2007
Pelosi's plan to save the polar bears -- and poor kids, too ... |
Van Jones |
02 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| There has been a lot of discussion about the energy package that is set to pass the U.S. House this week. But the media so far has missed one of the most interesting and innovative proposals that will be voted on: the Green Jobs Act of 2007. This ground-breaking legislation will make $120 million a year available across the country to begin training workers (and would-be workers) for jobs in the clean-energy sector. When the bill becomes law, 35,000 people a year will bene ... |
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| Topics: Ed Markey, green jobs, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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Finding a green living
Newsweek reports on green jobs |
Sarah van Schagen |
26 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Newsweek on the growth of the green job market: Graduates of the class of 2007 are finding the job market is receptive to those who want to do good by the environment. As public awareness of global warming grows, companies are scrambling to put in place greener practices, to present themselves as more eco-friendly and to develop products and services to fill a new demand for all things green. The phenomenon is creating jobs in fields like urban planning, carbon ... |
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| Topics: business, green jobs, green living (all these topics) |
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U.S. House takes first step toward passing 'Green Jobs Act Of 2007'
Bill passes House; now on to conference committee |
Van Jones |
29 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Hooray! This week Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis (CA-32) officially became the most important environmental heroine you've never heard of. Solis, a Latina Congresswoman from Los Angeles, introduced the Green Jobs Act of 2007 (H.R. 2847). The Act represents a smart, far-sighted effort to fight pollution and poverty at the same time by creating federally-funded job training within the green economy. Guess what? On Wednesday, the U.S. House Education and Labor Com ... |
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| Topics: green jobs, legislation, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics) |
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Dems in Congress: 'Green-collar jobs' will fight poverty and global warming
A hearing in the House shows promise |
Van Jones |
23 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Hooray! Hooray! Finally! Yesterday, some House Democrats finally 'connected the dots' on ways to solve two of the nation's biggest problems: failing American job security and global climate security. By addressing both issues simultaneously, these congressional leaders may re-energize the anti-poverty movement -- and transform the debate on global warming. U.S. Representatives Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) both sit on the Select Com ... |
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| Topics: Congress, environmental justice, environmental movement, green jobs, politics, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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Change the Rules, Change the Future
New energy rules could unleash an economic boom and help quash climate change |
Timothy E. Wirth, Vinod Khosla, John D. Podesta |
22 May 2007 |
Soapbox |
| By Timothy E. Wirth, Vinod Khosla and John D. Podesta 22 May 2007 In 1997, as the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change was being negotiated, the U.S. Senate voted, 95-0, to reject any agreement that "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States." The senators were acting on the widespread fear that the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy would hurt ... |
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| Topics: climate, green jobs, regulation, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Making sure the green wave lifts all boats
New report from Apollo Alliance on good green jobs |
Kate Sheppard |
01 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The Apollo Alliance and Urban Habitat have a new report out today on the coming green economy and the immense job potential for traditionally excluded groups -- low-income, heavily minority urban communities. The report sets out a vision for green jobs in the U.S. and outlines the green industries that already exist in the country, offering policy guidance for creating better jobs for more people. It also details programs that are working, like apprenticeships, job ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, environmental justice, green jobs, placemaking, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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Wanted: One good environmentalist
USDA Seeks to fill enviro slot on Organic Board |
Stephanie Paige Ogburn |
17 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The United States Department of Agriculture seeks to fill an 'environmentalist' slot on the National Organic Standards Board, an opening announced in an April 16th press release. Why should you care? The NOSB makes recommendations to the USDA on what is allowable under USDA Organic Standards. Cloned animals? Recombinant DNA? Sewage sludge? The Board influenced all the decisions to keep these substances out, and will make important future recommendations as wel ... |
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| Topics: Department of Agriculture, environmental movement, green jobs, politics (all these topics) |
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