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Careers in Renewable Energy: Get a Green Energy Job

Numerous job opportunities await in the fast-growing field of renewable energy. Grab this handy book and discover how green energy can be a part of your future. Job sectors include solar and wind energy, biofuels, hydrogen ene...
Want Fresh Veggies This Summer? Better Sign Up Now
Growing season may feel far away as winter lingers. But if having fresh, local vegetables throughout the summer sounds like a delicious idea, now is the time to consider a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Here’s how it works: Typically,...
From: Earth911 | By: Marisa McNatt | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Bring it on, EPA
There has been a flurry of activity in the past few weeks over EPA’s threat to regulate green house gas emissions through the Clean Air Act. Two weeks ago, a group of eight Democratic senators lead by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) sent a letter to...
From: The Daily Caller | By: Mark McIntosh | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Canada's Largest Supermarket Chain to Install Solar Panels ...
Photo: Google Maps Loblaw Couldn't Resist Ontario's Generous Feed-in Tariff? Loblaw is announcing today that it will put solar panels on the roof of 4 supermarkets in a pilot program, with the ultimate goal of installing solar arrays on more than 100...
From: TreeHugger | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Green, Efficient, and Small West House
With the economy the way it is, retiring folks are downsizing or losing their homes, while newly educated folks are graduating with slim pickings. Not to be grim, but this...
From: Jetson Green | By: Preston Koerner | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Tracking the Ripples ...
Thanks to the Recovery Act, there are hundreds of thousands of teachers in classrooms, police on the beat, construction workers fixing our infrastructure, engineers building the the smart grid, and much more.
From: Huffington Post | By: Jared Bernstein | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Sustainably Yours: Cut Out Cut Flowers
That flower bouquet resting beautifully in a vase on your table has a carbon footprint of about five pounds, at the very least. That accounts for air transportation and any chemical agents that may be applied to any such flower, as well as the constant...
From: Wend Magazine | By: Sami Ewers | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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More Efficient Biomass Gasification Through Solar Concentrating ...
photo: Alex Lang via flickr. Here's a new twist on biomass gasification, one which more or less merges it with solar thermal. Technology Review is highlighting the efforts of Colorado-based Sundrop Fuels to develop a system which uses the heat of the...
From: TreeHugger | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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BP Still Ranked Greenest Oil Company by Greenopia - Citgo ...
photo: BP Greenopia has updated their guide to the greenest oil companies--though it may seem like it, it's not entirely an oxymoron--and BP is still on top. The other positions have shifted a bit, with Sunoco and Hess taking second and third place:...Read...
From: TreeHugger | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Going gluten-free
Fourteen years ago, I was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).  Doctors told me that there was nothing they could do to help ease my discomfort and pain, except that I should watch my diet, reduce stress, and get lots of exercise. I attempted...
From: Yahoo Green | By: Christie Nash | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Zoo Explores Poop Power and Insulation to Cut Carbon
Image credit: 10:10 Campaign/Michele Turton Paignton Zoo in the UK has already hit the headlines for exploring vertical farming to feed its animals. Now the zoo will be recycling the nutrients from that animal feed to power itself. That's right, Paignton...
From: TreeHugger | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Leading the Way to a Low-Energy Future
This is a guest post by Megan Quinn Bachman. The failure of the Copenhagen climate talks taught us one thing—that hoping for intelligent responses to climate change from the world’s governments is an exercise in futility. It’s just not going to...
From: The Oil Drum | By: Gail the Actuary | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Rich Countries “Outsourcing” Carbon, Good News for ...
Blue collar jobs aren’t the only thing getting outsourced away from the U.S. and Europe. As much as a third of carbon dioxide emissions related to goods and services bought in rich countries are emitted outside their borders, effectively “outsourcing”...
From: Earth2Tech | By: Justin Moresco | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Indonesia Hopes To Attract $12 Billion In Geothermal Investments ...
Indonesia Hopes To Attract $12 Billion In Geothermal Investments...
From: Fox News | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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The Chasing Arrows Recycling Logo – The Biggest Greenwash ...
In recent years, after the initial honeymoon of broader consumer interest in all things green, it’s now settled squarely in the space of “prove it to me.” Yet proving something’s greenness, sustainability, fair trade status, organic certification,...
From: Triple Pundit | By: Tom Szaky | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Drumbeat: March 10, 2010
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Looming Fiscal Storm All this says that despite the incessant media repetition that the economic situation is getting better, there is growing evidence that the economy is in fact growing worse. Federal Reserve support of the...
From: The Oil Drum | By: Leanan | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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LETTERS: Yes to windmills, cleaner energy
I'm an old woman who strives to lessen the impact of my carbon footprint so my grandchildren and their children can flourish on a healthy Earth. I have little patience for those who whine about looking at a sunset through the wings of a windmill that's...
From: Detroit Free Press | By: The Detroit Free Press Online | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Eight questions for Sue Cischke, the highest ranking woman ...
(Photo: Ford) The Daily Green recently had the chance to interview Sue Cischke by phone from her office in Dearborn, Mich. The 54-year-old Vice President for Sustainability, Environment, and Safety Engineering is, according to her employer, Ford, the...
From: Yahoo Green | By: Dan Shapley | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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California Regulators: Climate Change a Bigger Threat than ...
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is known for its relentless pursuit of initiatives to combat pollution and emissions it deems harmful, including carbon dioxide. However, one of its efforts designed to counter climate change has the agency attracting...
From: Big Government | By: Capitol Confidential | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Tony Juniper – March Green God
One of the world's leading eco-campaigners talks parrots, babies, supermarkets and royalty
From: Daisy Green | By: Sallyanne Flemons | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Keeps (Greener) ...
It’s a one-two green punch for the trucking industry: today the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced a program with the U.S. EPA to help get rid of older trucks with dirty emissions, and just yesterday the company New Energy Technologies...
From: CleanTechnica | By: Tina Casey | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Carbon Neutral Caution
Eric De PlaceA climate action lesson from Denmark There's been a lot of ambitious talk lately about carbon neutrality. It's exciting stuff, but it's worth pausing to...
From: WorldChanging | By: Eric De Place | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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New Study Tracks 'Outsourcing' of Emissions Caused by Consumer ...
Yale Environment 360More than one-third of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with consumer goods used in developed nations is actually emitted in other nations where the products...
From: WorldChanging | By: Yale Environment 360 | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Transonic Combustion Improves Gas Engine Efficiency Over ...
Conventional gasoline engines are terribly inefficient things. Only 13% of the energy of the fuel actually moves the car. 62% is lost in the engine as waste heat, and driveline losses, accessories, and idling also reduce the efficiency. Transonic Combustion...
From: EcoGeek | By: Philip Proefrock | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Interview with Kirit Parikh on India’s Low Carbon Growth ...
WorldChanging Team There was a time, not long ago, when the idea of a national low-carbon growth strategy for India would have been hard to imagine....
From: WorldChanging | By: WorldChanging Team | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Why the End Times Might Reek of Methane
What does a climate change "tipping point" look like? We may be about to find out first hand.Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas out there. Other substances, such as water vapor and nitrous oxide, also trap heat to varying degrees. Discussions...
From: Fast Company | By: Jamais Cascio | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Is Energy's Best Bet Blowin' in the Wind?
Public solar companies receive a majority of the press, but some are saying that wind may be the smarter place for U.S. renewable energy investors to place their bets in the next few years. Take our poll to see what TheStreet thinks....
From: TheStreet | By: Eric Rosenbaum | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Buy Less Crap, Says Annie Leonard of The Story of Stuff
Annie Leonard, the narrator of the hit internet video "The Story of Stuff," and the author of a book by the same name that hit the shelves this week (see her on last night's Colbert Report here), has a radical message: Buy less crap. It may seem self-evident....
From: Change.org | By: Christopher Mims | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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The Progressive and the Populist
In my piece “Obama’s Lost Year,” I tried to describe from the outside the ethos of the Obama White House: the way in which it makes decisions and governs, its rhetoric and temper, its emphases...
From: New Yorker | By: George Packer | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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ConocoPhillips chair mocks clean energy advocates as “hydrocarbon ...
Oil prices and profits are on the rise again.  The anti-science disinformation campaign funded in large part by Big Oil is having unimaginable success.  And the powerful minority of do-nothing ideologues appear to have the upper hand in the Senate....
From: Climate Progress | By: Joe | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Why Wind Is a Better Buy Than Solar (Part 2)
JPMorgan signals a shift in its approach to renewable energy investing, embracing wind to the exclusion of more popular solar stocks....
From: TheStreet | By: Eric Rosenbaum | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Energy and Global Warming News for March 10: Climate’s ...
Climate’s a hot issue in Arkansas Arkansas is rapidly emerging as ground zero for climate politics, as advocates from all sides swarm embattled incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln. Lincoln’s approval rating — at an all-time low of 27 percent — has...
From: Climate Progress | By: JT McLain | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Power Your Style with Portable Windmill Fashion [Scifashion] ...
Looking for the perfect accoutrement that can also charge your iPhone? Channel your inner Lady Gaga with this this portable, electricity-generating windmill. It won't work indoors, but looking like a cybernetic wood nymph is rad enough. More »...
From: Io9 | By: Cyriaque Lamar | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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New Study Tracks ‘Outsourcing’ of Greenhouse Gas Emissions ...
More than one-third of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with consumer goods used in developed nations is actually emitted in other nations where the products are made, according to a new study. In the United States, about 2.5 tons of carbon produced...
From: Clean Techies | By: Yale Environment 360 | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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A messy but practical strategy for phasing out the U.S. ...
by Ted Nace By 2030, we have to stop emitting greenhouse gases from coal. That conclusion is most famously associated with NASA’s climate chief James Hansen, but Hansen is not alone. In a recent paper, nine other climate scientists—David Beerling,...
From: Grist | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Study Tracks 'Outsourcing' of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
More than one-third of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with consumer goods used in developed nations is actually emitted in other nations where the products are made, according to a new study. In the U.S., about 2.5 tons of carbon produced per...
From: Yale Environment 360 | By: Yale Environment 360 | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Obama, Key Senators Make Their Pitch for Climate and Energy ...
Closed-door talks extended to both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue yesterday as President Obama, key senators and industry officials searched for an elusive agreement on comprehensive energy and climate change legislation.
From: Faith in Public Life | By: Kristin | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Mommy War: Filtered vs. Bottled Water
Juggle readers, do you use a home water filtration system or do you stick with plain tap?
From: Wall Street Journal | By: Gwendolyn Bounds | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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EPA Reports Largest One-Year Decline in GHG Emissions Since ...
U.S. carbon emissions fell 3 percent from 2008 to 2009, the largest one-year drop on record since the government began keeping tab on such things in 1990, reports the Los Angeles Times. Projected improvements in the economy should lead to a 1.5-percent...
From: Environmental Leader | By: Environmental Leader | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Start Tracking GHG Emissions in 60 Days
With some companies crunched for time in trying to comply with the EPA’s new greenhouse gas reporting initiative, which took effect Jan. 1, a software maker has come up with a platfrom that can help a company begin tracking its emissions within 60...
From: Environmental Leader | By: Environmental Leader | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Green Like Me!
Via Instapundit comes this link to an excellent Economist debate between one-time Obama "green jobs" czar nominee Van Jones and Andy Morriss on whether the government should push green jobs like drug dealers supposedly push pot on grammar-school playgrounds....
From: Reason | By: Nick Gillespie | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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The New Case for Gay Marriage -- By: John J. Miller
It will stimulate the economy! Wash Post: As the first same-sex couples married in Washington on Tuesday, the city is in the national spotlight as a pioneer in the gay-rights movement. But local officials say the historic event also has more practical...
From: National Review | By: John J. Miller | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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“Passing Costs On” to Consumers
Whenever anyone raises the prospect of anything that would raise producers’ costs, the specter of the costs being “passed on” to consumers comes up. So, for example, the American Petroleum Institute’s Jack Gerard is pretending to favor the idea...
From: Matthew Yglesias | By: myglesias | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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New Life for an Energy Bill?
Lost in yesterday's Eric Massa circus was news that a bipartisan group of 14 senators -- led by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) -- is pushing ahead with climate change legislation.The bill under discussion...
From: Taegan Goddard's Political Wire | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Recovery Act in Action, #3: Tracking the Ripples
Editors's Note: In case you missed them, read Part 1 and Part 2. Throw a rock in a still pond and you will observe many ripples. Throw a Recovery Act program in a stagnant economy and you will observe many jobs. Therein lies the lesson from our latest...
From: White House Blog | By: Jared Bernstein | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Big Oil uses fake ‘Americans’ to attack fake ‘energy ...
by Brad Johnson Cross-posted from the Wonk Room. Big Oil is using fake “Americans” to defend billions in tax subsidies. The American Petroleum Institute is running full-page ads in Politico and Roll Call that attack Congress for “new energy taxes”:...
From: Grist | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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South Korea Testing "Recharging Roads" For Its Public Transport ...
South Korea has overhauled its public transport network with recharging roads, where the vehicles use power from buried electric strips in the road. It was invented at the University of California, before South Korea adopted it for an amusement park....
From: Gizmodo | By: Kat Hannaford | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Interview with Kirit Parikh on India’s Low Carbon Growth ...
st1\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#ieooui) } There was a time, not long ago, when the idea of a national low-carbon growth strategy for India would have been hard to imagine. "Low carbon" was seen to be at loggerheads with India's ambitious economic development...
From: Worldwatch Institute | By: Anna da Costa | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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World Class Flowers to Add 178 kW Solar Energy System
World Class Flowers in New Jersey plans to install a 178-kW solar energy system that will supply nearly 30 percent of the florist’s electrical needs, cutting its electricity costs by more than $130,000 and generating close to $600,000 in solar renewable...
From: Environmental Leader | By: Environmental Leader | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Life After Growth--Managing our Way to a Desirable Future ...
This is a guest post by Richard Heinberg. It is a shortened version of a longer post published by the Post Carbon Institute. What if the economy doesn’t recover? In 2008 the U.S. economy tripped down a steep, rocky slope. Employment levels plummeted;...
From: The Oil Drum | By: Gail the Actuary | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Using Peer Pressure to Cut Energy Use
The works better than conventional energy efficiency programs. Energy efficiency has been called the low-hanging fruit for reducing carbon emissions, because it actually pays for itself. But it can be difficult to get people to take simple steps to save...
From: MIT Technology Review | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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