Posted by Pete Altman in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
Want to learn more about how clean energy will strengthen the US economy by creating millions of green jobs in the US? Come join NRDC, the Blue Green Alliance and many other organizations at the Green Jobs, Good Jobs conference...
Posted by Pete Altman in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. President Obama described the gains being made: “One year later, it is largely thanks to the Recovery Act that a second depression is no longer a possibility. It’s...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Duke University just released an analysis of the impact that ACES will have on global temperature, factoring in the impact that US leadership will have on the rest of the world. As many recognize, the only way to get serious...
Posted by Pete Altman in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
The American Clean Energy and Security Act will help spur $150 billion in clean energy investments, which will create 1.7 million good-paying jobs throughout the United States. Clean energy jobs are labor intensive, and clean energy investments create more jobs...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy , Solving Global Warming
The US Chamber of Commerce has been drinking its own Kool-Aid again, and trying this time to get members of Congress to think it's green tea. The Chamber is attempting to convince policymakers that burdensome regulations are blocking clean energy...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
The clean energy money in the stimulus package is already putting people to work, or back to work, in the case of a window factory in western Pennsylvania. Six months ago, Kensington Windows shut its doors when its parent company...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
Over the last several months, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been holding "State Climate Dialogues" out in the states, ostensibly to "stimulate a national discussion on key climate change issues." These are much more monologue than dialogue though, and...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
You can't miss the fact that both Time and Newsweek chose the week of the Presidential election to run pieces on how the economic downturn will affect efforts to solve global warming. Yes, most eyes are on the election through Tuesday night...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
One of the most bizarre arguments made by the "let's not solve global warming" crowd is that doing so will hurt the poor (about whom, mysteriously enough, these voices seem to remain pretty unconcerned when almost any other topic is on...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
America's overall economy may be stumbling today, but the emerging green economy here and abroad seems to be going great guns. Just look at the growing evidence: Earlier this month, I blogged about how 750,000 American workers are getting paychecks...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Van Jones is the nation's leading visionary calling for a social, economic and energy revolution driven by a massive effort to repower America's outdated and broken energy systems. A long-time advocate for helping those on society's lowest rungs to climb...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
It turns out that nearly 750,000 Americans get paychecks from jobs that reduce pollution and increase the use of clean energy, according to a new report by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The report creates the first index of existing...
