From Green Right Now Reports
The job market has been blowing in a positive direction when it comes to wind energy, with power companies building turbines, hiring technicians and pushing grid improvements to reach more consumers.
In 2008, wind energy created 35,000 jobs and accounted for 42 percent of new energy production installed in that year, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). That burst was part of an upward trajectory begun a few years before.
But after the economic implosion of late 2008, the picture didn’t look so bright. By 2009 even wind development took a hit from negative gusts in the economy. The downturn idled some wind projects, among other green programs, all vulnerable because of their dependence on investment capital.
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February 13th, 2009
By David Louie
KGO – San Francisco
SUNNYVALE, CA — Creating green-tech jobs is one of the key goals of the federal stimulus bill. It’s a big part of the economic future of the country.
But it’s also a focus in other parts of the world — like china.
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Related Topics: · Applied Materials, China, David Louie, Green tech, jobs, KGO, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Stimulus bill, Sunnyvale
January 19th, 2009
By Diane Porter
Green Right Now
Architect Ed Mazria has a vision for buildings that would make them energy neutral or “net zero”, a point where they used so little energy that they could equal it with what they fed back to the electric grid. It’s called the 2030 Architecture plan. And it aims big.
So it’s little surprise that Mazria and colleagues have developed a sister plan addressing the current American economic crisis. It would create jobs. Cut energy use. Curb global warming emissions. Send business to banks. Revitalize the construction sector.
And, oh yeah, it would help people get better, lower interest mortgages.
Are you there President Obama? Congress?
When Obama spoke to the nation early in January about his plan to get the United States economy back on track – the American R
ecovery and Reinvestment Plan – he spoke of creating a “clean energy economy” by rebuilding troubled infrastructure and modernizing federal buildings and American homes.
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Related Topics: · 2030 Challenge Stimulus Plan, American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, architecture, Architecture 2030, clean energy, Construction, global warming, housing, infrastructure, jobs, zero energy
July 23rd, 2008
By Nima Kapadia
Jobs in renewable energy are increasing worldwide and causing the coal industry to distribute pink slips, according to a Worldwatch Institute study.
The report, written by Worldwatch senior researcher Michael Renner, estimates that 2.3 million people are working in renewable energy jobs – either directly or indirectly. From that number:
1 million work in biofuels
794,000 work [...]
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Related Topics: · coal, jobs, Renewable Energy, Worldwatch Institute
