From Green Right Now Reports
As the economy shows early signs of picking back up, commentators are abuzz about whether the revival will be a “job less” recovery.
Green advocates hope the recovery with come not just with jobs, but with new employment in clean energy, alternative power and other green industries.
Green jobs will be back atop the agenda at the Clean Energy Summit 2.0 next Monday in Las Vegas. The second annual summit, again hosted by US Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and the Center for American Progress Action Fund has attracted a long list of dignitaries and green leaders.
Summit leaders announced today that former President Bill Clinton will attend, along with Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Others already on the list of those expected:
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Energy conference: no time to wait on smart grid
By John DeFore
Green Right Now
A high-powered conference on the future of energy in America was held Monday in Washington; while it produced some consensus about the foundation necessary to meet future needs, it suggested there might be conflicts ahead in getting there.
Attendees, who ranged from former president Bill Clinton to officials at state utilities, heard plenty about the necessity of a new “smart grid” capable of shuttling electricity cross-country from renewable sources like wind and solar farms to the high-density cities that need the juice.
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Tags: · Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Electricity, Harry Reid, National Clean Energy Project, smart grid, Steven Chu, T.Boone Pickens
California leaders positioned to green U.S. policy
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
For years, California has been a leader of environmental policy — writing it’s own stricter rules for pesticide controls, air pollution and waste disposal as it sees fit, regardless of whether the nation is following along.
In the 1990s, the state pushed the leading edge of a technology that many of us wish had been pursued more aggressively when it hosted a test of modern electric cars, a fairly successful experiment that was regrettably shoved into neutral by U.S. automakers.
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Tags: · Barbara Boxer, Bay Area, California, Henry Waxman, Los Angeles, Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Sutley, San Francisco, Steven Chu
