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  • FACT CHECK: Americans For Prosperity Announces $6.1 Million Ad Buy To Push Totally False Green Jobs Claims
    After pouring more than $8.4 million into bogus energy attack ads since November, the oil industry front group Americans For Prosperity announced yet another major ad buy of $6.1 million in eight states. The latest ad is based on a set of mistruths about green jobs that have been widely debunked. In the ad, AFP […]
  • DOCUMENTARY SHORT: The Truth About Clean Energy Jobs
    It’s time to take back the narrative about clean energy. Since the bankruptcy of a few high-profile clean energy companies, political opponents and media pundits have tried to label the entire industry a failure. This is a gross distortion of the on-the-ground reality — and it shows how disconnected people are from what’s really happening […]
  • Green Jobs Help The Planet And Communities Of Color
    by Abigail Ridley-Kerr, Jorge Madrid When Earth Day celebrated its first year in 1970, the words “green” and “job” were disparate concepts. This weekend, however, on the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day, green jobs are remaking and transforming the economy to be less polluting, more efficient, and more equitable. In addition to helping the planet […]
  • Green Jobs In Kansas City: Profiling The People Who Make Up America’s 3.1 Million Green Jobs
    There were 3.1 million green jobs around the U.S. in 2010, according to new figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Those jobs — which accounted for 2.4 percent of nation-wide employment that year — represented a diverse range of opportunities in renewable energy, efficiency, pollution control, resource conservation and education. But what kind of impac […]
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics Reports 3.1 Million U.S. Green Jobs: Top 5 Takeaways
    by Jorge Madrid and Adam James Green Goods and Services (GGS) accounted for 2.4 percent of total U.S. employment in 2010, with almost a third of all jobs supporting the badly hit construction and manufacturing sector, says a new analysis released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The vast majority of these jobs […]
  • More than 1.1 Million People Employed in EU’s Renewable Energy Sector
    More than 1.1 million people have jobs in Europe’s renewable energy sector, according to new figures released from EurObserv’ER, a renewable energy tracking project supported by the European Commission. The numbers, which don’t even account for the massive boom in renewables development in 2011, show a 25% increase in employment between 2009 and 2010, bringi […]

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  • Behavioral economics at Starbucks
    Starbucks generates 4 billion paper cups a year. Yikes! That’s about 12 cups for every man, woman and child in America.  The company has been working hard, with an array of partners, to build a system to enable these cups to be recycled. Meantime, though, there’s a way to reduce some of that waste: Charge […]
  • Ford Begins Taking Orders for 2013 C-Max Hybrid
    The C-MAX is a compact hybrid utility vehicle and the Ford's first dedicated line of hybrids. The 2013 C-MAX Hybrid will be available this fall with a base price of $25,995. […]
  • Prius C Earns ‘Top Pick’ Safety Rating from IIHS
    The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety busted up a few Prius C hybrids to see how they held up in crashes. Here's what they found... […]
  • Goodbye Lexus HS 250h Hybrid, We Hardly Knew Ya
    It seems like it was just yesterday that Lexus introduced the HS 250h hybrid, the first dedicated luxury hybrid (like the Prius, there's no non-hybrid version of the HS 250h). […]
  • Vermont Bans Fracking: We Can Live Without Oil & Natural Gas, But Cannot Without Clean Water
    In signing the ban into law, Vermont's governor reminds us that there was civilization before fossil fuels, but there was no life at all before water. […]
  • Energy Apathy: The Price And The Cure
    by Elaine Gallagher, via Rocky Mountain Institute Where does your energy come from? Although I live in Colorado now, I grew up in East Tennessee, where many people still assume their power is fairly clean, dominated by 90-year-old hydroelectric plants. In truth, more than 50 percent of my family’s electricity was generated from coal, and […]