The numbers have been crunched by the Labor Department and the results are in: green jobs accounted for an eye-poppingly low 2.4% of the United States’ total employment in 2010. However, this was the first ever survey of green goods and services jobs, so we don’t yet have something with which to compare the results. [...]
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Number Of Green Jobs In U.S. Measured For First Time
April 2nd, 2012 
Justin Manger 
Posted in Business, Economics, Green Economy, Justin Manger, News, Policy, President Obama 
Tags: Alternative Energy, Clean Energy, Green Product, Solar Energy 
No Comments »President Obama Announces EV-EVerywhere Challenge
March 28th, 2012 Eric Wilson Earlier this month while in North Carolina, President Obama kicked off “EV-EVerywhere”, the second step in the Energy Department’s “Clean Energy Grand Challenges.” According to the press release, the grand challenges are “aimed at addressing the most pressing energy challenges of our time.” The goal of this particular challenge is to create electric vehicles that [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, President Obama, Transportation Tags: California, Department of Energy, Electric Vehicles, Natural Gas No Comments »Listening Closely to the Energy Debate
March 20th, 2012 Eric Wilson We do not take a political position on this site. However, the other morning the three Republican candidates for the nomination all had curious comments on U.S. energy. I say three, because the radio station I was listening to did not mention Texas Representative Ron Paul’s position on the issue. I suppose the first question [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, News, Policy, President Obama Tags: Analysis, Bio-fuels, Energy, Oil Consumption, Peak Oil, Science No Comments »Approve the Keystone Pipeline
March 18th, 2012 Justin Manger Though perhaps a minority voice among the environmental set, I agree whole-heartedly with Joe Nocera’s column about how U.S. politics is interfering with U.S. national interests. Along with the incredible boom in natural gas production over the last several years in the United States, North America has been the place for booming oil sands production, with [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Economics, Justin Manger, News, Op-Ed, Polls, President Obama No Comments »Offshore Wind Projects Clear Environmental Review
February 29th, 2012 Eric Wilson The Department of the Interior (DOI), home to the National Parks Service, released a statement earlier this month that “the department’s renewable energy initiative has cleared an important environmental review, allowing Interior to move forward with the process for wind energy lease sales off Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Delaware.” The Bureau of Ocean Energy [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, News, Oceans, President Obama, Renewable Energy Tags: Wind Power No Comments »Inside the 2013 Department of Energy Budget
February 21st, 2012 Eric Wilson As part of the massive $3.8 trillion dollar federal budget proposed recently by President Barack Obama, $27.2 billion was geared toward the Department of Energy (DOE). For those interested, here is a PDF of the DOE budget. Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu provided details of the budget proposal as it pertains to his office. In [...]
China Bans Airlines from Paying European Union Carbon Tax
February 17th, 2012 Chris DeArmond At its outset in 2005, the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) was designed to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by factories, power plants, and other energy-intensive installations. At the beginning of this year, however, ETS began imposing the cap-and-trade system on all airlines with flights departing from or arriving at EU [...]
Posted in China, Economics, Featured Posts, Japan, News, President Obama, Transportation Tags: Brazil, Carbon Dioxide, Chris DeArmond, Congress No Comments »The Legacy of Cheap Natural Gas
February 12th, 2012 Eric Wilson What will be the legacy of cheap natural gas? Until recently, natural gas in the United States was 3-4 times as expensive as it is today. With advances in technology, costs have dropped precipitously. Natural gas prices ended the other day at $2.32 per MMBtu. 18 months ago a MMBtu sold for $5.50 on the [...]
Posted in Business, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Policy, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Sustainability Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Economy, Fracking, Natural Gas, Shale Gas No Comments »Obama Returns to Energy Theme in State of the Union
January 26th, 2012 2nd Green Revolution As he has done previously in talking about the state of America, President Obama had several things to say about energy in Tuesday night’s speech (transcript here). For one, due to a surge in domestic oil production, imports of foreign oil have fallen to the lowest levels in 16 years and “American oil production is the highest that [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Clean Technology, Economics, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Green Economy, Justin Manger, News, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Alternative Energy, Clean Energy, Congress, Electricity Generation, Energy, Green Technology, Renewable Energy, Washington DC No Comments »Poll: Obama’s State of the Union Speech
January 23rd, 2012 Justin Manger On Tuesday, January 24th President Obama will deliver his State of the Union Address from Capitol Hill. How prominently do you think clean energy and the “green” economy will be featured in the speech? Choose from one of the options below:
