There’s usually a flurry of speculation before major elections. Similarly, sports finals bring out all kinds of arguing and debating about who will win. Only when the votes are counted and the buzzer sounds does it really matter. In announcing that the U.S. is on track to achieve four major innovation breakthroughs due to Recovery [...]
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Recovery Act Funds Positively Impacting Innovation; Still Many Unknowns
August 24th, 2010 
Justin Manger Obama Announces $2 Billion in Stimulus Funds for Solar
July 4th, 2010 Eric Wilson In what may amount to his boldest move to date in support of the clean energy economy as part of the economic recovery, President Obama announced that he would be “awarding nearly $2 billion in conditional commitments from the Recovery Act to two solar companies.” Abound Solar (mentioned here in a post last year) and Abengoa [...]
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Tags: Clean Energy, Colorado, Green Jobs, Solar Energy, Stimulus Bill 
View CommentsA 12 Year Old’s Wish, McDonald’s, and the Revolution
June 22nd, 2010 Justin Manger Almost 20 years ago (though it seems like yesterday thinking back on it), I wrote a letter to McDonald’s. I was 12 years old. Somewhere along the way I had learned that McDonald’s used Styrofoam to package some of its food. I probably came home and told my parents something like “I learned in school [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Behavior, Business, Conservation, Education, Green Products, Justin Manger, Op-Ed, President Obama, Sustainability Tags: 2nd Green Revolution, Food View CommentsJohn Stewart’s Clean Energy History Lesson
June 21st, 2010 Eric Wilson As mentioned in a recent post on Paul Hawken’s Natural Capitalism, the second green revolution has been brewing for quite sometime. For a comedic look at the history of clean energy in this country, John Stewart had a funny take on the past eight presidents’ stances on clean energy. In a nod to last week’s [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, President Obama, Renewable Energy Tags: Clean Energy, Humor, Natural Capitalism, Oil Consumption View CommentsOne Click to Support a Clean Energy Future
June 16th, 2010 Justin Manger I’ll keep this short. The nearly $1,000,000,000 a day that we send to foreign countries is both Republicans’ and Democrats’ money. The jobs being lost and the economy being destroyed in the Gulf as a result of the Deepwater oil gusher are affecting people without regard to political philosophy. China, with its booming economy and [...]
