Climate Equity Alliance Establishes Principles For Green Economic Reform
Friday, April 10th, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffBy Brad Johnson As corporate lobbyists and conservative politicians strive to maintain a pollution-based economy, a new progressive alliance has formed to fight back. The Climate Equity Alliance is calling for policies to ensure that energy legislation reaches ...
Climate Equity Alliance Establishes Principles For Green Economic Reform
Friday, April 10th, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffBy Brad Johnson As corporate lobbyists and conservative politicians strive to maintain a pollution-based economy, a new progressive alliance has formed to fight back. The Climate Equity Alliance is calling for policies to ensure that energy legislation reaches ...
China Set to Corner Electric Car Market
Monday, April 6th, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments Offby Anna Fahey Getting out of the economic recession is one thing. Staying out is another. A key factor in sustained economic health may well be the ability to lead in new, clean technologies -- and the ...
China Set to Corner Electric Car Market
Monday, April 6th, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments Offby Anna Fahey Getting out of the economic recession is one thing. Staying out is another. A key factor in sustained economic health may well be the ability to lead in new, clean technologies -- and the ...
First Energy Department Loan Guarantee Goes To … A Solar Manufacturer
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffThe Department of Energy announced on Friday that the first energy loan guarantee authorized by the 2005 (!) Energy Policy Act went to a plant that manufactures solar panels: Energy Secretary Steven Chu today offered a $535 ...
First Energy Department Loan Guarantee Goes To … A Solar Manufacturer
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffThe Department of Energy announced on Friday that the first energy loan guarantee authorized by the 2005 (!) Energy Policy Act went to a plant that manufactures solar panels: Energy Secretary Steven Chu today offered a $535 ...
Obama Picks Van Jones to be Green Jobs Adviser
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffThe AP reports: Author and activist Van Jones will be a special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation in the Obama administration. Nancy Sutley, chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said in a release ...
The Intergenerational Ponzi Scheme
Sunday, March 8th, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffKim Stanley Robinson makes some excellent points in support of the idea that in our current planetary crisis doing the right and doing the smart thing are by and large the same thing: Am I saying that ...
The Intergenerational Ponzi Scheme
Sunday, March 8th, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffKim Stanley Robinson makes some excellent points in support of the idea that in our current planetary crisis doing the right and doing the smart thing are by and large the same thing: Am I saying that ...
Will Green Jobs Become the New Greenwash?
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffIf you were to believe the hype — from politicos, the mainstream media, the blogosphere, academics, activists, and countless green gurus — you'd think that President Obama and Congress are readying to unleash small armies of ...
Fighting Climate Change is Cheap
Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffMany economists conclude that slacking off is the expensive choice. Over the past few decades, climate scientists have gradually converged to a consensus about global warming: it's real, humans are causing it, and over the next century ...
Bad Stimulus v. Good Stimulus
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffSensible words from Time's Michael Grunwald: "A trillion dollars' worth of bad ideas — sprawl-inducing highways and bridges to nowhere, ethanol plants and pipelines that accelerate global warming, tax breaks for overleveraged McMansion builders and burdensome new ...
Stabilizing the Economy by Understanding “Enough”
Monday, January 12th, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments Off<p class="zemanta-img-attribution" The immense gap between the world’s rich and poor has finally become a topic of serious discussion throughout the developed world, reaching even into G-8 meetings (although not the U.S. presidential campaign). And we ...
It’s Flue Season
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffEconomic stimulus through energy efficiency. Here's your economic stimulus idea for today: condensing flue gas waste heat recovery. With a name like ...
Local Currencies Grow During Economic Recession
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffPhoto courtesy Jason Houston Five local banks have printed more than 2 million Berkshare notes since 2006. The 10 Berkshare note features Robyn Van En, a local pioneer of community supported agriculture. The gentle mountain slopes of ...
Greening the Intellectual Infrastructure
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffAndy Revkin makes a needed point, that an American bright green recovery can't happen without a lot of new innovation, and thus a lot more people working on innovation: But for such an initiative to be green ...
Green Venture Capital
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffCan "green tech" have a dark cloud? This New York Time Magazine article on green venture capital makes me simultaneously hopeful and nervous. Kleiner Perkins is one of the giants of venture capital, having scored with some ...
Obama Embraces Green-Collar Stimulus
Friday, November 28th, 2008 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments Offby Alan Durning $100 billion for green jobs. Billion! The Associated Press reports plans for a massive new green-collar federal stimulus package: Obama has also embraced calls for a "green jobs" program that invests as much as $100 ...
Michael Heller and the Gridlock Economy
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffProfessor Michael Heller of Columbia University got a nice endorsement for his book the other day. Former President Bill Clinton recommended his book, The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and ...
A Low-Carbon Stimulus and Recovery Plan
Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffImagine a future where government spending went to creating a low-carbon economy, powered by green collar workers and publicly-purposed investments. Instead of government spending that bails out auto industry CEOs and investment bankers on Wall ...