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Will Green Jobs Be YOUTH Jobs?

While young people have been some of the biggest advocates for green jobs, no one has really tried to answer the question of whether green jobs will be youth jobs? Will more green jobs mean more jobs for youth, or will young people miss out on the very green jobs we’ve worked so hard to create?

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Weekly Mulch: The Sticky Truth about Oil Spills and Tar Sands

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
The National Oil Spill Commission released its report on last year’s BP oil spill this week. The report laid out the blame for the spill, tagging each of the three companies working on the Deepwater Horizon at the time, Halliburton, Transocean and BP, and also offered prescriptions for avoiding similar [...]

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Weekly Mulch: Why Energy Reform is on Shaky Ground

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
Since national energy reform is on the rocks, ethanol subsidies for the Midwest and ballot propositions to roll back progressive energy legislation in California are the most important policy fights to watch right now.
Neither will revolutionize the way Americans get power, and in both cases, moving forward could actually mean [...]

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Weekly Mulch: Cochabamba Summit to Combat Climate Change Innovatively

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger

On Monday, climate activists, nonprofit leaders, and governmental officials will gather in Cochabamba, Bolivia, to look for new ideas to address climate change. The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, organized by leading social organizations like 350.0rg, “will advocate the right to “live well,” [...]

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Weekly Mulch: Clock Ticking for Climate Change Legislation

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
Seven months out from the midterms, electoral anxieties are hampering potential climate change legislation. Election years are a time to pass easy, politically popular policies, and climate change legislation does not fit that bill. For the Senate’s climate change legislation to have a chance, Congress has to sweep through the [...]

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The Green Job Market

It’s undeniable; we as a country have fallen on some hard times. Unemployment has become startlingly common within the last couple of years. Businesses, employees and jobseekers alike are struggling to be more efficient and more competitive within their fields and within the market as a whole. I believe that a lot of (political) [...]

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Weekly Mulch: Climate Change On Obama’s Back Burner

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
In his first State of the Union address, President Barack Obama touched on climate issues only briefly. He called on the Senate to pass a climate bill, but did not give Congress a deadline or promise to veto weak legislation. Nor did he mention the Copenhagen climate conference, where international [...]

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Clean-Tech Jobs

The topic of Green Jobs is one that is getting a lot of attention.  Green or Clean the topic is important.
A recent study by Clean Edge gives an excellent overview of this topic.  The report can be downladed for fee – and is worth a read.

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President Obama on Green Jobs…now!

President Obama made a push today for both the environment and the auto industry.  Appearing in Indiana the President stressed the importance of  US industry in general – and the auto industry specifically moving towards clean technology as quickly as we can.  The President also discussed his vision of an increasing role for electric cars [...]

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Five of the Greenest Companies Around – Cool!!!

1.) Honda, Japan; Founded in 1945; Revenue: $84 Billion; Employees: 145,000
Honda is generally regarded as the most fuel-efficient auto company in the U.S.
While other automakers gripe, Honda attacks the issues of fuel economy and emissions with relish. Working independently, it is focusing on two alternative fuel technologies, the natural gas powered “Civic GX” and the [...]

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