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ATLANTA — Georgia joined a growing number of states on Thursday seeking to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s new pollution restrictions.
The complaint filed by Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens targets the EPA’s new cross-state pollution rules, which are designed to decrease [...]
Soil polluted with lead has long plagued the South Prescott neighborhood of West Oakland. But cleanup is finally getting underway.
This Saturday, June 25, the community is invited to learn more about the new green technology this project will use to clean up residential properties there.
This story is a preview of Oakland Local’s [...]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Looming U.S. rules that power utilities face on air pollution could create nearly 1.5 million jobs over the next five years, according to a report.
Engineering, construction and pipefitting are some of the professions that could see a rise in jobs as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules push utilities [...]
Phaedra, 34, is the CEO of Green For All, which works to get people back to work through green jobs. Partnering with individuals, small businesses and cities, and the Obama Administration, the organization is working to make the green economy a central part of the economic recovery.
Phaedra got her start in the labor movement in San Jose, [...]
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A group devoted to creating alternative energy jobs in Central Appalachia is building a first for West Virginia’s southern coalfields region this week – a set of rooftop solar panels, assembled by unemployed and underemployed coal miners and contractors.
The 40- by 15-foot solar array going up on a doctor’s office in Williamson [...]
Ken Haggard, principal architect for the San Luis Sustainability Group and Professor Emeritus, Cal Poly School of Architecture; John Ewan, owner of Pacific Energy Company; and Tom Murray, vice president of SLO Green Build and a building contractor got together to write an op-ed on how the cou nty can move forward:
San Luis Obispo County [...]
The Lake County Water Authority is seeking applications for more than $300,000 in stormwater grants designed to help Lake cities lessen the impact of stormwater runoff going into local lakes.Removal of pollutants — including grease, pesticides, heavy metals and animal wastes — from stormwater provides an important benefit by reducing pollution that causes excessive algae [...]
David Sneed produced a detailed report on solar energy for the San Luis Obispo Tribune, a sunny Central Coast location that should be ideal for solar power.
Rooftop solar panels provide energy over your head
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2010/12/12/1405003/rooftop-solar-panels-provide-energy.html#storylink=mirelated
In several stories, he covers
Rooftop solar panels a renewable investment for businesses
Read more: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2010/12/13/1405921/rooftop-solar-panels-a-renewable.html#ixzz182H5HJBJ
Feed-in tariffs used to increase use of solar get [...]
Recent state policy and federal funding initiatives are driving the demand for clean energy in both the short and long term. This increased demand has created the need for many more workers trained or retrained in a variety of clean energy jobs. In response, states are utilizing funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [...]
Cinema Verde Fundraiser at the new Urban Flats – Please bring your friends and join us for this opportunity to raise funds for Cinema Verde! From 6 to 8 p.m. on Nov. 9, Urban Flats (115 SE 1st Avenue) will host a fundraiser for Cinema Verde. All-you-can-eat and drink wine, flatbread and [...]
By Dylan Klempner
Director of Keep Alachua County Beautiful (KACB), Mickie McKenzie says her organization is about much more than “planting petunias.” We can plant all the flowers we want, “but if we don’t have communities that are clean and healthy and safe, we don’t have beautiful communities.”
On October 6, 2010, McKenzie spoke to community members at [...]
In this week’s address, President Obama announced that – due to clean energy incentives launched by his administration – a company called BrightSource plans to break ground this month on a new, revolutionary type of solar power plant. This will put about 1,000 people to work building the facility. And once completed, it will power [...]
Taught by Stefanie Samara Hamblen, owner of Hogtown HomeGrown, participants will take a tour of the market, learn to cook at least two meals from seasonal produce and taste everything! In addition to all the hot weather veggies, there will be at least one kind of pesto!
Saturday, [...]
Although wet-cooled solar thermal projects use substantially less water than an equally sized agricultural operation, by switching to the dry-cooling alternative, the project will reduce its groundwater use by a factor of eight, from 1,600 acre-feet to 200 acre-feet annually.
via Plan To Dry Cool Plant Announced.
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Executive Director (Environment Florida)
Environment Florida is a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization. Our professional staff combines independent research, practical ideas and tough-minded advocacy to overcome the opposition of powerful special interests and win real results for Florida’s environment. Environment Florida draws on 30 years of success in tackling our state’s top environmental problems.
via Progress Florida.
Florida Campaign Organizer (Gulf Restoration Network)
Location: Tampa/St. Petersburg
The Gulf Restoration Network (GRN) is hiring a new staff member in Florida. GRN is a 15 year old, non-profit, environmental advocacy organization based in New Orleans which has a mission of uniting and empowering people to protect and restore the natural resources of the Gulf Region for [...]
We are facing the toughest international competition in our lifetimes, and we are no longer winning. The signs are all around us. Who can believe that the first 20 floors of the new World Trade Center will be wrapped in glass made in China? Or that the new 28-foot statue of Martin Luther King Jr. [...]
New job figures are out and the results are not good. The economy continues to shed jobs, but critics of the administration who say that Obama is not doing enough about job creation should look toward his green jobs plans. On Friday, the Administration announced the award of $2.3 billion in tax credits for clean [...]
Want to know how YOU and YOUR ORGANIZATION can be part of the inaugural Gainesville Environmental Film and Arts Festival in March, 2010?
We are excited to invite you join us at the Hippodrome Theatre, 25 SE 2nd Place, 5 – 7 p.m. on Tuesday, January 12th. We will introduce the Festival and inform local organizations [...]
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