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[Latest Activity on PickensPlan] Gulf Coast Renewable Energy Group - PickensPlan: Comment by Roy R on December 5, 2008 at 6:55am: Job Creation, Energy Independence, Environmental Stewardship The energy market has dominated headlines for as long as can be remembered. As we climb our way out of the current economic .

[CA Senate Republican Caucus] Senator Tony Strickland Authors Important Green Tech Manufacturing ...: Renewable energy and job creation are central themes to Senator Strickland's ideas for returning California to .“I have consistently pushed for allowing green technology to drive our economic recovery.

[Digital News Report] Senator Tony Strickland Promotes Green Tech Manufacturing Tax ...: Governor Schwarzenegger has promoted the idea as part of an effort to promote clean, renewable energy and stimulate the economy and job creation. With renewable energy and job creation as the central themes of Senator Strickland’s ideas for returning California to prosperity, he seized the opportunity to help craft the legislation.

[Frost.com - All Research] Green Politics: In the Era of Going Green, Your Green Vote Counts!!: That's why I reached across the aisle to come up with a plan to raise our fuel standards… And I didn't just give a speech about it in front of some environmental audience in California. I went to Detroit, I stood in front of a group of automakers, and I told them that when I am president, there will be no more excuses — we will help them retool their factories, but they will have to make cars that use less oil."

[Pasadena Chamber of Commerce] Pasadena Chamber of Commerce legislative policy statement: The Chamber supports efforts to ensure that every job available in the Pasadena area has a qualified local employee able to fill the position. To that end, the Chamber supports efforts by the Pasadena Unified School District, Pasadena City College and our post-secondary education institutions, both public and private, to improve academic coursework, make curriculum meaningful for students through work experience and exposure to career education, and ensure that every student graduates with meaningful opportunities to pursue higher education and career opportunities.

[Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative] Clean Energy Jobs Act Launches Climate and Energy Policy Debate in ...: The introduction of what is called the Clean Energy Jobs Act places Madison in the center of a national and global discussion on what policy measures are necessary for advancing clean energy development and a lower carbon economy. The Wisconsin Assembly Bill 649 and Senate Bill 450 were introduced on January 6, 2010 and follows over two years of work starting with the creation of the Governor’s Global Warming Task Force by executive order in April 2007.

[SustainableBusiness.com Green Dream Jobs] Green Jobs, Cleantech Jobs, Renewable Energy Jobs: B Lab, a U.S.-based non-profit organization, is helping to build a new sector of the global economy that uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. B Lab certifies and supports B Corporations, a new kind of company that meets comprehensive, comparable, and transparent standards for social impact and that considers the interests of stakeholders, not just shareholders.

[TN.gov Newsroom] Recapping 2009: Major Tennessee News Announcements from Governor ...: In November, the Lumina Foundation for Education awarded Tennessee a grant award of up to $1.2 million for a multi-year initiative to implement programs to re-enroll and graduate adult students who have left college and to revise the state’s higher education funding program. The grant was one of seven awarded nationally as part of the foundation’s effort to increase productivity by promoting significant changes in how states fund and deliver higher education.

[NCC Eco-Justice Weblog] Solar Churches « NCC Eco-Justice Weblog: Congregations across the country are making a commitment to renew God’s Creation through renewable energy. From coast to coast, many congregations see installing solar panels as a way to practice stewardship of God’s Creation, invest in their local communities and set their churches up for future financial savings.

[Ventura City Manager Blog] Ventura City Manager Blog: What is the State of our City?: "The people of Ventura bring an enormous amount of passion and energy every day to task of sustaining our community as a terrific town," he noted, citing "soccer leagues, little leagues, community organizations, arts and cultural activities, education, music, and businesses that are born and grow and prosper. It is all of you who make our community strong and give us the passion and the energy to deal with hard times."

[Renergie's Weblog] U.S. Department of Defense Addresses the Issue of Climate Change ...: The Department already provides environmental stewardship at hundreds of DoD installations throughout the United States and around the world, working diligently to meet resource efficiency and sustainability goals as set by relevant laws and executive orders. Although the United States has significant capacity to adapt to climate change, it will pose challenges for civil society and DoD alike, particularly in light of the nation’s extensive coastal infrastructure.

[Iowa Global Warming] Iowa Global Warming » Blog Archive » Growing Pentagon Focus on ...: The military departments have invested in noncarbon power sources such as solar, wind, geothermal and biomass energy at domestic installations and in vehicles powered by alternative fuels, including hybrid power, electricity, hydrogen, and compressed national gas. Solving military challenges”” through such innovations as more efficient generators, better batteries, lighter materials and tactically deployed energy sources””has the potential to yield spin-off technologies that benefit the civilian community as well.

[Dot Earth] Growing Pentagon Focus on Energy and Climate - Dot Earth Blog ...: To address these challenges, DoD will fully implement the statutory requirement for the energy efficiency Key Performance Parameter and fully burdened cost of fuel set forth in the 2009 National Defense Authorization Act. The department will also investigate alternative concepts for improving operational energy use, including the creation of an innovation fund administered by the new Director of Operational Energy to enable components to compete for funding on projects that advance integrated energy solutions.

[Centurean2's Weblog] U.N AGENDA 21 CLIFF NOTES”¦..UK SIGNED UPTO, TOO! « Centurean2's Weblog: Are the two compatible?In answering these questions we shall see that although advocates of public-privatepartnerships frequently speak of economic development, public-private partnershipsreally amount to economic control””they are just one of the key components of thecollectivist edifice being built up around the idea of sustainable development. Within theeconomic arena of sustainable development is the emergence of what we might call softfascism: a system that fits the dictionary definitions of fascism but whose totalitarianeffects will be felt primarily by those who wish to walk their own paths in life rather thanwalk the paths the sustainable developers are in the process of laying down.

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