Power from Cow Pies
This dairy farm used to use 200 bucks a day in electricity. Now they sell 1200 per day back to the electric company. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/02/21/mo.cowpower.cnn
Green Collar Technologies
Education for Green Collar Workers in Hawai‘i
Archive for February, 2008
Hybrids, meet your rival — it gets 376.59 mpg
from Wired Magazine: Finally something to wipe the smug off you hybrid owners, you high-mileage acolytes, you global-cooling zealots who wash your Priuses (Prii?) with graywater while wearing reclaimed plastic fleece and hemp undies. Read the rest of the story.
The Apollo Alliance
from Apollo’s online Mission Statement… The Apollo Alliance is a coalition of business, labor, environmental, and community leaders working to catalyze a clean energy revolution in America to reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil, cut the carbon emissions that are destabilizing our climate, and expand opportunities for American businesses and workers. Inspired by the [...]
Green Industry Quotes
“Already companies that have invested millions of dollars in this industry are getting nervous,” said Randall Swisher, executive director of the American Wind Energy Association. From MSNBC “You look at a wind turbine. It’s got a whole bunch of parts. Somebody makes the blades, somebody makes the tower, somebody makes the gear boxes, the electronic [...]
Green Collar Research
Green Collar subjects in the news… ‘Green collar’ jobs seen as prosperous By 2030, nearly a half-million new jobs could be created in green industries from MSNBC Green-Collar Jobs for Urban America from AlterNet Earliest reference to Green Collar Worke we’ve found so far: 1976, Patrick Heffernan, “Jobs for the Environment — The Coming Green [...]
