Mahalo for attending the Green Collar Jobs Event. Much mahalo for sharing your story about Green Jobs. We’ll be editing the video interviews and posting them this week on GreenCollar.tv and we’ll send it to GreenforAll.org for inclusion in the hundreds of other stories they’ve collected around the country from Saturday’s event. Amazing events everywhere! [...]
Bits and bytes travel in the air waves with almost zero friction. Gravity barely affects numbers on the web. The people pushing pixels and text around all day from home have little impact on carbon emissions. The leverage afforded by the Internet can bring a disproportionate amount of money to Hawai`i and is surely worthy of research. [...]
Reminder… Everyone is welcome to join us on this National Day of Action to Support Green Collar Workers on Hawai`i island and Jobs for All. To celebrate, we’ll work and learn about green topics of interest to all. Join us Saturday September 27th at the Hawai`i Innovation Center in downtown Hilo. Expect plenty of room [...]
Reminder… In one week, September 25th – 6pm – 8pm You’ll learn about many of the latest Web 2.0 tips, tools and techniques for marketing any business online. If you’re ready to go to the next level to reach your target audience online, this class is for you. If you already know a few online [...]
Reminder… In two hours you’ll learn the best techniques for marketing your business online. No matter the size, shape or color of your business you iness needs to have a strong online presence. But that’s just a start. An unhealthy or neglected presence can be less than helpful. The problem multiplies without community. A community [...]
Today we joined John Olsen (Puna CDP) in Hilo and Andrea Dean (Green Business consultant) in Kona (via video) to provide testimony to support Hawai`i County Resolution 731, introduced by Peter Hoffman, …encouraging the administration to research the application processto obtain funding for an energy worker-related training program as established through the Green Jobs Act [...]
View this document as a pdf. On December 19th, 2007 the Energy Independence and Security Act became law. Title Ten of this Act, known as the, “Green Jobs Act of 2007″ requires the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, to establish an energy efficiency and renewable energy worker training program under which [...]
There’s been some movement regarding the Green Jobs Act of 2007. The passage of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 became effective on December 20th, 2007. The law is intended to provided 125 million dollars in annual funding. Green Collar Technologies was organized as a 501(c)(3) in January of 2008 to specifically provide sustainability training in accordance [...]
Google filed a patent for a pod-like data center that runs off wave energy and cools down in the sea. Good combination and maybe no need to pump the cold water? “The patent filing says the data centers would be located 3 to 7 miles offshore, which may signal that Google’s interest in undersea cables [...]
Everyone is welcome to join us on this National Day of Action to Support Green Collar Jobs and Technologies on Hawai`i Island. To celebrate, we’ll work and learn about green topics of interest to all. Join us Saturday September 27th at the Hawai`i Innovation Center in downtown Hilo (Map and Directions). Expect plenty of room [...]
