Apollo Feedback: What’s America Listening To When It Comes To Energy and the Economy?

“I am really starting to see a grassroots movement towards a change in our energy policy,” writes Chris Hurst of Sonora, California. “People are just not happy with the status quo.”

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Multimedia Archive

Sen. Boxer Promotes Bay Area Eco-Friendly Business

cbs5.com
October 4, 2008

 

 

 

Green-Collar Jobs Hot Topics

Living on Earth
August 30, 2008

 

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Environmental Economics101

The New Republic – tnr.com
July 3, 2008

TNR reporter Dayo Olopade sits down with Kate Gordon, co-director of the Apollo Alliance, to describe how green-collar jobs can actually help solve the current economic crisis.

 

 

Understanding Green Jobs

Apollo Alliance Production
June 6, 2008
Big cities understand green-collar jobs. It’s time that all cities understand green-collar jobs. Apollo President Jerome Ringo introduces the concept to the National Conference of Black Mayors.

 

From Petro to Eco

The Weather Channel’s Forecast Earth
May 31, 2008
The Weather Channel profiles Apollo President Jerome Ringo.

 

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Word Watch: Green Collar

NPR’s “On The Media”
May 17, 2008
Phil Angelides defines the jobs of the clean energy economy

 

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Ithaca, NY Fighting Rising Prices with Green Jobs

May 6, 2008

 

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Clean Energy. How Big? Very Big

Forbes.com
Arpil 30, 2008
Can clean energy projects, and the bonanza of good jobs they promise, be brought to scale? You betcha. In the last few years, a clutch of clean energy projects have emerged on a scale never seen before. Forbes.com identified the biggest and boldest projects among them.

 

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Solar Companies Keep Hiring

Solar manufacturing companies across the country are doubling and tripling their workforce. Toledo, Ohio’s WNWO reports on a new $22 million facility.

 

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Promise of Green-Collar Jobs in Pennsylvania

April 12, 2008
Both Democratic presidential candidates are talking about replacing blue-collar jobs with green-collar jobs. This report was produced in April by ABC News.

 

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Green Jobs and Prosperity

March 18, 2008
Phil Angelides, chairman of the Apollo Alliance, delivered one of the stirring speeches at the Take Back America conference on clean energy and good jobs.

 

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Jerome Ringo on Green-Collar Jobs

February 15, 2008
NPR’s interview with the Apollo Alliance president.

 

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Green Community

October 2007
New York builder Carlton Brown is among the legion of entrepreneurs, developers, city leaders, union workers, scientists, and farmers laying claim to a piece of the new clean energy economy unfolding across the United States.
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Green Future Summit Closes With Clean Energy Commitments

“If we think of this green movement as distinct from what we do as Americans we aren’t going to succeed,” said Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker. “The American dream is a green dream. If we do not do this we risk everything we claim to be as Americans.” Read more

Newark’s Green Future Summit

In the two years since Mayor Cory A. Booker took office, various measures of the city’s well-being have begun to tick upwards. Now Booker has teamed up with the Apollo Alliance to improve green-collar job opportunities for all city residents. Read more

A Good Jobs, Climate Change Law in Cascadia

Transportation is the state’s main source of air pollution, and Washington State’s new law sets goals for reducing driving. Read more

Boone Pickens’ Wind Statement

“Our dependence on imported oil is killing our economy. It is the single biggest problem facing America today,” says T. Bonne Pickens. Read more

Memphis Solar Plant Serves Hot National Market

Each year members of the IBEW at the Memphis Sharp plant produce enough solar panels to create about 64 megawatts, capable of powering 14,000 homes. Credit: IBEW for the Apollo Alliance Read more

With Right Grass, Biofuels Makes

“The beauty of switchgrass is how hearty it is and how fast it grows,” said Dr. Suleiman Bughrara, a plant breeder at Michigan State University. “One acre can yield 12 or 13 tons of grass. That can produce 500 gallons of ethanol. We have work to do. But that kind of production is possible, and pretty quickly.” Credit: Gary Howe Read more

Big Wind Lessons from a Little Missouri Town

Eric Chamberlain led the project to build four windmills to serve all of Rock Port’s electrical needs, the first time that has happened in the U.S. Credit:Lend Frison for the Apollo Alliance Read more

Waves of Clean Energy Production

Oregon is leveraging its labor, technological, and natural resources to produce clean energy from wave power and at the same time pump new economic promise into established industries. Credit: Oregon Iron Works Read more

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