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Hybrid Bus Project Gets Rolling in Detroit

August 10, 2009
by Cassandra Stern and Cara Tinio
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TROY, Michigan – Fisher Coachworks, a century-old legend of Detroit automotive manufacturing, has resurrected its time-honored brand under a green banner with a new program for building fuel-efficient vehicles for mass transit. Read more

Army’s Olive Drab Turns Brighter Shade of Green

February 5, 2009
by Cassandra Stern
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FORT CARSON, Colorado - Few realize that the U.S. Department of Defense is one of the largest purchasers and users of green energy in the country. The Air Force is the government’s largest buyer and the Army’s Fort Carson Base is home to the seventh largest photovoltaic (PV) generating station in the nation.

“It’s a very visible part of our installation. It lets people know we are committed to renewable and sustainable energy,” said Vincent Guthrie, Fort Carson’s utilities program manager.

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Greening Chicago One Roof At A Time

January 28, 2009
by Cassandra Stern and Keith Schneider
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CHICAGO - In the blue-collar birthplace of the skyscraper, a city of concrete and steel, a green movement is building upon, well, buildings.

Since 2005, Chicago has embarked upon an ambitious plan to turn the city’s barren rooftops into urban oases. Thanks in large part to Mayor Richard M. Daley’s incentive program offering $5,000 grants to residences and small businesses, as well as requirements that some large retailers install green roofs as part of doing business in the city, Chicago now has more living green roofs than any other city in the country, say authorities.
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Bay State’s Clean Energy Development Strategy

January 13, 2009
by Cassandra Stern
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BOSTON  - The Bay State is rewriting its energy policy, betting that the clean energy sector is the state’s golden ticket to prosperity. In the last two years, the Legislature passed a number of bills to generate a comprehensive clean technology and environment strategy culminating with a law spurring green jobs through targeted state investment.

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Evergreen Solar Finds Profit In The Sun

January 8, 2009
by Cassandra Stern
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Evergreen Solar Finds Profit In The SunMARLBORO, Mass. - Four million manufacturing jobs have vanished from the American economy since 2000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or almost 25 percent of the entire manufacturing workforce. Layoffs at major companies are nearly daily news

But it’s important to remember that it is still too early to sound the sector’s death knell. While some industries are indeed still laying off hundreds if not thousands of workers, others are ramping up to take them in.

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Green-Collar Job Training after Katrina

January 5, 2009
by Cassandra Stern
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Green-Collar Job Taining after KatrinaNEW ORLEANS - The shape of a national clean energy, good jobs training program for young people is gaining real definition here, where 800 young people are beginning full-time service as part of the Conservation Corps of Greater New Orleans, earning real money, educational stipends and preparing for careers in the new green economy while helping rebuild their hurricane and flood-damaged city from the ground up.
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A Good Jobs, Climate Change Law in Cascadia

September 9, 2008
by Cassandra Stern
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A Good Jobs, Climate Change Law in CascadiaTransportation is the state’s main source of air pollution, and Washington State’s new law sets goals for reducing driving. Read more

Memphis Solar Plant Serves Hot National Market

September 9, 2008
by Cassandra Stern
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Memphis Solar Plant Serves Hot National MarketEach 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

Big Wind Lessons from a Little Missouri Town

September 9, 2008
by Cassandra Stern
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Big Wind Lessons from a Little Missouri TownEric 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

September 9, 2008
by Cassandra Stern
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Waves of Clean Energy ProductionOregon 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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