November 13, 2009: Climate A Top Priority On Obama’s China Visit
As President Obama heads to China with climate change at the top of his agenda, “it is important to recognize just how much has changed in the past year,” writes NRDC President Frances Beinecke in the Huffington Post.
The White House announced it will hold a jobs creation summit in December to brainstorm solutions to America’s growing unemployment rate.
The U.S. Green Building Council’s new green jobs study says green construction trades will contribute over half a trillion dollars to the nation’s economy while supporting approximately 8 million jobs over the next four years.
The Energy Information Administration expects oil prices to continue to rise as the global economy slowly recovers.
Nostalgic for the clothes lines of yore? Project Laundry List promotes the eco-benefits of the picturesque art of air-drying.
Churches across the globe will ring their bells 350 times on Dec. 13 – the opening day of global climate negotiations in Copenhagen.
Local Green: A new Environment Ohio report finds the state’s global warming-related pollution is up 10 percent since 1990. More clean energy legislation like Sen. Sherrod Brown’s IMPACT Act could help clean up the atmosphere, create good green jobs, and strengthen national security.
The University of Montana is accepting applications for its new environmental science and natural resource journalism graduate program.
The Boston area’s green spirit got a boost this week from the MIT Enterprise Forum’s Ignite Clean Energy Prize and the New England Clean Energy Council’s Green Tie Gala.
–Christopher Greenspan
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