The website, called Clean Energy Jobs, provides resources to promote jobs in areas such as recycling, clean transportation and renewable energy. This should serve as a model for other states to help promote green jobs and transform their state economies.
The growth in the sustainability field for green careers is literally exploding. This sector will see the largest job growth of any other for the next decade, at least. Sustainability initiatives provides companies with a double bang for their buck: cost savings and marketing campaign material. Below is the latest news in sustainability from the [...]
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO-USA) asserted at it’s news conference this week, that the world is facing a significant energy crisis, as the rate of oil production cannot keep pace with demand. The world is consuming four barrels of oil for every one discovered, more than 80 million barrels [...]
Leading female conservationists, including Dr. Habiba Sarabi, Afghanistan’s only woman governor, today called on Congress and the Obama administration to take a leadership role on global conservation. At a lunch event hosted by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and members of the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues from both parties, the group asked leaders [...]
Lee County, Florida, was presented with the “2010 Sustainable Waste Management in the U.S.” award by the Advisory Board of the Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT) at Columbia University in New York City.
The Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus USA program continues to make a positive impact on college campuses across the United States, more than doubling in size in just its second year of operation. The Arbor Day Foundation and Toyota are celebrating by planting trees on six college campuses throughout the United States this fall.
In an effort to improve environmental literacy and stewardship across the country, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded more than $1.5 million in grants to 14 organizations in 11 states and the District of Columbia. The organizations will use the money to fund environmental education efforts, which work to inform the public of [...]
Actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio today joined with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW– www.ifaw.org) to announce the launch of Animal Action Week, an annual global initiative to educate and empower children around the world to stand up, speak out and help save animals. Now in its 18th year, Animal Action Week runs through [...]
The American education system is clearly broken, with the country running a dismal 12th internationally in producing college graduates. According to the National Centre for Education Statistics, only 74.9% of high school freshman graduate in the United States, and the average is a dismal 63.5% for Louisiana (2007-2008 school year). Is it any wonder when [...]