Duke Energy Renewables now owns a 1-megawatt solar farm on the grounds of an elementary school in the southwestern corner of North Carolina.
Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), a public policy organization and the nation’s largest nonpartisan women’s business group, has launched “Entrepreneurs, Energy and Environment.” The national program is designed to educate women business owners on how energy and environmental issues affect business and the opportunities they present.
Clean Energy Pathways, a renewable energy company, has signed a joint venture agreement with Green Mountain Properties to develop a $28m solar power plant in Green Mountain, North Carolina.
In advance of the monthly unemployment statistics that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release tomorrow, Environment America released an estimate of the jobs supported in the solar and wind industries last year by a federal renewable energy grant program.
The RenewableUK group today, release a study showing that employment in the UK wind power industry has increased by 91 percent in the last three years.
Sungevity, the nation’s fastest growing provider of residential solar installations, today announced the launch of Sungevity.org as an innovative way to help schools and non-profit organizations raise money while getting more homeowners to put solar on their rooftops.
Americans do believe that environmental progress can be achieved together with job creation and economic growth. President Obama’s address identified Midwestern clean energy and high-speed rail development projects where this is already happening.
Late in December 2010, the Inglewood Neighborhood Association of East Nashville Tennessee, endorsed the building of an Urban Green Lab which will open its doors to the community in 2012. This project bears watching as it may be provide a great model for communities around the nation to emulate.
Fans of deal-of-the-day sites such as Groupon and LivingSocial now have an environmentally friendly shopping option. Green America and its partner Q4 Marketing have launched Green Deals (http://www.GreenDeals.org), a Web site that provides people who care about good deals and going green with daily deals from local and national online green companies. Over 100,000 people [...]