Eesmarts is an energy efficiency and clean, renewable energy learning initiative funded by the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund. The vision of eesmarts is to facilitate students’ understanding of the science, math and technology related to clean, renewable energy and electricity in order to create an energy-efficient ethic among all school-age students in Connecticut.
A new “green jobs” training program to qualify dislocated “blue” and “white” collar workers for g “green” collar jobs in the fields of construction, transportation, and energy, will be introduced April 19 by the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders in the State of New Jersey.
The newly launched Green Training programs were created to inspire, motivate, and educate students about emerging Green Jobs! In partnership with Everblue Training Institute these programs are delivered by some of the country’s leading Green training professionals.
What job sector should people turn to in this rough economic time? A recent report from Next 10 and Collaborative Economics finds that the green job sector is growing at a rate three times than that of any other industry in California. The Bay Area leads the state for green job growth, expanding by 8 [...]
A-B Tech is adding its voice to the global dialogue on climate by establishing a new institute designed to educate citizens about climate-related issues.
GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that its 15,000th 1.5 megawatt (MW) wind turbine has been installed at Basin Electric Power Cooperative’s Crow Lake wind farm in South Dakota; one of 108 GE 1.5 MW turbines recently commissioned at the site. The turbine, which will be owned and operated by Mitchell Technical Institute (MTI) through an [...]
Babson College’s Mark Donohue, Clean Technology Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Mary Gentile, director of the business curriculum Giving Voice to Values and Babson Senior Research Scholar, and Mark Albion, who served as Babson’s first director of the Lewis Initiative, are among the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior in 2010.
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.
Declaring New York State at a crucial crossroads, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo yesterday, outlined during his first State of the State Address an action plan to fundamentally transform New York State’s government and economy by getting the state’s fiscal house in order, radically redesigning our governmental structures and operations, and restoring integrity and performance to [...]