I’m not (by any stretch of the imagination) an expert on Native American affairs, but there is an interesting and rather sad drama playing out in the Navajo Nation (a semi-autonomous Native American homeland covering parts of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico). The Nation also encompasses the Hopi Reservation, represented by the Hopi Tribal Council. [...]
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No Environmental Groups in the Navajo Nation
Posted in Coal, Consumers, Global Warming, tagged arizona, Coal, coal plant, Energy, environment, green jobs, Hopi, Navajo Nation, Navajo people, peabody, Peabody Energy, renewable energy on November 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Local, Small Businesses Benefit from Stimulus
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, green jobs, Renewables, solar, tagged doe, economy, green economy, green jobs, jobs, Select Committee on Federal Economic Stabilization Funding, solar energy, SOLAR PANEL, stimulus, TEXAS STIMULUS FUNDS on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Republicans keep rejecting the success of the stimulus package but that is nothing new, being opposed is just a Republican thing to do nowadays. President Obama said yesterday that even if he said the sky is blue, Republicans would disagree. Despite all that, in Texas, the stimulus seems to serve its purpose just fine, especially [...]
Tres Amigas SuperStation on Track for 2014
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, Renewables, tagged Austin, Energy, energy storage, green jobs, public citizen texas, renewable energy on August 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Local energy storage company Xtream Power inks a deal to supply the Tres Amigas project with their technology. CH2M, another firm with central Texas connections (who has been hiring some of Austins finest green talent) lands the construction contract. Will local green engineers Kurt Lyell (one of the original founders of Austin Bio-fuels) or John [...]
Climate Activist Ted Glick Sentenced
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, Renewables, tagged activist, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, climate change, Coal, Glick, Global Warming, green jobs, hart senate, Public Citizen, sentence, sentenced, Ted Glick on July 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ted Glick, policy director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network was just sentenced for his demonstration on September 8. I am on one year’s probation, I need to pay an $1100 fine, I need to do 40 hours of community service in D.C. and if I’m arrested over the next year I automatically go to [...]
Three Finalists for Austin Energy GM Announced!
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, tagged Austin, Austin Energy, Energy Efficiency, green jobs, public citizen texas, Texas on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From the Austin Business Journal: The finalists include Ronald Davis, Larry Weis and David Wright. Ronald Davis (Burbank, Calif.) Davis has worked 30 years in the electric industry and has led Burbank Water and Power for the last 12 years. Burbank Water and Power is a municipal utility in urban Southern California with a 2009 [...]
New study shows jobs from Kerry-Lieberman mostly in Nukes, CCS
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, Nuclear, tagged American Power Act, carbon capture and sequestration, CCS, climate change, Global Warming, green jobs, jobs, Kerry-Lieberman, Nuclear on May 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
One point we often forget when debating climate change strategies is the major economic case for changing our economy to new, clean technology. A new study has been released on the impacts of the Kerry-Lieberman bill, which we’ve never been so hot on, but it shows that despite what the chicken littles at the Chamber [...]
Texas can meet all our energy needs for next decade through efficiency alone, save $330 per household and create 130,000 new jobs says new report from Georgia Institute of Technology and Duke University
Posted in Efficiency, tagged ACES, climate change, Efficiency, green jobs, Kerry Graham Lieberman, senate climate bill, Texas, Waxman-Markey bill on April 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Texas is growing. In fact, we’re one of the fastest growing areas of the country. Growing communities and growing business usually means building more power plants, which would add to our already significant air quality problems not to mention all of the greenhouse gases we would spew. But, rather than building Megawatts, we should be [...]
Next Friday: Green Jobs Initiative Conference
Posted in green jobs, tagged capitol extension, conference, Energy Efficiency, good company associates, green jobs, green jobs initiative conference, renewable energy, smart grid, Texas Foundation for Innovative Communities on March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Next Friday, March 26, Good Company Associates and the Texas Foundation for Innovative Communities are hosting a free Green Jobs Initiative Conference from 8:30 to 12:30 in Austin, Texas. There will be panels led by industry experts in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and smart grid focusing on workforce development issues. The agenda has been posted [...]
Anchia and Johnson: A challenge to build on solar idea
Posted in Energy, solar, tagged 82nd legislature, carrollton, dallas, democrats, distributed energy, energy future holdings, environment texas, farmers branch, females, green jobs, hispanics, incentives, irving, jobs, legislator of the year, males, manufacturing, market development, mccall johnson, oncor, Public Citizen, public utility commission, PUC, rafael anchia, republicans, retail electric providers, silicon, solar, solar power, solarcity, TXU on March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Great joint op-ed by our friend McCall Johnson over at Environment Texas and State Rep. Rafael Anchia, winner of Public Citizen’s Legislator of the Year award. Following on the heels of TXU’s announcement last week that it will offer customers an affordable solar leasing program, the gist of it is that we can’t let the [...]
“Women in Green Jobs” Solar Training Information Session
Posted in Energy, solar, tagged acc, Austin, austin community college, green jobs, installation, pv, riverside campus, solar, Texas, women on March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Austin Community College is having a free information session on their Women In Solar class, a women-focused solar installation course being offered this spring and summer. Check it out, but register today — its the deadline for Saturday’s session! Learn more: “Women in Green Jobs” Solar Training Information Session The registration deadline for this event [...]
Dallas Morning News Editorial: Editorial: Clean air vs. jobs is a false choice
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, tagged Carbon Dioxide, clean air, Energy Efficiency, EPA, governor perry, green jobs, lawsuit, solar panels, weatherstripping, windmills on February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This editorial from the Dallas Morning News is a little bit old news, responding to Governor Perry’s lawsuit against the EPA’s endangerment finding about carbon dioxide, BUT I really like the message that clean air vs. jobs is a false choice. Because everything we would have to do to create a new clean economy, is [...]
Energy Generation Plan Presented to Austin City Council
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, solar, tagged Air Quality, Austin, austin city council, Austin Energy, cap and reduction, Clean Energy, climate protection plan, electric utility commission, emissions reductions, Energy Efficiency, fayette coal plant, generation plan, green jobs, pollution, Public Citizen, renewable energy, renewable energy credits, resource management commission, Roger Duncan, solar, Texas, town hall, wind on February 4, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Last Thursday Austin Energy General Manager Roger Duncan briefed Austin City Council on the utility’s Resource and Climate Protection Plan. This plan is the culmination of 18 months of input from the public, the creation of a generation resource task force of various stakeholders to review various energy plans and make recommendations, and support and [...]
National Efforts support Clean Energy, Green Jobs for San Antonio
Posted in Energy, Renewables, solar, tagged center for community change, energy action coalition, green energy, green jobs, mayor castro, mission verde, San Antonio, solar, southwest workers union, Weatherization on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday January 26th at 4:30p Main Plaza (in front of City Hall) — Rally & Press Conference Two national coalitions, the Energy Action Coalition (EAC) and the Center for Community Change (CCC) join with Southwest Workers Union and local grassroots organizations to call on Mayor Castro to take real steps towards reducing energy consumption and [...]
San Antonio Opens Green Jobs Laboratory in Abandoned School on West Side
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, tagged cooper middle school, dr. martin luther king, green jobs, green jobs lab, Greg Harman, mayor castro, mission verde, San Antonio, solar decathalon, texas a&m on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
San Antonians should be proud today, when Mayor Castro will dedicate the Mission Verde green jobs training center and demonstration lab at the former Cooper Middle School on the west side. The center will bring together sustainability education and the City’s green jobs ambitions by teaching students weatherization techniques and offering on-the-job training. The project [...]
Perry spews hot air on warming
Posted in Global Warming, tagged amarillo, andy wilson, carbon regulation, Clean Energy, climate change, electrical reliability council of texas, electricity, ercot, Global Warming, governor rick perry, green energy, green jobs, hot air, Inconvenient Truth, public citizen texas, Renewables, rose bowl, union of concerned scientists, university of east anglia, University of Texas, wind power on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Op-ed originally published in Sunday’s Amarillo Globe: Column – Andy Wilson: Perry spews hot air on warming AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry’s recent essay (“EPA ‘science’ doesn’t add up in global warming equation,” Dec. 27, 2009) is full of hot air and not much else. The governor’s outrage produces more heat than light, revealing his [...]
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