Green Education Prospectus
Green Job Growth
Source: Pew Charitable Trusts, 2009, based on the National Establishment Time Series Database; analysis by Pew Center on the States and Collaborative Economics.
Green Job Distribution
Source: Pew Charitable Trusts, 2009, based on the National Establishment Time Series Database; analysis by Pew Center on the States and Collaborative Economics.
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Supporting Clean Energy Efforts Averts Ecological Disasters and Creates Green Jobs
The figures had it that the United States is second to China in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. With many ecological disasters the US has recently become involved to, many American citizens have actively supported efforts reduce the nation’s dependency on non-renewable power source and look for alternative energy sources that are way cheaper and safer. The Pew Research Center Poll has revealed that 87 percent of Americans favor energy sources coming from solar and wind power.
In one of Progressive States Network’s Stateside Dispatches, it is shown that adding more renewable energy systems will help in decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide emitted in the atmosphere, produce more employment in the green sector, free up more power to energy providers to sell to consumers.
Posted in Green, Green Collar, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Wind Energy
Tagged 2009 american recovery and reinvestment act, california, china, green jobs, iowa, minnesota, non-renewable power, power grid, recovery act, renewable energy, solar energy, texas, the stimulus, united states, washington, wind energy
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Increasing Green Job Creation to Support Growth of New Sustainable Economy
Although renewable power sector is a promising industry, it is also confronted with many challenges. Two of the challenges faced by this sector are the distance of the site where power is generated and the site where it will be used along with its intermittency or its inability to maintain the rate of the amount of power produced at a given time. Because most renewable energy production sources operate remotely transmission has become quite a challenge. The currently electrical lines proved to be not completely compatible or inefficient in delivering the energy to the end consumers. Also, wind and solar power does not provide a sustained power production rate so it’s pretty much impossible to remove our dependency on fossil fuels completely at this time.
The improvement of the current electrical infrastructure is seen to be the key to addressing the connectivity and capacity issues. Through an improved smart grid, transmission of electricity will become easy and make sure that the energy is used efficiently. This will also lessen the amount of carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.
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Posted in Green, Green Collar, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Sustainable Living, Wind Energy
Tagged 2009 american recovery and reinvestment act, california, energy capacity, energy connectivity, energy efficiency, energy reliability, Lafayetteville, maryland, Pacific northwest national laboratory, power grid, power grid infrastructure, power transmission, public utility commission, SB 17/AB 238, SB17, vermont
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