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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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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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Time for Australia to Go Green
[/caption]As the rest of the world is taking on clean energy sources, Australia joins in as well. Australia is planning to build the biggest wind farm in the southern hemisphere by 2013. These plans are Australia’s quick responses towards fighting off climate change as well as in controlling its abundant clean energy sources, such as wind, solar, waves, geothermal energy and bioenergy.
Australia lacks the political and commercial will to take on big renewable energy projects. Consequently, only a very small percentage, particularly 6% of power in Australia is supplied with renewable energy. Aside from the lack of political and commercial will, Australia’s remote areas and almost 60,000 kilometers or 37,000 miles of coast hinders the tie up of new, remote power sources into the grid.
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Samsung Focuses its Effort on Eco-Management
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd [NASDAQ: SSNLF] has intensified its efforts towards being recognized as an environmentally friendly company through its PlanetFirst™ initiative. The project is aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from its manufacturing sites and developing a greater range of environmentally-friendly technologies and electronic devices.
The company has invested 1.01 trillion Korean Won or the equivalent of US $865 million to implement the plan. Senior vice president and head of the CS & Environment Center, Park Sangbum said that the company has committed itself to meeting or surpassing its Eco-Management objectives by 2013. They are looking into opportunities to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from several aspects of manufacturing and understanding how their actions impact the environment. Through this effort, Samsung aims to become a leader in sustainability among private businesses.
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China is Now the World’s Biggest Energy Consumer
The International Energy Agency has recently revealed that China has surpassed the US in terms of overall energy use. The data gathered by the agency is a testament to China’s unstoppable economic growth and rapid industrialization. China’s insatiable need for more power has profound implication on the United State’s energy security.
The Paris-based International Energy Agency stated that China used 2.252 billion tons of oil equivalent in 2009 while the US consumed 2.170 billion tons of oil equivalent. Oil-equivalent is a type of measurement used to gauge the amount of overall energy used including other energy forms such as natural gas, coal, nuclear, and even renewable resources such as wind and hydropower. However, these figures have been denied by China.
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Green Collar to Offset Job Loss in Canadian Car Industries
After five years of tumultuous job losses in the Canadian car industry, the green collar or clean industry jobs might come to save the day. Clean energy industries are seeing an unprecedented increase in the number people to employ to man various available posts. The demand coincided with the increased demand for electric cars by consumers.
Canada is one of the many countries that is being hit by the global financial crisis. Although the demand for green jobs is starting to grow exponentially, it still has not able to cope with the job losses suffered by the country for the past five years. The country’s second-biggest auto parts manufacturer, Linamar Corp, is set to hire around 1,300 people at its manufacturing center in Guelph, Ontario before the end of 2011. Linda Hasenfratz, the auto-industry’s CEO, stated that the demand for green jobs is catapulted by the many new contracts offered to the company for the manufacture of vehicle parts or components that are more fuel and energy-efficient. Continue reading
