FootprintWire: today’s green links
Posted on July 29th, 2010 by sustainability
Today’s news: global warming is ‘unmistakable’ say scientists.
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FootprintWire: today’s green links
Posted on July 16th, 2010 by sustainability
Van Jones joins Obama
Posted on March 18th, 2009 by Hattie Hartman
Just a month ago I reviewed Van Jones book The Green Collar Economy. Well, now he’s on his way to Washington to join the Obama administration. Read an interview with him just after this was announced last week here.
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Savvy Kingspan
Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Hattie Hartman
If you want to know where the market is headed, all you have to do is keep an eye on Kingspan. Last night I was at the House of Commons for a Kingspan reception to mark the publication of its latest ‘independent’ research with the catchy title: Non-Domestic Buildings: The Missed Opportunity. It caught the attention [...]
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The Green Collar Economy
Posted on February 17th, 2009 by Hattie Hartman
I’ve just been reading the book which coined the term ‘green collar economy,’ which I blogged about a few weeks ago: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution can Fix our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones. With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr and back cover endorsements by Thomas L. Friedman, Nancy Pelosi, [...]
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Obama looks across the pond
Posted on January 27th, 2009 by Hattie Hartman
I just chatted to Douglas Crawford-Brown, an American engineer who recently joined PellFrischmann’s London office, and who attended a meeting last week in Washington to look at possible institutional barriers to Obama’s plan to join up the environmental protection, energy and climate change agendas. “Under Bush, there was a distinct firewall between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department [...]
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Obama’s green agenda
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by Hattie Hartman
Obama is on the move, pushing the green agenda along in last Saturday’s first weekly televised appearance. Greening American infrastructure is one of his pet projects, a green mole recently told me, and likely to move fast.
Obama committed $6 billion to environmental initiatives, including: updating America’s electric grid with 3,000 miles of transmissions lines, doubling the electricity [...]
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Elizabeth Kolbert in the New Yorker on green collar jobs
Posted on January 19th, 2009 by Hattie Hartman
See last week’s New Yorker for a really compelling read on how green job creation has percolated into Obama’s economic policy. It’s basically a profile of Van Jones, a single-minded Obama- like figure from Jackson, Tennessee who made it to Yale Law School and now runs Green for All, an NGO in Oakland, California.
Jones [...]
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