According to a new report out today by the Worldwatch Institute, a transition to renewable energy sources promises significant global job gains at a time when the coal industry has been hemorrhaging jobs for years.
In the United States alone, coal industry employment has fallen by half in the last 20 years, despite a one-third increase in production.
"President Bush has signed a $162 billion war supplemental that will fund the wars in Iraq and Ahghanistan into 2009."
A report put out in October of 2005 by the Renewable Energy Policy Project, the Apollo Alliance and Policy Matters Ohio puts the $162 billion mentioned in the above headline into some perspective.
Clean coal is an oxymoron. No kidding.
A great editorial this morning in Vermont's Roanoke Times on the idea of investing millions in clean coal technology and carbon capture and storage, when more affordable and proven renewable technologies are already further along in development and will be the answer to America's energy woes in the long term.
The editorial rightly concludes that:
Here's a list of some good resources we've come across when researching for stories on geothermal power.
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Here's a list of some good resources we've come across when researching for stories on solar power.
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Here's a list of some good resources we've come across when researching for stories on wind power.
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