The Brookings Institution has released a study: “Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment.” Defining green or clean jobs “as the sector of the economy that produces goods and services with an environmental benefit.”
Several regional publications are highlighting the statistics of clean economy industries in their metropolitan areas. Read this article from the Chicago Tribune, and consider one of the study’s conclusions that “the clean economy, which employs 2.7 million workers, encompasses a significant number of jobs in establishments spread across a diverse group of industries.”
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In a recent article from The Observer (UK), the developing ideas of geo-engineering are profiled.
Although there have been attempts, on a small scale, to artificially manipulate weather patterns, no international support financially or ideologically has been given on a large scale. The article discusses the most basic to the very complicated proposals, and names patent holders like chemical engineer Michael Markels, NY A ’48, who holds four patents related to carbon sequestration.
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The University of Texas El Paso (UTEP) has been awarded a federal grant from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Health and Human Services to research solar energy and computer technology “to assist students in pursuing careers in health fields.”
Read the news article here, from KVIA-TV (El Paso, TX).
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