The following is a critique of “The White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families: Green Jobs Report,” convened by Vice President Joe Biden. It is an excellent document and in it are the words and conceptual models needed for the The Green Jobs Movement’s success. It also is missing some things.
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Critique of White House “Green Jobs Report”
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009Education for Sustainable Development
Friday, February 20th, 2009This is a correspondence between Marc Dreyfors, President of The Forest Foundation, and a research professor in the field of educational systems/curriculum for sustainable development, a relatively recent division of environmental education.
Internships and Volunteers needed for 2009
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009Green Events
Grow TFF’s service of Green Event Planning through development and implementation of a marketing plan. Help Greenway Transit expand it’s green transportation service to area businesses, universities and organization’s. Develop marketing, advertising materials and workshop schedule. Arrange meetings, and collect and maintain a resource list. A small stipend is available as well as [...]
Triangle Green Fund: A Community Carbon Catalog
Friday, January 30th, 2009Our goal will be to develop a new financing model, attracting private sector investment to create and operate a local, voluntary carbon mitigation fund, the Triangle Green Fund (TGF). The Fund will provide both micro-lending and grants to community-based, green businesses and projects. Additionally, working with partner organizations, The Fund will leverage funding [...]
“Triple Bottom Line,” a False Model
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Using the “triple bottom line” as an introduction and simplified model may help, but it creates and false impression that if we optimize our social and economic values with environmental values we will find the best solution.
New Research disputing Connection Between Health and Economic Development
Thursday, January 1st, 2009Having just finished Jeffrey Sach’s Book, Common Wealth, I was impressed in his articulate and concise understanding of the world’s current problems. I know of no better identification and articulation. In fact, it (along with Lester Brown’s Plan 3.0) made me want a prescription for anti-depressants. However, Sach’s analysis of solutions (unlike Lester’s work) was [...]
Green Oil Campus/Ecolounge: Solar Hot Air Workshop
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008The Ecolounge hosted another successful workshop, attended by over 40 folks, presented by Rebekah and Stephen Hren.
Solar Hot Water System at Carolina Biodiesel Install Workshop
Thursday, September 18th, 2008I am writing to solicit your help to form a technical support team to assist
in installing a solar hot water system at Carolina Biodiesel in Durham,
which will heat the biodiesel during fuel production and will serve as a
demonstration project for yikes! (Youth Involved in Keeping Earth
Sustainable) and Ecolounge educational workshops we’re developing at the
site. We [...]