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The plan would transform the Portland Memorial Coliseum and adjacent areas into a Sustainable Action Sports Complex and Resort. The 2010 Green Professionals Conference being held in Portland, OR is less than a week away! Today I walked past a newspaper stand and on the front page of the Seattle Times is a an article touting a plan to build the world’s largest solar power plant in the Eastern Washington town of Cle Elum. The governors of Washington, California and Idaho are taking a bold stride to begin to ween ourselves from the current gasoline infrastructure. A proposed plan along the 1,382 miles of the west coast I-5 corridor would create a “green freeway” utilizing rest stops as refueling stations for alternative-fuel vehicles. The Global Wind Energy Council has announced that the US has the most installed wind power in the world. The US increased their capacity by 50% overtaking Germany as the leader of total wind energy production. Possibly the most notable is China’s fourth year of doubling their wind power output to rank 4th in the [...] How would you like to cut your hot water bill by 70% using the sun to heat your water. As an impressive array of thermal solar power plants have been scheduled to be built by BrightSource Energy in the Mohave desert of Southern California….the question looms…. WASHINGTON — Carol Browner, the White House energy and climate director, says prompt approval of the economic recovery package is needed to stem a rising tide of job losses in the fledgling wind and solar energy industries. So why doesn’t Exxon Mobile bail out the failing auto industry? After all they are the ones that rely on these gas guzzling vehicles to create record breaking profits of $45 billion. Profits that exceed the gross domestic product of all but 16 of the worlds nations. With windfall profits like that why not ask [...] Recently we are being bombarded by local and national news reports of the economic crisis, including massive layoffs across all sectors of the economy. Unemployment continues to rise with projections that could exceed a 25 year high of 8.8%. Unemployment offices and job resource centers are swamped with new applicants. Recent job layoffs continue to [...] |
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