In order to start on your path in the green field you will need to get trained. The schooling involved could be a little longer for an electrical engineer.
In order to start you new green career as an ethanol lab technician, you will need to get some schooling under your belt. If done correctly, you should be in your new job within about two year.
Shin Abe doesn't find it odd that the picturesque little Japanese town of Kuzumaki, where he has lived all his life, generates some of its electricity with cow dung. Nor is the 15-year-old middle school student blown away by the vista of a dozen wind turbines spinning atop the forested peak of nearby Mt. Kamisodegawa. And it's old news to Abe that his school gets 25% of its power from an array of 420 solar panels located near the campus. "That's the way it's been," he shrugs. "It's natural."
To Abe, it is. But the blase teen has grown up in an alternative universe - one that might be envisioned by Al Gore. That's because Kuzumaki (population 8,000) has over the past decade transformed itself into a living laboratory for the development of sustainable and diversified energy sources. "When I was growing up, all we had [to generate power] was oil," says Kazunori Fukasawaguchi, a Kuzumaki native who now serves in local government. "I never imagined this kind of change." (Read TIME's Top 10 Green Ideas of 2008.)
Let's take a trip down the Palouse to check in with the most progressive university in our region (come on local schools, that ought to light a fire). It seems like we're always talking about new and exciting environmental stories coming from our neighbors to the south, and today is no disappointment ...
Despite some naysayers, wind power turbines are being erected in five cities in the metro area; Anoka's is near the high school.
Wind power turbines are going up in five metro cities, with Anoka set to get one on Monday, as a multi-city consortium moves forward with plans to use recycled windmills to generate renewable energy.
Despite some naysayers, wind power turbines are being erected in five cities in the metro area; Anoka's is near the high school.
Wind power turbines are going up in five metro cities, with Anoka set to get one on Monday, as a multi-city consortium moves forward with plans to use recycled windmills to generate renewable energy.
WorldChanging has a brief post pointing to a symposium on urban life after oil - Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil.
A number of great journalists were covering last weekend's Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil symposium in Philadelphia. The University of Pennsylvania School of Design and Penn Institute for Urban Research hosted this conference, which was organized with support from the Rockefeller Foundation to address the need to re-imagine and rethink how cities are designed and organized in a future without oil. Our own Alex Steffen gave a mainstage talk at the international event, which featured a number of thinkers whose work we've written about before here, like Bull Dunster, Elizabeth Kolbert, Robert Socolow, Andy Revkin, William J. Mitchell, David Orr, Neal Pierce, Bill Rees, Thomas Campanella, Harrison Fraker, and ARUP's Sir Peter Head.
From brief recaps of plenaries and workshops to lengthier discussions of the theories presented (and their presenters), the pieces posted to the Next American City liveblog offer a taste of what was seen and heard at this innovative gathering of great minds.
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Local Grant Program
* Metropolitan Edison Company SEF Grants (FirstEnergy Territory)
* Penelec SEF of the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies Grant Program (FirstEnergy Territory)
* Sustainable Development Fund Grant Program (PECO Territory)
* West Penn Power SEF Grant Program
Local Loan Program
* Metropolitan Edison Company SEF Loans (FirstEnergy Territory)
* Penelec SEF of the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies Loan Program (FirstEnergy Territory)
* SEF of Central Eastern Pennsylvania Loan Program (PP&L Territory)
* Sustainable Development Fund Commercial Financing Program (PECO Territory)
* West Penn Power SEF Commercial Loan Program
Property Tax Assessment
* Wind-Energy System Exemption
State Grant Program
* High Performance Green Schools Planning Grants
* Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority (PEDA) - Grants
* Pennsylvania Energy Harvest Grant Program
State Loan Program
* Keystone Home Energy Loan Program
* Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority (PEDA) - Loans and Loan Guarantees
* Small Business Pollution Prevention Assistance Account Loan Program
Utility Loan Program
* Adams Electric Cooperative - Energy Resource Conservation (ERC) and Supplemental Loan Program
Alternative Fuel and Vehicle Incentives
* U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center
Rules, Regulations & Policies
Building Energy Code
* Pennsylvania Building Energy Codes
Generation Disclosure
* Fuel Mix Disclosure
Green Power Purchasing/Aggregation
* Montgomery County - Wind Power Purchasing
* Pennsylvania - Green Power Purchasi
Environmental Issues: Land Use Change was developed at Lehigh. UBD interdisciplinary technology-embedded middle school science unit focusing on environmental changes related to land use.
CNN reports that Obama is planning an economic stimulus package based on energy efficient buildings and improved internet access - Obama outlines initiative to create 2.5 million jobs.
President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday outlined some of his plan to create 2.5 million jobs by 2011, and said he will push for immediate action by Congress when he takes office in January.
Obama wants to make public buildings more energy-efficient, repair roads and bridges, modernize schools, increase broadband access and ensure that health care professionals have access to the latest technology. "Our government now pays the highest energy bill in the world," he said in the weekly Democratic radio address.
The building's design should be one that takes into account as many green aspects as possible. From using natural lighting to reduce the amount of electricity, to good air ventilation to reduce the need for energy for cooling, the building should be built to save money and resources.