Michigan Company Bright on the Future of LED Lighting
Photo credit: Clean Light Green Light Michigan-based Clean Light Green Light (CLGL), one of the premiere manufacturers of LED (light-emitting diode) lighting in the U.S., started up less than ten years ago in the garage of CEO and co-founder David McKinney. Now the company has an international customer list that includes ...

New Plan for Creating and Keeping Clean Energy Jobs in California
This week the California Apollo Alliance released a comprehensive strategy that details how to continue creating good clean energy jobs in California and move the state toward broadly shared economic prosperity, energy security and climate stability. The California Apollo Program calls for reinforcing and expanding the state’s commitment to clean ...

Alliance of California Business, Labor, Environmental, and Community Leaders Unveil New Jobs Plan That Moves State Toward Economic Prosperity, Energy Security and Climate Stability
The California Apollo Program: Creating and Keeping Clean Energy Jobs in California SAN FRANCISCO – Today, as we witness the continued assault on California’s landmark climate law (AB 32) by out-of-state oil companies, a powerful alliance of California business, labor, environmental, and community leaders announced they have joined together to put ...

The California Apollo Program–More Information
Following are links to the citations from the California Apollo Program report: “California’s Unemployment Rate Decreases to 12.4 Percent,” California Employment Development Department news release (June 18, 2010) http://www.edd.ca.gov/About_EDD/pdf/urate201006.pdf. Many Shades of Green: Diversity and Distribution of California’s Green Jobs (Next 10 and Collaborative Economics, December 2009) http://www.next10.org/next10/pdf/Many_Shades_of_Green_1209.pdf. The Clean Energy Economy: Repowering ...

Apollo Releases Report on Indiana’s Clean Energy Job Creation Potential
What’s new at Apollo? Apollo Releases Report on Indiana’s Clean Energy Job Creation Potential This week, the Apollo Alliance released a report about the potential for clean energy job creation in Indiana. The report, How to Keep Creating Clean Energy Jobs in Indiana, found that Indiana missed out on 117,000 jobs when ...

Moving Cleaner Goods: The Hoosier Heavy Hybrid Initiative and Allison Transmission Partner to Produce Clean Trucks
Photo credit: Allison Transmission When one imagines hybrid vehicles in a green economy, the iconic wedge shape of the compact Prius invariably comes to mind. Yet passenger transportation comprises only a part of the broader transportation sector – trucking, for instance, remains the most widely used method to move goods across ...

Tanya Pitts Sees a Well-Lit Career Path in Advanced Lighting
An increasing number of commercial buildings owners in California are employing energy-efficient lighting techniques to save money and reduce their buildings’ energy usage. Their actions are being spurred on by regulations like California’s Title 24 energy efficiency standard, incentives from utility companies like PG&E, and the increasing cost of electricity ...

Indiana Missed Out on 117,000 Jobs When Senate Failed to Pass Clean Energy and Climate Legislation This Summer
As state unemployment hovers at above 10 percent, new study finds that strong energy and climate policies could create significant numbers of jobs in Indiana – especially in manufacturing Strong federal clean energy and climate policies could create up to 117,000 jobs in Indiana by 2030, according to a new study ...

Impacts of Climate Change Seen Around the World in Summer 2010
Heat waves and wildfires in Russia. Record-breaking heat in the eastern and southern United States. Massive flooding in Pakistan. Melting glaciers in Greenland. These are just some of the impacts of climate change that are being seen around the world during summer 2010. In early August, scientists observing the Petermann Glacier ...

Abound Solar: A Bounty for Tipton County
Abound Solar manufacturing facility in Longmont, Colorado. Photo credit: Abound Solar. When a joint venture between automakers Getrag and Chrysler fell through in 2008, leaving an empty 800,000 sq. ft. factory in Tipton County, the Central Indianan community’s disappointment was palpable. The 800 workers who had hoped to gain employment at ...