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Pittsburgh Jobs Conference to Focus on Greening of US Industry, Spurring Transition to ‘Green-collar’ Workforce

March 13, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet

The emergence of ecological economic trends, methods and industries, means that a wave of job creation could be the stabilizing factor which helps American industry recover both momentum and public appeal, potentially helping to ease pricing pressures and banks’ concerns about lending to individuals and small and medium-sized businesses.

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Why Ethanol Production Will Drive World Food Prices Even Higher in 2008

February 6, 2008 :: admin :: 2 Comments

We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before. The world is facing the most severe food price inflation in history as grain and soybean prices climb to all-time highs. Wheat trading on the Chicago Board of Trade on December 17th breached the $10 per bushel level for the first time ever.

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Final Bush Budget Shows Economic Weakness, Policies at Odds with Marketplace, Moment

February 5, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet

Among the numerous scathing criticisms leveled against the record $3.1 trillion federal budget proposal —which will be the last of the George W. Bush White House— are fiscal irresponsibility, near record deficits, and plans to cut or eliminate fully 151 federal programs, in an effort to save just $18 billion, while base Defense Dept. spending increases by 8%.

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The 12-year Sea Change, the Green Economy

December 3, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet

Between the years 2008 and 2020, we are likely to see a still unimaginably sweeping shift away from fossil fuels and high-contamination modes of powering our economy. The transition will have a political component, but will be driven mostly by cost concerns, resource scarcity, and public demand for cleaner air and responsible climate policy, a demand which is not ideological in nature.

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