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Why do green jobs pay better than other jobs?
Less-educated workers with green jobs get higher wages than their peers with other low-skill jobs. Could it be because more green jobs are union jobs?
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Critical List: Conflicts connected to climate; some green collar jobs are also white collar jobs
Conflicts across the world can be connected to climate phenomena like El Niño.
Mitt Romney: so wimpy on climate issues, it hurts.
Some green jobs require an MBA.
Drivers are still cutting down on miles, even though gas prices are creeping downward. -
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Van Jones slams misleading quotes in NYT green-jobs story
Obama's former green jobs czar sets the record straight after The New York Times cherry-picked his quotes to support the proposition that the clean energy economy has failed.
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NYT green-jobs story ignores 'explosive growth'
The New York Times article claims that the green economy has failed to live up to job-creation promises. This kind of premature, incorrect, and misleading reporting is dangerous.
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Oil monarch's $1.5 billion Star Trek theme park will run on green energy
King Abdullah of Jordan is probably the world's richest Star Trek fan, which explains why he's able to drop the GDP of Burundi on a theme park to celebrate his pop culture obsession.
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Majora Carter to launch national brand for local produce
The green-jobs activist behind the South Bronx Greenway now looks to create accessible jobs in food production.
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Warren Buffet's crazy-like-a-fox plan to revive America's auto industry
Warren Buffett, legendary investor and one of the world's richest people, is about to leverage his part-ownership of China's largest battery manufacturer to deliver a shot in the arm to America's ailing auto industry.
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Dudefest no more? Women are infiltrating cleantech
Men are running the show at most of the companies pushing renewables, efficiency, clean cars, and the smart grid -- but that's starting to change.
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There are now more green jobs than brown ones, and they pay better
Green technology and clean power are now employing more people than the fossil fuels industries, says the Brookings Institution. A separate analysis of the same data indicates that the cleantech sector of those green jobs offer median wages that are 20 percent better than regular jobs. And the rate of job creation in this sector was twice that of the regular economy from 2003-2010. All this despite the notoriously inconsistent support for green jobs in the U.S.!
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Critical List: It’s hot; 2.7 million Americans work in clean energy
It's hot. It's hot. It's hooooottttt.
You want green jobs? Here are your green jobs: 2.7 million Americans are employed in the clean energy economy, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution.
But that could all end with a drop-off in government subsidies across the world.
