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  • Shared Wind Farm in Texas Creates 2000 Jobs in China, but Only 300 in the U.S. (News Headline)
    November 2, 2009 - 11:13am

    News last week of the first major influx of Chinese capital and wind turbine manufacturing expertise into the renewable energy market in the United States — a 600-megawatt wind farm planned for the plains of west Texas — had many readers of the Green Inc. blog in a state of agitation.

  • Published Escaping the Claws of Wall Street and Building an Economy on Making Things (Blog entry)
    October 29, 2009 - 1:48pm

    Today, the Campaign for America’s Future is holding a “Building the New Economy” conference. As we build the new economy, it’s important we build one not based on the assets bubbles of the past but on the firm rock of manufacturing.

    As AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka argues:

  • Published Labor Leader Trumka To Testify Against "Reform" Bill Deemed "TARP on Steroids" (Blog entry)
    October 29, 2009 - 1:18am

    After leading the dramatic three-day Showdown in Chicago at the American Bankers Association (ABA) Convention in Chicago, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will head to the House Financial Service Committee today to testify against proposed reform legislation and argue that the bill actually gives the banks more power.

  • Published Frank Allowing Weakening Amendments to Financial Reform To Pass Without Roll Call Votes (Blog entry)
    October 20, 2009 - 4:34pm

    As markup on financial reform legislation continued today in the House Financial Service Committee, a pattern has emerged in which committee members are not forced to go on the record to vote for key amendments that weaken financial reform. Instead, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep.

  • Published Advocating for a Weak Dollar Policy Is Like Throwing a Birthday Party for Osama Bin Laden? (Blog entry)
    October 19, 2009 - 11:36am

    Despite all the apocalyptic naysaying by right-wing economists that the falling dollar is a bad thing, it's actually a really great development for economic recovery:

    From Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman:

  • Published Wall Street's Favorite Democrat Misrepresents Financial Watchdog Elizabeth Warren (Blog entry)
    October 15, 2009 - 12:30pm

    Democratic Congresswoman Melissa Bean is earning the title of Wall Street's favorite Democrat.

  • Shared Pragmatic Passion in the Green Business World (News Headline)
    October 7, 2009 - 11:42am

    As the globe heats up, so does the world of green business conferences. For October 2009 alone, a web search shows almost 50 conferences and forums related to sustainability and the clean economy in the United States.

    The environmental angle is of course a hovering presence at such events, but financial potential is generally the main focus.

    Yet the recent Always On/GoingGreen event in Sausalito, Calif., was notable for the number of participants who used their stature and time to ramp up dramatic tension around the climate crisis as the key issue of our time — and to insist it must be central to all our business endeavors until it is solved.

  • Published Martin Luther King Would Have Loved the Teabaggers, Not Called Them Racists (Blog entry)
    October 5, 2009 - 10:36am

    A few weeks ago, I attended the teabagger protests in D.C. The thing I noticed the most about the folks there was that, for the most part, they were friendly, nice, hardworking people. Sure, there were some crazies; sure, there were some racists. For the most part, though, they looked like the type of folks I grew up with in the labor movement, coming to D.C.

  • Published Key Senators, Krugman Call For Tariffs On High-Carbon-Footprint Imports (Blog entry)
    September 23, 2009 - 2:07pm

    Speaking Tuesday on a Campaign for America's Future conference call, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown said that the climate change legislation will not get 50 Senate votes if it does not place a tariff on imports that have unacceptably high carbon footprints.

  • Shared Abandoned Ford Plant To Become Renewable Energy Manufacturing Park (News Headline)
    September 22, 2009 - 11:22am

    The planned $725-million conversion of the former Ford Motor Co. Wixom plant to a solar and battery power manufacturing center will not only employ some 4,000 workers, but also is an extension of Ford’s commitment to green energy, executive chairman Bill Ford Jr. said today.

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  • Shared Wind Farm in Texas Creates 2000 Jobs in China, but Only 300 in the U.S. (News Headline)
    November 2, 2009 - 11:13am

    News last week of the first major influx of Chinese capital and wind turbine manufacturing expertise into the renewable energy market in the United States — a 600-megawatt wind farm planned for the plains of west Texas — had many readers of the Green Inc. blog in a state of agitation.

  • Published Escaping the Claws of Wall Street and Building an Economy on Making Things (Blog entry)
    October 29, 2009 - 1:48pm

    Today, the Campaign for America’s Future is holding a “Building the New Economy” conference. As we build the new economy, it’s important we build one not based on the assets bubbles of the past but on the firm rock of manufacturing.

    As AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka argues:

  • Published Labor Leader Trumka To Testify Against "Reform" Bill Deemed "TARP on Steroids" (Blog entry)
    October 29, 2009 - 1:18am

    After leading the dramatic three-day Showdown in Chicago at the American Bankers Association (ABA) Convention in Chicago, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will head to the House Financial Service Committee today to testify against proposed reform legislation and argue that the bill actually gives the banks more power.

  • Published Frank Allowing Weakening Amendments to Financial Reform To Pass Without Roll Call Votes (Blog entry)
    October 20, 2009 - 4:34pm

    As markup on financial reform legislation continued today in the House Financial Service Committee, a pattern has emerged in which committee members are not forced to go on the record to vote for key amendments that weaken financial reform. Instead, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep.

  • Published Advocating for a Weak Dollar Policy Is Like Throwing a Birthday Party for Osama Bin Laden? (Blog entry)
    October 19, 2009 - 11:36am

    Despite all the apocalyptic naysaying by right-wing economists that the falling dollar is a bad thing, it's actually a really great development for economic recovery:

    From Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman:

  • Published Wall Street's Favorite Democrat Misrepresents Financial Watchdog Elizabeth Warren (Blog entry)
    October 15, 2009 - 12:30pm

    Democratic Congresswoman Melissa Bean is earning the title of Wall Street's favorite Democrat.

  • Shared Pragmatic Passion in the Green Business World (News Headline)
    October 7, 2009 - 11:42am

    As the globe heats up, so does the world of green business conferences. For October 2009 alone, a web search shows almost 50 conferences and forums related to sustainability and the clean economy in the United States.

    The environmental angle is of course a hovering presence at such events, but financial potential is generally the main focus.

    Yet the recent Always On/GoingGreen event in Sausalito, Calif., was notable for the number of participants who used their stature and time to ramp up dramatic tension around the climate crisis as the key issue of our time — and to insist it must be central to all our business endeavors until it is solved.

  • Published Martin Luther King Would Have Loved the Teabaggers, Not Called Them Racists (Blog entry)
    October 5, 2009 - 10:36am

    A few weeks ago, I attended the teabagger protests in D.C. The thing I noticed the most about the folks there was that, for the most part, they were friendly, nice, hardworking people. Sure, there were some crazies; sure, there were some racists. For the most part, though, they looked like the type of folks I grew up with in the labor movement, coming to D.C.

  • Published Key Senators, Krugman Call For Tariffs On High-Carbon-Footprint Imports (Blog entry)
    September 23, 2009 - 2:07pm

    Speaking Tuesday on a Campaign for America's Future conference call, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown said that the climate change legislation will not get 50 Senate votes if it does not place a tariff on imports that have unacceptably high carbon footprints.

  • Shared Abandoned Ford Plant To Become Renewable Energy Manufacturing Park (News Headline)
    September 22, 2009 - 11:22am

    The planned $725-million conversion of the former Ford Motor Co. Wixom plant to a solar and battery power manufacturing center will not only employ some 4,000 workers, but also is an extension of Ford’s commitment to green energy, executive chairman Bill Ford Jr. said today.

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