Iowa Energy Center: Matching Grant Program

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions

Matching Grant Program Issue date: August 6, 2013 Expiration date: June 30, 2014 515/294-8819 [email protected] iowaenergycenter.org The Iowa Energy Center is introducing three new competitive grant opportunities that aim to help Iowa non-profit organizations gain external funding to further the environmental, social, and economic well-being of Iowans through improved energy efficiency …

Quality Employment for Women in the Green Economy

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, The Power of Yin

 Industry, Occupation, and State-by-State Job Estimates, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, April 2013 Investments in the green economy have the potential to create jobs with family-sustaining wages that do not require college degrees. Given women’s greater propensity to earn less than family-sustaining wages than men, this characteristic of green jobs …

Work and Workforce Dynamics: The Keys to Success

Ethical MarketsTrendspotting

One-to-one telephone demonstrations available Significantly improve your innovation, risk management, strategic thinking, competitive intelligence & forecasting by talking to us The where, when, how, what and who of work and the workforce are experiencing changes the combined impacts of which will be significant for almost all organisations whatever their size, …

Solar Equipment Maker GT Advanced Technologies Lays Off 25 Percent of Workforce

Ethical MarketsGreentech

Solar Equipment Maker GT Advanced Technologies Lays Off 25 Percent of Workforce by Jennifer Runyon, Managing Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com | October 31, 2012 | Responding to projections that the solar panel module overcapacity will continue for at least another year, solar equipment maker GT Advanced Technologies today announced a restructuring plan. …

U.S. Metro Clean Tech Index Released – Download the Executive Summary

kristyGreen Prosperity

WEST COAST CITIES TOP CLEAN EDGE’S INAUGURAL U.S. METRO CLEAN TECH INDEX Clean Edge’s inaugural U.S. Metro Clean Tech Index subscription service, released today, provides the industry’s most comprehensive and objective analysis of how the 50 largest U.S. metro regions, and the individuals, businesses, and organizations that operate there, compare …

Moving Beyond the Secrets of the Economic Battlefield: A Systemic View

kristyThe Power of Yin

Moving Beyond the Secrets of the Economic Battlefield: A Systemic View By Lavinia Weissman, January 22, 2012 Excerpted from the full post at www.thestoryofmeaningfuluse.com. Available in Portuguese at www.mercadoetico.com.br. We seek only to give words to those who cannot speak (too may women in too many countries). I seek only …

The Biggest Barrier to Teleworking: The Boss

kristyGreen Prosperity

The Biggest Barrier to Teleworking: The Boss By Tilde Herrera Telework still isn’t taking off in any major way, according to a new study of the remote workforce — and management resistance is the No. 1 obstacle….Read More Google Says Energy Innovation Will Pay Off — but When? By Marc …

Renewable Energy Ideas Too Good to be True

kristyTrendspotting

Renewable Energy Ideas Too Good to be True Free energy, perpetual motion machines, and solar cells that work in moonlight. Bjorn Lomborg: The Sustainability Critic He’s the economist environmentalists love to hate. CPV Ascendant? Cogentrix Gets $90M Loan Guarantee for 30MW Project Amonix to provide the CPV hardware. ECD’s Bloody …