Given the economic downturn, job seekers are smart to look at areas of opportunity likely to grow even in an ongoing downturn. Naturally, many have turned their attention to clean tech, where investment should only continue thanks to the stimulus package and global efforts to address climate change....

When the editors of GreenBiz.com released their first State of Green Business report, they included a simple question about jobs (as noted in an interesting Gristmill post): How many jobs are being created through all of the kinds of activities measured in this report? The answer: “No one know...

You know all those "green jobs" Obama says he's going to create?  You know why the market won't create them and government has to (through deficit spending subsidies)?  'Cause they are damned expensive and don't provide much energy anyway.  As Max Schulz writes in today's Wall Street Journal: If...

In the economic downturn, “green jobs” has become one of the hottest political catchphrases. President Barack Obama has promised 5 million new green jobs as part of his energy and stimulus plans. Here in California, the mayors of Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as the governor hav...

Photo via tutor2u What comes to mind when you think of prison work programs? Making license plates, carpentry and woodworking, hard manual labor, right? Well, conventions and/or prison movie stereotypes be damned—prisoners at the Cedar Creek Corrections Facility in Washington grow and harvest moss...

Creative Commons: Josh Parrish Last summer we wrote that in Toronto, Bike Mechanics are the New Doctors- it was that hard to get an appointment. Now the trade association and the Learning Enrichment Foundation are doing something about it, and have launched the The Bicycle Assembly and Maintenance P...

Reading Liberally Cambridge will be discussing this book at our next meeting, on Monday, Jan. 26 at 7 pm.  If you're in the area, drop by and join us! When Van Jones published his landmark work last summer, the future of our economy and government was still uncertain.  Now, with an economi...