Putting Renewables to Work

Putting Renewables to Work
Author: Daniel M. Kammen
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2008-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1437907245

The New Apollo Energy Project, by coordinating public and private policies and investments, provides the vision for a cleaner, domestically-based, and more secure 21st century energy system. This report provides an invaluable comparison of the many recent studies that show how a shift towards clean energy technologies will result in significant job creation. These studies confirm that supporting renewable and efficient energy systems will create more American jobs than would a comparable investment in traditional fossil fuel based systems. Moreover, an investment agenda in emerging clean energy technologies would also reduce our foreign trade deficit and reestablish the U.S. as a leader in this growing international market. Illustrations.

Jobs in Sustainable Energy

Jobs in Sustainable Energy
Author: Corona Brezina
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2010-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1435835697

Presents information on a variety of occupations in the renewable energy field, including solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, and transportation.

Sustainability at Work

Sustainability at Work
Author: Marilyn Waite
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315514354

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for everyone who wants to have both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society. Containing career advice of great value to students of sustainability, and explaining how they can apply their knowledge to their future careers, its appeal extends well beyond the classroom. Sustainability at Work includes an easy-to-follow framework that anyone wondering how they can make a sustainable difference in the workplace can apply. Professionals from a variety of backgrounds and territories explain how they brought a sustainability approach to various sectors: agriculture, health care, business, economics, and financial services, education and research, law and policy, science and technology, and entertainment and media. Through inspiring narratives and a structured framework, Sustainability at Work illustrates how sustainability can be incorporated into every imaginable career to impact the quadruple bottom line: environment, economy, society, and future generations.

Green Jobs for Sustainable Development

Green Jobs for Sustainable Development
Author: Ana-Maria Boromisa
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2015-06-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 131775185X

A ‘green economy’ must be built on ‘green jobs’ - the kind of employment that is low carbon, intended to reduce energy use and expected to restore environmental quality. But attempts to define exactly what a ‘green job’ is have led to varied and often contradictory answers. There are many unresolved questions including whether we consider jobs in the nuclear fuel industry to be green jobs? Or is a worker at a glass making company which supplies the glass for the solar photovoltaic industry doing a green job given that glass making is a ‘dirty’ industry? This book deals with the relationship between "green" concepts (green jobs, green economy, green growth) and sustainable development. It examines to which extent creation of green jobs supports overall economic development as opposed to creation of elitist jobs and greenwashing. In order to do so, general conceptual frameworks for green jobs, green economy, green growth and green policy are presented as well as their implementation in ten countries selected among the Group of Twenty. The selection includes advanced (the European Union, the United States of America, Australia, Canada, Republic of Korea, Japan) and developing countries (Mexico, China, Turkey and Brazil). The analysis presented in this book shows that although green concept is well-intentioned, its implementation depends on local circumstances – economic, political and social. Developed countries perceive green growth as a way to create new markets and demand, while developing countries rely more on labor intensive growth and less expensive green jobs. Thus, greening the economy does not diminish differences between rich and poor. This book is suitable for those who study and work in Ecological Economics, Sustainable Development and Labor Economics.

Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2019

Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2019
Author: International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA
Publisher: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9292602624

The sixth edition of the series highlights employment trends in renewables worldwide, noting increasing diversification of the supply chain.

Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2020

Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2020
Author: International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA
Publisher: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9292602667

The sixth edition of the series highlights employment trends in renewables worldwide, noting increasing diversification of the supply chain.

Clean Energy and "green" Jobs

Clean Energy and
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2008
Genre: Clean energy industries
ISBN:

Renewable Electricity Generation

Renewable Electricity Generation
Author: Benjamin Zycher
Publisher: AEI Press
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2011-11-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0844772232

This volume examines the outlook for renewable energy in electricity generation-particularly wind and solar power-as a substitute for conventional fuels such as coal and natural gas. Economist Benjamin Zycher evaluates the central arguments in favor of policies that would make way for broader use of renewables and concludes that all are deeply problematic. "Renewable" energy sources are not superior in cost to conventional fuels; nor are they less taxing on the environment. The popular argument that increased use of renewables will create "green jobs" is likewise a fallacy-because wind and solar power are costly and inefficient, the net economic impact is a negative one. Zycher concludes that resource-use behaviors emerging from market competition are the best guides to effective, sustainable energy policies.

Sustainable Energy

Sustainable Energy
Author: Jefferson W. Tester
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 884
Release: 2005
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780262201537

Evaluates trade-offs and uncertainties inherent in achieving sustainable energy, analyzes the major energy technologies, and provides a framework for assessing policy options.