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.

Hal Higdon's Half Marathon Training

Hal Higdon's Half Marathon Training
Author: Higdon, Hal
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492517240

Hal Higdon’s Half Marathon Training offers prescriptive programming for all levels of runners. Not only will it help you learn how to get started with your training, but it will show you where to focus your attention, when to progress, and how to keep it simple.

The Welding Business Owner's Hand Book

The Welding Business Owner's Hand Book
Author: David Zielinski
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-08-26
Genre: New business enterprises
ISBN: 9781484045237

Want to know what it takes to be a successful welding business owner or how to get your business to the next level? Then this book is your ultimate guide that is straight to the point about what you need to know and how to do it. It is your personal blueprint on how to start, establish and grow any metals related business. You will learn the following: How you can take a $1000 or Less Investment and be self employed in about one week from today. How to start a shop or manufacturing plant without buying equipment. How and where to find high profit margin, Town, City, State and Federal contracting opportunities. How and where to find subcontracting opportunities from major corporations. * Where to sell and how to get your products on store shelves and to dealership showrooms in just weeks. Low cost alternatives to hiring employees with no long term commitment. Detailed lists of business ideas and places to buy product manufacturing rights. Alternative business ideas that have little competition and will have customers searching for you. Exact ideas and suggestions on marketing a welding business that includes everything from business cards to websites and even strategies on buying welding businesses for sale. How to take advantage of other welding businesses and have them do the hard work for you. Just about everything else you need to know plus how to get free Government help. This book will reduce the learning curve on how to start, establish and grow any metal related business. It does not matter if you are opening a portable welding business, working from home, manufacturing products, opening a metal fabrication shop, or you are expanding to Government contracting opportunities. This book will give you what you need to know to succeed! The Welding Business Owner's Handbook is packed with tons of great information from the owner of www.GoWelding.Org. Quality real life hands-on information from a welder's point of view!

The Unlocking Season

The Unlocking Season
Author: Gail Bowen
Publisher: ECW Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1773055828

Arthur Ellis Award-winning author and the “queen of Canadian crime fiction” (Winnipeg Free Press) returns with a new installment in the Joanne Kilbourn series On a Saturday bright with harbingers of spring, Joanne Kilbourn-Shreve, her husband, Zack, and their family prepare to celebrate the season. Joanne’s life is full, and at 60, she has been given the chance to understand a part of her history that for years was shrouded in secrecy. Living Skies is producing Sisters and Strangers, a six-part TV series about the tangled relationships between the families of Douglas Ellard, the father who raised Joanne, and Desmond Love, her biological father. Joanne is working on the script with Roy Brodnitz, a brilliant writer and friend. The project’s future seems assured, but before the script is completed, Brodnitz disappears while scouting locations in northern Saskatchewan. Hours later, he’s found — sweat-drenched, clawing at the ground, and muttering gibberish. He dies in a state of mortal terror. Heartsick and perplexed, Joanne resolves to learn what happened in the last hours of Roy’s life. What Joanne discovers threatens Brodnitz’s legacy, and the decision about whether or not to reveal the truth is hers to make. The Unlocking Season is another deeply satisfying and thought-provoking novel from one of Canada’s finest crime writers.

Indonesia and the Asian Development Bank

Indonesia and the Asian Development Bank
Author: Peter McCawley
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-06-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 929262203X

This publication is a history of the partnership between Indonesia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). When Indonesia became a founding member of the bank in 1966, the country faced daunting challenges. In the five decades that passed, both Indonesia and ADB have evolved in remarkable ways. Indonesia developed rapidly through the late 1990s yet faced a difficult time of adjustment after the Asian financial crisis of 1997–1998. The country has since resumed growth in the last decade. For its part, ADB has widened its activities in Indonesia, transforming from a project-oriented bank into a broad-based development institution. This effective partnership reflects Indonesia’s success in working with the international community in the past 50 years.

Hydrogen Technology

Hydrogen Technology
Author: Aline Léon
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2008-07-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540699252

Aline Leon ́ In the last years, public attention was increasingly shifted by the media and world governmentsto the conceptsof saving energy,reducingpollution,protectingthe - vironment, and developing long-term energy supply solutions. In parallel, research funding relating to alternative fuels and energy carriers is increasing on both - tional and international levels. Why has future energy supply become such a matter of concern? The reasons are the problems created by the world’s current energy supply s- tem which is mainly based on fossil fuels. In fact, the energystored in hydrocarb- based solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels was, is, and will be widely consumed for internal combustion engine-based transportation, for electricity and heat generation in residential and industrial sectors, and for the production of fertilizers in agric- ture, as it is convenient, abundant, and cheap. However, such a widespread use of fossil fuels by a constantly growing world population (from 2. 3 billion in 1939 to 6. 5 billion in 2006) gives rise to the two problems of oil supply and environmental degradation. The problemrelated to oil supply is caused by the fact that fossil fuels are not - newable primary energy sources: This means that since the rst barrel of petroleum has been pumped out from the ground, we have been exhausting a heritage given by nature.

Australia's Naval Shipbuilding Enterprise

Australia's Naval Shipbuilding Enterprise
Author: J. L. Birkler
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN:

In 2015, the Australian government will produce a new Defence White Paper to outline revised and refined defense objectives. As it prepares the new report, a basic question facing the government is whether Australia should buy ships from foreign shipbuilders or support a domestic naval shipbuilding industry. This question is complex, containing many facets and issues that often center on cost trade-offs and economic considerations, but that also touch upon important national and strategic concerns.

Deploying Renewables

Deploying Renewables
Author: International Energy Agency
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Accompanying CD-ROM includes PDF file: Country profiles facts and figures.

Beyond Business As Usual

Beyond Business As Usual
Author: Katherine Gibson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2020-01-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781741085006

This report summarizes the findings of the ARC discovery project, Reconfiguring the enterprise: shifting manufacturing culture in Australia (DP # DP160101674). Research conducted between 2016 and 2019 collected data from 10 manufacturing enterprises, across diverse sectors, scales and organisational forms through in-depth interviews, site visits and workshops. The project's main finding is that there is a culture of manufacturing that is beyond business as usual in Australia. This report counters ill-founded fears that manufacturing in Australia is dead by presenting convincing evidence of dynamic companies that are committed to just and sustainable manufacturing practices. It demonstrates how there is a viable future for manufacturing in Australia in the 21st century that is being shaped by a culture that is beyond business as usual. Through the case examples we uncovered how this new manufacturing culture: a) maintains firm viability and thereby safeguards manufacturing in Australia; b) provides decent jobs in an inclusive society and thereby builds a more just manufacturing sector; and c) produces with a smaller ecological footprint and thereby builds a more environmentally sustainable manufacturing sector. These economic, social and ecological goods are realised in these firms through practical commitments expressed in the daily enterprise operations and over time.The findings are significant for Australia. Manufacturing supports 1.27 million jobs in Australia. It plays a major role in the social inclusion, nurturing the productive capacity of people from many different backgrounds and experiences. It is a point of concentration for innovation and investment in R&D.However, the current business as usual model is no longer viable. Growth without regard for a social licence to produce is no longer acceptable. Nor is growth with disregard for the environmental impacts of production and consumption. The new culture of manufacturing rewrites the social licence for enterprises. It is building viable firms with the capacity to withstand threats that might undermine the sector. At the same time, their ongoing commitments and practices are helping Australia address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)-SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG 9 Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, and SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production.