Sizing the #CleanEcon: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment
On July 13, the Metro Program at Brookings brought together business, economic development and political leaders to review the progress of clean industries. A report and first-of-its-kind database, produced in collaboration with Battelle"s Technology Partnership Practice, was released at the event: http://goo.gl/k4Vyl - Below are some twitter highlights.
RT @PlaNYC: Great article by @bryanrwalsh in @time: A #CleanEcon Report Counts Up Green Jobs—And They're Not What You Think t.co/BzSUfKg
RT @BrookingsMetro: Panelists representing @OakRidgeLabNews, NorTech, @NYSERDA, @cleantechsd, discuss regional #cleanecon t.co/dUnObDT
Brian Sager, Nanosolar #Cleanecon scaling challenge: "R&D risk embracing culture collides with commercial banking risk averse culture"
@bryanrwalsh "Nanosolar's solar tech is purchased as much as a soldout #JustinBeiber concert" #cleanecon @BrookingsInst
Tim Richards GE: "Renewable energy tax credits create way more than they cost." Letting them expire would be "devastating" #cleanecon
@ARPAE says US energy grid is on avg 42 yrs old, huge oppty to modernize #cleanecon infrastructure
RT @MarkMuro1: Arun Majumdar: "oil goes up, we hit panic button. oil goes down, we hit the snooze button. No way to run america" at #CleanEcon event
US must set a "sunshot" goal of reducing cost of solar energy to level of natural gas, per Majumdar at #cleanecon event, scaling innovation
Rossman: In absence of US supply side incentives, demand-side policies are big subsidy to Beijing. #CleanEcon t.co/ezInzvP
RT @bruce_katz: Jim Rossman "global opportunity for #cleanecon is massive," reauthorization of Ex-Im Bank is important, hidden policy opportunity
The U.S. #CleanEcon now employs some 2.7 million workers. Interactive map tool: Sizing the Clean Economy t.co/mdap7R9 #CleanTech #Eco- #cleanecon we need a fed govt that fits flexibly to regions rather than regions that contort themselves to fit to fragmented fed programs
New recycling policy oriented toward resource recovery = new green middle class jobs. #cleanecon cc: @BrookingsInst- @NYSERDA : need much greater fed investment in innovation; ARPA-E budget should be 10-20X larger #cleanecon t.co/ezInzvP
RT @BrookingsInst: The #CleanEcon event has concluded. Full archived video will be posted on the event page soon t.co/m7uokj4
RT @thebreakthrough RT @lieslclark: "Unless we invest in innovation, there is no future." Francis Murray, @NYSERDA #cleanecon- Former CO Gov. Bill Ritter: To attract green jobs/investment, states should tie energy policy to climate action plan #cleanecon @SOGES_CSU
- Gov Ritter at #cleanecon event: second largest deployment of solar? New Jersey, thanks to RGGI.
- MT @NRDCRenewables How can we rapidly scale *sustaining* clean energy markets from the state-regional approach? #CleanEcon | @brookingsmetro
Regions are helping low skilled workers enter #cleanecon jobs through community college education #BrookingsMetro
Clean economy employs 2.7M workers, according to report out today by Brookings. you can join the discussion at #cleanecon
#fuelcells one of the fastest growing #cleanecon jobs sectors in CA t.co/wfwbcLo Annual AVG Job increase in #FCs of 28.3%/year
