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And many existing off-the-shelf clean energy and efficiency technologies are abandoned due to a lack of funding as they attempt to be deployed at larger scale. |
Indeed, renewable energy investment dropped precipitously in the first quarter of 2009, the period for which complete data are available, to $500 million compared to $2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008 and $5 billion in the first quarter of 2008. |
In order to maximize the leverage of private capital, the Green Bank should have at its disposal a wide range of direct and indirect support tools and incentives to encourage loans to facilitate deployment of clean-energy technology. These direct and indirect incentives tend to reduce the risk to lenders so they are en... |
A Green Bank capitalized with $10 billion can leverage capital at the standard 10-1 ratio to provide loan guarantees in support of $100 billion in private-sector investment in clean energy. The private sector can also provide an additional $100 billion in equity. As a result, a $10 billion capitalization of the Green B... |
The surge in capital will allow clean-energy projects to be deployed at the operational and commercial level in a shorter timeframe than is standard today. As clean-energy and efficiency technology is deployed at a larger scale, valuable experience and cost savings will be gained, and more and more clean energy will be... |
As a nation, we can and must do better at nurturing and growing our clean-energy sector and clean-energy jobs, because competitors in other countries are already filling the void. A Green Bank will ensure the United States is a job leader in the clean-energy technology growth industry of the future. |
Clean energy has the potential to create significant jobs in the manufacturing sector. A Green Bank will provide low-cost capital to help build clean-energy manufacturing facilities, create long-term jobs in the United States, and deliver clean energy at lower cost to consumers. As noted above, a recent Center for Amer... |
A significant portion of these jobs will occur in the struggling construction and manufacturing sectors. Moreover, the CAP-PERI report also notes that clean-energy investments generate roughly three times more jobs than an equivalent amount of money spent on jobs related to carbon-based fuels. |
A Green Bank can ensure the clean-energy manufacturing sector is able to overcome several challenges, including securing access to capital when prospective lenders are reluctant to provide financing to manufacturers producing clean-energy technology. Frequently, clean-energy businesses are small, innovative, and highly... |
The establishment of a Green Bank will provide a coordinated, strategic approach to clean-energy innovation and energy efficiency in the United States, enhance federal government and private sector complementary efforts to reduce carbon emissions, and deliver clean energy to American homes in as short a timeframe as po... |
A Green Bank, governed by a board of directors and comprising additional members with clean-energy and energy efficiency financial expertise, will make a significant contribution to the nation’s overall energy innovation strategy and project funding decisions. Importantly, the Green Bank will not place the federal gove... |
The Green Bank also can help meet the demand created by a national renewable electricity standard, and it will encourage the deployment of a smart grid and modernized transmission to ensure supply comes from optimal locations throughout the country. In addition, energy efficiency projects financed by the Green Bank wou... |
Smaller projects could be aggregated so as to attract more financing in an area where it has been difficult to secure financing in the past. As noted above, credit support from the Green Bank includes a wide-ranging toolbox (including direct loans, letters of credit, and loan guarantees) that will assist states, locali... |
All of these goals would be interwoven into expedited funding decisions as projects were evaluated for viability and creditworthiness by a professional and experienced staff. In sum, the Green Bank will provide the means to allow us to meet our most ambitious carbon reduction targets while promoting clean-energy jobs t... |
Jake Caldwell is the Director of Policy for Agriculture, Trade, and Energy at American Progress. |
Facing pressure from universities and student groups, Nike has announced that it would pay $1.5 million to help almost 2,000 workers in Honduras who lost their jobs. |
The student labor rights movement won a big victory yesterday when Nike agreed to pay a total of $1.5 million to 1,800 workers in Honduras laid off when two of its subcontractors shut down last year. In a statement, Nike also said it would cover the former employees’ health insurance for a year and offer them priority ... |
For 18 months, the global apparel giant had resisted calls to pay the nearly $2 million in severance and unemployment aid legally owed the workers, insisting that responsibility fell upon the subcontractors. Nike’s about-face came in response to sustained pressure from United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), a natio... |
This latest victory comes on the heels of another triumph for USAS last November, when Russell Athletic rehired 1,200 workers in Honduras, whose factory the company closed soon after the shop unionized. USAS had enlisted over 100 universities in a boycott of Russell. |
Student involvement in labor rights campaigns, specifically the anti-sweatshop movement, peaked a decade ago, when undergrads across the nation organized sit-ins to push their schools to join the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), an independent organization that monitors the conditions under which college apparel is prod... |
The issue of sweatshops in the developing world is complex with prominent liberal writers Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, consistently defending overseas sweatshops, as essentially the least bad option for impoverished workers in developing countries and the only real path to economic growth (a... |
But, free-market arguments notwithstanding, USAS’s victories clearly indicate the efficacy of putting pressure on exploitative corporations to gain higher wages and better working conditions for its workers, which neither Krugman, nor Kristof is against. |
Large corporations, as proven time and again, operate with great sensitivity to their own images—images that will hopefully attract even greater public scrutiny in light of recent press coverage thanks to the work of USAS and its allies. |
Aaron RossAaron Ross is a West Africa–based journalist. His work has appeared in The Economist, The New York Times, Mother Jones and online at the Global Post. |
It's a match made in Oscar heaven: Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have gotten married. |
Cruz's representative Amanda Silverman confirms the couple were married in the beginning of July at a friend's house in the Bahamas. |
She said in an e-mail to The Associated Press on Tuesday the ceremony for the 36-year-old Cruz and the 41-year-old Bardem was a small one that only family members attended. |
Cruz and Bardem are from Spain. They appeared together in the 2008 Woody Allen romantic comedy "Vicky Cristina Barcelona." Cruz won a supporting-actress Oscar for her role. |
Bardem won a supporting-actor Oscar for the 2007 crime thriller "No Country for Old Men." |
Naomi Wolf is an author and essayist whose works have appeared in The New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Ms., Esquire, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She also speaks widely to groups across the country. |
Her first book, The Beauty Myth, was an international bestseller. She followed it with Fire With Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change The 21st Century; Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood; Misconceptions, critique of pregnancy and birth in America; The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a ... |
Wolf is also co-founder of the Board of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, an organization devoted to training young women in ethical leadership for the 21st century. She is a graduate of Yale University and completed her graduate work at New College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. |
Question: How has a coup taken place in the United States? |
Wolf: So, the dictionary definition of a coup is a sudden change in our form of government. And for 200 years, when America have been protected from the prospect of soldiers policing our streets, our civilian streets by two laws, the 1807 Insurrection Act and the 1879 Posse Comitatus Act and what Bush did is with a sig... |
By deploying the First Brigade, George Bush effectively created a private army for himself. |
TORONTO - As in the NHL draft, Edmonton Oilers forward Connor McDavid leads all rookies in the new "NHL 16" video game from EA Sports. |
But the video game developer is leaving plenty of room for the teenage sensation to grow. |
McDavid, the No. 1 pick this summer, has been given a player rating of 82, which is some distance away from the video game's top 50 players. EA will undoubtedly revise that rookie rating as warranted by his on-ice performance in the NHL. |
Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby tops the game ratings at 96 while Anaheim Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen is No. 50 at 89. |
As an OHL player, the 18-year-old McDavid has already been in the game and his rating was revised upwards during last season because of his dominance in junior. No. 2 pick Jack Eichel, as an NCAA player, has not appeared in the game and has yet to get a rating. |
Because of that, Eichel will have to appear in the NHL before the centre can make it into the virtual hockey world. While that is also the case for McDavid, there is a loophole in that gamers can elevate him to the NHL when they want because he is already part of the database. |
Both players could make their NHL regular-season debut Oct. 8 when the Oilers visit St. Louis and Buffalo, which took Eichel second overall, hosts Ottawa. |
The two rookies showed few could compete with them in their previous hockey environments. But their NHL story is just about to unfold. |
"We have a good grasp that Eichel and McDavid are going to be impact players," said Andy Agostini, an associate producer on the game. "How much of an impact once they're playing against fully grown men who have been in the NHL for five to 10 years will be something that we're going to have to keep our eye on." |
The player ratings, assembled from a subset of some 20 skill rankings, are done in conjunction with a pro scout. The video game developer revises the ratings via updates during the season. |
"To add two or three points isn't an issue for us," Agostini said of the rookies. "It's more we don't want to overstate their importance (at the start)." |
McDavid had 47 goals and 76 assists in 47 games for the OHL Erie Otters last season when he was Canadian Hockey League player of the year. He had 97 goals and 285 points in 166 career regular season games (1.71 points per game) in three seasons in junior. |
Eichel, the 2015 Hobey Baker Award winner, picked up 26 goals and 45 assists in 40 games last season as a freshman for Boston University. |
EA's top 15 prospects in the new game cover a variety of draft years given it takes most prospects some years to advance to the NHL. |
Emile Poirier, Calgary, 80; Oliver Bjorkstrand, Columbus, 80; Mackenzie Skapski, New York Rangers, 80; Ronalds Kenins, Vancouver, 80; Nick Ritchie, Anaheim, 79; Ryan Hartman, Chicago, 79; Ryan Pulock, New York Islanders, 79; Ivan Barbashev, St. Louis, 79; Connor Brown, Toronto, 79; Jake Virtanen, Vancouver, 79; Madison... |
Erie centre Dylan Strome, taken third overall by the Arizona Coyotes, gets a 77. London Knights centre Mitch Marner, the fourth overall pick taken by the Maple Leafs, is a 74. |
NHL 16, which is made in suburban Vancouver, is due out Sept. 15 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. |
Anthony Bourdain's body was free of narcotics at the time of his death earlier this month, according to a report from The New York Times. |
CNN reported on June 8 that Bourdain's friend chef Eric Ripert found him unresponsive in his hotel room in Kaysersberg, located in the eastern region of Alsace, close to the German border. Bourdain, 61, was there shooting footage for his CNN show "Parts Unknown." |
De Rocquigny had previously confirmed to theTimes and People magazine that the cause of death was suicide by hanging. |
In addition to the absence of narcotics, the Times reports "a nonnarcotic medicine in a therapeutic dose" was present, according to de Rocquigny . |
Bourdain was born in New York and raised in New Jersey, graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and rose to nationwide prominence as executive chef at New York's Brasserie Les Halles. |
He was also frank about his past heroin use and the prevalence of substance-abuse issues in the culinary world. He would go on to discuss these issues on "Parts Unknown," covering the impact of the drug trade on Mexico in a Season 3 episode and the opioid epidemic during a Season 4 installment set Massachusetts. |
Bourdain began transitioning into the second phase of his career, turning a 1999 New Yorker story called "Don't Eat This" into the best-selling book "Kitchen Confidential," offering foodies a glimpse at what goes on behind the doors of their favorite restaurants and insider tips, like why they should never order fish o... |
"Kitchen Confidential" spawned two TV series: a Food Network travelogue called "A Cook's Tour" and a short-lived Fox sitcom based on his career and personal foibles, starring a then-up-and-coming Bradley Cooper. |
Bourdain became a household name with his next series, Travel Channel's "No Reservations," which followed him as he traveled the world in search of life-changing culinary and cultural experiences. |
"Parts Unknown" debuted on CNN in 2013. |
Representatives for Bourdain and de Rocquigny did not immeditaly return USA TODAY's request for comment. |
Are you proposing a state funded solution? What is your idea? National solutions may appear a panacea a paper, but 1.) there is that pesky Constitution, and 2.) Britain and Canadas experience don't really give one a great deal of optimism. |
I would propose that the employer deduction for employee health plans be revoked. Employers will then be able to get out of the health insurnace game. People then can unleash a tidal wave of competition for individual policies. People could then also make some real choices on health care, such as choosing to pay low pr... |
Very good point. Thank you for bringing it up. |
and the elimination of the giant egos that most physicians seem to have (which is the biggest stumbling block to fixing their system), and the total elimination of the culture of "hanging together" which protects the bad doctors, insurance will continue to rise and tort reform will be impossible. |
A strongly worded assertion without a fig of evidence. Insurance rates rise because of increased demand for the latest and greatest treatment (which are, hélas, expensive) by an aging population and a system in which judicious use of insurance is not necessary. Tort reform is in the hands of Congress, who as a group ap... |
MIDLOTHIAN, Va. -- Emily Dorsey has done a lot of walking with her friends down the halls of Robious Middle School. |
She never paid much attention to the shoes she wore until the day her PE teacher talked about a trip to Haiti and the kids there who had no shoes at all. |
Emily then realized some kids take a good pair of shoes for granted. |
"Sometimes I think they do," Emily said, "because I hear everybody talking about the new shoes they got and whatever. They should just be thankful for what they have today." |
Emily started working with Soles4Souls.org, a non-profit fighting poverty through the collection of shoes and clothing. |
Emily and her friends started a shoe drive and hoped to collect at least 1,000 pairs of shoes to send to families in need. |
Step by step, she planned the whole thing. |
She and her father made shoe collection buckets out of large, plastic trash bins. |
"I designed the fliers and then my dad helped me cut out the bowl shape (on the bin lid). Then we spray painted the lids," she said. |
Getting the collections to the warehouse took a little more help from dad. |
"When people drop shoes into the canister we pick them up in a trash or garbage bag and we tie them. Whenever we get a lot of bags we bring them to our home and then we're going to box them up and ship them out." |
For Emily, the hard work has been good for the soul. |
"That makes me feel good that someone my age could be doing this." |
Plant & Plate is the latest Whole Foods venture, possibly coming to a store near you. |
Walk into the new Whole Foods in Bridgewater, New Jersey, and rather than bumping into that omnipresent pile of organic avocados, you’ll discover succulents, orchids, handmade plates, scented candles, and copper bowls. |
It’s part of a new mini store within Whole Foods dubbed Plant & Plate. It’s got plants. It’s got plates. And it’s got pretty much any other little piece of Instagram-ready home decor item you could imagine. |
“Three years ago, we really started being a lot more proactive in the housewares category. Not just OXO goods [the award-winning kitchen wares], but to really go outside the box and find items that we think our customers would enjoy,” says Genevieve Monette, Whole Body coordinator (the store’s personal care segment) at... |
While Whole Foods had experimented with limited items like Hedley & Bennet aprons in the past, the Bridgewater store offered a unique architectural enclave–an opportunity to put a small store outside of Whole Foods itself–that inspired the company to attempt a more realized housewares spin-off in Plant & Plate. The spa... |
Much like Whole Foods made a name for itself by selling local produce at scale, Plant & Plate has relationships with local vendors, like New Jersey’s Keiko Inouye pottery to sell artisan ramen bowls. Amazon’s global retail influence this is not–Monette assures me. Plant & Plate lives entirely under the Whole Foods umbr... |
Whole Foods declined to comment on specific sales, but says that Plant & Plate has been quite popular. In turn, the company will open at least one more location before the end of year, and they imagine that it could scale regionally, or even nationwide if things continue to go well–assumably with a continued commitment... |
However, weather conditions, droughts and the high number of wildfires this month prompted the MFC to ask Gov. Phil Bryant to order a statewide burn ban. Bryant signed the order Tuesday. |
Local fire officials had been urging South Mississippi residents to avoid outdoor burning since before last weekend. |
The National Weather Service issued a fire weather watch a week ago, saying low humidity, high winds and dry conditions were conducive to wildfires. |
A chance of rainfall this weekend could help, but it will take a steady, tropical-storm type of rain like moisture from Hurricane Patricia to make a difference, Bozeman said. |
"If it rains a while and the sun comes back out, we could be back in the same shape within 24 hours without extended rainfall," he said. "The presence of rain doesn't automatically lift the ban." |
The NSW's five-day forecast on Friday showed Harrison, Hancock and Pearl River counties could receive 3 to 5 inches. Stone County could receive 2 to 4 inches and Jackson and George counties could receive 1.75 to 2.5 inches. |
The MFC has worked 188 wildfires in the past week. Of those, 129 homes were threatened and three were destroyed. Bozeman said wildfires also threatened six commercial properties and 40 outbuildings, which include sheds and barns. Two outbuildings were destroyed. |
From Oct. 1 through Thursday, MFC worked a total of 618 wildfires that burned more than 9,000 acres and destroyed 23 homes. |
A wildfire in Jackson County burned 40 acres Oct. 14. |
"Tell people to please not burn outdoors until this ban is lifted," Bozeman said. |
"Even the smallest fire can get out of control." |
TIM ISBELL/THE SUN HERALD/2009 Traffic speeds past the charred remains of a brush fire that occurred Saturday in Jackson County. The fire was on both sides of Interstate 10. |
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