Intrepid Wildlife Promise blogger Max Greenberg here, stringing dispatches together once more from the frontlines of the green workforce development movement. Today we’re looking at the Central North Carolina Greenforce … Read more
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Standout Community Colleges to Highlight Friday’s Greenforce Summit in Greensboro
As late winter turns to true spring, the Greenforce tour rolls on in North Carolina, setting up shop at Guilford Technical Community College in Greensboro later this week. Friday’s Central … Read more
Broad Range of Green Job Training Methods on Display at First NC Greenforce Summit
The Western North Carolina Greenforce Summit kicked off this morning at the Enka site of the Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College in Candler, NC. It was cloudy overhead, but that did … Read more
Green Jobs Innovation Fund Accepting Applications
The Department of Labor has announced the Green Jobs Innovation Fund competition to support opportunities in green industry sectors and occupations. President Obama has called on the United States to … Read more
Michigan Greenforce Initiative Summit a Success
Yesterday at Lansing Community College- West Campus, 90 participants from across the state of Michigan participated in the first Greenforce Initiative summit. With 15 community colleges represented, state agencies, non-profit … Read more
Dispatches from VA Greenforce Summit: Former DNC Chair McAuliffe Drives Home ‘No One Size Fits All’ Message
Within minutes of the kickoff of the Greenforce Summit in Culpeper, VA, today, Julian Keniry, NWF’s senior director for Campus and Community Leadership, mentioned arguably the most job-oriented icon of … Read more
Dispatches from VA Greenforce Summit: Job Figures Show Training Needs
I’m blogging live from the Virginia Greenforce Learning and Action Summit at Germanna Community College‘s Daniel Technology Center in Culpeper, VA, and boy, are my fingers tired. This event, convened … Read more
A Show of Greenforce for Virginia’s Economy
Three weeks ago, President Obama issued a call to, well, rockets in his State of the Union address, invoking the pre- and early-NASA space race as a model of national … Read more
Southern Virginia prepares to build biomass power plant
Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC) is preparing to build a biomass plant in South Boston, Virginia, using the wood waste left over from the local logging companies. NOVEC is a … Read more
Big News! Power Shift 2011 Date and Venue Change- Register for the Conference Today!
Power Shift 2011 has moved! The conference will now take place at the DC Convention Center from April 15-18. Click here to register to attend. Though it was originally intended to take place at RFK Stadium, the DC Convention Center is the largest space available in the entire city, thus the dates of the convergence have been pushed back by one week to take advantage of this great opportunity. Read more