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By Ken Kastman
Washington’s Stimulus Package promised to create or save over 3.5 million jobs, with a good
share of the stimulus package focused on energy and environmental enhancements.
Many jobs will be created, so it begs the questions: How will these jobs be
counted and how many will be truly green?
Answering these questions begins with the acknowledgement that green jobs have
been defined, in their most basis sense, as “good jobs that already exist, or are created, in fields that focus on mitigating
or managing climate change impacts.” There are several subsets of green jobs that seem to be rising to the top of
the definition pile: green collar jobs and green technology jobs—two subsets that are not mutually exclusive. One aspect of these subsets is the
question of whether green jobs represent a green labor function (primarily
based on the quality of the job), or a green industry function (all jobs
related to a particular industry, irrespective of the worker’s role).
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Renewal Magazine
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With the Washington budget showing no signs of a quick-and-easy resolution, federal brownfields programs are unlikely to get much of …
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Brownfields and crop development—for the express intent of producing foods—are concepts that have always been strange bedfellows. Mutually exclusive. An…
At this abandoned, blighted factory—consisting of 187,227 square feet in 21 different structures on 13.5 acres in the three…
PROJECT GOAL: To revitalize land that had been sitting idle for years by putting the property back into productive…
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Industry Profiles
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Mike Purzycki New Castle
Executive Director, State of Delaware, Wilmington Riverfront Redevelop
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Meredith Udoibok Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Assistant director of business and community division, Dept. of Employ
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Kathy Webb Greenville, S.C.
Principal, SynTerra Corp
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Brownfield Stateside Report
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In Michigan, some are predicting a better business climate for redevelopment and regulatory closure of contaminated properties thanks to a bill Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was scheduled to sign last week. The new regulations should have a positive impact on commercial real estate development and brownfields redevelopment resulting in the creation of jobs. |
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by VeruTEK
A property located on a bank of the East River and in a densely developed residential and commercial area, had its work cut out for it from an environmental remediation standpoint. The mission was to clean up the land and ultimately make one puzzle piece to a larger urban revitalization project that would be redeveloped as a public library and park ranger station.
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