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Interactive Map: Green Recovery
November 3, 2008 Last month, the Center for American Progress released a report by University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute economists entitled, “ Green Recovery .” The report demonstrated...

Idea of the Day: Investing in a Green Recovery
October 23, 2009 The Center for American Progress, alongside the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, has undertaken detailed analysis of the impacts that strong climate and clean-energy...

Green Recovery: Investing in Clean and Efficient Energy to Create Jobs and Stimulate the Economy
December 10, 2008 Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources by Bracken Hendricks

The Green Road to Economic Recovery
September 18, 2008 CAPAF's Bracken Hendricks testifies before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on how investing in climate solutions can help rebuild our economy. Read the full testimony... by Bracken Hendricks

G20 Should Push Toward A Global Green Recovery
April 3, 2009 Read more on the event page . In advance of the G20 meetings in London on April 2, 2009, the Center for American Progress hosted the launch of a key new paper commissioned by the German Foreign Office...

ADVISORY: Toward a Global Green Recovery: Recommendations for Immediate G20 Action
March 24, 2009 Thursday, March 26, 2009 – 10:30am to 11:30am

Green Investments and Jobs—Again
November 13, 2008 In a note posted on November 12 at the Heritage Foundation’s “The Foundry” site, Conn Carroll purports to have found “many things wrong” with my 11/7/08 response to an earlier... by Robert Pollin

Green Recovery At a time of fiscal belt tightening, when some would put environmental priorities on the back burner, there are many who believe that investing in a green economy now is the best way to achieve both short...

RELEASE: Green Investment Will Yield 2 Million Jobs in Two Years
September 9, 2008 WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 9, 2008) — A new report released today shows that the United States can create 2 million jobs over two years by investing in a rapid green economic recovery program. The...

Toward a Global Green Recovery: Recommendations for Immediate G20 Action With G20 member countries representing at least three quarters of global GDP, energy consumption and carbon emissions, they are in the position to offer a clear signal to the world that they are successfully...

Idea of the Day: A Green Economic Recovery Program to Strengthen the U.S. Economy
September 9, 2008 For the past year, the U.S. economy has suffered through a serious economic slowdown caused by the collapse of the housing market bubble, the destabilizing effects of the housing implosion on financial...

President Obama’s Green Recovery Plan and the Real Spanish Experience
May 14, 2009 Spanish Thought Leaders Debunk Unfounded Green Jobs Report

Green Investments and Jobs: A Response to the Heritage Foundation
November 7, 2008 In a “WebMemo” published on November 5 by the Heritage Foundation, Dr. Donald Kreutzer claims that policy initiatives to advance a green investment agenda necessarily hurt economic growth and... by Robert Pollin

Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Jobs
November 7, 2008 A Response to the Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal

Green Recovery
September 9, 2008 A New Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy by John Podesta

A Green Prosperity Path
November 12, 2008 The economic news keeps getting worse. The unemployment rate jumped to 6.5 percent in October from 6.1 percent in September, hitting its highest level since March 1994. The 240,000 jobs lost last month... by Bracken Hendricks, Daniel J. Weiss, Benjamin Goldstein

Green Jobs 101
December 11, 2008 Video: Bracken Hendricks on Green Jobs Interactive: Green Jobs in Action Report: Green Recovery Download this fact sheet (pdf) What is a green job? Green jobs are living-wage, career-track jobs that contribute...

Seven Questions About Green Jobs
April 22, 2009 Why the Most Productive Jobs of the Future Will Be Green Jobs by Bracken Hendricks, Andrew Light, Benjamin Goldstein

A Green Jobs Primer: Job Creation in a Clean Energy Economy
April 6, 2009 Job Creation in a Clean Energy Economy by Bracken Hendricks, Andrew Light, Benjamin Goldstein

It’s Easy Being Green: The Paper Elephant
November 12, 2008 Read more articles from the "It's Easy Being Green" series "Think of the hundreds of times a day we touch paper — newspapers, cereal boxes, toilet paper, water bottle labels, parking...