Creating New Jobs, Cutting Carbon Emissions, and Reducing Oil Imports by Investing in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

• Main Author: Lester R. Brown
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Earth Policy Institute 2008
• Subjects: Energy and Environment; Government Reform; Transportation; Detroit; Greenland; Pacific; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://issuelab.org/permalink/resource/1473

At a time when major U.S. companies are announcing job layoffs almost daily, the renewable energy industry is hiring new workers every day to build wind farms, install rooftop solar arrays, and build solar thermal and geothermal power plants. The output of industrial firms that manufacture the equip...