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What Going Green and Kennedy’s Promise of Landing on the Moon Have in Common

By TimTakechi on November 27, 2009 Comments Off on What Going Green and Kennedy’s Promise of Landing on the Moon Have in Common Copenhagen, environmental, environmental reformation, globalization, Green Revolution, John F. Kennedy, kyoto protocol, Moon landing, Obama, race to the moon, Soviet Union, space race, Sputnik, Tim Takechi

Just as President John F. Kennedy inspired America to race to the moon, the need to go green is a call to action that shares similarities. Both are challenges for America to step up to the plate in the area of scientific progress. Just as the Soviet Union challenged U.S. technological power with the launch of Sputnik in 1957, nations around the world today are advancing in the environmental sciences like never before. If America is to remain economically and socially strong in this era of globalization, we must join in this cause or risk losing the prestige that we have so long enjoyed.

Energy Sec. Chu Calls for Cleantech Revolution To Create Green Jobs, Rebuild Our Economy, and Save The Environment

By Tracey de Morsella on August 18, 2009 5 Comments a second industrial revolution, Antonio Villaraigosa; United Nations Foundation, Bill Clinton; Hilda Solis; Cathy Zoi, building retrofits, capitalism, carbon dioxide, Center for American Progress Action Fund, China, clean energy economy, clean energy revolution, construction workers, energy efficiency, energy reform, Energy Secretary Chu, foreign oil, fossil fuel, global warming, green jobs, Green Revolution, greenhouse gas emissions, Harry Reid, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, John Podesta, Laborers' International Union of North America, Las Vegas, Maria Cantwell, National Clean Energy, natural gas, Nevada, NV, Obama, renewable energy, shale gas, smart grid, solar power, T. Boone Pickens, Terry O'Sullivan, Tim Wirth, van jones, Vice President Al Gore, voltage transmission, Waxman-Markey, Wesley, White House Council on Environmental Quality, William J. Clinton Foundation, wind

Last week, at the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 in Las Vegas, Energy Secretary Chu called for a revolution, “a second industrial revolution.” The first industrial revolution came with a “carbon dioxide cost” but “in the next industrial revolution, we must develop technologies that will enable us to get the energy the world needs to grow and prosper but “essentially reducing and eliminating the carbon dioxide,” he said. Chu said the United States has the greatest research and development centers in the world in universities, national labs and the private sector. “Once we get this great invention machine geared and going we’d be invincible. But the only trouble is, let’s get it going.”