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Entries from September 2008

Clean Energy Economy. Green Jobs. Now.

Posted by Jake · September 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments

From Wall St. to the Clinton Global Initiative to the UN Summit, I’ve watched with all of you this week as unprecedented economic and political events unfold in the United States and around the world.
Thankfully, in the midst of these very uncertain times, something beautiful is happening tomorrow. Action. And I don’t mean another bailout [...]

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Category: Action Items · Clean Energy · awareness raising · green jobs

Gore Calls for Climate Civil Disobedience at Clinton Global Initiative

Posted by Jake · September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

(I first posted this on It’s Getting Hot in Here and Power Vote while at Clinton Global Initiative in New York.
At today’s Clinton Global Initiative, Al Gore said for the first time in public that we are at a point in our world’s history, and in need of such immediate action, that if you are [...]

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Category: Action Items · Clean Energy · Government · climate

Clean Energy in the Blood

Posted by Jake · September 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

As many of you know… and as many of you don’t know… I recently took up work in the clean energy field as the Internet Director/Chief Technology Officer/Strategic Communications guy of the Energy Action Coalition.
James Hansen has testified that Energy Action is one of the only environmentally or energy-focused organizations truly doing what needs to [...]

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Category: Innovation · Personal · Small/Medium Enterprise · Technology
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So Much Done. So Little Said…

Posted by Jake · September 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments

I’ve been busy.
(even as I write it, I wonder why it’s necessary to put it out there… we are strange creatures to need to say such things for validation! ;-))
Since my last post here on July 28, I’ve changed jobs, moved my house, traveled extensively (including 9 days in Denver for a Democratic National Convention [...]

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