In a promising development for aspiring clean energy scientists, engineers, and technicians, the Obama administration’s 2011 budget request includes a proposal for the nation’s first comprehensive federal education initiative focused on the clean energy sector, called RE-ENERGYSE (Regaining our Energy Science and Engineering Edge).
The initiative was originally proposed by President Obama in his April 2009 [...]
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Asian nations are set to dominate the clean energy industry without a major energy competitiveness project by the U.S. government.
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Posted in Barack Obama, China, Clean Energy, Congress, Education, Energy, Global Warming, Innovation & Technology, National Energy Education Act, Policy, Technology & Innovation Policy, tagged Clean Energy, Clean Energy Technology, Education, Energy, innovation, National Energy Education Act, Obama, RE-ENERGYSE on August 3, 2009 | 21 Comments »
Lying in the rejected scrap heap created by the Senate’s passage of the Energy and Water Appropriations Bill (H.R. 3183) is RE-ENERGYSE, President Obama’s $115 million energy education program that he proposed last April.
Designed to usher in a new generation of young clean energy innovators by improving education in math and science, RE-ENERGYSE (REgaining our [...]
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Posted in Barack Obama, Clean Energy, Climate Policy, Congress, Economy, Education, Energy, Innovation & Technology, Media, National Energy Education Act, Policy, Technology & Innovation Policy on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Will America lose the clean-energy race?”
That’s the question Breakthrough Institute’s Teryn Norris and Jesse Jenkins raise in an op ed featured in today’s San Francisco Chronicle.
You can also read an extended version at the Huffington Post.
With China, South Korea and Japan all moving aggressively to corner the burgeoning global clean energy market, Asian competitors may [...]
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Posted in Barack Obama, Campus, Clean Energy, Congress, Economy, Education, Energy, Innovation & Technology, National Energy Education Act, Policy, Technology & Innovation Policy on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Originally posted at SolveClimate.com
Forty years ago this week, the Apollo 11 mission touched down on the surface of the moon, and the U.S. won the space race. As we celebrate this historic moment, we are reminded that today America faces a new global competition that will have far greater implications for the future of [...]
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Posted in Barack Obama, Campus, Clean Energy, Congress, Economy, Education, Energy, Global Warming, Innovation & Technology, National Energy Education Act, Policy, Technology & Innovation Policy on July 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Over 100 universities, student groups, and professional associations signed a letter drafted by the Breakthrough Institute that was delivered Tuesday to the U.S. Senate calling for full funding of President Obama’s RE-ENERGYSE energy education initiative, Andy Revkin reports today at the NY Times’ Dot Earth.
RE-ENERGYSE, a program aimed at ‘REgaining our ENERGY Science and Engineering Edge’, was given $7 [...]
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Posted in Barack Obama, Campus, Clean Energy, Congress, Education, Energy, Global Warming, Innovation & Technology, Media, National Energy Education Act, Policy, Technology & Innovation Policy on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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July 22, 2009
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A group of over 100 universities, professional associations, and student groups joined the Breakthrough Institute yesterday in submitting a letter urging the U.S. Senate to fully support the Obama administration’s national energy education initiative. The initiative, named “RE-ENERGYSE” (REgaining [...]
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By now, we know that we’re not living in our grandparents’, or even our parents’, economy. As patterns of organization and production shift, a new kind of economy increasingly calls for a new kind of worker. On its web site, the U.S. Department of Education quotes a 2006 report by the New Commission on the [...]
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