The document summarizes green industry news and career opportunities. It discusses how green buildings have higher occupancy rates and lower operating costs than traditional buildings. It also outlines various state grants for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The document promotes careers in green building and renewable energy and advertises online courses from Allied Schools related to solar power, green building, and energy.

1. October.09
Renewable Industry Review
Insider’s peek at green jobs, events and news you can use
Emerging Technology News from Allied Schools
Is a Career in Green Building Right for You?
Interested in specializing or launch- existing buildings. The CoStar Group • Attract and retain quality tenants.
ing a career in green building? With found that LEED-certified buildings Improved indoor air quality in green
advantages like money-saved from occupancy rate are 92 percent versus buildings result in reduced absentee-
reduced energy use, green building 87 percent for traditional buildings. ism, and possibly higher productivity
is in demand. Take a look at these that could increase
green building facts: • Lower operating Green buildings sales. Green buildings
costs by reducing generate an average also make it possible
• Green buildings generate an aver- waste output and increase of 7.5% in to have government
age increase of 7.5 percent in a energy consumption. a building’s value tenants.
building’s value and a 6.6 percent The Environmental
improvement in return on investment, Protection Agency • Better insurance
while decreasing operating costs by 8 found that green risk. Green buildings
to 9 percent, according to McGraw- buildings with a recycling focus can suffer fewer losses and are safer to
Hill Construction. reduce waste output by 90 percent insure because of the commissioning
and use 30 percent less energy, which process required to become LEED
• Higher revenue due to higher rents equates to a five percent increase in certified.
and occupancy rates. Vacancy rates net operating income.
of green buildings are lower than Source: Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company
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2. 9 States Awarded “Green” Money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Under DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Iowa - $9,593,500 awarded renewable energy projects.
Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Improve energy efficiency and promote the
program, these states will implement use of renewable energy across the state’s Tennessee - $13,818,200 awarded
programs that lower energy use and create economic sectors. Enhance energy efficiency and promote the
green jobs locally: use of renewable energy across the state’s
Indiana - $14,052,400 awarded economic sectors.
Delaware - $9,593,500 awarded Help the state’s local communities, small
Reduce fossil fuel emissions, decrease businesses, non-profits, and others reduce Vermont - $9,593,500 awarded
overall energy use, and improve energy their energy consumption. Enhance energy efficiency and expand the
efficiency statewide. use of renewable energy at the state and
Massachusetts - $14,752,100 awarded local level.
Hawaii - $9,593,500 awarded Advance efficiency and conservation goals at
Enhance energy efficiency in the buildings the community level. Virginia - $16,145,300 awarded
sector and deploy renewable energy Improve energy efficiency and promote the
technologies in state buildings. Oklahoma - $9,593,300 awarded use of renewable energy across the state’s
Support various energy efficiency and public and private sectors. Source: RealEstateRama
Green Recovery
Program Aims to
Create More Jobs
In September 2009, the Political Econo-
my Research Institute at the University Careers in
of Massachusetts, Ammherst released
a new report titled Green Recovery: A Renewable
Program to Create Good Jobs and Start
Building a Low-Carbon Economy. The
main focus of the report was a short-term
Energy
clean energy and jobs program support-
ed by a green stimulus package.
The short-term $100 billion economic
recovery package would:
• Create nearly four times more
total jobs than spending the same
amount of money within the oil
industry, and 300,000 more jobs
than a similar amount of spending CA Solar Panel Factory Creating Jobs with
directed toward household con-
sumption.
Government Loan Guarantee
A $535 million federal loan Solyndra’s new plant, being by satellite to the ground-
• Create roughly triple the number guarantee granted to California built near an existing plant, is breaking ceremony, saying
of good jobs - paying at least $16 solar-panel maker Solyndra Inc. designed to produce 500 mega- Solyndra’s manufacturing jobs
dollars an hour - as spending the
is part of a larger government watts worth of solar panels a “won’t be exported.”
same amount of money within the oil
industry. effort that, according to U.S. year, enough to power about
Secretary Steven Chu, will spur 24,000 homes. In Solyndra Chief
Factory expected to
• Reduce the unemployment rate creation of jobs this year and addition to new Executive
create up to 3,000
to 4.4 percent from 5.7 percent next. construction and Chris Gronet
(calculated within the framework of
construction jobs and
manufacturing said the new
U.S. labor market conditions in July 1,000 long-term jobs.
“The jobs will keep coming,” jobs, Solyndra’s plant will allow
2008).
Chu said, speaking at a con- factory and oth- the company
• Bolster employment especially in struction site southeast of San ers like it will help create other to fill customer orders for more
construction and manufacturing. Francisco, where Solyndra Inc. jobs, such as solar-panel instal- than $2 billion of panels, “while
Construction employment has fallen broke ground on a solar-panel lation jobs, Chu said making a positive impact on
from 8 million to 7.2 million jobs factory expected to create up the world’s energy and environ-
over the past two years due to the
to 3,000 construction jobs and Vice President Joseph Biden mental needs.”
housing bubble collapse. The Green
Recovery program can, at the least, 1,000 long-term jobs. concurred, in remarks beamed Source: www.nasdaq.com
bring back these lost 800,000 con-
struction jobs.

3. historiCal BoB’s Big Boy
goes solar
Companies Nationwide
Implement Sustainable
Practices
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BoB’s Big Boy of BurBank, the oldest remaining BoB’s restaurant in the u.s., has a new
26 kw Canadian solar photovoltaiC panel system. Commemorating 60 years of operation
By going “green,” the historiC restaurant hosted an event to dediCate the new system.
Boston red Sox (Boston) Canadian Solar Inc. Boy 6000US and a Sunny of 78 trees planted and
A solar powered trash (“Canadian Solar”) Boy 3000US. Energy carbon sequestered for the
(NASDAQ: CSIQ), generation is monitored by life of those trees
compactor system has been
HelioPower and Bob’s Big an SMA Sunny WebBox
implemented throughout Boy of Burbank were joined and graphically displayed • Other environmental
Fenway Park. by Bill Nye, Burbank Mayor through the SMA Sunny technologies applied at
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and other local dignitaries. Portal system. Bob’s this year include
The solar power system is The Bob’s solar power recycling and energy
installed on the large steel system will produce 39 efficient lighting
carport structure and a flat MWh (mega watt hours)
commercial roof above the of electricity a year. This “We’ve brought Bob into the
neighboring Starbucks. It is enough green energy 21st century,” said owner
moscone center (San Francisco) was designed and installed to provide the following Philip MacDonald. “Solar
by HelioPower. benefits: technology is a viable
About 2 million pounds of waste has option for powering retail
been diverted annually, with 20% of The restaurant is now • Offset the electrical buildings. Bob is setting an
that total as donations to local generating a portion of its demand of about seven example for the community
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non-profits. own electricity from a solar homes and our fans worldwide
power system consisting by employing solar power
of 132 Canadian Solar • The elimination of CO2 to generate a portion of
CS6P 200 Modules and offsets 57,000 miles driven the electricity used by the
two SMA inverters, a Sunny per year and the equivalent restaurant.”
Sandstone amphitheater
(Bonner Springs, Kansas)
The outdoor amphitheater is
offsetting energy use with
Solar road Panels - is this the Way of the Future?
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several ones wind turbines.
The U.S. Department of Transportation The solar road technology will:
awarded Solar Roadways™ a
$100,000 research contract on August • Produce clean electricity
rose Quarter (Portland) 25, 2009 to develop a prototype for the • Replace power transmission and
Partnered with Pacific Power first Solar Road Panel. information infrastructure
and the Blue Sky Program to • Alleviate the need for plowing
purchase 100% renewable Solar Road Panels include structurally- • Light up to provide navigational
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energy. engineered solar panels that can be and safety information
driven upon. The goal is to replace
all current petroleum-based asphalt It is estimated that is will take roughly
roads, parking lots, and driveways five billion 12’ by 12’ Solar Road
Delaware north companies with Solar Road Panels that collect Panels to cover the asphalt surfaces
(Buffalo, new York) and store solar energy to be used by in the U.S. alone, providing more than
This hospitality management homes and businesses. three times the electricity that has col-
and food services company lectively ever been used in the nation.
launched GreenPath, a program Source:solarroadways.com
that includes employment
training and environmental
management programs.
Source: Venues Today Magazine

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