GreenJobsMemphis Blog is Moving to The Examiner

Dear Friends,

Please update your bookmarks. As of Monday, August 17, GreenJobsMemphis is merging with the Memphis Green Scene Examiner column.

http://www.examiner.com/x-13209-Memphis-Green-Scene-examiner

News updates, community events and interviews will be posted on the Examiner site.

You can follow the Examiner column the same way you follow(ed) GreenJobsMemphis.

Thanks for your support!

News Updates for Friday, August 14

• Van Jones defines green jobs
  Mother Nature Network
  In a Washington Post video interview, Jones has defined green jobs as "good jobs that are good for the environment." This seems like a simple question but ...
• $550k Grant Will Promote New Green Jobs
  LBPOST.com
  The grant is from the Walmart Foundation's Green Jobs Training Initiative. Six such grants were presented to the US Conference of Mayors, which then decided ...

• Economist

  Clean energy in the Midwest
  Economist
  The climate bill offers two big opportunities, to reduce global warming and boost the green economy in the process. And nowhere are green jobs more loudly ...
• CareerBuilder solves chaos of finding a green job, finally
  Tainted Green
  by Ryan Roff 5 min 17 sec ago With the popularity of green job searches surging, CareerBuilder is finally making a move to offer a resource to hook up ...

• Los Angeles Metblogs - http://la.metblogs.com/

  Clean Energy & Green Technology Floundering Towards A Green ... By Joe Walsh These are the days for clean tech observers and professionals. Our most innovative companies are finally bringing game-changing technologies to market and into.

• Working together on biomass
  The Union of Grass Valley
  I have the pleasure of facilitating the North Sierra Biomass Utilization Task Force. On this task force, we have representatives from many stakeholder ...

New Crops Field Day: Tuesday, August 18

Memphis Bioworks Foundation and BioDimensions, Inc will be hosting a “New Crops Field Day” at the Agricenter International in Memphis, TN on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 beginning at 8:30am. Please see attached invitation for more details.

Presenter topics will include switchgrass, UT pilot biorefinery update, canola opportunities, sweet sorghum and others.

Demonstration crops include:

Castor, pearl millet, sunflowers, sweet sorghum, biomass sorghum, and switchgrass.

Please forward this invitation or invite anyone you think may be interested.

If you have any questions or need more information, please feel free to contact us: (hspain@biodimensions.net)

Save the Date: Tuesday, August 25th at BRIDGES

Slate answers pressing green questions

Garden-Variety Activism

Can I plant some vegetables in the vacant lot nearby?

By Sandy StonesiferPosted Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009, at 9:26 AM ET

There's a vacant lot near my home that's been sitting empty for a long time. I'm interested in trying to start a community/co-op garden. It would be an attractive place instead of an empty lot. We could possibly get some local businesses to donate equipment and topsoil. People could grow their own organics and, if they sell some, put a percentage of the money back into the co-op. People without a cash investment can contribute their time instead. The city could add this to one of its "green" spaces. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time to organize this, I'm relatively new to the community, and I grow nice houseplants but know almost zilch about farming.

Carbon for Clunkers

How much will the popular trade-in program really do for the environment?

By Nina Shen Rastogi

The $1 billion Cash for Clunkers program has been so popular that it ran out of funds a week after launching, and now the Senate is debating whether it deserves an additional $2 billion. But how does the environmental argument for scrapping all those usable, old cars stack up? After all, those new, energy-efficient cars aren't going to just drop out of the sky, fully assembled.

Hiatus over!

Dear Green Memphians,

I've been on a bit of a hiatus over the summer but am back in full swing now! Please let me know what ideas and information you want to see here at Green Jobs Memphis. We continue to post daily news updates about green happenings in the U.S. and the world.

In the next few weeks, we'll have several new reports on the local green economy for you to read and share. Also, the Memphis Green Scene Examiner column is continually updated with new stories about green whatnots in Memphis and the Mid-South.

Thanks,

Green Jobs Memphis and BioDimensions

Memphis Green Scene Examiner: New Post on Food, Inc (the movie)

Learn about the new Food, Inc. movie here: http://tiny.cc/GTUQ5