MultiMedia Center 6/24 - "Job Growth Exploding in Renewable Energy". Kil Huh of the Pew Charitable Trusts explains their latest report, which says job growth in renewable energy grew 2 ½ times faster than the U.S. economy between 1998 and 2007. What kind of jobs? How can someone get into the field? Huh discusses all this and more with Green Energy Brief’s Paul Brandus. Click here to listen. 6/4 - Calvert Investment’s Paul Hilton, director of advanced equities research. Calvert, a Washington area firm that focuses on social, governance and environmental investing, has some $13 billion in assets under management. Hilton discusses the outlook for renewable energy investing, the Waxman-Markey bill, renewable energy standards, oil prices and more. Click here to listen. 6/1 - Some folks down in Texas may be skeptical of climate change, but support renewable energy because it puts bucks in their pockets. Like Mike Baca, a rancher in Amarillo, who is raking it in, thanks to wind turbines on his land. Check out this BBC report... 5/20 - Scottish officials say the 140-turbine Whitelee farm (pictured) – where turbine stands some 330 feet tall - will add another 36 turbines, enabling the whole farm to generate some 452 MW, which is enough to power 250,000 homes in nearby Glasgow. Here’s a report from the BBC… 5/14 - California company Better Place wants to build a nationwide infrastructure for electric cars. It's showing how easily Americans can change batteries at a “swapping station.” The YouTube video shows how it works; the company claims a car can pull in, get a fresh battery and be back on the road in under a minute and a half – quicker than filling a gas tank... 5/13 - Podcast: Former CIA DIRECTOR JIM WOOLSEY is focused on kicking America’s oil habit. What’s the best way? By shifting our transportation network from one that is oil-based to one that is electricity –based. He also talks about ethanol – one type is better than another, he thinks – whether we should raise gas taxes and cap-and-trade. Next week, we’ll get his views on electric cars, batteries and whether the United States can compete effectively with China. Click here to listen…we’re also on iTunes and PRX.org as “Green Energy Brief.” 5/13 - Former President Jimmy Carter warned Congress that America’s status as a world leader is in jeopardy and could depend on whether it can achieve energy independence. “Nothing could be more important than this question of energy,” he says. Carter – who in 1977 called the fight for energy independence “the moral equivalent of war” – said the United States is vulnerable to foreign blackmail and added "Whether we admit it or not, we are very careful not to aggravate our major oil suppliers." Watch this highlight from the Carter’s congressional testimony… 5/8 - The American Wind Energy Association’s annual convention in Chicago is a wrap; some 20,000 people and 1,200 exhibitors crammed into Chicago’s McCormick Center for a week of deal making and partying. At the top of the industry’s agenda: getting Congress to pass Renewable Energy Standards – or RES. Energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens was honored as the wind industry “person of the year.” Check out the AWEA’s video summing up the week… Older MultiMedia postings are here..... Back to the Front Page.....