Business and government must work together to provide not only green manufacturing jobs, but the requisite skills to perform those jobs.
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Nanotech also allows for "green manufacturing"--manufacturing processes that can take place at ordinary temperatures, reducing energy costs, while the use of non-toxic catalysts minimize pollution and bottom-up construction leaves no wasted material behind.
The investment led to the creation of Steiner Studios, a 15-acre film production facility that includes five soundstages and office and support space, hundreds of thousands of square feet of new light-manufacturing space, the planned 220, 000-square-foot green manufacturing center, and the planned redevelopment of Admiral's Row into a supermarket and retail center.
The production of our surfaces has diverted millions of tons of glass from the waste stream, and has created green collar jobs in the manufacturing sector that pay a living wage.
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Shutting off and on several times a day is a good way to quickly wear out your machine --and considering the nasty, ecologically unfriendly PC manufacturing process, the green thing to do is keep the one you have as long as possible.
Some green tech ideas, such as the manufacturing of solar cells or lithium-ion batteries, take years to move research out of the labs and into the factories.
The group will also support growing businesses to achieve their goals and will also work to establish new businesses in manufacturing, advanced technologies and the green economy.
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Direct green lasers are capable of producing green light natively, greatly simplifying laser design and manufacturing processes.
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Now the company needs to make the difficult transition from pilot production to higher-volume manufacturing, a step where a number of green-tech upstarts have stumbled.
But the capacity for a state like Pennsylvania to make enormous progress on advanced manufacturing around infrastructure on the one hand and green technology on the other are still enormous.
Indeed, California's new green requirements, compared with places like Texas or China where manufacturing has other advantages, would further undermine an already struggling sector.
Competitors and environmentalists, however, say Apple's green efforts have less to do with cleaning up its products and manufacturing and more to do with marketing.
IBISWorld indicates that the surge of new government regulations will galvanize green jobs in the fields of environmental preservation, sustainable building material manufacturing and remediation and environmental cleanup services industries.
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Moreover, the creators have already found a Minnesota-based firm willing to mass produce the nanobandages should they receive the green light, but the professors are hoping to build the new manufacturing plant in Ohio if at all possible, and have products on retail shelves "by 2008" at the latest.
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Green jobs, for the most part, will come from growth in construction, manufacturing and warehousing industries.
The hope that the quest for green solutions will attract new and youthful talent, once lured by financial services, to manufacturing is a fair one.
Over the same period, green technology exports increased by 77% compared to 30% for welfare technology and -12% for manufacturing.
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In the governor's dreams, green jobs will replace all of the "tangible jobs" that the state's losing in agriculture, manufacturing, warehousing and construction.
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Firms often subcontracted manufacturing to different factories and achieved neither economies of scale nor the standardization necessary to mass-produce green homes, according to Allison Arieff, a former editor in chief of Dwell magazine and an influential figure in the modern prefab movement.
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