Harvesting Clean Energy Hot Topic Blogs

• From Dream to Reality – Montana’s First Biofuels Community College Program
  By Kristin Buck, WIRED Grant Project Director, Miles Community College, Miles City, Montana. Interested in learning more about biofuels? This two year program gives you everything you need to know to work in this fast growing field or start your own business.
  
  
• Green Jobs and Education: Climbing to the Top with Wind Energy
  By Dr. Susan J. Wolff, Chief Academic Officer, Columbia Gorge Community College. Learn the skills you need to operate wind turbines and work close to home or all around the world.
  
  
  
• Portland Community College Adds Renewable Energy Systems Training
  By Sanda Williams, Instructor and Department Chair of Electronic Engineering Technology. Responding to the changing winds of the renewable energy industry, a new two year program emerges.
  
  
  
• Workforce Development for the New Green Economy
  By Barbara Hins-Turner, Executive Director, Center of Excellence for Energy Technology, Centralia College. Thinking about a career in clean renewable energy? Visit the Center of Excellence for Energy Technology the hub of Pacific Northwest’s renewable energy and green economy.
  
  
  
• MSU picked as home for Wind Applications Center
  By Michael Becker, MSU News Service. Montana is one of the first six states in the country to receive federal funding for a wind applications center.
  
  
  
• Boise State Brings Wind Power to Rural Schools
  By Zach Hagadone, Red Orbit. Idaho is the other state in the country to receive federal funding for a wind applications center.
  
  
  
• Laborers’ Union is Training and Planning for Green Jobs
  By Pat Smutz, Communications Director, Laborers Northwest Cooperation Fund and Ed Hensley, Construction Market Representative, Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust. Construction work isn’t what it used to be. Learn how to build sustainably and where to receive training.
  
  
  

• Where are the Green Jobs in Washington?
  By Alan Hardcastle, Washington State University Extension Energy Program. How will Washington grew its green economy? Where will the jobs be? These questions and more are being answered through a statewide survey.
  
  
  
• Washington’s Push for Green Jobs
  By Jessica Finn Coven, Climate Solutions. Washington hopes to create 25,000 good family wage green collar jobs by 2020.
  
  
  
• Area Couple Wins Big for Inventing Personal Wind Turbine
  By Richard Ecke, Great Falls Tribune. Logan and Jenni Bryce of the Belt-Highwood area are big fans of alternative energy, including wind and solar power. This month, the Bryces shared a $50,000 third prize provided by ConocoPhillips Energy with two Washington state engineers for developing the Micro Wind Distributive Power Generation Turbine, a small turbine that harvests power from wind at speeds of no more than 12 miles per hour.