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Displaying What We Do: Energy & Environment
Blog Post | October 30, 2012 | Mary Cappabianca
Alexis Karolides, a principal at Rocky Mountain Institute, discussed the role natural gas should play in our energy future at the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival.Watch the full discussion "Exploring the...
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Event | November 28, 2012 |
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Manufacturing and Society in the 21st Century
The renaissance in U.S. energy production in recent years, especially in natural gas, provides a strong wind at the back of the U.S. manufacturing sector. Citigroup estimates that 1.1 million jobs...
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Blog Post | November 26, 2012 | Tom Duesterberg
The manufacturing sector has been leading the US economic recovery since the end of the Great Recession in 2009. One of the key drivers in the manufacturing recovery is the renaissance in domestic...
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Video | November 29, 2012
The renaissance in U.S. energy production in recent years, especially in natural gas, provides a strong wind at the back of the U.S. manufacturing sector. Citigroup estimates that 1.1 million jobs...
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Blog Post | November 29, 2012 | Mary Cappabianca
The US energy renaissance and related manufacturing job boom could be a solution for millions of unemployed Americans, according to a panel of experts gathered at the Aspen Institute yesterday. One...
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Blog Post | December 6, 2012 | Anonymous
If Lebanon hopes to leverage the true potential of the undiscovered natural gas reserves in its Eastern Mediterranean waters, then time is of the essence for it to settle the legal, political, and...
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Publication | December 11, 2012 | Ernest J. Moniz and Gernot Wagner
Energy and Environment Program
The 2012 Forum, “Electricity: Seeking Progress amid Uncertainty,” was chaired by Ernest J. Moniz, Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, and Director of the Energy Initiative at MIT. Topics...
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Blog Post | December 28, 2012 | Anonymous
In true Aspen fashion, I suggest a few readings on energy and the environment that may at first appear contradictory, but on reflection suggest some common ground. Bill McKibben's August 2012 Rolling...
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Blog Post | January 9, 2013 | Mary Cappabianca
2013 is the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation. Over the next few weeks, we will look at issues related to water, a valuable resource that connects us all.Today we start with a...
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