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Archives for December 2010

Fresh Talent Sought for ‘Smart Grid’

UTILITIES SEEK FRESH TALENT FOR SMART GRIDS This story by Tom Zeller Jr. appeared Dec. 30, 2010 in the New York Times. GRANVILLE, Ohio — Speaking to a classroom of seventh and eighth graders at the middle school here, Lisa Magnuson shared a popular dictum from the power industry: if Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor… [Read More]

Family Tree Members at Work

Local 1245 Line Clearance Tree Trimmers Cody Spain and Cory Roades were working off Iversen Road in Gualala, Ca. recently when Dave Torres snapped these photos and made them available to the union. In the yellow hardhat is Cody Spain, a two-year member working here on a redwood tree. In the orange hardhat is Cory… [Read More]

Climate Reckoning: Carbon Hits 390

A SCIENTIST, HIS WORK AND A CLIMATE RECKONING This story by Justin Gillis appeared Dec. 21, 2010 in the New York Times MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, Hawaii — Two gray machines sit inside a pair of utilitarian buildings here, sniffing the fresh breezes that blow across thousands of miles of ocean. They make no noise. But once… [Read More]