CGGC News
Hybrid Trucks: Strategic Win for Economy and Environment
June 11, 2009 - A high-tech truck convoy pulled up at Capitol Hill to showcase the emergence of fuel-and-emissions-saving hybrid technology for the nation’s biggest vehicles. The event, organized by clean transportation group CALSTART, unveiled a new CGGC study that highlights jobs created in truck manufacturing as well as other areas crucial to building the green economy: advanced energy storage, power electronics and control systems.
More How Green is the Economic Forecast?
February 18, 2009 - North Carolina Public Radio –WUNC “State of Things” interview. Frank Stasio talks about the future of the green economy with Gary Gereffi and Marcy Lowe, of the Duke Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness; Steve Kalland, director of the North Carolina Solar Center at North Carolina State University; and Kalia Lydgate, co-founder of the Massachusetts Green Job Coalition.
WUNC Radio Interview Growing a Green Economy: Green Tech Can Restore American Manufacturing
February 10, 2009 - An article in Duke Research (also featured on Duke Today) about CGGC’s research on progressive technologies that can be the source of “green-collar” jobs to revitalize U.S.-based manufacturing. This article highlights the significance of value chain analysis for studying the full range of activities that take place to bring a product from its conception to its end use.
More
chapters now available! 
