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Posts Tagged ‘Rising Sun Energy Center’

Women Build graduates its first all-female class in the construction trades

By Katherine Wei | May 11, 2016
The first all-women's Green Energy Training Services (GETS) pre-apprenticeship cohort pose with their certificates on the day of their graduation. Photo courtesy of Rising Sun Energy Center.

The majority of people in the room seemed to be women, and many wore proud smiles on their faces. They were attending the graduation ceremony of the first all-female Green Energy Training Services (GETS) pre-apprenticeship cohort held by Berkeley non-profit organization Rising Sun Energy Center, and the room at John F. Kennedy University’s Berkeley campus was…

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With increased demand for solar power, green job opportunities return

By Fabian Graber | March 23, 2015 | 2
Volunteers with the non-profit Grid Alternatives install solar panels on a house in Atchison village, Richmond, in early March 2015

It is just shortly after noon on a Saturday, and the sun stands high over the historic Atchison Village in Richmond. Not a single cloud is in the sky. In its northwestern corner, a small crowd has gathered in front of one family home. The housing complex was originally built during World War II to…

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Environmental inequalities are hot topic at Richmond sustainability conference

By Wendi Jonassen | November 7, 2011 | 1

When Luz Gomez, the deputy chief of staff for County Supervisor John Gioia, tried to establish a small deli on a corner in North Richmond, even with help from the County, had to overcome more zoning code, development agency and operator obstacles then she anticipated. Though she says that she feels close to opening the…

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Richmond leads the Bay Area in solar power wattage per capita

By Veronica Moscoso | July 23, 2010 | 6

Richmond was recently awarded for installing in 2009 more solar watts per capita than any other large city in California.

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