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Value-Added Production
Posts in this category are about Value-Added Production. Resource-dependent communities have historically captured little of the enormous wealth that has flowed through them. They have simply extracted raw materials, creating relatively few jobs while remaining at the mercy of external market forces and owners. Most of the economic value has been generated elsewhere.
In contrast, Local Economies are able to turn raw resources, both local and imported, into a wide range of products and services. Such economies can effectively harness skilled labor and specialized equipment to add many layers of value to every tree, fish, mineral, or crop. They provide more economic activity – and therefore more jobs – per unit of resources, decreasing pressure on Natural Capital and enhancing Social Equity.
(Adapted from ConservationEconomy.net)
Pairing Oil Recovery With Carbon Capture a Win-Win for U.S. -- Report
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USDA Guarantees an $80 Million Loan to a Georgia Biorefinery
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USA to Get 16 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy from the Recovery Act

By the end of last year, nine months after passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), $263 billion had been disbursed of the $787 billion available.
While Fox News disagrees, independent economists do agree that 1.5 million to 2 million people are now working as a result of stimulus funds disbursed to businesses and city, county and state governments so far, but the bulk of ARRA funds will be disbursed in 2010.
To grow the clean energy economy – $90 billion was set aside, with one third being disbursed by the end of 2009, and of that amount, $60 billion is in direct spending and $29.5 billion is tax incentives to build renewable energy. How that is allocated is in this graph:
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