Environment Texas held a press conference today in front of the Mirabeau B. Sales Center at the corner of Waugh and Hyde Park to, excuse the pun, shed light on the positives of solar energy, specifically in terms of promoting "green" collar job growth in the solar power industry and reducing energy costs in Texas.
"Texas is somewhat behind, quite frankly," said Ralph Parrott, founder and owner of Alternative Power Solutions in Houston. He admits that Texas needs to give the same level of ince
Photo by AfroswedeRemember that Houston energy-industry buffer that some economists were talking about? The one that would protect us, at least for a while, from the free-falling economic recession the US (and most of the world) now finds itself in?
Well, it's gone. The unemployment rate is rising, the number of new jobs created is nearing a standstill, and overall the city is in the worst economic shape it's been since the summer of 2004. That was a bad summer; we spent most of our time tryi
