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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Maybe--But Not Sure What to Organize
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- I am a novice when it comes to alternative energy. I understand the concept but aside from drive a Prius, which I do not do, I am not sure how I can make a difference.
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- It's simplicity and scope.
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Have you joined Green Jobs Now! group yet?
http://push.pickensplan.com/group/greenjobsnowcom
Also If you know someone looking for a Green Job, they can upload their resume FREE at:
http://www.green-jobs-now.com
Thanks!
Melissa
coordinator@green-jobs-now.http://www.green-jobs-now.com
Tue Oct 7, 2008 8:03am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed7/idUSN2626572320081007
It's a bad idea to cut the energy plan. Job creation is the best thing for the economy. Why is Obama looking to cut the energy plan. There is plenty of other pork barrel programs that need to be cut. Not the energy plan!
Thank you for joining our Silicon Valley Pickens Group page. There is a lot of opportunity here in the valley to learn about this and we can all learn together.
Have a great day!
Dayna
I just wanted to take a second of your time to invite you to view, A Solar Solution!
www.powur.com/homeenergy1 - click View Our Mission and if interested click the back arrow to Become an Ecopreneur.
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Thank You For Your Time
(Please feel free to add me as a friend)
Please feel free to join our Silicon Valley Pickens Group page as we are trying to get people in our area together.
Have a great day!
Dayna
Thanks for joining the Pickens Plans community. We Need You!
Good News is Blowing Our Way:
* Claim: Barack Obama says his energy policies would create 5 million new "green-collar" jobs in the economy.
* Rocky Truth Patrol says:
* This is a maybe only because it's an economic estimate based on a job category that no one officially tracks - at least not yet. And depending on which economic models are used to make these estimates, Obama's forecast of 5 million green-collar jobs might actually be too low, some experts think!
Obama says his administration would invest $150 billion over 10 years in a "clean energy economy" and "help the private sector create 5 million new green jobs."
Obama takes his figures from two recent studies. The University of California at Berkeley said energy efficiency alone could create 5 million jobs nationwide in the next decade. Note that this study counts jobs created directly in this field, but also indirect jobs created by the demands of the new workers and "induced" jobs created by overall growth in the economy.
The University of Tennessee recently estimated that 5.1 million new jobs could be created by 2025 if the nation got a quarter of its energy from renewable sources. That job number also includes indirect jobs.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the nation should expect 15.6 million new jobs in the decade between 2006 and 2016. Adding 5 million "green" jobs would represent just a 3 percent boost in the total employment, which hovers at about 150 million.
The Apollo Alliance, a nonpartisan organization of business, labor, environmental and community leaders, has said they wouldn't count indirect jobs, as do the studies on which Obama relies. However, spokesman Keith Schneider said the alliance actually believes, based on analysis of these studies and others, that the 5 million figure might be too low!
"It's going to be more than that," Schneider said. "The demand for this sector of the economy way outpaces the capacity."
For example, Schneider said, wind energy - a big issue for Coloradans - is facing a capacity crunch because there is currently a three-year backlog for the plate steel needed to make the wind turbine blades. The industry needs people to make the steel, then the blades, then install them, then maintain them, he said. But federal policies - including a tax credit that has expired before and is about to expire again - have made business bumpy, he said.
"The Apollo Alliance's research on the jobs question shows us clearly that if the United States pursues a new national economic development strategy to replace fossil fuels with clean sources of energy and the tools to use them, the economy will generate 5 million new jobs, and likely much more than that," Schneider said.
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