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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:
- Nothing formally… I grew up in the high dessert of Southern California with lots of animals and land. Growing our own food and living off the land was a way of life. No T.V. or phone and my mother was adamant about using renewable resources for everyday living. Splitting firewood, hauling water from the creek, and using the good ol’ sun to wake-up and work. Sun went down, so did we. I moved to the big city (population 40,000) when I was fourteen and I’ve been concerned by so much waste ever since.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- Taking control of our future. I feel that the folks before us have made the decisions of today and we need to right those not only for ourselves but also for the future US population.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I was prior military and I have organized people for many reasons throughout my life. I have a knack for getting the word out and getting people fired-up about a cause. Whether it’s the Red Cross Campaign or a local cause I can jump right in and get people talking and motivated to act. I’m on a ton of committees through my children’s school and in my private life. Right now I am preparing to move from Hawaii to Northern California so I’ll see how much time I have to get things rolling. I am interested to learn more and stop the oil madness. I'll probably start with a house party...
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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 shaky 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.
I saw your post on Mauibrad. Have you received the information you need for U of H Energy Test Lab? If you need more information please let me know.
Aloha,
Bill
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Be well,
Bruce