One of the things that the Green Jobs Bill (passed this summer) did was to create a new quasi-public entity. The Clean Energy Technology Center is designed to attract and create green industries, which includes seeding the required labor pipeline. The Center will fund several things:
- workforce development focused on green jobs (including $1 million for the Pathways Out of Poverty grants due January 29, 2009, and another $1 million for other workforce development training with an RFR release due out in late January or February);
- research and development on new clean energy technologies as well as on the state of the emerging clean energy field to understand demand for labor and other resources; and
- bright entrepreneurs and innovators with clean energy products to come to market.
The group will be overseen by a board chaired by Ian Bowles, Secretary of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. MWA has a mandated seat on the Board of this newly forming organization with the function of keeping the talents and needs of underserved communities included in discussions about green workforce development. Help us out by sharing your stories about folks ready and waiting for green job training. We’ll keep you updated on progress as the organization develops!
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A statistic that I recently
A statistic that I recently read, (Plan B 4.0) states that a single windmill on a good site can pay the land owner $2,000 to $3,000 / year and supply about $300,000 worth of electricity. Money out of the sky and staying in America if sited here.
Alaska, with its huge oil deposits, taxed , I know, dirty word, the oil industry enough to be able to pay each Alaska citizen about $1,000 cash per year with NO state tax. Money out of the ground. And huge profits were still made. And made republicans out of most I might add.
I would like to propose that a modiste fee be placed on carbon production, which we tax payers will be charged to mitigate at any rate (or if you like profits on the “money out of the sky), and be reapplied to the well being of the American people directly. Universal health care comes to mind. The nation will not be severed well if huge profits are just used to make a few billionaires that hire lawyers to hide gobs of money in foreign hidden accounts. Anyway as Alaska shows there is still lots of money left over for that purpose if need be.
In short it would sure be nice to see “Capitalism” work for the betterment of humanity as a whole and not just to get a few obnoxiously rich on the backs of the masses. Even if the few can glide around on solar powered mega-yachts.
thanks,
Debra from Best Carpet Cleaner Machine
A couple of ideas : *
A couple of ideas :
* assembly of solar panels from silicon cells and wires. The parts are available and there are many people willing to work and support the environment.
* Western Mass. can be a site for waste vegetable oil refineries. Since it is close to major highways.
* second generation bio-fuels form switch grass or elephant grass.