Good Jobs, Green Jobs: Part 1
What happened and who was there? 4
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Posted 11:58 AM on 19 Mar 2008
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Kevin Doyle is the president of Green Economy, a Boston-based firm offering consulting, training, facilitation, and strategic planning help to the public and private institutions building a more sustainable economy. He is the co-author of The ECO Guide to Careers That Make a Difference: Environmental Work for a Sustainable World, and is at work on a new book about climate change careers.
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A Siegel Posted 6:09 am
19 Mar 2008
Blogging regularly at Energy Smart to Energize America .
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wiscidea Posted 6:44 am
19 Mar 2008
(1) New graduates who can devote time to an internship and/or aren't currently dependent on a relatively good salary. That is, they have not settled down and are not obligated to pay a mortgage or care for a family.
(2) Older workers who earned a high enough income during their first career and squirreled away enough cash so that they can stop working for a couple years and return to school to prepare for a completely different career.
What about an almost middle-aged person locked in a dead-end, potentially environmentally destructive job, who has to continue to work full-time to pay their bills and might have already dipped into their savings to survive substantial reductions in income and unexpected expenses? How does such a person find and prepare for a role in the new sparkling green economy?
I don't consider selling the house and jetting off to the next green economic boom town a viable option. That's the sort of behavior that has been destabilizing communities for decades.
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ruweez Posted 9:42 am
21 Mar 2008
http://makower.typepad.com/joel_makower/2008/03/where-are ...
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wiscidea Posted 8:04 am
22 Mar 2008
"The next set of challenges have to do with going from rhetoric to reality."
Thank you, ruweez, for providing the link to Joel Makower's blog.
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