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Green Jobs would stimulate American Economy
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The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) held a briefing in conjunction with the House Climate Change Caucus to discuss the potential for green jobs in the United States and the policies needed to support their creation. The panelists gave an overview of three recent reports on the subject.

Kevin McCarty, Managing Director of the Mayors Climate Protection Center of the U.S Conference of Mayors, talked about the current and potential green jobs in the United States. There could be a fivefold increase in green jobs within the next two decades by investing on renewable energy sources, alternative fuels for the transportation sector, and improvements in energy efficiency in homes and commercial buildings

“A shade of green” was the term used by Michael Renner, author of Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World, to describe the challenge of decarbonizing the automobile and construction industries and investing in public transportation in order to generate green jobs and thus reduce the ecological impact of those economic activities.

Bracken Hendricks, Senior Fellow of Center for American Progress and collaborator for the program Green Recovery, said that this program aims to boost public and private investments in retrofitting buildings to improve energy efficiency; expanding mass transit and freight rail; constructing smart electrical grid transmission systems; wind power; solar power; and next generation biofuels. “These core investments enable new markets, business growth, global competitiveness, and provide alternatives to mounting environmental crisis”, he explained.

Find out more: http://www.eesi.org/102208_green_jobs


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