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Celebrating the reality of green-collar jobs on Earth Day
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by Anna Fahey There's lots of buzz about green-collar jobs these days (sort of like blue-collar jobs, but with a sustainable edge) -- whether you're listening to Obama, McCain, or Clinton; Gregoire, Kulongoski, or Schwarzenegger. Green-collar jobs: skilled manufacturing. You hear this kind of thing a lot: A study conducted by the RAND Corporation and the University of Tennessee found that producing 25 percent of all American energy fuel and electricity from renewables by the year 2025 would produce the following: "$700 billion of new economic activity, carbon emission reduction by 1 billion tons, and 5 million new jobs." Fine and dandy, but, some might ask "where are those five million new jobs? When will we see them?" Some skeptics have begun to ask whether it's bordering on hype .
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New Green Collar Jobs Seem to be Arriving
http://whatisnewwhatiscool.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-green-co...The idea of green collar jobs is a really good one, and it does seem to be gaining momentum in the northwest. Full Story
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