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<\/a>\nGreen money is pouring into Austin, Texas, which now has to decide how to\nspend it.\nSandra Zaragoza,\n<\/a>\nGreen money is pouring into Austin, Texas, which now has to decide how to\nspend it.\nSandra Zaragoza,\n\nwriting in Portfolio.com, looks into what to do with it<\/a>:\n\nLast week, American Youthworks, a nonprofit aimed at at-risk youth,\nreceived $1.4 million in federal funds to build a green charter high\nschool that will prepare students for jobs in solar-panel installation,\ngreen facilities management, and other jobs.\n\nIn the last few years, Austin Community College received $99,031 from\nWorkforce Solutions for solar and weatherization training and, more\nrecently, $59,800 from the Department of Labor to increase the number\nof women in green job training programs.\n
\nAnd ACC is hoping to bring more funding to Central Texas in federal grants. ACC is part of a group of Texas community colleges that have\napplied for $3.5 million in funding to build solar-energy training\nprograms.\n<\/blockquote>\nEducation, solar, weatherization; who could argue with those things?\n
\nBut do those functions create new jobs?\n\n\n
\nWhat these entities have discovered so far is that green jobs won\u2019t\nlikely come in the form of new occupations, but rather a new shade of\ngreen for existing ones. Roofers, plumbers, HVAC repairmen, electricians,\nand others will likely have to learn new skills and earn certifications\nthat will position them for tomorrow\u2019s jobs.\n\n\u201cWe really view it as a greening of existing jobs, which will require\npeople to develop new skills,\u201d said B.J. Stanbery, chairman of the\nTexas Foundation for Innovative Communities and chief strategy officer\nand chairman of HelioVolt Corp. \u201cFor many people, this is a long-term\nretraining effort.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\nSo in addition to refitting existing buildings, just build them\ngreen in the first place.\n
\nStanbery of the Texas Foundation for Innovative Communities agrees that\nAustin\u2019s workforce training resources will help draw green industries\nto the area.\n\n\u201cAs we train people, it removes the risk to new business coming into\nthe market to know they won\u2019t have to import talent and the people that\nare here are already networked with local businesses,\u201d Stanbery said.\n<\/blockquote>\nHm, green training could draw in green industries.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green money is pouring into Austin, Texas, which now has to decide how to spend it. Sandra Zaragoza, writing in Portfolio.com, looks into what to do with it: Last week, American Youthworks, a nonprofit aimed at at-risk youth, received $1.4 million in federal funds to build a green charter high school that will prepare students […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,21,23],"tags":[6018,236,6019,6026,8705,6023,6017,6025,6022,6021,8714,237,6024,5146,6020],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-planning","category-renewable-energy","tag-american-youthworks","tag-austin","tag-austin-community-college","tag-b-j-stanbery","tag-education","tag-electricians","tag-green-jobs","tag-heliovolt","tag-hvac","tag-roofers","tag-solar","tag-texas","tag-texas-foundation-for-innovative-communities","tag-weatherization","tag-workforce-solutions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-IS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}