{"id":2782,"date":"2009-09-30T21:40:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T01:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/whats-a-green-job.html"},"modified":"2009-09-30T21:40:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T01:40:06","slug":"whats-a-green-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/whats-a-green-job.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a Green Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apps1.eere.energy.gov\/weatherization\/wx_technologies.cfm\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" width=\"250\" height=\"215\"   src=\"http:\/\/apps1.eere.energy.gov\/weatherization\/images\/illustration_whole_house_bg.gif\"><\/a><br \/>\nGreen money is pouring into Austin, Texas, which now has to decide how to<br \/>\nspend it.<br \/>\nSandra Zaragoza,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/business-news\/2009\/09\/18\/city-struggles-to-train-for-green-economy\/\"><br \/>\nwriting in Portfolio.com, looks into what to do with it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLast week, American Youthworks, a nonprofit aimed at at-risk youth,<br \/>\nreceived $1.4 million in federal funds to build a green charter high<br \/>\nschool that will prepare students for jobs in solar-panel installation,<br \/>\ngreen facilities management, and other jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the last few years, Austin Community College received $99,031 from<br \/>\nWorkforce Solutions for solar and weatherization training and, more<br \/>\nrecently, $59,800 from the Department of Labor to increase the number<br \/>\nof women in green job training programs.<\/p>\n<p>\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<br \/>\napplied for $3.5 million in funding to build solar-energy training<br \/>\nprograms.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Education, solar, weatherization; who could argue with those things?<\/p>\n<p>\nBut do those functions create new jobs?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhat these entities have discovered so far is that green jobs won\u2019t<br \/>\nlikely come in the form of new occupations, but rather a new shade of<br \/>\ngreen for existing ones. Roofers, plumbers, HVAC repairmen, electricians,<br \/>\nand others will likely have to learn new skills and earn certifications<br \/>\nthat will position them for tomorrow\u2019s jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe really view it as a greening of existing jobs, which will require<br \/>\npeople to develop new skills,\u201d said B.J. Stanbery, chairman of the<br \/>\nTexas Foundation for Innovative Communities and chief strategy officer<br \/>\nand chairman of HelioVolt Corp. \u201cFor many people, this is a long-term<br \/>\nretraining effort.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So in addition to refitting existing buildings, just build them<br \/>\ngreen in the first place.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nStanbery of the Texas Foundation for Innovative Communities agrees that<br \/>\nAustin\u2019s workforce training resources will help draw green industries<br \/>\nto the area.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAs we train people, it removes the risk to new business coming into<br \/>\nthe market to know they won\u2019t have to import talent and the people that<br \/>\nare here are already networked with local businesses,\u201d Stanbery said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hm, green training could draw in green industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"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"],"_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}]}}