Wednesday, 09 June 2010 10:39

The Promise of "Green" and a dash of "Reality"

By Julian L. Alssid Founder and Executive Director, Workforce Strategy Center
green_energy_programs_2010-05Origionally Posted: June 3, 2010 12:12 PM on huffintonpost.com

President Obama's administration is trying to play its part, targeting almost $1.5 billion of stimulus money for such "green" job training and development.Unfortunately, this long-term promise is bumping up against short-term reality.

In a new report on the green jobs and their economic promise Workforce Strategy Center released this week, we found the unsettling fact that there are some serious roadblocks to the kind of immediate payoff we are all so eager to see.

Entire article:  Building Effective Green Energy Programs in Community Colleges
(Lane Community College Featured on pages 21-22)
Origional Link: http://www.workforcestrategy.org/images/pdfs/publications/green_energy_programs_2010-05.pdf

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“We do OK with most parts of everyday reality: if someone asked us to guess how much time it'll take to get to the store, or how much a car weighs, or how tall a house is, we'll probably be pretty close. But ask us about energy, and we can be wrong by many orders of magnitude.”
-Clark Williams-Derry
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