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How can youth create green jobs?

Published by lizveazey, April 1st, 2007 Act Locally , Economics , Efficiency 2 Comments

Students and youth across the country are running the Campus Climate Challenge and greenfleets campaigns on their campuses. How can we make sure that this youth driven initiative to halt climate change will result in green jobs? Here’s a story about green collar jobs being created in the Oakland, CA area with Van Jones of the Ella Baker Center and others. On another green jobs note, John Edwards has committed to create a GreenCorps within AmeriCorps to conduct energy audits, weatherize homes, install home solar panels, and train neighborhood groups to do the same (see bottom of this page). What are your ideas?
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1 pat Apr 1st, 2007 at 11:18 pm

I am the mother of 5 children , ages, 21,18,9,8, and 6. I think that the best way for youth to create green jobs would be for them to first of all learn about global warming and its effects and with that knowledge I believe that they can and will create more green jobs than anyone in political power today even concidered.

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While at the University of North Carolina, Liz led one of the first successful campus renewable energy campaigns in the southeast and won the Morris K. Udall scholarship in both 2002 & 2003. She organized the first Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference April 2-4, 2004, to engage other Southern schools beyond UNC in energy and climate work. In the summer of 2004 she became a co-founding member of Energy Action Coalition, which she has been actively involved with since then. She co-chaired the Energy Action Coalition Steering Committee for 2 years and is Executive Director of the Southern Energy Network, which works with students in the Southeast on clean energy and climate initiatives as part of Energy Action Coalition's Campus Climate Challenge. In late fall 2005, she attended the UN Climate Negotiations in Montreal and helped start www.itsgettinghotinhere.org . In 2008, she joined the board of the Highlander Research and Education Center (www.highlandercenter.org).

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