Comments on: VIDEO: Creating Jobs in a New Energy Economy http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/01/30/video-creating-jobs-in-a-new-energy-economy/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ken Smith http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/01/30/video-creating-jobs-in-a-new-energy-economy/#comment-70661 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:27:29 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=8491#comment-70661 There have been several recent reports about wind turbine manufacturers, developers, and related companies shedding jobs as a result of the financial downturn. Specifically, because of the lack of project financing orders are being cancelled. But these 2008 numbers show that while the rest of the economy was shedding jobs rapidly during 2008, when the financing was available for projects the renewable energy sector was actually growing.

So we need more money from the stimulous package going to stimulate those sectors of the economy that were performing well, and reduce funding for sectors that got themselves in trouble. Enough of the multi-million dollar CEO bonuses and loans to banks who buy corporate jets. With the money we have to those shameless elites we could have been building solar and wind plants and putting lots of people to work.

Read the whole Post at: http://www.buildbabybuild.net/blog/renewable-energy-jobs-growing-rapidly/

]]> By: R Margolis http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/01/30/video-creating-jobs-in-a-new-energy-economy/#comment-70632 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:27:38 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=8491#comment-70632 One area of common interest is that the skilled labor needed for both renewables and the transition sources are similar. Increasing the skills of the workforce is a concept that should have traction across the different energy sectors.

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