Word: collared
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...need to show we’re willing to make sacrifices.” Despite her clear preference for the policies of the Democrats, Jasanoff expressed skepticism about whether either candidate will be able to support both the environment and job creation and whether “green-collar jobs” will be successful. “New technology initiatives do not create jobs in depressed areas,” she said. Jasanoff concluded by emphasizing the need for fundamental shifts in U.S. behavior and ideology. “Just seeing the United States come out of this stagnant...
...grad who has emerged as a major green star over the past year, argues that environmentalism won't just be about the environment anymore. Instead, it will drive fundamental changes in the way we do business and the jobs we create - that's what he means by a green-collar economy. Over the years, manufacturing and other blue-collar jobs have been gradually outsourced from the U.S. That has hit the working class especially hard, in both cities and rural areas, because decent-paying blue-collar employment is what pulls people out of poverty and into the middle class...
...answer, Jones writes in his book, is the creation of green-collar jobs that provide working-class employment, shield America from rising fossil fuel prices and stem carbon emissions. These are not the high-tech, high-education "George Jetson" jobs, as Jones puts it, that were created by the Internet and biotech booms. Green-collar jobs include manufacturing solar panels, insulating green homes, servicing wind turbines. These are jobs that can be filled by blue-collar workers who need jobs - and they help the environment to boot. "You can put the country back to work with green solutions that...
Jones has a way with a slogan and a talent for cutting to the core of an argument that some environmentalists (Al Gore, for instance) don't always possess. But while Jones has become the face of the new green-collar economy, he's hardly the only environmentalist pushing the idea. The concept is gaining steam because when it comes to climate change, simply protecting the environment is not enough. The only way the environmental movement can grow beyond a relatively small elite is if it meets broad, basic economic needs, not just green ones. "We need to go from...
...that to happen, however, we need serious government policy: smart subsidies for alternative energy and green building, retraining for green-collar jobs, more research money for clean tech - and hopefully a tax on carbon. Both Presidential candidates have gestured at this - though Sen. Barack Obama, who has pledged to spend $150 billion over 10 years on clean tech, is ready to do more...