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Rebuilding America: A Policy Framework for Investment in Energy Efficiency Retrofits

This post by By Bracken Hendricks , Benjamin Goldstein , Reid Detchon, and Kurt Shickman was first published here . Investments in building efficiency retrofits can simultaneously address the challenges of economic recovery, energy insecurity, and global warming by laying the foundation for sustained economic growth, driving demand in the construction and manufacturing sectors, and creating hundreds of thousands of good jobs across the country. Retrofit

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This post was written by Career Training on August 15, 2009 Comments (0)

How to go from shovel ready to people ready in a green job market?

With the signing of the economic stimulus bill, there has been a rush to identify “shovel ready” jobs. But, behind the scenes, business and government leaders are grappling with the problems of being “people ready” for the millions of green jobs that will be created through the investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency. Meanwhile, job seekers, anxious and excited about the prospect of a lifeline into a new career, are finding it difficult and confusing to identify and determine the q

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This post was written by Career Training on July 5, 2009 Comments (0)
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