{"id":2635,"date":"2008-01-18T00:49:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T06:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/2008\/01\/18\/green-labor-shortage-creates-additional-green-careers\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T00:49:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T06:49:43","slug":"green-labor-shortage-creates-additional-green-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/green-labor-shortage-creates-additional-green-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Labor Shortage Creates Additional Green Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"
Several organizations, including the California Public Utilities Commission<\/a>, California Clean Energy Fund and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights<\/a>, came together earlier this week to sponsor a one-day summit Advancing the New Energy Economy<\/a> in San Francisco. <\/p>\n As a collective, the attendees discussed ways to “advance long-term investment, job creation, and financial growth within the green technology industry with a focus on engaging low-income communities.” <\/strong><\/p>\n One of the critical issues to come out of the summit is the shortage of green laborers who have the skills to retrofit buildings, build new green construction, install solar panels and build wind farms. This scenario is likely to unfold, time after time, as other green industries experience the growing pains associated with becoming a “hot” industry. <\/strong><\/p>\n Although it’s hard to predict the next wave of growth, there will be one. Stay tuned to news in the industries that interest you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the critical issues to come out of the Advancing the New Energy Economy Summit is the shortage of green laborers who have the skills to retrofit buildings, build new green construction, install solar panels and built wind farms. This news has a number of implications for green careers of all kinds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":17385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[263,264,15,265,266,267],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nThis news has a number of implications for green careers of all kinds. <\/strong>
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