Number of Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises (NYT outs green jobs fraud)

New York Times ^ | 8/19/2011 | AARON GLANTZ

[WayneS]

Number of Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises

Who, WHO I ask, could POSSIBLY have predicted this?

Perhaps if we all get together and hope like we've never hoped before, even MORE change will come our way...

[WayneS]

Isn’t the ‘market mechanism’ which ‘helps drive new technology’ supposed to be a little thing called DEMAND?

[Eleutheria5]

Non-partisan Brookings Institute
Peace-loving Palestinians
Objective Journalism
Bi-partisan support
Internally consistent oxymoron

Journalists will say the darnedest things.

[DAC21]

“A study released in July by the non-partisan Brookings Institution found clean-technology jobs accounted for just 2 percent”

Would love to know what Job titles fall into this 2%, I'm guessing Trash Man is one, which is probably 80% of the 2%. Of course these jobs predate the Green initiative by about 100 years. Yep a staggering success. /s

[MNDude]

Great point! It doesn’t make economical sense to outsource coal or natural gas jobs.

[george76]

Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eODr63uDwM

[indthkr]

Green Jobs Fraud bump for later.......

[bfree]

Cash for Clunkers took a lot of them off the streets!

[Chode]

do I really have to say it???

[neverdem]

At Asian Neighborhood Design, a 38-year old nonprofit in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, training programs for green construction jobs have remained small because the number of available jobs is small. The group accepted just 16 of 200 applicants for the most recent 14-week cycle, making it harder to get into than the University of California. The group’s training director, Jamie Brewster, said he was able to find jobs for 10 trainees within two weeks of their completing the program.

Mr. Brewster said huge job losses in construction had made it nearly impossible to place large numbers of young people in the trades. Because green construction is a large component of the green economy, the moribund housing market and associated weakness in all types of building are clearly important factors in explaining the weak creation of green jobs.

Et tu NY Times?

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

It all boils down to one prominent fact that distinguishes “green jobs” from other private sector jobs - the green sector can’t survive without subsidies!

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

(The green agenda).... achieves: the appearance of cleanliness

How true! How true! We were on vacation in Vermont recently at a house on Lake Champlain. I asked a local if there were hydraulic power plants on the lake. The response - "Oh no, we don't have any power plants in VT. We are shutting down our nuclear plant and will buy most of our power from CANADA!"

Vermonters pride themselves on the state's minuscule production of wind energy (oooooh) and the cleanliness that results from buying the rest of their energy from another country.

Talk about hypocrisy!