Posted on 09/06/2009 4:10:19 PM PDT by Krankor
It’s Labor Day on Monday and that got me thinking about the illusive promise of green jobs. Everyone seems to want one, but no one seems to be able to find one. Having written, “Green Your Work”, I get calls weekly, asking if I know of any available green jobs. Recently, a national television producer who wanted to do a story showing people doing green jobs contacted me; I wasn’t sure where to send them.
The truth is that real green jobs are most often unexciting typical office or service jobs woven into the fabric of a traditional law firm or a restaurant. They don’t scream "GREEN JOB” and they probably don’t get any kind of public funding or tax breaks for the greening that they are doing. It is simply a worker who has taken on the responsibility to green their area of control in an organization.
So, if you are in pursuit of the GJ and currently employed, know that you can make your own job green by changing a few simple things. If you are looking for a job, let interviewers know that you have an interest in helping them find the resource and cost savings through greening. It may be the trait that sets you apart.
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Green job = shovel-ready. Because if you’re putting the environment over the bottom line, you’re shoveling something.
I have a green job. I’m the company expert in the “green” standards that apply to our business. Only in our case this means better “energy-efficiency”. In my work, “greening” means having our customers spend less $$$ on energy.
The happy horsesh@@ just rolls off the green shovels.
What company isn’t concerned with the cost of stuff, including energy costs.
Works for DOS machines. Don't try this with Windows unless you always shut down first.
Kidding, right? Every day used to be bike to work day for me -- it was good for me, a lot easier on my wallet, and I had a route mostly away from cars. But *no* emissions -- I don't think so. The wax-based chain lube I needed in winter to keep the chain from gunking up had plenty of VOCs (volatile organic compounds) in it. Fewer emissions than my truck, but not zero.
I'd love to be riding still, but the narrow high-speed hill-country roads here are way too dangerous in anything but the best light. I am NOT asking for more pavement so I can ride again.
“In honor of Van Jones resigning, I decided to post these helpful tidbits about saving our planet. There’s several very insightful pieces of advice like turning off your computer overnight and switching off your lights.”
I had to laugh at that one. I work as a contractor for the Government. I get a daily message about what I can and cannot do with the Government furnished computer I use as part of my job. And the FIRST thing is I must do is keep it turned on 24 hrs a day so that essential updates and “what-nots” may be accomplished.
I'm not 100% certain on that.
I remember the LA smog in the 70s -- all the way from Santa Barbara you could see it drifting out over the ocean. Around 1980 on a trip back East I turned on a TV newscast where it was reported (shown) that visibility was down to something like a few hundred yards. I don't think they get smog like that anymore.
I remember too when the Cuyahoga(sp?) river caught fire. And when Lake Erie was something you didn't want to be around.
Keeping a clean environment has a cost --it doesn't come for free-- but you have to be able to pay for it. The U.S. today can afford what it couldn't in the 60s or 70s, in managing "the commons."
My concern is over those who are greedily pushing for way more than we can handle today. And who seek control over our very lives by turning us into slaves of the state.
Hm. Once again Government is less efficient than private industry.
I work for a large corporation, and it is made very clear that my corporate computer is NOT my machine. But somehow corporate IT has figured out how to push essential and "essential" updates onto my laptop, even though it's offline (usually) when I take it home evenings and weekends, and all sorts of places around the globe. Sooner or later the dreaded "security update" that will make it run ever slower than before will catch up with me.
Don’t forget to check the air pressure in your tires.
Green is the new Brown just piled higher
She had no answer so she's writing to them like the imbeciles that they are. In reality there are NO GREEN JOBS!!! The scary part for the leftist tree worshipers will come when the masses of dead-heads they lead finally awake from their zombie-like state of suspended animation and go......"hey there aint no such thing as green jobs!"
Then the proverbial ka-ka is gona hit the fan and the left won't have to worry about being tar and feathered by the right, they'll have to contend with the Al-Frankenstein Monster they've created.
From what I understand, for every Green job you create, you actually lose 2.2 other jobs. It’s called the Professor Pepperwinkle Effect (extra points if you can figure out why)
Oh but VAn Jones was going to bring us “Millions and Millions of Green Jobs.....doncha know.
What a bunch of hooey as you say.
A+!
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