The Green Issue & the Need for money for training

"There is no energy shortage, there is no energy crisis, there is a crisis of ignorance"

Green technology has become interconnected with every source of living. Whether it be about cars, new power devices or even a simple light bulb. However, we need to consider how cost will effect all these advancements. Changing to green and numerous building practices has a created a new financial reliability. It is believed that even though it may be more costly to initiate green technology, that the savings will return in the long run. We believe that we will benefit from being "green" because it will allow us to lower of energy expenditure, waste disposal and most importantly lower environmental emission costs. Though it needs to be considered whether all these changes will be produced. We may be able to assure the public that our energy will be saved and that waste will be disposed properly, but are we certain about the changed in productivity and health care benefits it will bring us?

New green buildings have become more sustainable by using new energy, water and land methods. The hope for green buildings believe that the new upcoming changing will bring healthier environments to the public and the workers. But, there have been many concerns and insecurities about the cost of going green. We should recognize that the issue of cost has not been deeply advertised or recognized by the public media. Our sole concern is to get the green word out without mentioning costs. We are provided with promises for changes in high cost of electricity, water shortages, global warming risk and of course the issue of health among the people and the workers. The promises are easy to rack up, but at this point we are not sure how much work and money must be expended into the changes.

This chart shows us that building green is cost- effective and will eventually make sense financially.

I believe with all these green technology advancements and financial promises, we should be able to develop a new field of work. We begin to see new real estate titles such as a "green broker", majors in colleges for green technology, green experts and etc. We are beginning to create all these new titles for people to help to advancement of "green". My concern is the security of these titles. In desperate times, many jobs are held at high demand because of our economic situation. The United Nations Environment Program says that there are currently 2.3 millions jobs worldwide in renewable energy. However these only supply two percent of the worlds energy. It also mentions that the amount of jobs in these fields will probably grow as more renewable energy capacity is installed.

I believe we are creating a job field which will consistently be unstable whether it rise or fall because we are still unaware of the efforts needed. Congress I now working on a legislation that can make major investments in job training for a clean- energy workforce. The senates Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act currently includes funding for the Green Jobs Act which will act as an essential investment to skill up Americans workforce.
We need people back to work on this- before our fear of climate change rushes quicker than we expect.

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