Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Beginning of the Big Fix?

The New York Times reports that Obama claims his campaign promises to big-time investments in new energy technology remains at the top of his agenda. Cool. My only question is: when Obama says that "millions of new jobs will be created," what types of jobs does he mean? I know that back during the New Deal a lot of guys my age signed up for jobs working on roads, parks, bridges, etc.

But what types of clean-energy jobs can I, and people like me, hope for in the coming years? I don't have a research/science background and I can't imagine that my next career move is installing solar panels. I wonder if my primary function will simply be to buy whatever cool new 'green' technologies make their debut over the next decade.