GREEN COLLAR WORKERS AND OTHER MYTHICAL CREATURES

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GREEN COLLAR WORKERSANDOTHER MYTHICAL CREATURES
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Common Questions
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WHOS ASKING
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The Data Dilemma

• Lack of clear operational definition
• green economy
• green industry
• green occupation
• green job
• Surplus of inspired definitions
• Political pitfalls

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Types of Definitions

• By Industry
• By Firm
• By Occupation
• By Detailed Work Assignment

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Who/what constitutes green building?

• Forestry lumber milling
• Construction specialty trades
• Architectural landscape
• design
• Procurement, project
• management, quality control
• Imbedded software
• development integration
• Materials sciences, chemistry,
• physics, engineering

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What Are the Policy Levers

• Pre-recession Greening of Economy as primary
• Regulations and fines
• Market forces (e.g., green profit centers through
  carbon cap and trade, enhanced oil recovery)
• Financial incentives for RD, pilot/demonstration
  projects commercialization?
• Consumer education
• Recessionary times ancillary to economic
  recovery
• Monetary policy
• Government procurement
• Workforce preparation

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Breakout Session Later

• How and when will the economic stimulus package
  create green jobs?
• Where will the jobs be created? What can be done
  at the state and regional level to leverage
  stimulus dollars for job creations?

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Green Stimulus Items

• Targets
• Renewable energy
• Electricity Grid
• Green Building
• MUSH
• Weatherization (elderly, low income)
• White collar work in green industries
• Blue collar work in green industries
• Job chains to reach unemployed and poverty
  populations

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Outcomes-Based Approach

• What is its net impact on energy consumption?
• Compute in term of BBOEs (barrel of oil
  equivalents)
• Compute in terms of cost per unit of energy
  (e.g., /BUT, /kilowatt, /megajouel
• What is its net impact on emissions of CO2, SO2
  and NOx?
• What is its impact on net job creation?

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Bubble Chart Comparisons
Decreased energy consumption or cost per unit
Increased Emissions
Decreased Emissions
Increased energy consumption or cost per unit
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Scalable Response

• Sound employment growth forecasts, not hyperbole
• How different are the required knowledge, skills
  and abilities (KSAs)?
• Where do efforts to impart those KSAs fit into
  the curriculum?
• New major/program of study?
• New course (basic or capstone)?
• New module (e.g., less than semester length)?
• Whos the target? (incumbent worker skill
  upgrade, postdoctoral student. . . high school)

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Resources

• Texas LMCI
• Web site www.lmci.state.tx.us
• Green Collar Workers Other Mythical Creatures
• California Employment Development Department
  www.edd.cal.gov
• Center on Wisconsin Strategy www.cows.org
• www.motherjones.com
• Community and technical colleges
• SkillsNet
• marc.anderberg_at_skillsnet.org