Some substance to US green jobs policy

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Nov 7th 2008
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Some substance to US green jobs policy

I’m wary of getting too excited about the election of Barack Obama, but I do think he’s got to be slightly better than George “I’m thick as two short planks” Bush.

As you may have guessed, I’m particularly interested in what Obama is going to do about two things: (i) the financial crisis and (ii) climate change. A more equitable global society with less risk of being obliterated by a massively destabilising climate system would be nice.

With that in mind, I wanted to post a good and rather amusing video I came across recently:

If anyone is in America, or knows anyone there, I’d be interested to hear more about the Green Jobs Act 2007 and the Green For All initiative.

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