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Are Chemists, Engineers on Green Jobs List?

Architecture News - Dec 25, 2008 - 11:31   5361 views

For weeks, there’s been a growing chorus — from the incoming Obama team to community-welfare campaigners and environmental bloggers— pushing for building the economic revival around “green jobs.” So farthe focus seems to be mainly on rebuilding physical infrastructure:insulating leaky low-income housing, building wind turbines, improvingthe clunky electrical grid and the like. These are, by almost anymeasure, logical starting points for an effort to cut America’s energybill and carbon dioxide emissions while restoring prosperity.
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