Without those investments and doing what this Country was once known for and envied, up until some thirty years ago, advancing. We already should have been the leader in these types of societal {world} directions as we once were in others. There will continue to be highly experienced trades workers, engineers and architectural professionals sitting and giving up on even waiting. Train all you want but nothing beats higher education to quality like actually doing while learning from the already experienced.
Pedro Armestre /AFP/Getty Images: People show their green painted hands during a protest on the global day of actions against climate change in 2009 in Madrid. U.S. President Barack Obama proclaimed this week "Innovation Week" to bring awareness to his clean-energy agenda.
February 4, 2011 - Cynthia Gordy is The Root's Washington reporter.
Proclaiming it "Innovation Week" at the White House, President Obama has ramped up his clean-energy agenda recently. From the Monday launch of a program designed to spark entrepreneurship in high-growth industries, to Thursday's tour of labs at Penn State where researchers are developing more energy-efficient buildings, the president keeps talking the good talk on investing in new technologies to create jobs.
It's a familiar theme by now for Obama, who's been pitching energy innovation since the 2008 campaign trail. His landmark Recovery Act put billions of dollars toward green solutions. He has, time and time again, called on Congress to pass clean-energy legislation. One of his earliest appointees was a special adviser for green jobs to help create new career paths in weatherization construction and renewable power sources — jobs that would allow low-income, trained workers to advance to the top of their trades.
Two years later, though, there hasn't exactly been a nationwide influx of wind turbines, retrofitted buildings and smart grids. So where are all those green jobs? {continued}
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