UW promotes 'green' jobs

[irishbobcat]

Towntalk...YOU LIE!

[Towntalk]

The greatest CO2 polluters:

The total human population spews out CO2 27/7. This makes them a major polluter.
The total animal live on Earth spew out CO2 27/7. This makes them a major polluter.

The answer?

Mandatory population reduction. Mandatory euthanasia for all unproductive people including the handicapped physically and mentally.

(NO, I DO NOT ADVOCATE THESE MEASURES, BUT THEY ARE IN LINE WITH GREEN PARTY ADVOCATES.)

[Dan Moadus]

I still can not get over how a group of people actually have gotten our industries and Government to take seriously the idea that the very air we exhale is a poison to the planet. If you would have told me twenty five years ago that we would actually build contraptions to capture carbon dioxide and bury it in deep mines as if it is radioactive, I would have said you're nuts.

[irishbobcat]

UW promotes 'green' jobs
   Sep 19, 2009   Milwaukee Journal Sentinel   
   Thomas Content Sep. 19, 2009 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- A former adviser to the Obama administration on energy and environmental issues says there's been too much emphasis on the dire warnings of the impact of climate legislation pending on Capitol Hill. "Too often people focus on a few losers rather than the many winners," Howard Learner of the Environmental Law and Policy Center said in an interview. Learner spoke at a Climate Change and Green Jobs conference Friday in Madison co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the law firm Godfrey and Kahn. Utilities have raised concerns that the greenhouse gas-regulation bill as passed in the U.S. House of Representatives would penalize coal-dependent utilities through the manner in which credits for emitting carbon dioxide into the air would be allocated. A consortium of 12 Midwestern utilities, including Wisconsin Energy Corp. (NYSE:WEC) and Alliant Energy Corp. (NYSE:LNT) , renewed their lobbying on that issue this month. As written, the legislation "exposes the Midwest to a disproportionate economic harm not shared by other regions of the country -- the coasts in particular," says a letter from the utilities to members of the U.S. Senate. But Learner said that there are economic-development opportunities on the horizon from capping and reducing carbon emissions. "There may be a negative impact on the coal industry or on a company that owns a lot of coal plants, and you may hear them howling. But on the other hand there's a large number of winners who are creating jobs and that's a boost to our economy," he said. A focus on growth The conference comes at a time when UW-Madison is expanding its focus for graduate students in the area of sustainability, said Thomas Eggert, associate director of the Business, Environment and Social Responsibility Program at UW-Madison School of Business. The school has launched a graduate certificate program in sustainability, both for business school students and for students at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. "It gives students credentials in the sustainability area on their transcript," Eggert said, "so they can enter the workforce and be able to say credibly and legitimately, 'I've got a background in the sustainability area.' " More job creation could come from companies such as Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI PRZ) (NYSE:JCI) with its work in building efficiency, or wind-component suppliers that based in northern Wisconsin, Eggert said. "The green jobs component is a really important component to this overall picture," he said. "The conference is sending the message that there are many opportunities that businesses need to take advantage of." Newstex ID: KRTB-0130-38093922