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Education section, Part 5 - Requirements for Energy Transition, in
The Real New Deal, Post Carbon Institute, online December
2008:
“The energy transition will result in the creation of many millions of
new jobs and careers. While President-elect Obama called for the
creation of five million green-collar jobs, the energy transition will in
fact demand something on the order to a ten-fold increase in that
goal. However, these new jobs and careers will require skill sets
largely different from those currently being imparted by our educational
system.
Because they are inexpensive, numerous, and widely dispersed, community
colleges could play a central role in preparing workers for new
opportunities in sustainable food production, renewable energy
installation, grid rebuilding, rail expansion, public transport
construction, and home energy retrofitting.
In order for community colleges to fill this new role, teacher training
and curriculum development on a grand scale will be needed, ideally
organized and coordinated at the national level through the Department of
Education.
This reorientation of curriculum should begin with gardening programs in
all grade schools and increased course emphasis on topics related to
energy and conservation.”
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www.postcarbon.org/book/export/html7553>.
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