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observation: manufacturing will go off shore... however installation and maintenance is going to need hands on... when I was first starting out as IT tech, the slang for anyone who had to 'crack the box' to fix something inside was nicknamed 'screwdriver monkey'... you did whatever you were told and blindly followed instructions... given political correctness, it has been a term discouraged... but what happen in IT was that the admin and monitoring for data centers and helpdesk were outsourced and then off shore... and there still had to be someone handling the hardware . . . in addition there will need to be demonstrations, sales, follow up, contracts, marketing, teevee spots, et al . . . that will remain for the most part on shore . . .

and then there is research . . .

until the widget is perfected, manufacturing streamlined and there is intellectual property worth stealing, it will be performed at USA locales such as Brooklyn Polytech, MIT, et al . . .

as well, consider investment . . . consider tax credits and other incentives to get the stuff in the marketplace . . . indeed definition of the marketplace . . .

if anyone is interested in brainstorming contact me and we can have a chat or a F2F at any of NY's 100+ SB's

howard@grc411.com

No confidence: I am wary of the ability of training labor to order to lead capital. Capital will go its own way.
When trained labor leads capital it is really called entrepreneurship.

This seems an employment project for TEACHERS... the education-industrial complex at work.

I re-insulated my home this month - have been underemployed/unemployed for 3 years... and did NOT require a 10 week program to get training to do this.

I am employable to do this NOW - except for a piece of paper that says so!

I am a leed AP, and have been looking for a "Green" Design job in NJ area since 02/9. I have been going to the NJ GREEN HOME office for frequent meetings. NJ has little to none joba in the "Green" field.

I am disappointed with the USGBC.

Before the SOTU speech, you had confidently predicted that the President would acknowledge by name a number of citizens, who would be in the audience, sitting next to Michelle, during the course of the speech. He did not do this at all, and even when citing green start-up businesses in the part of the speech you're now discussing, he did not identify them by name. This is a break from recent presidential speechifyin' practice, and a detail of minor note.

[[TIANJIN, China — China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/energy-environment/31renew.html]]

Are permitting and zoning departments modern and lean enough to meet the demands of a surge in the green economy?

I question whether states and cities are agile (and smart) enough to adapt to these new demands. Chicago stood by and watched dumbly as major conventions left for other cities. Only AFTER the conventions had left did the city BEGIN to organize a task force to BEGIN to STUDY why the conventions were leaving. (HINT: lower costs elsewhere.)

what parts of this program won't eventually just move to china/india?