Comments on: Green jobs, 1930s-style

By: mutuelle

mutuelle — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:20:53 +0000

Thank you for this inspired post….The great and most useful investment for our future generations,is to work on sustainable development and activities,which mean protect protecting resources while we are consuming it actually,and the activities you are talking about one of this.

By: Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy » Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, July 21

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:50:26 +0000

[...] jobs skeptic Marc Gunther thinks a program modeled after Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps — which helped [...]

By: Coral Rose

Coral Rose — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:03:42 +0000

Hi Marc-
Sounds like you are having a fabulous time.

Thanks for writing this great post.

I am very familiar with the CCC and the GREAT WORK that they did that we now get to enjoy over 75 years later.

Several State Parks in Arkansas were built by the CCC. One in particular
Devils Den State Park was only a 20 minute drive from my home. I spent many days there and put a lot of miles on my hiking boots in that fabulous park. I also stayed several times at the wonderful cabins built by the CCC in the 30’s.

Have fun,
Coral

By: Tom Konrad

Tom Konrad — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:01:25 +0000

I agree with you on Cap and Trade not being the best way to creat green jobs. The opportunity to create jobs while saving energy arises because the energy market is inefficient. Hence, applying a market signal such as a carbon price is not likely to be very effective… market signals work best in functioning markets.

What is much likelier to create green jobs is improving the efficiency of the energy market, by imporving market signals (real time information about energy use, for instance, and pay as you drive auto insurance), as well as regulation to enforce the adoption of efficienct technology where it is cost effective but market forces are not yet doing the job, such as building codes which require more efficeinct buildings.

I make this case in more detail in a recent article:
http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2009/07/green_jobs_debunking_the_debunkers.html

Have a great vacation!