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Top Ten Green Jobs.
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RE: Top Ten Green Jobs.
August 2, 2012 at 12:14 am (This post was last modified: August 2, 2012 at 12:20 am by Darth.)
I looked at that article, Only small scale organic farming is sustainable? Pish.
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RE: Top Ten Green Jobs.
August 2, 2012 at 9:13 am
Yeah, the author has their own take on things, but fuck that guy, what's yours?
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RE: Top Ten Green Jobs.
August 2, 2012 at 9:59 am (This post was last modified: August 2, 2012 at 10:07 am by Darth.)
Large scale GM* is the way to feed the most people. Large scale farming is more efficient, and GM is as well. With the same amount of space in total you get more food OR using less space you get the same amount of food. Not everything natural is good, not everything good is natural. Arbitrarily limiting yourself to only the natural would mean less efficient farming, which means less people fed, or more space is used for farms and more people have to farm.

*not the type where it's designed so that you only get one harvest out of it.
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RE: Top Ten Green Jobs.
August 2, 2012 at 10:52 am
school teacher?
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RE: Top Ten Green Jobs.
August 2, 2012 at 11:46 am (This post was last modified: August 2, 2012 at 11:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Yeah, I can see that one making the list for sure. Where would you place it?
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RE: Top Ten Green Jobs.
August 3, 2012 at 4:03 am
(August 1, 2012 at 11:59 am)Rhythm Wrote: http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2009...-jobs.html

-Farmer
-Forester
-Solar Power Installer
-Energy Efficient Builder
-Wind Turbine Fabricator
-Conservation Biologist
-Green MBA and Entreprenuer
-Recycler
-Sustainability Systems Developer
-Urban Planner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-collar_worker

I think this entry is a bit old Rhythm but even so it is four years on from you article and none of these "billions of jobs" have manifest.

http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingu...=5929&l=en
UN press release 2008 also saying the same thing.

I think it is a pipe dream.

As for the "greening" of our industries this has been going on and I would say that Urban planner should be at the top of the list as THE best job to go for, this would also include architects/designers and landscape architects. ALL rather small exclusive fields and so not contributing to the "billions of jobs".

I HAVE found that it is not viable to do R&D as the incentives put forward by governments are not enough to sustain start-up companies here in Oz and the current "Big Mining Companies" bashing is having a rather unanticipated domino affect of the rest of industry. The grab for the Carbon Tax dollar is killing any entrepreneurship that might just fturn the whole economy around ...meh
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