Author: Green Architect Jeremy Bonin, AIA, LEED AP
Website: http://www.blogger.com/profile/07495457719901726105
There are more reasons to build green than saving the environment - expanding our green technology will certainly boost the economy and provide much-needed jobs. Here’s an interesting article we read last week:
Green Energy Opportunities Start with Smart Climate Policy
by Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council
January 15, 2010
Each new commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is yet another indicator that the clean energy market will explode.
The question is: how rapidly will this market grow in the United States?
I have seen promising signs here in America. Green jobs, for instance, are growing 2.5 times as fast as traditional jobs. But there is another indicator as well: the enormous sense of possibility that is spreading across the country. Everywhere I go I meet people who want to design, invest in, or build the next wave of clean energy technology.
I have talked with researchers at MIT who are fired up to create the next generation of hybrid car…
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