Green Options » Maytag http://greenoptions.com/tag/maytag Posts tagged 'Maytag' Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:27:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Environmental Defense Fund: The Green Jobs You’ve Been Hearing About http://sustainablog.org/2008/12/19/environmental-defense-fund-the-green-jobs-youve-been-hearing-about/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/12/19/environmental-defense-fund-the-green-jobs-youve-been-hearing-about/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:27:08 +0000 edfblog http://sustainablog.org/2008/12/19/environmental-defense-fund-the-green-jobs-youve-been-hearing-about/ This post is by Jackie Roberts, EDF’s director for sustainable technologies.

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The thought of revitalizing the economy with green jobs is inspiring, but how will it actually work? What will those jobs look like? Duke University just released a study that starts to answer that question. It looks at five industries, including LED lighting and concentrating solar power. For each, researchers asked what the value chain is and how jobs could be created.

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