Let's Bring More Blue-Green Jobs to Ohio
| By Dennis Spisak - Jan 3, 2010 8:14:59 AM ET |
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Categories: Environment and Conservation, Energy Policy, Workers' Rights
Categories: Environment and Conservation, Energy Policy, Workers' Rights
Let's Bring More Blue-Green Jobs to Ohio
Dennis Spisak, the Green Party Candidate For Ohio Governor believes more should be done to bring blue-green jobs to Ohio.
While Ted Strickland still believes in Nukes and Dirty Coal plants for fuel, Dennis believes we need to commit to blue-green jobs at a faster clip.
The Apollo Alliance and the clean energy, good jobs economy we are working so hard to help build represents hope made real and visible. As Apollo Chairman Phil Angelides wrote this week on our blog and in an op-ed we are circulating across the nation: "Clean energy isn't a mirage. It's the fastest growing industrial sector in the United States. It is already generating $25 billion a year in sales and revenue, is growing at 30 percent a year."
He added: "Imagine the growth in jobs, technology, equipment, suppliers, and productivity if the United States actually treated the development of clean energy as a national economic priority. And consider just as seriously the remarkable benefits to America's security, environment, economic stability, and communities that would be realized by keeping at home the nearly $400 billion that we send each year to foreign nations, many hostile to our interests, to import their oil. It's time for America to quit bailing and to start building."
As the Apollo Alliance has noted on its Web site, in our public events, in reports, and in the just completed six-state roll out of The New Apollo Program, there is no time to spare. The old economy is sinking. A new one, gradually emerging, needs to dramatically gain speed and influence.
Dennis Spisak, the Green Party Candidate For Ohio Governor believes more should be done to bring blue-green jobs to Ohio.
While Ted Strickland still believes in Nukes and Dirty Coal plants for fuel, Dennis believes we need to commit to blue-green jobs at a faster clip.
The Apollo Alliance and the clean energy, good jobs economy we are working so hard to help build represents hope made real and visible. As Apollo Chairman Phil Angelides wrote this week on our blog and in an op-ed we are circulating across the nation: "Clean energy isn't a mirage. It's the fastest growing industrial sector in the United States. It is already generating $25 billion a year in sales and revenue, is growing at 30 percent a year."
He added: "Imagine the growth in jobs, technology, equipment, suppliers, and productivity if the United States actually treated the development of clean energy as a national economic priority. And consider just as seriously the remarkable benefits to America's security, environment, economic stability, and communities that would be realized by keeping at home the nearly $400 billion that we send each year to foreign nations, many hostile to our interests, to import their oil. It's time for America to quit bailing and to start building."
As the Apollo Alliance has noted on its Web site, in our public events, in reports, and in the just completed six-state roll out of The New Apollo Program, there is no time to spare. The old economy is sinking. A new one, gradually emerging, needs to dramatically gain speed and influence.
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According to the Pew Center on the States' most recent survey, Ohio was one of the top five States in the creation of green jobs.
That survey included data BEFORE Governor's Strickland mandate that one-quarter of Ohio's electricity be generated by clean, alternative energy was signed into law.