From healthy Homes to green Careers: Part 1

GREEN HOME SHOW #32: From healthy Homes to green Careers: Part 1 Top 10 great green jobs

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Overall Segment #1 – 9:00

Music & Introduction – 4:00

Introduction – Good Morning!!! Welcome to the first post-Holiday edition of the GGHS. We’d like to welcome back those of you who got to take some vacation time from work. We have a very exciting show for you to kick off New Year. We have a very interesting guest and we’ll be talking about Green Building. We’re curious if anyone made any resolutions... we did if you’re up in the air about what to resolve, we may have a few suggestions for you...

As we mentioned during our Holiday show that aired a couple of weeks ago, we feel very privileged to be able to bring you this show every week and it’s our hope that we can keep up with the rapid-fire changes that are occurring everywhere on the planet, both in technology and in the number of people who are illuminating the effort to save our planet. So Happy New Year and lets get on with the show.

I’m Doug Hunt and next to me is my co-host, Paul Hughes. Good morning my green friend. How has your New Year been so far? Any resolutions or big plans for 2008?

Paul: A lot my still hung over co host... you know… that could be why I look green to you... how were those Holiday Parties?

Doug: What Holiday parties? I spent the bulk of the Holidays with my wife in the hospital. She’s home now, thank goodness.

Paul: Well, let's check out and see if any thing happened over the holidays...

1.freecycle.com... if you don't know about freecycle, let me tell you little bit about it. This is a great website for finding a home for free stuff and getting rid of your stuff to people that need it. Recycle is a global recycling phenomenon. Since it started in Arizona in May 2003 it is grown to more than 4 million members in more than 4100 cities from Istanbul to Inwood. It boasts of keeping more than 300,000,000 tons of trash out of landfills every day and has inspired many imitators. This is a great website. Basically you post an unwanted item or request for an item you’re looking for online and this site will match you up with a local taker for your unwanted stuff or a local donor of the stuff you’re looking for. You may not get rid of everything or get everything you want, but if you keep posting, most people get what they need. It's so successful that about 30,000 people join per week.

The stories are amazing! So go to free cycle.com if you haven’t already and check it out and sign up. Talk about a win-win…

You know I got this sweater for Christmas, and it's a Cosby sweater… my sister has lived in the Midwest just a bit too long… but anyway, I think I’ll put it on freecycle. Anything you can put on there Doug?

2. Next... a nice little tidbit I found out about while cruising the Internet on my holidays... and this is a great bit of encouraging news for everyone. The production of photovoltaics (also known as PVs) used in solar panels increased 50% in 2007 versus the numbers for 2006. This is a remarkable statistic… in fact the production of solar panels has jumped an average (amazing) 48% every year since 2002. That means that the production and consumption has doubled approximately every two years and it appears that it may actually be a steeper climb going forward. The significance of this is that we’re finally choosing one particular alternative source of energy, and if you're investing anything over the next five to 10 years, I would take a look at solar panels. You know, not many people know this, but the installation of solar panels is a lower cost per kilowatt overall than wind and offshore wind. You just need a lot of surface area to place them in. Things are heatin up and lookin good for solar.

More later in the show.... hey Doug, how ‘bout tellin’ us a little bit more about that great Green Expo here on March 29, 2008... that's a happy new year item.

Doug: The Great Green Expo on March 29, 2008 at the Chase Riverfront Center – green vendors, speakers, celebrities and cars – fun stuff for the kids and great information for the grown-ups… a guaranteed good-time for all. Again, March 29, 2008 at the Chase Riverfront Center. Put it down… mark it in your calendar… this is a must-see! We need to thank our sponsors… Paul?

Thanks to: CMI Solar Electric - Energy Services Group - Suntrust Mortgage of Christiana - Myecoagent.com and Option Insurance Group. Also, Mark Unruh for the great music…. and listen to Scott Birney’s program on WVUD - 91.3 FM on Fridays…

By the way, today.... Green stock tip from my research on Net: again – it’s my research, so all the usual disclaimers: although I just mentioned keeping an eye on the players in the solar game, a local company to keep your eye on who's going greener and greener and greener all the time, believe it or not, is the DuPont Co.. They produce five or six of the components that go into making up silicone wafer solar panels. DuPont, although they don't have the best record in environmentalism, has been changing rapidly over the last decade or so and has several divisions which further green products and green research. The point is that if people who have found profit in producing products that disregard the environment for one reason or another, are now investing in technology for products that preserve the environment and respect the environment, we want to take notice and we want to support that effort. And for my more radical friends who are very aware and very smart, this does not mean you can’t boycott products and divisions of these companies. The Green Fox is about change and bringing everyone into the green community as quickly as possible. Our main goal is inclusion. So check it out and we’ll be talking more about green businesses and green products and in fact, we have a great guest coming up later in the show.

Todays Topic: Green Schooling - 4:30 Spons. by Suntrust Mortgage of Christiana

Top 10 great green jobs and job categories for the new year

As we all know economy isn't chugging along as we’d like it to, and this is a product of our industrial society changing to one that’s more eco-Centered... so many of us have changed jobs in the last couple years or added second jobs (I’ve done both) and are looking for solid careers to help us feed our families and help to restore the health of our planet.... and I've got to give kudos to the Internet and to Environmental Magazine... which is of course something I recommend for everybody who is beginning to educate themselves on green matters.... there's a large contingent out there thinks that the new green collar economy could restore a rapidly disintegrating American middle class... there’s a bill that has been proposed by Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders of Vermont which allows for 100 million dollars in training for green collar jobs, but is not geared specifically toward any income bracket… although at this point, I’m not sure whether that part of the energy bill was scuttled or not… but it does show that the government and the Democrats are putting forth an awareness towards the upcoming eco-friendly green economy... isn't that exciting... so in that vein, lets take a look at some of the sectors and jobs that should grow rapidly in the near future:

1. Tourism: Tourism is the largest business sector in the world economy, so it's no wonder that people are finding entry-level work in the Greening of this industry. Ecotourism is huge and it's growing at three times the rate of the tourism sector itself.... great job, great future, great fun
2. Planning and land use jobs: Governments are increasingly interested in how they can reduce their communities carbon footprint and they are turning to city planning professionals for direction on how to deal with the new urbanism, which emphasizes sustainability. Transit oriented development is also a growing trend in such places as the Southwest, California, the Pacific Northwest and soon here in the East... anyone like me, with degrees in urban affairs and urban planning, can combine your knowledge of the environment and your skills in designing a road that’s much better than 95 in Delaware. It's just so embarrassing...
3. Health care and medicine: The growth here is in alternative medicine and preventative medicine... looks like about one third of US adults use or have used some sort or form of alternative medicine. NCCAM is a group of diverse medical and healthcare systems, practices, and products outside of conventional medicine.
4. The energy sector: Alternative energy is huge and the growth curve is starting to climb at a very steep rate. This is a business that I know well and there’s a huge opportunity. When I'm not writing this radio show or finding green houses for people, I'm climbing on roofs doing assessments for solar panels all over the tri-state area... the wind program alone (once it gets going) will employ a huge number of people at all different job levels.... take a look and consider it.
5. Environmental justice and law jobs: There is an increasing demand for all those legal eagles to protect our planet and our endangered species. These guys are the vanguards of our activist groups and our Earth watch groups. Absolutely necessary and an absolutely wonderful way to practice law....
6. Green IT professionals: Working in green businesses as an IT professional or taking your skills to companies that are interested in becoming more green and need IT education, and implementation. Green IT professionals have extremely rewarding jobs and we’re seeing a large increase in demand as the corporate world realizes the profitability in going green.
7. Teachers: Green teachers or “eco-educators” as he Magazine calls them. A lot of institutions are looking to hire sustainability professionals and green educators. I can personally tell you there's a huge demand for people to take their green knowledge and their green skills and help corporations out. It takes a little bit of research and it require good writing skills, but there’s a big demand and an even bigger need that has yet to be discovered in many corporations. Great place for second job or consulting job.
8. Construction and design: Especially in corporate buildings and commercial construction, there are so many great advantages to building a LEED certified building, or any level of green, energy efficient building. The building and construction industry is still trying to wrap itself around the large upfront investment with a “down-the-road” payback. There is a great need for design, engineering and construction specialists who have the knowledge and background in green building.
9. Food and farming: The resurgence of the local farm, and the local organic form. We've done a couple of shows on local farming and buying local produce. We discussed all of the environmental and economic advantage to bringing back the local farm. There are also a lot of other opportunities springing up for healthier fast food, healthier cafés. There’s a great café up in Philadelphia called the Kind Café, making wonderfully baked and tasty healthy foods. It’s about not taking your food away from you, but it is about finding healthy alternatives that taste amazingly good.... just one example of a wide open market in the food sector....
10. Let's see if I can just list some other alternatives that are opening up in the green sector... a) green authors and writers..... b) corporate consultants...... c) sales of green products and especially auto sales for the new electric cars coming into the country….. d) green investments for those people who want to be good financial planners. Sustainable minded, responsible investments advisors have grown their portfolios in some companies at a rate of 70% a year for the last two years..... and the list goes on so for those of you who are looking ahead and enduring this latest economic bump..... I believe that this is a sign of our country waking up to the reality of a new and changing economy built on organic capitalism and to me the future looks very bright.