A rare winter break hit my neck of the woods this last week. The sun came out and I saw people actually abandoning heavy coats and sweaters, scarves and hats. For a brief time the hill trails were full of folks stretching their legs and giving the old lungs a work out. Perfectly natural. Read more…
With all the talk about global warming and the growing demand for energy, green-collar jobs are on the rise. Seems as if everyone nowadays needs efficiency experts. Even our government is attempting to reduce our unemployment rate with environmentally conscious jobs. Obama announced $2.3 billion in tax credits that he said would create some 17,000 “green” jobs. The money will go to projects including solar, wind and energy management, according to ABC News. With more companies feeling the increasing pressure to be Earth-conscious comes the opportunity to earn a paycheck and save the planet. Besides finding ways to make your job greener, there are some emerging career fields that are green specific. Read more…
There’s a subtle difference between predicting “Who did it?” in a mystery novel and “Who did it and how does it affect me?” in the real world. I used to especially love teaching middle school students because they were growing out of that cute but academically awkward little kid stage where they simply learned about new ideas, and into that stage where they started to apply, with various degrees of success, what they learned and molded it into their own opinion.
As I read daily about the ongoing COP 15 Copenhagen conference on climate change my mind races to keep up with the plethora of ideas, agreements and disagreements, and the seemingly never ending weaving of some sort of agreement on what to do about climate change. All that is good and well and should support healthy discussion-not diatribes nor pettiness-about what to do to stop global warming. Read more…
