Dear readers and job-seekers, Clean energy is our future, for jobs and a better quality of life for everyone. The good news is that Recovery Act money is flowing faster out the door to manufacturing jobs, with a 30% tax credit for energy manufacturing industries, namely to green energy. Not sure about what it all means? Get started here. Areas of investment are:

  • Battery
  • Electric vehicles
  • Weatherization
  • Energy conservation
  • Biomass
  • Solar
  • Wind
  • Hydro
  • Hydrogen

Need training? Here are some places to get started:

California Clean Energy Workforce Training Program - Acquire skills from installing solar panels and maintaining electric vehicles to computer programming and researching fuel cell technologies.

Not Californian? Follow the grant money and find energy-industry training programs across the country.

Americangreenjobs.net - Supported by the EPA and Dept. of Labor, it focuses on bringing together government, business, academic, and nonprofit leaders for the identification and development of green jobs and the preparation and training of workers needed to support them.

Employers and business owners, you put Americans to work. You can get started learning about the public workforce system: local wages, economic trends, standardization, recruitment, and retainment. There are also loans available for clean energy projects that use innovative technologies, and spur further investment in these advanced technologies.

The Department of Energy wants to do business with you. Here's how. And they're hiring.

Hey dude, yes you in your 20s: check out GreenCorps.org, Green Corps celebrates 15 years of training a new generation of  young people in the skills and strategies of grassroots environmental organizing. While you learn, you make a difference. You are needed!

Individual action at home makes a huge difference. We have some very cool templates for the green-minded: renewable energy presentation, green living ideas notebook, paper-saving settings for online and print documents, and an electronics energy calculator.

- Ed