>
> On Jan 26, 2009, at 2:16 PM, John Gulick wrote:
>
>> Let's suppose that a green tech SSA could do the job that you propose
>> here, which is debatable.
>
> Of course it's debatable. But redoing the entire energy and
> transportation systems, transforming existing buildings, and creating
> entire new industries and occupational categories could have quite a
> long-term kick. Could, of course, who knows? But the potential is as big
> as petroleum and autos, no?
>
>> Even cranky leftists like yourself (among many here, myself included)
>> were cautiously optimistic about Obama's stimulus
>> pacakge roughly a month or a month-and-a-half ago, before he backslid to
>> his usual gooey bipartisanship. Now the proposed
>> allotment for alt energy, building retrofits, and grid upgrades is puny,
>> it won't be spent immediately, and it'll be directed to
>> private sector sub-contractors. Surely the green social democratic types
>> (the sort you've been having on your radio show a
>> lot recently)
>
> You noticed. It's my obsession at the moment, since it's both
> transformative and not completely impossible to imagine.
========================== Obsess away.............
Welcome to the International Society for Industrial Ecology
http://www.enviroinfo2008.org/detail_friday.php
Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology September 10-12, 2008, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany