Green building boom
Summary: Green building growth predicted for the U.S.
A study sponsored by the Green Building Council sees major spending on green building in the U.S. for the next four years. The study finds almost 8 million jobs supported and nearly a half trillion dollars in green building economic activity through 2013. The current level of green building activity is estimated at two million jobs and $100 billion in GDP.
“Our goal is for the phrase ‘green building’ to become obsolete, by making all building and retrofits green – and transforming every job in our industry into a green job,” said Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO and founding chairman of USGBC.
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Somebody please explain something here.
Call it $7 TRILLION
$24,000 for every $4,500 the big Oboma
aka Barry Sorento.
printed the paper money with no gold
backing.
So it is like the $7,000,000,000,000 the
US owes to China, they are wanting their
money now.
We don't have it, so what happens when
you can't pay back a debt...
Sorry, you can't continue to print paper
money when you are ranked 48th in the
world...
Jobs what jobs, all of the jobs are in
China since we import everything.
No worries, we will finish exporting
the other jobs left once our fearless
leader signs the 'Tax & Trade bill' to
destroy the rest.
It can't
not be the same old "not green" jobs just slid into a new spot"
In fact it will end up costing jobs as the wasteful expenditure will be paid
for by the productive sectors of the economy.
Welcome to the new world of "green" economics. The fantasy land where
cost is something other people pay.
RE: Green building boom
Also construction is one of the areas where green tech makes sense since efficiency means that machines can do more with the same resources or do the same work load using less resources. You don't need a Global Warming narrative for green products to make economic sense. McGraw-Hill construction has written quite a lot on this and by their research, the majority of construction companies are now using or employing green technologies of some sort in their building matierals and processes.
http://www.construction.com/market_research/
Yes, but...
One of the issues with polluting industries is that it can be difficult to include the cost of the pollution in the cost of production. The various types of carbon trading schemes are an attempt to include a cost for CO2 emission in the cost of production. It is cheaper to produce a product if you don't have to worry about the environmental effects of the production process.
If it can be shown that energy efficient and low emission processes can be cost competitive with the high-polluting alternatives, then one of the arguments against using green technologies is refuted.
A bunch of lies
Walk to work, stop eating meat, don't pass
any gas and heaven forbid do NOT use
a computer device of any kind since it
was made from OIL!!!
Eco-nuts are the biggest group of hypocrites
on earth, they use electricity, paper,
computers, A/C and they buy gas and they
pass gas to!
Good luck on the unemployment going at
this rate $7 Trillion will soon be
$10 Trillion and China is NOT loaning
any more money since the dollar is
ranked 48 in the world!
;)
$7 Trillion and growing
48 or 49 in the world.
Yes, it is really worth it when Oboma has been
running the printing presses and ruined the
value of the dollar.
Now he is going to tax the living daylights out
of businesses with his cap & trade or destruction
of business.
Enough is enough STOP spending money before
the USA is a banana republic.
Russia/China/Middle East is wanting to get rid
of the dollar because it is worthless!
The dollar is worthless because they see how stupid the average American is
what must be done to prepare for the future. They
are STILL trying to deny global warming. How stupid
can you get????
So the extinction of ancient dinosaurs
gas and caused the ice age a few thousand
years ago.
By the way the earth is only 6,000 years old
in Bible years and the eco nuts want every
one to do without except them!
Al Gore is a billionaire now thanks to his
scam, first we were going to burn up now
the climate god was in a snow storm up north
and people laughed.
I am still laughing at these eco messiahs
doing without driving, computers, electricity,
paper or heaven forbid plush toilet paper!
The United States is now bankrupt and
these idiots are wanting to finish it
off with killing off all of the jobs.
So tell me genius what are people going
to eat and how what will they do for
jobs?
I guess population control is big on
your list as well...
Yep, you illustrate the problem so well. With that kind of ignorance, we
will be making our cars, solar panels, wind
generators, etc, and our unemployment will
skyrocket.
Strange we do not manufacture anything
local Wal_Mart and find your American
made products.
Sorry, people want the cheapest product
and shop at China marts across America.
I find it amusing how spending $7,000,000,000,000 in debt is really going to
create jobs....
Is that why the unemployment rate is at 16%
and climbing in REAL numbers.
I am sure the solar panels are the answer,
another brainwashed obomanaut screaming
to do without.
Meanwhile, I sure don't see Al Gore giving
up his limo's, 25,000 square foot home and
his $20,000 a year GAS bill for one of
his mansions.
A bunch of hypocrites, Socialist telling
the minions how to live.
Drive your Yugo, walk to work and eat
vegetables but don't CRAM your eco
messiah down my throat.
About Al Gore's mansion
Does your Bible have any imprecations against bearing false witness?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/gorehome.asp
http://climateprogress.org/2009/05/02/oreilly-factor-laura-ingraham-smear-al-gore/
Al Gore simply puts his money where his mouth is.
har har
Money since he is a Billionaire now...
I wonder how much he is making now....
http://www.climatechangefraud.com/co2-and-gw-primers/global-warming-101
Good points.
Donnie, why not create a GreenLinux distro,
The solution is really really really simple.
You know what, it really is that simple. If we stop borrowing, we don't increase our debt. That, however, goes against every fiber of the current administration, that wants and needs the government to play a major role in everyone's life, and the way you accomplish that is to get enough people dependent (preferably for a lifetime) on the government to survive. Enter Cap and Trade. Tax everyone more, funnel the subsidies to the poorest (redistribution), take your own cut of the revenue to fund other redistributive programs, and you start to get to the point where those dependent (hooked) will always vote for you lest the other "evil" people remove your subsidies.
Of course, long forgotten, the subsidies would never have been needed if Cap and Trade were not enacted, hence the [B]ALL OUT RUSH[/B] to get it passed before enough people see the hoax of man made global warming for what it really is.
As Bill Clinton said, just PASS ANYTHING, since you can never repeal it once it is passed. You can then take your time and make it into what you want. That is the over-riding strategy of the current administration, pass everything fast.
Why can't we just do intelligent things for real reasons, such as reducing pollution, cleaning up our air, etc. "Climate Change" is simply the crisis de-juor to enact the control needed. 30 years ago, the same crowd was decrying us falling into an ice age.
TripleII
Science is PROVING it isn't happening.
Even the BBC, once champions of the "cause" seem to be accepting and reporting that it isn't happening.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8299079.stm
[B]This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. [/B]
CO2 hasn't been reduced, ocean temperatures are not rising (they have actually decreased nominally since 2000), so where is the hear buildup? It's kind of amazing that when the sun ended it's more radiant than normal cycle, the earth stopped warming up.
Cap and Trade are about NOTHING but redistribution of wealth, tax revenue and control.
All we have are invalid climate model predictions, but when things are measured with scientific method, Global Warming (oops, climate change) is not supported or seen.
No, the weakness of the dollar has nothing to do with American's attitudes about the "settle science" of "climate change", it is entirely about spending 1.4T more than we have, only being able to borrow 800B of it, and this year, with our current deficit spending, $2T of "magic" money churned out by the fed on the printing presses will be pushed into circulation.
As of right now, the banks are hoarding all the new cash that is printed, but one they start pushing it into the market, our dollar will sink and sink and sink.
BTW, calling anyone who doesn't believe the pseudo science stupid only shows how entrenched you are the it "has to be true because it must be true". What's the vested interest. Science (you know, those stupid European scientists too) is showing MAN MADE Global Warming (oops, again, apologies, climate change, had to change that name once reality set in) for the hoax it is.
TripleII
Very good post.
Donnie is put to shame by this.
Take BBC article with a grain of salt.
http://climateprogress.org/2009/10/13/the-bbc-hudson-what-happened-to-global-warming-hottest-decade-in-recorded-history/
Press releases and news articles are not primary sources for scientific information.
You can find a news story to support whatever your viewpoint is. The news can point you in the right direction but, as CEC says, think for yourself - follow the links. and see if the news is consistent with the primary sources.