Green Jobs in Kansas City

Since Sherys' question I've been pondering what green jobs we could create. I see a lot of them centering around food and homes. The list of businesses Richard endorsed were all centered around food or drink. We all gather in community at time around food. It is one of the essential pillars of life. Our food system is directly tied into the Empire of Domination for he who controls the food controls life. The corporations who control almost all production now care nothing about the health of those who consume their poison, They are fattening us up for the trance before the eye of Sauron. The carbon footprint is horrendous for long distance food they flash before the screen. For Gods sake Bush even wanted to allow processed chicken from China. Hauled on the most polluting form of transport, ships who emissions cause acid rain killing ocean life. And the ships go back empty cause they exported all our work to places far away.

The rebuilding of the community should be done with a thought to the long term carbon costs.

So I see people creating businesses . growing sprouts,
brewing beer,
culturing yogurt.
Ben had some good ideas, pancake mix, grainola etc.
Building and managing community root cellars and storehouses, building high hoop greenhouses.
Tending orchards.
Canning tomatoes,cherries,peaches,raspberries and beets.
We can use the Earth Ship construction method for the root cellars( Kaedden can explain)
A green job is demolishing old structures by hand to reuse the timbers and bricks for reuse.
Converting trucks to bio fuel. Installing solar hot water systems. Insulating buildings.
I'll think of some more and post later

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Education comes first...

What truly has to happen is that we must realize that all roles that are a part of a sustainable cycle are green jobs. A sustainable cycle must be created around certain positions in order to make them "green" jobs, but this is not that difficult. I believe that education is the greatest deficit in the green industries. Please keep in mind that it is not just creating green jobs that is the issue; it is turning existing companies and necessary life support systems for human civilization into sustainable opportunities for the people already in those industries who just want to do things the sustainable way.

Once the desire exists people will seek the training. This is where everyone who wants to have a green job runs into a conundrum. There are very few higher educational facilities focused on providing sustainable examples through their own initiatives not to mention the lack of classes and curriculum. Our schools and our cities need sustainability programs offered to them through community support groups like ours.

For sustainability education curriculum ideas please go to www.focusthenation.org For more information on developing green industries go to www.apolloalliance.org Yours in Sustainable Peace, Kaedden Earth Peace Systems is a social ideology and philosophy founded on the principles of respect for life, love, and learning. We help create economical, ecological, and socially sustainable development systems for homes, businesses & transportation.

More Green Jobs

I think clean energy holds the potential for a tremendous number of jobs. Installing solar panels or wind turbines involves sales, distribution, installation, maintenance, accounting, and marketing. I think that clean energy is going to be a big deal starting in 2009, once we get rid of the current obstructionist administration, and we need to get started preparing for that boom cycle now, so that we have infrastructure in place to be able to build a serious number of jobs.