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Friday, 22 July 2011 14:13

Will Green Jobs be YOUTH jobs?

Written by SustainUS

Just in case our 5 years of swarming state capitals decked out in green hard hats, running campaigns calling for more jobs in clean energy, and vowing to only vote for candidates who support renewable energy companies hasn’t made it clear — youth really want more green jobs.

 

The power of the Millennial generation is not that we have Facebook or that we know how to use it. It's that growing up in a networked world is allowing us to imagine and equipping us to implement people-oriented coordination of real-world action at a massive scale. At the center of this story is that all of us - regardless of age - are creators, that we have the tools, the ability, and the skill to create beautiful outcomes that had seemed impossible through our coordination.