On Monday, I will have more on green jobs and green stimulus (the reason for the delay will be clear after I post on Monday), so for now, I'll tease you with this from Business Week:
When it comes to signing off on green projects, Obama's team won't be a pushover. "They're not going to be fooled," says Joseph Romm, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. They demand that all claims be backed up by hard data. That's why Erickson biotechnology industry group has hired a consulting firm to calculate the jobs created by second-generation biofuels.
And that's also why Robert Pollin, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is suddenly very popular. Pollin is the co-author of a report on the potential for a green recovery and the developer of an economic model showing how many jobs are created with any given investment. With industry groups, labor unions, environmental groups, and government agencies all vying to convince the Obama team how many jobs their projects can create, he says, "the requests are flooding in. It's a fad and some will be silly, but most are things that are beneficial."
