Inclusive, Safe Green Economy Improves Jobs for California

 Eureka, I have found something interesting from the State of California. This morning I got an email from the California Labor Department, as follows:

You've been invited to be a part of Green Economy Ideas. We'd like to ask you to pay a visit to submit and vote on ideas. Help us determine what is most important to you and the larger community.
To protect your email address we require that you confirm your email address by clicking the link below:

http://ca.green.ideascale.com/a/pvrfy/438090-gykdjuexnf-8262

Thank You
Green Economy Ideas
For more information please email : evan.mcginnis@labor.ca.gov

The California Labor Department is soliciting ideas online about content around a Green Economy and Green Jobs. Kudos to the Labor Department for entering the open government waters! Here is my submission, below. Hit the header to go there and submit your idea and vote.  It looks that there is actually a link to track their progress. Let's see how they do.

Inclusive, Safe Green Economy Improves Jobs for Californians

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The new CA green economy has an opportunity to:
-Explicitly welcome all workers, regardless of sex, race, gender,
disability, age, sexual orientation,
et al, and other criteria, not really honored in the carbon based economy.

In addition, other best practices- like buying American, and reducing global outsourcing, should get priority for government support in the Green jobs arena.

Thirdly, CA government must do more to
reach out to displaced white collar workers, who number in the millions.

These and other content areas are not
yet adequately addressed on the web, such that they are searchable. This can be dealt with by creating:
•A one-stop Green jobs web portal, aggregating
all truly Green companies, (with links to
external verification of such Green claims), would assist job hunters in finding positions as they become available.

On the policy side, CA must focus utilization of truly safe clean tech technologies that
are already available-such as solar. This content should be prioritized for both job creation and environmental protection. Killer technologies- like nuclear or off-shore drilling should not be highlighted or green washed in California as a Green job. These jobs are dangerous for workers, and the climate, as the recent Gulf oil spill disaster proves once again.