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Is Creating Green Jobs a "Sensible Aspiration" for Governments?

Posted by in Business, Eco, Environment, Green on Mar 12th, 2010 | no responses

Photo via A Green Living That’s the topic of an ongoing online debate over at the Economist.com . In one corner, green jobs advocate Van Jones , who argues that governments should engage in the active practice of creating green jobs, by, for example, incentivizing clean energy projects. In the other, Andrew P. Morriss, a professor of business and law at the University of Illinois, who argues that green job creation should be left to the marketplace. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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