Post Carbon Institute on education
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Lance Christie
Feb 8, 2009, 4:50:26 PM2/8/09
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These remarks by Richard Heinberg from
The Real New Deal reinforce my previous comments to HEAT about the
curriculum of vocational education and the prospective destination
college campus located just SW of Moab. CSS Foodies take note of
the last sentence; Energy and Transportation Group also take notice.
-Lance
Education section, Part 5 - Requirements for Energy Transition, in The Real New Deal, Post Carbon Institute, online December 2008:
“The energy transition will result in the creation of many millions of new jobs and careers. While President-elect Obama called for the creation of five million green-collar jobs, the energy transition will in fact demand something on the order to a ten-fold increase in that goal. However, these new jobs and careers will require skill sets largely different from those currently being imparted by our educational system.
Because they are inexpensive, numerous, and widely dispersed, community colleges could play a central role in preparing workers for new opportunities in sustainable food production, renewable energy installation, grid rebuilding, rail expansion, public transport construction, and home energy retrofitting.
In order for community colleges to fill this new role, teacher training and curriculum development on a grand scale will be needed, ideally organized and coordinated at the national level through the Department of Education.
This reorientation of curriculum should begin with gardening programs in all grade schools and increased course emphasis on topics related to energy and conservation.” < www.postcarbon.org/book/export/html7553>.
Education section, Part 5 - Requirements for Energy Transition, in The Real New Deal, Post Carbon Institute, online December 2008:
“The energy transition will result in the creation of many millions of new jobs and careers. While President-elect Obama called for the creation of five million green-collar jobs, the energy transition will in fact demand something on the order to a ten-fold increase in that goal. However, these new jobs and careers will require skill sets largely different from those currently being imparted by our educational system.
Because they are inexpensive, numerous, and widely dispersed, community colleges could play a central role in preparing workers for new opportunities in sustainable food production, renewable energy installation, grid rebuilding, rail expansion, public transport construction, and home energy retrofitting.
In order for community colleges to fill this new role, teacher training and curriculum development on a grand scale will be needed, ideally organized and coordinated at the national level through the Department of Education.
This reorientation of curriculum should begin with gardening programs in all grade schools and increased course emphasis on topics related to energy and conservation.” < www.postcarbon.org/book/export/html7553>.
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