Guest “Let them pass wind” by Gordon Evans
“The City of Boston Environment Department invites you to respond to this Request for Information with your ideas about green jobs training and hiring in Boston.
More information available at: https://www.boston.gov/news/city-boston-launches-rfi-feedback-future-green-jobs
The City of Boston is launching a new green jobs initiative to support an equitable recovery as we continue to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has exacerbated existing inequities in our community. As we recover, we are committed to focusing on the needs of the most vulnerable residents, and the most economically at-risk industries. An equitable recovery also means taking steps now to lessen the likelihood and impact of climate shocks and public health crises in the future, through wealth building and economic mobility for residents.
Mayor Janey’s Fiscal Year 2022 operating budget includes $1 million for green jobs, in addition to $3 million in federal recovery funds. We are committed to training and developing career pathways for residents in the green jobs of the future, in support of an equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
As we accelerate green jobs initiatives over the coming years, we invite you to respond to this Request for Information with your ideas about green jobs training and hiring in Boston. A Request for Information allows the City to explore new ideas without committing resources to a particular concept. Responses will inform conversations and programming about how the City can help accelerate the green economy in service of the Mayor’s climate justice goals. The Request for Information may be found at bit.ly/boston-green-jobs-rfi.
The deadline to submit a response is August 18, 2021. Please contact Katherine Eshel, Deputy Director of Climate and Environmental Planning, with any questions or concerns at katherine.eshel@boston.gov.”
Boston’s city administrators have managed to stuff a mere three paragraphs with a host of woke words, phrases and social justice warrior causes. In the process, they show that they are helplessly hoping (hats off to Crosby,Stills,Nash&Young, https://youtu.be/gosRHLxbXZw) to figure out just what a “green job” is really.
Their request for information, in a nutshell, says, “Somebody, pleeeeze tell us, what’s a green job?” This from their “Deputy Director of Climate and Environmental Planning” Kat Eshel, a young French bicycling enthusiast who studied all of the “right” subjects at some of the wokest schools (https://www.boston.gov/departments/environment/kat-eshel ).
I’ve been an environmental professional for over 40 years and have yet to figure out what is a “green” job, unless it is one guaranteed to lose money and fail or be kept afloat by other people’s money. Jobs are jobs. They have no color. Either they contribute productively or they are a burden. If you have any ideas, you can help out those poor, woke Bostonians at the RFI link shown above.
Boston Ties “Green” Jobs to the Pandemic and Future “Climate Shocks”
Guest “Let them pass wind” by Gordon Evans
“The City of Boston Environment Department invites you to respond to this Request for Information with your ideas about green jobs training and hiring in Boston.
More information available at: https://www.boston.gov/news/city-boston-launches-rfi-feedback-future-green-jobs
The City of Boston is launching a new green jobs initiative to support an equitable recovery as we continue to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has exacerbated existing inequities in our community. As we recover, we are committed to focusing on the needs of the most vulnerable residents, and the most economically at-risk industries. An equitable recovery also means taking steps now to lessen the likelihood and impact of climate shocks and public health crises in the future, through wealth building and economic mobility for residents.
Mayor Janey’s Fiscal Year 2022 operating budget includes $1 million for green jobs, in addition to $3 million in federal recovery funds. We are committed to training and developing career pathways for residents in the green jobs of the future, in support of an equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
As we accelerate green jobs initiatives over the coming years, we invite you to respond to this Request for Information with your ideas about green jobs training and hiring in Boston. A Request for Information allows the City to explore new ideas without committing resources to a particular concept. Responses will inform conversations and programming about how the City can help accelerate the green economy in service of the Mayor’s climate justice goals. The Request for Information may be found at bit.ly/boston-green-jobs-rfi.
The deadline to submit a response is August 18, 2021. Please contact Katherine Eshel, Deputy Director of Climate and Environmental Planning, with any questions or concerns at katherine.eshel@boston.gov.”
Boston’s city administrators have managed to stuff a mere three paragraphs with a host of woke words, phrases and social justice warrior causes. In the process, they show that they are helplessly hoping (hats off to Crosby,Stills,Nash&Young, https://youtu.be/gosRHLxbXZw) to figure out just what a “green job” is really.
Their request for information, in a nutshell, says, “Somebody, pleeeeze tell us, what’s a green job?” This from their “Deputy Director of Climate and Environmental Planning” Kat Eshel, a young French bicycling enthusiast who studied all of the “right” subjects at some of the wokest schools (https://www.boston.gov/departments/environment/kat-eshel ).
I’ve been an environmental professional for over 40 years and have yet to figure out what is a “green” job, unless it is one guaranteed to lose money and fail or be kept afloat by other people’s money. Jobs are jobs. They have no color. Either they contribute productively or they are a burden. If you have any ideas, you can help out those poor, woke Bostonians at the RFI link shown above.
I’m still upset that MA did not lose a Congressional seat in the latest Census count. So any program that raises costs, lowers competitiveness with unsustainable jobs and distracted economic development, and drives outmigration is a good thing. The source of most bad public policy for the nation needs to eat it for a change.
Central planning by elite bureaucrats is the solution to all of mankind’s woes.
Apparently there are a disturbing number of jobs that are a burden on society. BS Jobs
“Kat” Eshel is just another parasite that crawled out of the sustainability dung heap.
Green jobs are useless costs, not benefits.
Green jobs in Boston? How about Mayoral Fart-Catchers.
THAT’S IT!!!
Wasn’t it Portugal that learned the hard way that three real, productive jobs are lost for every useless “green job” added?
All the activists know is propaganda, especially how to manipulate the conversation with language. The ubiquitous term “green” is, in fact, oxymoronic. A more accurate color to associate with the movement is “white.” Logically, if you really want to make the planet greener, that is encourage the growth of chlorophyll producing plants (assuming for the moment you could actually impact the climate), you would do three things. (1) You would make the planet warmer. Plants prefer warmer climates. That is why there is more plant growth and diversity nearer the equator than towards the poles. (2) You would make the planet wetter. Because warm air holds more moisture than cold air, making the planet warmer automatically makes it wetter, on-average – or so they say. And (3) you would increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as is sometimes done in greenhouses to promote growth. The color that logically should be associated with reducing carbon dioxide emissions is white, the color of snow, ice caps, and polar bears. Terms like “going green”, “green party”, and “green new deal” should by all rights be “going white,” “white party,” and “white new deal” instead.
Unfortunately, the oxymoronic label is the least stupid element of the movement. The physics behind the so-called greenhouse effect do not support significant warming from additional carbon dioxide (I am a PHD ME with an emphasis on the thermal sciences with decades experience performing similar radiative heat transfer energy balance calculations and measurements at a major national laboratory. I am supremely confident that there is no climate emergency from CO2 emissions.) The historical climate data also does not support the alarmist warnings. Although the made-up data from NOAA, NASA, IPCC, and other suggest warming, actual data shows poor correlation with carbon dioxide concentrations.
Carbon dioxide emissions are not a problem. They’re a feature.
Not to mention that White is the opposite of Black which represents the evil that is carbon.
There are sometimes gems in the WUWT comments, yours is one of them. Thanks.
Mowing lawns is a green job, unless there is a drought, then it’s a brown job.
Picking up dog poop in grass before I mow is Brown job followed by a Green job. Running the lawn mower over piles of dog poop is not recommended.