How you voted to donate Yahoo!'s green profits

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  Posted by Ian Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:01pm PST

  I say vote for Green-Collar Jobs! Help connect people who most need the work to the work that most needs to be done: with good jobs installing solar panels, constructing green buildings, and making our world more energy and resource efficient! www.greenforall.org

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  Posted by Linda Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:26pm PST

  Pretty weak effort... How about sunovens for Haiti, or Trees for Haiti, or Food security for Haiti.

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  Posted by batty42boy Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:51pm PST

  It's the economy, stupid! We need jobs, & green jobs can't be sent offshore. Instead of bailing out the car companies, the govt should be putting that money into solar, wind, hydro-electric, & cellulostic biofuel companies. That'd create jobs for the future.

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  Posted by shoogadaddy Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:03pm PST

  batty42boy. Don't count on the Government to do anything. They don't care about "clean renewable energy". They only care about re-taxable energy like...ummm... oil. Like cancer; the money is not in the cure, its in the treatment. I worked for a biomedical company that had the cure for lukemia, but they had to face 15-20yrs of FDA redtape. The owner of the company died, the rest is history! and that's all I can say.

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  Posted by ephem Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:40pm PST

  Green jobs has to be the best way to rebot the economy and do our environmental part as well. The American Dream says work hard and you wil get rewarded, The Dream Reborn say,"work hard to help the people and the planet and youll see an even greater reward. Ergo a house, the wife and car that provides wealth and health so we can live long enough to enjoy it."

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  Posted by barbara v Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:07pm PST

  i think bike transportation is a great thing to support , but let's not forget that our two biggest problems are the environment and our economy, green collar jobs and the green for all campaigne supports solutions in both areas.

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  Posted by barbara v Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:12pm PST

  in my last comment i forgot to mention that bike transportation is also a greenn collar job , so if you vote for green collar jobs you will also be supporting bike transportation

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  Posted by ojaialien Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:46pm PST

  Jobs, Jobs and more GREEN Jobs. The US economy needs to be guided back into an industrial and service oriented job market. I think we all have had our fill of White Collar criminal activity, over the past 2-3 decades. The Bail-Out, is a Fail-Out. Green Jobs represents a pursuit that cannot be filled by off shore labor pools. Building the US economy on the basis of Renewable Green Energy will help to strengthen our future generations' employment opportunities. Right now, the baby boomer buisness owners, who helped to build the Solar and Renewable Industry from the 70's to present, are starting to retire from the Renewable Energy Industry in droves. They are leaving behind a vaccum of a lack of qualified design/build tradesmen and start up business people. I know, I have been working a solar biz in California since 1979, and the lack of trained qualified workers is known by all, presently operating a Renewable Solar Energy Company. The training should start in C.T.E. [Career Tech Ed.] and R.O.P. [Regional Occupation Program] curricula. We need to add Solar & Renewable Energy to the curriculum of the entire United States school system, as well as support the grass roots efforts of organizations such as the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Foundation. My Vote is for The Green Collar programs of the Ella Baker Foundation. allen@scholfieldsolar.com

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  Posted by edfraternity Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:26am PST

  This is exiting debate! Yes indeed! Let us Vote For The Green Jobs, and support Clean Energy promoters! Green Jobs provide positive livelihood as they reduce emission, they protect human health and conserve ecology! Green Jobs guarantee carbon reduction Green jobs mean sustainable planet. They mean clean energy. Green jobs are a learning process even to the kids who get involved in greenhouse gas control, as they learn through nature. The schoolyard projects connecting humans to nature....... Green jobs, Green Energy, means Clean Energy and emission cuts. Thanks to Yahoo, Congratulations to Ella Baker! Vote for Green Jobs with both hands up! Grace.

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  Posted by Charlax H Sun Nov 30, 2008 5:18pm PST

  Safe drinking water: Install water pumps near schools in sub-Saharan Africa. These pumps will work as both water pumps and as merry-go-rounds for children. This one is highest priority

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  Posted by L Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:18pm PST

  How fast our economy would recover if the renewable energy industry was given the help the auto industry has been given. Does our air actually have to become crunchy before the govt gets it? Write your state governor ! It'll have to be done at the more local level. The economy evolves around cheap energy - not cars that pollute. This is the Big 3's 3rd bailout - after decades of fighting the govt to keep from making more fuel efficient less polluting cars. Most of the workers make $25 - $30/hr plus $50/hr in benefits. The CEOS makes $20 million/yr. What BS for them to get any help.

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  Posted by nomoreGOP Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:25pm PST

  seriously? this should be an SAT question.. there is only one right answer here people: Safe drinking water. Period. A hand-ful of people just died while I wrote this because of a lack of decent, clean drinking water. None of the other options had a life-or-death issue.. So sad that it was 4 out of 5 as "importance"

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