Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Turn the Peace Corps Into the Green Corps

People are concerned about how to fund carbon free development in the developing world. Here is a proposal: expand the Peace Corps and provide it with funding to develop carbon free energy sources in the developing world. Currently there are a significant number of college grads with majors in math, engineering and science who cannot find jobs in the US. Employ them in the Peace Corps and send them to every developing country in the world. Then, after they have learned the local language and how to inculturate green practices in the local culture, US business can hire them and US manufacturing can build the wind turbines and photovoltaic cells to equip the green energy machinery. It is a win-win for everyone.

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