When America leads the world, this is what it will look like.
A West Virginia dad who watched his father die of black lung disease will be grateful his own son has a safe, high-paying job erecting wind turbines.
A little girl on the East Coast thinks high speed rail is cool. She dreams she will design electric trains and cars someday.
A laid-off worker in Tulsa, Okla., no longer worries about paying his mortgage. He completed a free training program and now installs energy-efficient lighting.
A teenage boy in Chicago can’t wait to graduate from high school so he can attend a month-long energy efficiency boot camp. He’ll have his choice of energy retrofit jobs as soon as he’s ready.
Thanks to a green energy loan, a single mom in Georgia now has solar panels on her roof. Instead of paying her electric bill, she makes money by selling electricity back to her power company.
A Native American in North Dakota is repairing natural gas leaks in a nearby pipeline. He’s proud to protect his ancestral home by fighting climate change.
A clean environment and good jobs must go hand in hand. Or, in the end, we will have neither.
— Carrie Scherpelz, Madison, Wis.
