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Toward Zero Carbon: The Chicago Central Area DeCarbonization Plan $29.61 Chicago has long been a world leader in innovations of all kinds, and its response to the need for drastic environmental action to combat climate change is no exception. In 2008, Chicago developed the Chicago Climate Action Plan (CCAP) to begin to address these issues. This book is an examination and exploration of the issues that the CCAP deals with and how they may be implemented, focusing on the Chicago Loop area. It also examines the 2030 Challenge, which has an aggressive goal of 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 for new and renovated buildings. The book is divided into eight key areas: Buildings, the Urban Matrix, Smart Infrastructure, Mobility, Water, Waste, Community Engagement and Energy. Illustrated with full colour photographs, diagrams and models throughout, this wonderful book takes a clear and easy-to-understand approach to this complex topic, providing innovative and insightful strategies for efficient and effective carbon reduction.

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State of the World: Innovations That Nourish the Planet $19.93 Known for tackling the most pressing issues that face our world, the Worldwatch Institute has dedicated the 2011 edition of its flagship report to a compelling look at the global food crisis, with particular emphasis on what innovators globally can do to help solve a worldwide problem. State of the World 2011 not only introduces us to the latest agro-ecological innovations and their global applicability but also gives broader insights into issues including poverty, international politics, and even gender equity. Written in clear, concise language, with easy-to-read charts and tables, State of the World 2011, produced with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, provides a practical vision of the innovations that will allow billions of people to feed themselves, while restoring rural economies, creating livelihoods, and sustaining the natural resource base on which agriculture depends.

Innovations in Hospital Architecture $67.37 This indispensable reference book captures key recent developments in the rapidly evolving field of sustainable hospital architecture. Today's architects must provide hospitals which enable high quality care for diverse patient populations in carbon neutral care settings, and this book succinctly considers what needs to be done in order to meet that challenge. The contemporary hospital is viewed in the context of global climate change, the planet's diminishing natural resources and the spiralling cost of operating healthcare facilities. Verderber considers the future of the hospital, and supplies a compendium of 100 planning and design considerations for the building type. The book includes with twenty-eight case studies of built and unbuilt hospitals from around the world. These are grouped into four types - autonomous community based hospitals, children's hospitals, rehabilitation and elderly care centres and hospitals, regional medical centre campuses, and visionary (unbuilt) projects. Beautifully and extensively illustrated with many photographs, diagrams and floor plans, this is essential reading for all architects, planners, engineers, product manufacturers, clients, healthcare providers and government agencies involved in the present and future of sustainable healthcare environments.

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Energy Matters: Our Energy Independence

Green Collar Economics: Quantifying the Labor Demands of the Low Carbon Future

Climate change legislation may be on hold in Washington, but the greening of the global economy is not. Capital is mobilizing and investors worldwide are increasingly attuned to the opportunities created by the low-carbon imperative. Among the greatest potential beneficiaries of a low-carbon economy are American workers, but only if policymakers help workers develop the human capital to compete in the new energy economy.

Sadly, when it comes to helping America participate in these opportunities, U.S. policymakers have once again proven themselves a lagging indicator. To understand the scale of the challenge and opportunity, policymakers should look to the lessons learned during the information technology (IT) revolution of the 20th century.

Two important lessons emerged from the IT revolution: First, we learned that federal support for research - both basic and applied - plays a critical role in helping create new markets. Commercialization of federally-funded research (such as ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet) created a global IT market and unleashed enormous demand for the products, services and skills of the digital age.

The second critical lesson was that our education and workforce development system failed to create a sufficient supply of workers to match the demand created by new technology. This "talent deficit" required top domestic IT firms to hire high-skilled foreign workers during the 1990s. Importing talent boosted the incentives for foreign STEM students and accelerated the movement of high-tech companies out of the United States.

We must not repeat that mistake.

In addition to creating a predictable regulatory framework to grow the market for low-Carbon Products and services, the public and private sectors must take specific steps to help American workers obtain - and continuously improve - the skills necessary to compete. Streamlining the nation's workforce investment system is a crucial objective; at present it is an abject failure. In fact, federal legislation governing workforce development passed in 1998 - the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) - has never been reauthorized. Simplifying this system requires understanding our future workforce needs and pruning unnecessary or ineffective programs.

1) First, as part of the Administration's recently-announced Better Buildings Initiative, the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness (PCJC) should, in conjunction with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, immediately undertake a survey to quantify the skills, qualifications and certifications needed for low-carbon economy jobs. This could be modeled after the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) which has created a repository of information on how the world's largest companies are responding to climate change.

By quantifying low-carbon labor market data, policymakers at all levels can move more effectively to target workforce development resources and meet local labor market needs. Instead of the guesswork that underpins the current workforce investment system, we should use robust, data-driven processes to identify skill gaps and train workers.

2) Second, Congress should direct the National Academy of Sciences to undertake a 12-month study designed to assess the ability of our education system to meet the low-carbon economy challenge. We need a clearheaded, detailed understanding of the curricular and training needs of students and teachers. Vague, sweeping calls for more math and science education are not enough. Governors, college and university presidents, school boards, principals, and teachers need actionable intelligence to make sound curriculum and training decisions.

Workforce development is the catalyst for a virtuous cycle of economic growth. Talent drives innovation, which in turn drives growth, wealth creation, and jobs. Low-carbon industry jobs are particularly rich in potential. Unlike jobs in the IT sector, many low-carbon industry jobs (like energy auditors and HVAC retrofitters) are local by definition and may require only short-term retraining. As a result, taxpayer dollars for workforce development can be used more efficiently, businesses will have faster access to workers with the necessary skills, and workers will spend less time unemployed. But this all depends on understanding the challenges we face, and that clarity of vision requires detailed labor market data.

Climate change is accelerating, but so is the global transition to a low carbon economy. Though we have been slow to act thus far, there is a clear opportunity for U.S. leadership if we give our workers the skills necessary to seize it.

About the Author

Marland Buckner is the founder of Global Strategic Partners LLC (http://www.gsp-llc.com), a team of public policy and political strategy consultants based in Washington, D.C., and focused on sustainability, innovation, and workforce development policy. Prior to founding Global Strategic Partners, Buckner served for seven years as Director of Federal Government Affairs for Microsoft Corporation, and has held a variety of positions on Capitol Hill, including Chief of Staff to Rep. Harold Ford, Jr.