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Once of the 3 R's, Reuse is to use an item more than once. This includes conventional reuse where the item is used again for the same function, and new-life reuse where it is used for a new function. By taking useful products and exchanging them, without reprocessing, reuse help us save time, money, energy and resources. In broader economic terms, reuse offers quality products to people and organizations with limited means, while generating jobs and business activity that contribute to the economy. It can also turn unwanted items into great, useful and beautiful alternatives.
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Are you looking for a green job and wondering where they are? While everybody is looking at the usual sectors such as solar and wind companies with tons of applications, you might fair better in unexpected sectors. In these turmoil times, “green jobs” has become one of the hottest phrases. President Obama promised 5 million new green jobs as part of his stimulus plans. States across the USA, from Indiana to Washington, are considering bills to develop more green jobs.
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President Obama has been talking about green jobs, green energy, and green infrastructure for quite some time now. The National Governors Association and the U.S. Conference of Mayors have each published lists featuring green projects they say are "ready to go" in 2009. Activists, utilities, and trade groups have offered up their own lists, sending them along to the Senate.
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Every year, affluent Americans buy 22 million new bicycles and discard millions of old ones, abandoning many more unused in basements, sheds, and garages. Most of these end up in already overburdened landfills. Meanwhile, poor people overseas need cheap, non-polluting transportation to get to jobs, markets, customers, and schools. Some people will take adult bikes and frames, refurbish or converting them into wheelchairs for people in developing countries
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The President elect brief rundown of his economic recovery plan to create 2.5 million jobs include the following statements "...building wind farms and solar panels, fuel-efficient cars and the alternative energy technology that can free us from our dependence on foreign oil and keep our economy competitive in the years ahead...That is the chance our new beginning now offers us, and that is the challenge we must rise to in the days to come."
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With Wall Street’s decline in value and the Economy in such a dismal state many people are losing their jobs and lifelong investments. There are countless simple online services and tools dedicated to helping you ride the money crunching tsunami. These uncertain times can help stimulate greener, cheaper way of life and some even say that a Green economy can be the world's next driving force.
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We are quite familiar with the distinction of the different employment sectors. White collar employment includes salaried professionals and clerical workers. Blue collar employment involves manual labor. Now a third sector is growing in popularity: the green collar workers. Over the next decade, the potential for green collar jobs, defined as work opportunities created by firms and organizations whose mission is to improve environmental quality, could be very large.
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Imagine that someone pays you just for recycling. Dump your trash into the bin and get credited for it. The more you recycle, the more you earn. Well, you're lucky. Somebody has turn that idea into a business model which generates revenue and at the same time create local jobs, reduce pollution and preserve natural resources.
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