"...And the workers, we have somebody who just got trained and is already on the job crawling through attics and putting all this stuff together.  Over the course of six months or a year, somebody can get trained effectively.  And LIUNA is doing terrific work with this -- its apprenticeship program.  And what this means is that people who are unemployed right now, they can get a marketable skill that they can take anywhere."

The message is clear-  apprenticeship can be one strategy to getting workers trained to the new green economy.  What jobs or apprenticeship programs are being created in your area to help the Greening of America?  What say you?