Rose Baker & David Passmore, Penn State
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Defining the economic role and impact of so–called "green" jobs and investments will require innovations in organizing and analyzing available and emerging data. Developing a data-driven approach to planning and evaluating green investments is a major theme of recent work of the Penn State Workforce Education & Development Initiative. Researchers associated with the Initiative have identified relevant literature on del.icio.us, a social bookmarking tool, using the following tags:

  • greenjobs
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  • psu-solar
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  • energy_economics
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  • psu_energy
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  • psu_energy,
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  • psuenergy
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  • PSUgreen
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  • energy
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    For information about obtaining a forthcoming Baker/Passmore report, "What Makes a Job Green?," send e-mail to:
    dlp+green@psu.edu

    Contacts
    Rose M. Baker, Director, Center for Regional Economic and Workforce Analysis, 814.865.9919, rmb194@psu.edu.
    David L. Passmore, Director, Institute for Research in Training & Development, 814.863.2583, dlp@psu.edu.
    Baker and Passmore are the leaders of Penn State's Workforce Education & Development Initiative, Penn State professors in Workforce Education and Development academic program, and columnists for Pennsylvania Business Central.

    Penn State Workforce Education & Development Initiative
    Mission
    The Penn State Workforce Education & Development (WED) Initiative is the result of a memorandum of agreement between Penn State's College of Education and Penn State Outreach. The Initiative is near the end of its second three–year agreement, an alliance that is renewable in July 2009. The mission of the WED Initiative is to support the development of the workforce in Pennsylvania primarily through the application of Penn State resources to conduct economic and workforce analyses for employers, industry partnerships, nonprofit organizations, and government entities. A two-page description of the WED Initiative is available as an Adobe PDF file.

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