{"id":1739,"date":"2011-10-23T16:20:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2021-02-20T12:17:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T17:17:06","slug":"breakout-group-basics-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/breakout-group-basics-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakout Group Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"c\"><u>Some &#8220;essential questions&#8221; to open the conversation<\/u><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>How do we keep and promote \u201cgreen jobs\u201d in MA?<\/li>\n<li>Should the focus be on educating skilled workers ?  (and what are those skills?)<\/li>\n<li>Should we be creating the infrastructures and\/or incentives necessary for companies to thrive?<\/li>\n<li>Should we making substantial investments now rather than waiting?\n<li>What might be some solutions to producing real products here vs. offshore or even in another state?\n<ul>\n<li>Competition<\/li>\n<li>Choices: wind products are large while solar modules are small<\/li>\n<li>Manufacturing sites<\/li>\n<li>Quicker response to demand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"c\"><u>Facilitators<\/u><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Elli Blaine<\/strong>, Wellesley College    <\/li>\n<li><strong>Marisa Leone<\/strong>, Needham High School  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"c\"><u>Resources<\/u><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:amy@aperlmutter.com\">Amy Perlmutter<\/b> &#8211; Perlmutter Associates\n<ul>\n<li>(617) 354-5456<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>UMass Lowell Center for Sustainable Production&#8217;s <b><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainableproduction.org\/proj.tech.abou.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clean Tech Initiative<\/a><\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:cathy_crumbley@uml.edu\">Cathy Crumbley<\/a>,  Program Director (978)934-2980<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanenergycouncil.org\/about\/mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New England Clean Energy Council<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"c\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Topical Resources<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MassCEC-Industry-Report-2011.pdf' target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MassCEC Industry Report 2011<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some &#8220;essential questions&#8221; to open the conversation How do we keep and promote \u201cgreen jobs\u201d in MA? Should the focus be on educating skilled workers ? (and what are those skills?) Should we be creating the infrastructures and\/or incentives necessary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}