How do we create good paying jobs that match up with goals for renewable energy and green innovations?

By increasing construction of solar panels on homes and in farm barnyards and on public county buildings. How? include creating rooftop solar incentives that can be cost share stacked with other private and government incentive funding.

Also, collaborate with private investors to add more wind generators. Both large utility wind generators as well as home roof mounted mini-wind generators are needed to convert to a non-fossil energy supply.

Concurrently, we must move to building better insulated homes. Homes consume around 40% of the energy. Therefore, greater insulation of homes is a high priority.

Beyond that, rev-up local production of food. We can buy tomatoes shipped in from Arizona and California, or we can grow’em in our county. Furthermore, grown’em here makes fresh vegetables of higher quality and lowers certain food prices compared with those trucked in from long distances.

In addition, we must transition away from house-yard landscapes of short, manicured grass to native short grasses and native flowers, trees and bushes.

The above climate change remedies will create many new jobs.

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