Right now all across the world, countries are making investments on green technology. The U.S however has been falling back in this. "Over 70% of all green systems and components in the U.S. is imported." Said Phil Angelides, chairman of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of labour, business, environmental, and community leaders working on catalyzing clean energy and put millions of Americans at work on a new generation of clean energy "green collar," jobs. Angelides also stated that, "if we continue this trend, we stand to lose 100,000 clean energy manufacturing jobs by 2015, and nearly 250,000 by 2030."
China, our largest competitor is winning the race on making cleaner investments. However, China does not also have the same deficit that America has. Instead of America spending money and making investments on domestic green technology, major solar and wind energy companies are investing in countries where the demand for Green labour is high and wages are low. One way people are trying to green jobs in America is by trying to enact the "Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technologies Act." This act would support small and mid-sized manufacturers by providing capital investments in energy efficiency and for retooling and expanding into the clean energy supply chain. Green companies need to start making domestic investments, not only because we needs to start taking care of our own country, but also it would create jobs and lower our high unemployment rate.
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