The future is Generation-E
"The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." - Robert Maynard Hutchins
Listen up Generation-E. The race for clean energy is NOT over. In fact, as long as America is in the running, it's still a race. And we don't say that because we bleed red, white, and blue or becaue Obama said he wouldn't accept second place - we say it because it's true. America is home to some of the world's brightest, most driven people in the world, and our higher education system has and will continue to produce the best of the best. And bottom line, we're optimistic and hopeful that young minds are being crafted right now to tackle the problems we face and to find solutions for them. The below release should remind you how close this race could be.
This comes from Americans for Energy Leadership: In a promising development for aspiring clean energy scientists, engineers, and technicians, the Obama administration’s 2011 budget request includes a proposal for the nation’s first comprehensive federal education initiative focused on the clean energy sector, called RE-ENERGYSE (Regaining our Energy Science and Engineering Edge).
The initiative was originally proposed by President Obama in his April 2009 speech to the National Academy of Sciences, which he said would inspire and train young Americans to “tackle the single most important challenge of their generation — the need to develop cheap, abundant, clean energy and accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy.
"In order to make the leap in global energy technology leadership, the U.S. must also make the leap in energy education,” states the Department of Energy’s proposal (PDF). “This effort will help universities and community colleges develop cutting edge programs, with redesigned and new curricula to produce tens of thousands of other highly skilled U.S. workers who can sustain American excellence in clean energy in industry, trades, academia, the federal government and National Laboratories."
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