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From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang. I'm Stephen Lacy. On my own without

the regular gang. They'll be back next week. In recent months we've seen a sharp increase in requests from

listeners asking us to cover jobs in clean tech. They want to know where the jobs are,

what kind of skills are needed, how to get trained, or where to go to school.

There are lots of educators or people at economic development agencies trying to stay ahead

of the curve as well.

If this industry becomes as big as everyone says it will be, how are schools and local communities going to reap the benefit?

This subject is particularly relevant right now, when everyone is talking about the future of work.

We are in the middle of one of the most dramatic, one could even say violent economic transitions

in history.

The forces of globalization, automation, and consumer tech are shattering our traditional notions of work.

In parallel, clean tech and other distributed technologies are changing what it means to work in

energy.

So this week I'm sitting down with Tameika Jacques,

the Director of Workforce Development at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

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