How do you feel about Macomb Community College expanding its green jobs training offerings?
Green jobs may be the wave of the future, and Macomb County is getting its residents out there to ride it. Macomb Community College is expanding its alternative energy and sustainability job training programs, thanks in part to hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal grants. The money will help the college train people for jobs in the wind, solar, biomass, geo-thermal, and hydrogen fuel cell industries. The renewable energy and energy efficiency industries are worth $1 trillion in the U.S. as of 2007. The college is creating a Renewable Energy Certificate and continues to develop its Center for Alternative Fuels. About $800,000 in federal grants will go towards this green curriculum and purchasing equipment for the courses. It is also working with Wayne State University on a plan for a Center for Advanced Automotive Technology. The center would serve as a regional hub for the development and teaching of green technologies associated with automotive applications. “We are working clo
