SARAH WHITE with LAURA DRESSER and JOEL ROGERS

2010

C O W S

center on wisconsin strategy

GreenerSkills

How Credentials Create Value in the Clean Energy Economy

Acknowledgements

This paper, perhaps more than most, draws on a long history of collaboration and rumination on the concepts of “green” and “skills”among principals at COWS. Laura Dresser, Joel Rogers, and Sarah White developed the arguments in this paper through countlessconversations, and the report plunders freely from Joel’s extensive writing on these topics. Kari Dickinson, Adrienne Pagac, and AycaZayim provided research and production assistance. Others around the country improved early dras with advice and information,including Rhandi Berth, Mindy Feldbaum, Evelyn Ganzglass, Alan Hardcastle, Jeremy Hays, Beth Holst, Kari Knudson, Jeannine La Prad,Andy Levin, Sally Prouty, Je Rickert, Whitney Smith, Jessa Valentine, Jason Walsh, and Jane Weissman. Thanks to them and manyothers for much useful discussion. Any errors are, of course, ours alone. Finally, we’d like to thank the Nathan Cummings Foundationand the Surdna Foundation for their generous support of this project.

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