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Mi Casa Resource Center, a Denver-based, 501 Founded in 1976, has spent the last 30 years trying to raise Latino and low-income families in the ladder of success economic. His latest program, called Construction and Energy Pre-apprenticeship program, is aimed at teaching the disadvantaged how to install solar panels.
This intensive eight-week course includes four weeks of training prior to the construction of learning, and two weeks in the theory and practice of installing solar thermal and wind energy technologies. Two weeks spent on preparation for work training, life skills, information technology, financial literacy and job-search training. Graduates of the eight-week course was offered the opportunity perfected in the field of their choice – Restoration of solar thermal or wind, or historical, air conditioning, repair roads and general construction.
A student is Lesa Theaman, once facing a felony drug conviction, but now faces a sunny future as an installer of solar panels. Theaman recently met with Senator Michael Bennett (D-Colo.), who visited my house to see how students of the organization and future entrepreneurs were changing their lives thanks to the $ 80 million that Colorado receives through the payment of economic stimulus recovery act – A windfall that may be up to 6000 "green jobs" in the state alone.
As Bennett noted, these jobs are not exportable, and help reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Bennett is especially proud of the role of Mi Casa is playing in the labor revolution.
"We can give them a different kind of future," he said, referring to disadvantaged minorities, who constitute the core of the work Mi Casa.
For Theaman, it was a case of returning to his life. "I wanted something better for me."
Theaman, applying learning program of an electrician, was Senator Bennett's two solar panels used in a class of my house and noted that Colorado, with its 360 days of sunshine a year, we could do something phenomenal with solar power – a position supported by Sun Power, whose CEO, Jack Dorwart says his company will hire apprentices My House, while that doubling the number of families that your company offers, from 525 to over 1,300 per year. Sun Power, not to be confused with solar energy SunPower manufacturer, provides energy efficiency upgrades to needy families.
In total, Mi Casa program of renewable energy training is an example of how the president's stimulus package Obama and the energy is delivered to the U.S. from foreign oil and provide the kind of home based on the renewables, which also rescues the nation's air, water and manufacturing capacity of polluting fossil fuels, which makes "Mi Casa everyone is home "in terms of clean energy, green solar energy.
Inslee introduces Renewable Energy Jobs and Security Act
