Federal and State Departments for employing people directly
For centralized services mainly
Track everything to measure success
Loans, Tax Breaks, Grants, and Contracts for companies/people
For individuals and small regions
Guard against monopolies
Job Categories
Research – reviving old tech and finding new tech
Design – making what is built the best it can be
Non-toxic fabrication methods
Recyclable materials
Power/battery efficiency
Construction – manufacturing and building new solutions
Installation – putting new solutions directly into use
Retrofitting – replace innards with green tech, melt/recycle old tech
Maintenance – keeping centralized, business, and home solutions running
Trade – exporting services, technology, and equipment internationally
Job Industries
Power Generation from Wind, Solar, Thermal, and Tidal
Dual focus on centralized and home/business generators
Decentralization reduces transmission waste
Australian Power Tower Design
Cut subsidies for toxic dig & burn sources
coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear
Cut subsidies for ethanol crops
New Power Storage
Hyper-efficient batteries
Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Flywheels
Rain Collection
Electric Transportation
Bikes, Scooters, Cars, Trucks, Busses, Trains
Focus on fully Electric Vehicles
Power management intelligence
Retrofitting used cars with new fuel/engines
Cut subsidies for gas, diesel, and ethanol vehicles
Carbon Neutral Building
Green Materials
Energy Efficiency
Water conservation
Green Roofing
Grass, Garden, Function (rain to power conv.)
Water Purification
“Amphitheater” and other designs
Reduce waterway contamination
from farmland, industrial, and residential waste water
renegotiate/enforce pollution agreements
Greener General Consumer Goods
electronics, clothing, furniture, etc.
Organization and Transparency
Invest in transparency network for governmental funding tracking
Fund a universal citizen participation network
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Education Jobs
Grade School
Federally fund public schools
Boost teacher salaries
Reduce administrator salaries
Reduce class sizes
Build more schools
150 students max
Replace outdated materials
Develop admin software to reduce waste/corruption
Broaden subjects taught
Increase support staff for students
Shift style from industrial-lecture to “coaching” model
Create more types of counselors
for students
for teachers
Focus on participation instead of assessment
Mandate paid leave for parents to participate certain days a week
Regulate out corporate influence
Increase food self-sufficiency
school gardens, cooking, and nutrition
College and University
Increase subsidies
Encourage lower tuitions
Offset textbook costs
Increase financial transparency
Reduce administrator pay
Increase instructor and assistant pay
Federal grants for more domestic students
Reduce interest rates for student loans
Build additional colleges
Promote continuing education
Trade School
Validate/Accredit certifications
Build some federal trade schools for industries in this outline
Adult School
Fund night-time working family education
Community promotions
Modernize courses
Increase teacher pay
Free School (“teach-in”)
Subsidy funding
Promotion grants
Certification and accreditation
Prison and Jail Schools
Create one or more in every jail and prison
both state and privatized
Fund and manage separately from prison/jail budget
Textbook publishing
Research and Develop electronic materials technology
Encourage younger authors to publish
Re-assess copyright law to make developing coursework easier/cheaper
Agriculture
Break up and auction off farming conglomerates
Fund small farmer buy-back programs
Subsidize smaller and independent farms
Encourage more employment and less equipment
Research and Educate for best practices
Encourage systems-based “grass farming” approach
Organic growing
Locally consumed
Humane livestock conditions and waste management
Increased crop/breed diversity
Gather and compile local/cultural wisdom
Employ ex-farmers as educators
Ban genetically modified food and open-air testing
Tax sale of nonreproducible hybrid seeds heavily
Create subsidies/policies for decentralized farming
Urban gardens
Commercial building roof gardens
“pea patch” community gardens
Organize farmers markets
Organize/assist CSA programs
Create a federal farmworker job type
Create federal farming exchange programs
land owners open specific acres for outside farmers to grow on
Expire patents on all “living systems”
Healthcare
Grow Medicare jobs and eligibility to replace Insurance for all ages
Treat all citizens automatically for basic care
consider most women’s treatments as basic care
Treat immigrants and foreigners with some conditions and charges
Normalize practitioner salaries for basic care
Offset cost of “optional” medical care with federal funding
Working class pays moderate amount
Rich pay more
Set up little state run clinics in communities without nearby hospitals
mobile and in unoccupied buildings
Develop open source tools for medical information management
Provide incentives for doctors and nurses to return to general practice
Ban Insurance companies from healthcare
Liquidate assets of healthcare portions of insurance companies
Replace with loans/savings programs for costly optional treatments
Employment Quality
Streamline federal employment hiring procedures
Cap executive pay maximums
Raise minimum wage
Increase vacation time
Increase national holidays
Reduce weekly hour maximums
Regulate against “crunch times”
Create incentives for co-op style businesses
Everyone is paid the same
Everyone has a vote for important decisions
Encourage “monkeysphere”-aware organization sizes
Ensure new programs reach the most marginalized populations
American indian, african american, latin american, immigrant