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Green Jobs for a Green Future: Weatherization
Poziom:
Temat: Środowisko
♪♪ (music playing)♪♪
Van Jones:
We're talking about energy efficiency.
We're talking about cutting
people's energy bills.
My name is Van Jones.
I am the Special Advisor for
Green Jobs at the
White House Council on
Environmental Quality.
The President has put billions
of dollars into weatherizing
buildings, retrofitting
buildings,
so that we can cut energy bills.
Let's go check out
one of these projects.
Hey.
George Hawkins:
Good to see you.
Van Jones:
So tell me what's going on here.
George Hawkins:
We are retrofitting this entire building.
Van Jones:
The whole building.
George Hawkins:
The entire building.
So windows are being redone.
Fixtures, both air conditioning
and lighting is being redone,
doors are being changed.
There's no question to us
that dollar for dollar,
this is the single best
investment we make on energy,
bar none.
Not only on energy, but
on the multiple benefits.
Van Jones:
Are these the green jobs that we are talking about.
Are these green jobs?
George Hawkins:
These are absolutely green jobs.
And what -- and the Mayor and
our agency and working with
New York are so delighted about it.
These are jobs accessible
to people who live in these neighborhoods.
Van Jones:
Why don't we go inside,
you can show me some of this.
George Hawkins:
Okay.
Van Jones:
And you can get to working.
George Hawkins:
All right.
Van Jones:
All right. Let's go.
Now, these are some windows.
George Hawkins:
Men, I want to introduce you to the gentleman
who runs the business here.
Brian "Heavy" Palmer:
I'm Heavy.
Van Jones:
What difference does it make to have these kind of windows
and this kind of technology versus what was here before?
Brian "Heavy" Palmer:
I think savings in energy has got to be at least 50 percent.
Van Jones:
Wow.
You're taking about
a major reduction.
Brian "Heavy" Palmer:
A least 50 percent.
Why don't I take you to a
finished unit and show you a finished unit.
Van Jones:
Perfect.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Now, why is this a better
unit or better solution?
Brian "Heavy" Palmer: This
unit will save you 50 percent on
your A/C bill in a year.
But also we replaced the
refrigerators in the kitchen
with Energy Star refrigerators,
and the light fixtures in the
kitchen also.
Van Jones:
So simple things like this will,
year after year after year,
you'll stack a bunch of savings
for people.
Brian "Heavy" Palmer: That's correct.
Van Jones:
So you're not just helping with this summer,
you're talking about
summer after summer.
Brian "Heavy" Palmer:
Um-hmm.
Van Jones:
That's amazing.
"Brian "Heavy" Palmer:
Let me introduce you to some of the workers, though, all right.
Van Jones:
All right.
You know some of the folks
who live around here.
What difference do you think
it's going to make to them to
have, you know, things looking
nicer or to have, you know,
energy bills get lower.
I mean, do you think
they're going to care?
Henry Jeffress:
I know yesterday I saw a family come in here with some
new curtain rods
and that made me feel good.
I had to tell them, too,
dressing up their new windows.
And it makes them feel good.
Van Jones:
Right, right.
Henry Jeffress:
Whenever you get something that looks nice in
there, they could
be proud of it.
Van Jones:
That's right.
Henry Jeffress:
So it's making a big difference.
Van Jones:
So there you have it.
Another example of the
President's green jobs agenda in
action, weatherizing
real people's homes,
creating real jobs
for real people.
That's what it's all about.
Thank you.
