31.) Multimedia: “Salazar Wants To Bring Back A Teddy Roosevelt-Style Youth Conservation Corps.”

Source Notes

Title: Salazar Wants To Bring Back A Teddy Roosevelt-Style Youth Conservation Corps.

 

 

 

Summary:

During a March 3^rd, 2009 speech at the Power Shift 2009 convention, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar discusses the prospect of a greener economy by employing “thousands of young people” to resurrect national forests and parks around the country.

Topic:

Prospects for green jobs.

Category:

 

Multimedia/ Journalistic.

 

 

What is it.
Online video.

 

Publication Information:

Published by The Energy Collective/ Huffington Post on March 2^nd, 2009.

 

 

Author:

Jesse Jenkins.

 

 

Location:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/02/salazar-wants-to-bring-ba_n_171003.html

 

Accessed:

March 9, 2009.

 

 

Support:

Ken Salazar, the Secretary of the Interior.

 

 

At Power Shift 2009, a convention with 12,000 people from the age of 18 to 30 attending, Ken Salazar discussed the new energy economy and the prospect of “harnessing the wind and sun to power our nation.” Salazar also “promised to implement a national youth conservation corps.” Conservation corps would concentrate efforts on national park and forest conservation much like President Teddy Roosevelt did during the Great Depression. To conclude, Salazar promises to create “the best 21^st century youth conservation corps that the world has ever seen.”

 

Audience and Agenda:

The Huffington Post online web site (where this video was retrieved) features news and opinion sections devoted to business, entertainment, green issues, politics, style, living, comedy, video, and more. Huffingtonpost.com reaches 13.1 monthly global people and 10.3 million U.S monthly people. The site attracts a middle aged, affluent, white male audience.

 

 

 

Usefulness:

This speech by Interior of the Secretary Ken Salazar provides some relative and pertinent information regarding my argument. A key point in the research that I have gathered thus far is that backlogged national park and forest projects have the ability to employ a considerable number of people. These green jobs would provide employment and income to individuals while helping local and federal economies and environmental agencies. This speech illustrates that the administration understands the two-tiered effect of such green job creation and is in the process of creating these opportunities.

 

 

 

Works cited:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/02/salazar-wants-to-bring-ba_n_171003.html

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