The Consortium for Education, Research & Technology (CERT) has been retained to support the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy (EECS) in three key roles: identifying and aligning higher education resources, serving as a link between different organizations involved, and informing the work group. As part of this, CERT will help identify "green jobs" across various sectors that are expected to see increased demand, enhanced skills needs, or be new and emerging occupations to support the six focus areas of the EECS. CERT is also constructing a database of academic and research resources, identifying potential funding opportunities, and convening partners to support collaborative efforts around workforce development and energy education/outreach.

1. Higher Education Alignment to Support Initiatives of the
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy (EECS) – CERT Report
The Consortium for Education, Research & Technology (CERT) has been retained by Gulf Geoexchange
and Consulting Services, Inc. in partnership with the City of Shreveport and serves on the Project Team in
three key roles to support the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy (EECS):
• Identify and align the combined resources of 12 higher education member institutions across
North Louisiana to focus on research and development, workforce development and
K-12/community outreach;
• Serve a “link and leverage” role to others across existing silos—education, government,
nonprofits, businesses, funding sources and others—who can help with the process (e.g.
baseline, reporting, GIS); and
• Help inform the work group, creating common knowledge base (e.g., best practices, analyses) to
explore new educational models to use in the process.
As part of the Project Team, CERT will help manage the networks, identify funding and track initiatives.
Higher education resources. CERT Chancellors/Presidents (or their designees) for the past year have
committed to learning the Strategic Doing process and to aligning their resources on multiple, innovative
initiatives or projects. CERT has surveyed member institutions to identify current “energy systems”
research projects, grants, and members of college faculties who have expertise and new technologies to
contribute in one or more of the six EECS focus areas:
• Building Energy Efficiency
• Clean & Renewable Energy Sources
• Reduction of Waste & Pollution
• Transportation & Land Use Alternatives
• Green Workforce/ Business Incentives
• Energy Education/ Outreach
Database. CERT is constructing a database of both academic and research and development resources
of the 12 member institutions across the region. Examples include a Louisiana Tech University research
project, “Nanoparticle Incorporated Heterogeneous Catalyst System for Biodiesel Production” and an
LSU-Shreveport Institute of Human Services & Public Policy that can assist the Project Team in designing
metrics and indicators.
“Green Jobs” framework. CERT will convene a work group of higher education and k-12 educators to
develop a plan framework for green jobs. CERT surveyed the U.S. Department of Labor February 2009
report, “Greening of the World of Work: Implications for O*NET-SOC and New and Emerging
Occupations.” DOL urges moving beyond simply applying a broad label such as “green jobs,” to identify
the “greening of occupations” in three categories, and project increased demand:
• Green increased demand occupations—an increase in the employment demand for an existing
occupations
• Green enhanced skills occupations—a significant change to the work and worker requirements
of an existing occupation; i.e., tasks, skills, knowledge and credentials have been altered, and
• Green new and emerging (N&E) occupations—impact is sufficient to create the need for
unique work and worker requirements; the new occupation could be entirely novel or “born” from
an existing occupation.
Through a multi-stage research and screening process that included a review of existing literature,
identification and compiling of job titles, review and sorting of job titles, and clustering of job titles into 12
sector occupational sectors, the National Center for O*NET Development identified 64 “green increased
demand,” 60 “green enhanced skills,” and 91 “new and emerging occupations.” The following matrix,
excerpted from “A Green Growing Economy: Opportunities of Tomorrow,” by Juliet P. Scarpa (May 13,
2009), shows the potential for green jobs across sectors:
Industry Sector Definition Requirements Sample Occupations
Green Building/ The design and Manufacturing building Green architects; HVAC
Sustainable/ construction of materials; planning, workers; Carpenters;
Integrated design environmentally design and construction Plumbers; Welders;
Traditional Industry sustainable and energy Electricians; Sheet-
Sectors; Manufacturing; efficient buildings metal workers; Cement

2. Construction; Utilities masons; Skilled
machine operators
Energy Efficiency The retrofitting of Auditing energy use in Electricians;
Traditional Industry existing building existing buildings; Technicians; Insulation
Sectors: Manufacturing; infrastructure using Manufacturing materials workers; Equipment and
Construction; Utilities healthy and more and devices; Installing installation specialist
resource-efficient efficient lighting and (solar panel installation);
models of construction, heating systems; Home weatherizing;
renovation, operation, Installing insulation, Energy Auditors
maintenance, and windows and
demolition. appliances; Production
of appropriate
technologies
(fluorescent lights, water
filtration systems,
permeable concretes,
solar panels, etc.);
Maintenance &
operation
Renewable Energy The use of natural Manufacturing parts; Solar panel installer;
(Solar/PV, Wind resources (other than Assembly & Installation Steelworkers
Energy, Geothermal, Biomass) for energy of solar panels/ finished
Hydro/Marine) which are naturally heating systems;
Traditional Industry replinishable Constructing wind
Sectors: Utilities farms; Operating and
maintaining wind
turbines; repairing
systems; Marketing and
selling systems to
consumers
Recycling/ Waste The collection, Composting; Materials Recycling technician;
Management/ Removal treatment, and disposal reuse and recycling; Waste treatment
Traditional Industry or reuse of waste Pollution Control; Water operators; Sustainability
Sectors: Manufacturing; materials Conservation & coordinator; Bio-mimicry
Utilities; Technology treatment; Components, engineer; Environmental
Manufacturing & Science and protection
Distribution/Enabling technician
Technology;
Environmental
Consulting, Protection &
Remediation
Smart Grid/ Smart Auto-balancing, self- Manufacturing & Field and control
Energy monitoring power grid Installation, Distributing engineers;
Traditional Industry that accepts any source and marketing products Communication protocol
Sectors: Manufacturing; of fuel and transforms it program manager;
Utilities into a consumer’s Managing consultant
optimal renewable
energy usage with
minimal human
intervention
Biomass/ Biofuels/ Fuel creation from Growing and harvesting Process technicians in
Biosynergy/ Ethanol/ chemical/ biological crops for feedstock, biodiesel or ethanol
Fuel Cells/ Hydrogen materials other than collecting waste oils for companies
Traditional Industry- fossil fuels feedstock,
sectors; Manufacturing; manufacturing parts for
Construction; production facilities;
Agriculture; construction,
transportation maintenance and
operation of production
facilities
Vehicle Electrification/ A ground vehicle Public Transportation, Research and
Alternative propelled by a motor Bicycle repair & bike Development jobs;

3. Transportation powered by electrical delivery services, Technology design jobs;
Traditional Industry energy from Transit line construction, Hybrid & Biodiesel
Sectors: Transportation rechargeable batteries Emissions broker, vehicle conversion &
or other source onboard Engine component repair jobs;
the vehicle or from and manufacturing Maintenance jobs;
external source in, on, Automotive service
or above the roadway technicians and
mechanics
Sustainable An integrated system of Production, Marketing, Sustainable/ organic
Agriculture/ Green plant and animal Processing, farming; Local Food
Space production practices Consumption production/ systems;
Traditional Industry that are efficient and Forestry – sustainable
Sectors: Agriculture sustainable forestry worker; Urban
agriculture; Land use
planning; Sustainable
landscaping
Green Jobs in Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy (EECS) Focus Areas
CERT will work with the EECS work group on Green Workforce/ Business Incentives to engage an open
network of public and private sector stakeholders (e.g. North Louisiana Economic Partnership, Workforce
Investment Board representatives, energy-related employer representatives) to identify occupations in the
four focus areas that are expected to show
a) increased demand, b) enhanced skills, or c) new and emerging occupations. The work group will
develop a Matrix naming green occupations needed for the focus areas, sorted by categories—increased
demand, enhanced skills, or new and expanded (N&E)—citing labor demand information, listing available
training programs, and identifying curricula that need to be developed with employer input.
EECS Focus Area Potential “Green Jobs” Growth
Building Energy Efficiency Green architects Sheet-metal workers
Represents both the design and construction of HVAC workers Cement masons
environmentally sustainable and energy efficient Carpenters Skilled machine operators
buildings as well as the retrofitting of existing building Plumbers Insulation workers
infrastructure Welders Home weatherizing
Electricians
Energy auditors
Clean & Renewable Energy Sources Solar panel installer
Onsite renewable energy generation; energy Field and control engineers
distribution technology; and reduction/ capture of Communication protocol program manager
methane and other greenhouse gases
Reduction of Waste & Pollution Recycling technician
Recycling programs; reduction of greenhouse gas Waste treatment operators
emissions; and watershed management Sustainability coordinator
Environmental science & protection technician
Transportation & Land Use Alternatives Research & development jobs
Energy conservation in transportation; sustainable Technology design jobs
agriculture and green space CNG and electrical conversion and repair jobs
Automotive technicians and mechanics
Organic farming Land use planning
Local food productionSustainable landscaping
Urban agriculture
Forestry worker
Implications for EECS Work Group on sixth Focus Area, Energy Education/ Outreach
The “Green Jobs” work group will summarize process and research, with recommendations for the EECS
Steering Committee. The work group, spanning K-12, community colleges and universities, will identify
“career pathways” or “career lattices” that offer opportunities for citizens to pursue ascending levels of
education and certifications. The green revolution can bring both environmental and social change by
providing green jobs that are family-supporting to people without high levels of education, provided they

4. seek additional training. Historically, community colleges have moved the working poor to middle-skills
jobs with sustaining wages; Bossier Parish Community College, Louisiana Technical College, and
Southern University at Shreveport address that need.
Potential funding opportunities. CERT has developed a summary sheet and is researching federal
and other funding opportunities that EECS can leverage for identified energy efficiency and conservation
projects. Of the funding opportunities reviewed, fewer than one-third require cost sharing, though all
programs award points for leveraging other grants and private sector partners, for example, a Retrofit
Ramp-up program rewards partnering with banks, local utilities, appliance retailers, and construction
firms. Funding agencies and programs include Housing & Urban Development, Department of
Commerce, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of
Agriculture, Department of Homeland Security, National Science Foundation, Department of the Interior,
Department of Education, and Department of Transportation. Building energy audits, tax credits, and
weatherization, particularly for low-income, are encouraged, and innovation is rewarded across a wide
variety of market sectors. (See samples in the Appendix.)
Public/ private partnerships. CERT will identify and align strategic partners to support EECS working
groups. For example, CERT currently works with Community Renewal International (CRI) in connecting
Louisiana higher education to companies like Storer Equipment, Trane, Hubbell Building Automation and
CISCO to deploy new energy conserving technologies for the design and construction of the national
Center for Community Renewal.
Energy education/ outreach. Although CERT will be convening higher education and K-12 for
collaborative efforts around green workforce and curricula, the EECS Steering Committee stipulates that
every project selected and funded should incorporate strategies and funds for marketing energy
education to citizens. On member states, “Think of ourselves and build policies that encourage us to
think of ourselves as energy producers and consumers, energy entrepreneurs.” Another urged creating
energy-related projects that serve neighborhoods and diversion programs for unemployed,
underemployed, prison labor and at-risk youth. CERT was asked to serve as the “key hub for
collaboration” around projects that educate citizens about energy. For example, CERT is partnering with
EnCana Energy, Bossier Parish Community College and Southern University at Shreveport to conduct
four, one-week Energy Venture Camps in summer 2010 for Bossier and Caddo 14- and 15-year olds.
Some members of the EECS Steering Committee and Project Team also serve on the Shreveport/Caddo
Master Plan work groups, and will seek to build on the values identified by Shreveport citizens. CERT will
identify portions of the Master Plan that contribute to EECS initiatives to improve Shreveport’s energy
independence.