Watch the following 12-minute video from the Washington State Department of Ecology and count how many times they say the phrases, green building, green jobs, and green economy.  Then keep those words in your mind and really pay attention as you listen to NPR, surf the blogosphere, or read a newspaper - you'll be amazed at how many times you encounter them there as well.  And why shouldn't you - with money from President Obama' s recovery plan already making its way in to communities, we're on the precipice of significant increase of  green-collar jobs.  And it's not as much as supply meeting demand, but more necessity meeting desperate.  So what do commercial and residential buildings of the future look like?  What technologies are out there?  And what opportunities are presenting themselves?  These are just a few of the questions answered in the below video - and you'll be glad you waded through the often-times annoying marketing techniques.

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