California Green Corps

Yesterday, Governor Arnold Scwarzenegger announced the new Green Corps program.

The governor on Monday announced the new California Green Corps, a statewide effort to train young adults between 16 and 24 years old to work in the state's fledgling green-tech industry.

"It's the kind of program President Obama envisioned when he put together the economic stimulus package. It's all about jobs, jobs, jobs," Schwarzenegger said after touring a solar-installation certificate program at a Sacramento community college.

The program will be administered by Schwarzenegger's volunteerism czar Karen Baker and will receive about $20 million in initial funding. Half the money will come from the U.S. Department of Labor as part of the federal stimulus package, while the other half is expected to be raised from the private sector.

This sounds exactly like the type of program that Van Jones was running in Oakland before he was tapped by President Obama to be the Special Adviser for Green Jobs. Great news for the Green Collar Economy.