Alot of attention is paid these days to the knowledge of economy. The word is that employees’ grasp of academic knowledge, research and technology will propel the country’s productivity for the future. But blue-collar industries, and not academia, are going to transform the United States to an environmentally sustainable or “green” economy, says Joe Lamacchia, author of the book Blue Collar and Proud of It.By 2018, there will be 3 million more job openings requiring a post-high school associate’s degree than there will be skilled workers to fill them, according to a Georgetown University report.Lamacchia started a Web site in
