10. Develop an integrated education, outreach, and workforce training program.
Critical to achieving the overarching strategies and implementing the recommended actions will be a comprehensive education program for the state that ranges from grade schools to universities and colleges, households to communities, and small businesses to large corporations, and also includes churches and not-for-profit organizations. This program would focus on raising the awareness of climate change causes and impacts, the wide variety of solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and the potential economic and environmental benefits of energy efficiency and the development of renewable and low-CO2-emitting energy resources. It should also focus on the development of a workforce trained in the installation, operation, and maintenance of advanced technologies and proficient in the design and construction of residential, commercial, and industrial buildings incorporating advances in energy efficiency and renewable energy. The education program would further integrate climate change science and solutions into all academic levels and disciplines toward the goals of empowering future generations to take action in their own lives and developing future leaders in policy, government, engineering, science, and communications.