Innovate, without the outsourcing

Ironically, in a Globe article a week earlier, Erin Ailworth wrote about Evergreen Solar, an innovative Massachusetts company that has developed what appears to be an efficient way to produce solar panels. Their production is about to undergo a large expansion in Wuhan, China. Are these the "green" jobs that Faust, Wilson, and President Obama are talking about?

My purpose is not to demean the importance of private research and development at our universities. But we must also work hard at recapturing some of our manufacturing base by making it attractive to produce products in the United States. That way, Faust's students at Harvard and Wilson's at the University of Massachusetts, and a lot of other people, will have some place to work when they've completed their education.

Neil Kaufman
Sudbury