King Image "The Road Darkens" Chosen in Juried Competition "One Planet, One Home"

King Image "The Road Darkens" Chosen in Juried Competition "One Planet, One Home"
Wayne King's image "The Road Darkens" has been chosen for a juried show at the Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven, CT. The exhibition: "One Planet, One Home" focuses on the challenges of Climate Change.

The image is part of a Climate Change series King has been working on for the past two years. The image alludes to the growing crisis. The image is a color montage of several different images including elements of photography and watercolor painting. One original edition of 5 prints is created, printed on fine art rag paper using archival inks; signed and with a certificate of authenticity. To purchase an original, click here: http://bit.ly/1ZxBg3p

The title is drawn from a quote from J. R. R. Tolkien's "Fellowship of the Ring". "Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens."

A digitally initialed open edition, also created, provides the closest approximation to an original work at a more affordable price, especially for those who love art but don't feel the need to purchase original works. Follow the link above and choose the open edition link if you would prefer the open edition.

The image is also available as a poster and a greeting card, here: https://www.zazzle.com/moosewoodmindscapes?qs=Road%20Darkens

Kehler Liddel Gallery:
http://www.kehlerliddellgallery.com/

The Road Darkens

Where are the good jobs in the next decade?

Where are the good jobs in the next decade?
by Wayne King

In the next decade the fastest growing sector of job growth worldwide will be those jobs associated with moving toward a renewable energy future and creating smart grids and a Third Industrial Revolution infrastructure to carry locally produced and distributed energy.

China recently announced that they would pour 82 Billion dollars into creation of a smart grid.

This is the very sector of our economy that Donald Trump has suppressed.

Its not that these jobs will move elsewhere. One of the largest benefits to locally produced, renewable energy is that it produces local jobs to build it and the long-term jobs stay local as well. They will just not be grown here where we are desperately seeking ways to create jobs that can replace the well paying jobs of the past.

The truth is that the jobs of the past are largely gone and no amount of huffing and puffing by politicians are going to bring them back. The battle for the future will be for the jobs of the future. Those countries that are building a Third Industrial Revolution infrastructure will have a massive competitive advantage.

If we targeted just 1/4 of the funds we use for infrastructure toward building this infrastructure of the future. We would produce millions more jobs than we are producing trying to revive the jobs of the past.

Here's just one example: I would be willing to bet that not one single NET new job will be produced in the coal industry in the next year. The companies will take advantage of the new Trump EPA to pass costs off to the public domain by polluting more - one change made recently allows coal companies to use public waterways for the disposal of wastes (hell it came out of the ground didn't it!) . But the coal companies will add more automation to take coal out of the ground, requiring fewer coal miners to do the job. The only bright spot is that the market for their coal is drying up faster than the RioGrande. Within a decade most of these companies will be gone. In the meantime owners will try to suck every bit of value that they can from their dying industry. Then they will throw up their hands and declare bankruptcy allowing them to walk away from their remaining debts.

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