Tapping Sunshine

California's community colleges are at the forefront of national efforts to develop training for jobs in the emerging "green economy."

The colleges themselves are often tools for learning for students who get hands-on practice with green technologies. Some of these technologies are also saving the colleges millions of dollars in energy costs.

Solar installations abound at community colleges. The following images provide a glimpse – although not by any means complete – of the proliferation of this technology throughout California’s community college districts.