"It's a rush," Alvarro Jasso explains as he talks about standing atop a windmill 260 feet in the air. An Operation Maintenance Servicer for Suzlon Energy, Alvarro thinks the lengthy 20-minute ladder climb to the top is well worth the effort.

But perched on a sliver of steel, twenty-six stories above the broad expanse of the Texas panhandle is a far cry from the eight-by-fourteen foot jail cell he found himself in four years ago. Alvarro's trip from prison to views rivaling some CEO's was made possible by a growing trend of economic empowerment programs creating " green-collar jobs" for low-income youth in the nation's emerging renewable energy economy.

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