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- Green for All Launches Program to Help Green Businesses Secure Stimulus Funds
- Green for All is launching a couple new tools to help green investors, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs get involved in the growing clean energy economy. They're offering a free webinar on September 9th, and a comprehensive online guide to help businesses and nonprofit groups secure stimulus funding to create green jobs.
- Green For All extends a hand to small business
- Small businesses have a key role to play in moving toward a “green” economy, but they could use a little help, according to Green For All.
- Group participates in 9/11 community cleanup
- Murfreesboro residents joined thousands across the country for a national day of service and remembrance Friday. The event was part of Green The Block, a campaign directed by Green For All and the Hip Hop Caucus to educate and mobilize low-income communities and communities of color to ensure voice and stake in the clean-energy economy.
- Tire Recycling for the Community
- President Obama is calling for a national day of service in remembrance of the 9/11 attacks, and one local group is stepping up to the plate to help. The Mayor's Litter Committee recycled tires Friday afternoon as part of the National Green the Block initiative.
- Event focuses on ‘green’ jobs, saving energy: Beshear kicks off ‘Green the Block Day’ at the Housing Authority of BG
- Gov. Steve Beshear came to Bowling Green on Friday to join many local organizations in promoting energy efficiency and environmentally friendly jobs. Beshear arrived Friday morning to kick off “Green the Block Day,” part of a nationwide initiative sponsored by the White House.
- Green-Collar Graduations Show the Promise of Stimulus Funds
- It's no secret that there is plenty of work ahead of us in moving the U.S. to a green economy. The trouble is not in finding people who need work, but rather in finding qualified and well trained workers to take on those jobs.
- California’s green dream
- America is waking up to the reality of peak oil and climate change. In California there are very different responses to the crisis: some pin their hopes on new technology, while others advocate a radical change of lifestyle
- A Labor Leader for Good Jobs and a Clean Environment
- An interview with new Green For All CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
- Navigating the Jobs Crisis: Clean Energy and Good Jobs Go Hand in Hand
- It’s difficult for most Americans to accept data indicating an end to the recession for a simple reason – they don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.
- NC green power jobs expected to grow from stimulus
- The $787 billion federal stimulus package signed into law Tuesday was expected to mean more than $163 million in spending on North Carolina energy efficiency projects in the next two years, money that could pump new life into businesses that offer energy alternatives.
- Green-collar Jobs: Equal Pay for Equal Work
- Today is Equal Pay Day, a national day of awareness to draw attention to the lingering gap between women's and men's wages.
- Bradley-Burns Champions Green Jobs During Lunch Keynote
- Melissa Bradley-Burns considers green jobs to be tools to rebuild communities, and she’s pursuing this mission with the nonprofit group Green for All.
- Clean Energy and Good Jobs Go Hand in Hand.
- It’s difficult for most Americans to accept data indicating an end to the recession for a simple reason – they don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.
- Nonprofit Leaders Attend Obama Jobs Forum
- President Obama today is holding a White House event to discuss job growth, and some charity leaders will be rubbing shoulders with executives from Google and Disney. The guest list is primarily made up of business people, union leaders, and mayors, but a few charity officials will be among the 130 or so attendees. They include Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, chief executive of Green for All, an Oakland, Calif., group focused on creating “green jobs”;
- Congressman Ben Ray Luján praised for fighting for green job-training funds
- First, a vote by U.S. Rep. Harry Teague, D-Hobbs, for a controversial cap-and-trade energy bill was labeled as “the most daring of any in his caucus” in an article published in The Politico. Now, the Huffington Post is publishing a commentary that mentions U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-Santa Fe, as one who joined a coalition that “successfully pushed to include key provisions in the bill — provisions that will bring economic opportunity to disadvantaged communities.”
- LTE: Clean Energy for America
- Members of the U.S. House of Representatives took an historic step last week to address America’s economic, energy and climate challenges by passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). Unfortunately, Representative Glenn Thompson voted to protect the status quo and against advancing this legislation that will unleash investment in clean energy and, for the first time, put national limits on global warming pollution.
- College students are flocking to sustainability degrees, careers
- Students interested in pursuing a job in sustainability now can choose from a variety of "green" degree programs.
- The American Worker: An Endangered Species
- To the iconic image of a polar bear struggling onto a crumbling ice floe, or that of a condor chick peering from its man-made nest, we must add another image: that of an American worker at his trade. Endangered species are a concern to all environmentalists, and the plight of the worker should be no different.
- Getting in on the Green Ground Floor
- African Americans have traditionally been last in line for America’s economic advances. The burgeoning green movement offers an opportunity to change that.
- Aiming to Create Green Jobs and Returns
- A new investment fund set to launch Friday hopes to cash in on the billions of dollars set aside by the government for environmentally friendly “green” projects.
- Clean Energy Working in Portland
- I was in Olympia again yesterday tracking the progress of the Energy Efficiency Financing Act, a bill being considered by the Washington State Legislature. The legislation would make it easier for local governments to create innovative financing for energy efficiency retrofits in the residential sector.
- Top 9 green video blogs
- Go green YouTube-style with these great green video blogs.
- Green Jobs Take Youth Miles High
- When La’Kyla Byrd cleared trails and tended to trees in Denver’s City Park this past year as a member of Mile High Youth Corps, she also cleared a path for herself and three siblings out of the violent and drug-infested neighborhood of their childhood into college and service-oriented futures.
- New reports highlight Florida clean energy job creation and impact of cap and trade legislation
- Several new studies this week indicate that clean energy investments will bring benefits in Florida for job creation, consumer savings and economic opportunities. Another report says any negative economic impact from federal cap and trade legislation to limit heat-trapping gases, will be "very modest or even negligible."
- Report: Clean energy bill would produce jobs, boost economy
- As clean energy and climate legislation moves through Congress, new data show that a $2.9 billion investment would create 36,000 new jobs in Missouri.
- Reports: Clean-energy shift adds jobs
- State could get 38,000, environmental groups say.
- Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, champion of the working American
- Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, the Robin Hood of Silicon Valley, is America's new Queen of Green
- 4 years after Katrina: Lessons from the Gulf Coast
- Four years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. As the Gulf Coast struggled to keep its head above water, the rest of us were glued to the news - astounded at first by the awful destruction, and then by the inadequate response to so much human suffering.
- Green Your Block on September 11th with Green For All & the Hip Hop Caucus
- Care about green jobs and greening your community? Then pay attention. Green For All and the Hip Hop Caucus have launched a new campaign: Green the Block. Their first major national service event will take place on September 11th as part of the National Day of Service and Remembrance.
- Former mechanic looking to find a "green-collar job"
- NEOSHO, MO. - With layoffs and stores closing, working adults are looking for alternative job options. One Neosho mechanic found his alternative in energy resources. Jeff Glenn is a husband, father, and had a career as a mechanic all his life until he was layed off earlier this year. "In the back of your mind it's 'I need to go back to school because that's where the jobs are,'" he says. Jeff enrolled in Crowder College, he's learning skills that will ready him for a job in alternative energy, a growing field.
- San Francisco Moves Ahead with Plans to Build 5MW Solar Farm
- SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- San Francisco took a major step today toward building California's largest solar photovoltaic system -- a plan that would more than triple the city's solar energy output by carpeting the rooftop of its biggest reservoir with almost 25,000 panels.
- From Pollution-Based to Inclusively Green
- With the American Recovery and Investment Act allotting millions of dollars in support of green-collar training, weatherization, and more energy-efficient infrastructure, now is a ripe time for minority entrepreneurs to jump into an industry that can not only help communities, but be good for bottom lines.
- Earning their 'green-collar' credentials
- About 150 lucky young people will form the ranks of a new Green Job Corps in San Mateo County this fall, one of several "green collar" pilot projects around the Bay Area to receive a first flush of federal stimulus dollars.
- Climate of denial
- Last weekend was a good one for climate-change deniers. A hacker stole and released scores of documents, including personal e-mail exchanges, from a server at Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, a premier climate-change research center.
- Climate Equity Hits Home
- The great tragic irony of climate change is that the worst suffering and biggest burden will fall upon the most innocent people. That is to say that those least responsible for the greenhouse gasses accumulating in our atmosphere are most vulnerable to the harmful effects of a warming planet. It is also to say that, if solutions aren’t approached prudently, the poor—the very people who have done the least to cause the problem—will pay a disproportionately high price as we transition towards a new low-carbon world.
- Youth Find Hope in Economic Climate Shift
- An estimated 10,000 young people descended on Washington over the weekend to press lawmakers to take action on climate change and to support the burgeoning green economy. The four-day conference known as Powershift 09 culminates today with a keynote address by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a day of lobbying Congress members on issues ranging from reducing carbon emissions to creating green jobs.
- Local teacher, social advocate to speak in D.C.
- Help save the environment, give jobs to society's forgotten men and jump-start the economy. All at the same time. It's a big task, but that's what Bob Markholt is trying to do.
- The Clean Energy Bill Story You Haven't Heard
- In these days following the House of Representatives' passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), there's a wide range of opinions on the implications of this massive bill - particularly among progressive and environmental groups.
- Blacks Getting a Seat at the Green Table
- BlackEnteprise.com spoke with Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO of Green for All, and Gina E. Wood, the director of policy and planning at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies -- both attending the conference-- about the summit, getting blacks more involved in a green energy economy, and shaping the climate change discussion.
- Report touts green investment: 2,920 jobs could be created in northern Ohio
- Investing $290 million in clean energy projects would create 2,920 jobs around northern Ohio, according to a new report.
- Florida needs to increase clean energy jobs
- MoveOn.org hosted a Clean Energy Jobs Day in Florida to help promote awareness about green jobs in the Sunshine State.
- American Recovery Act turns growth green in Columbia
- Brad McConnell was well aware of the nascent movement for energy-efficient housing when he started a contracting company last October that specializes in weatherizing homes. What he didn't foresee was the enormity of federal stimulus funding aimed at creating green-collar jobs to support the push for energy efficiency.
- Do Green Jobs Create Greener Americans?
- Most “green job” training programs aim to teach low-income workers the job skills necessary to join the nascent clean-tech economy: energy-efficiency retrofitting, wind turbine maintenance, brownfield remediation and so forth.
- Sen. Kerry to youth on climate bill: We’re gonna need your help
- On a conference call Tuesday night with young climate activists, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) served up several newsy tidbits, starting with his hint that sort-of climate news will come out of President Obama’s upcoming trip to China and that getting a bill through Congress will mean compromising with Republicans who want more nuclear energy. Kerry’s comments came on a call organized by Green For All focusing on how young people can help up the ante in demanding a clean energy future.
- We're all in this together
- "The disaster is already in progress, but we have it in our power to end this injustice," Desmond Tutu, COP15 So begins the email that Green for All's Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins sent from Copenhagen at 3 a.m--a message that sums up the climate change-driven disaster that everyone is facing, even if they haven't admitted it, yet.
- Morning Joe: Turning America Green
- Green For All CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins on Morning Joe.
- A green jobs charter high school
- Phoenix may soon get funding for a combined charter school and community college campus that focuses on green jobs training.
- Color of Money
- Very few of the stimulus dollars allocated for energy efficiency -- and the green jobs they can create -- have been allocated or spent by governments. At first this might seem a bit discouraging. But Green for All, a national advocacy and action agency focused on energy efficiency and green jobs, has highlighted local stimulus spending in a recent report.
- Color of Money
- Very few of the stimulus dollars allocated for energy efficiency -- and the green jobs they can create -- have been allocated or spent by governments. At first this might seem a bit discouraging. But Green for All, a national advocacy and action agency focused on energy efficiency and green jobs, has highlighted local stimulus spending in a recent report.
- $500M in Labor Department Grants Available for Green Job Training Programs
- Grant competitions opened today for $500 million in Recovery Act funds for training programs that will help retool the U.S. workforce for a clean energy economy.
- $150 billion = 1.7 million green jobs
- A new report by Green for All looks at the effect a $150 billion investment would have on green jobs in the U.S.
- House Passes Landmark Climate Change Bill, Now Heads to Senate
- The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed a sweeping climate change bill today that will significantly change the way Americans use and produce energy.
- Obama admin teams with grassroots groups to ‘Green the Block’
- Ensuring that low-income communities and minority youth benefit from green jobs programs is the goal of a new partnership between the White House and two grassroots organizations—Hip Hop Caucus and Green For All.
- Will clean energy hurt low-income Americans?
- A common argument among opponents of strong climate and energy legislation is that transitioning to clean energy will hurt the economy and low-income Americans.
- 10 black women you should know
- Every social movement in history has involved great women striving so that justice and equality may be achieved. Here are 10 black women who are leading the struggle for change on many of the issues affecting our community today.
- Weatherizing Portland
- Clean Energy Works Portland is a groundbreaking new program that enables Portland residents to improve the energy efficiency of their homes and pay for the improvements over time through their utility bills. “We wanted to have this project reflect some higher set of goals beyond just retrofitting homes and reducing carbon emissions,” said Derek Smith of Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, the city’s go-to person on the Clean Energy Works Portland program. Smith of the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability said he got the idea to bring labor and training standards and community benefits into the program from being part of the Green For All “community of practice.”
- UPDATED WITH AUDIOCAST LINK! Join Mayor Adams on Green for All's National Call about Portland's Innovation
- Last Thursday, Mayor Adams joined with Phaedra Ellis Lamkins, Green For All CEO and Margie Harris, Executive Director of Energy Trust of Oregon to discuss Clean Energy Works Portland on Green For All's National Call about Recovery Innovation in Portland.
- Green Economy Investments Bring 300 Percent More Jobs, Reports Find
- Two new reports on the impacts of moving to a low-carbon economy show putting money toward energy efficiency, building retrofits and renewable energy projects can create 1.7 million new jobs, significantly more than the same investment in fossil fuel industries.
- Report: Clean energy could create 39K jobs in Tenn.
- Tennessee could create some 39,000 jobs and bring in $3 billion in investment revenue as the result of a $150 billion investment in a clean energy economy, according to two reports released Thursday.
- Green For All at the Green Business Conference
- Many of us know the story of Green For All. It’s a beautiful congruence of old school environmentalism, sustainable economic development, and social justice. It’s one of the great feel-good stories of the new economy. So where is Green For All now? Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins spoke to the Green Business Conference about their vision for the future.
- Corzine lauds green-collar jobs training at program launch in Trenton
- TRENTON — Gov. Jon S. Corzine today helped launch a training program that will create hundreds of so-called green-collar jobs for high school graduates.
- Just Green Jobs: Transitioning towards an environ-mental economy
- Organizers of the Power Shift Canada 2009 conference are looking to bring hundreds of young activists from across the country to Ottawa, from October 23-26, to discuss climate change in the run-up to the United Nations Climage Change Conference in Copenhagen this December. But along with climate change, the Ottawa conference will also be looking to empower attendees to participate in the transition to green jobs. I had the opportunity to sit down with Ben Powless, a Power Shift organizer who had just returned from the Green For All Academy in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
- Five Who are Keeping Martin Luther King Alive
- Much attention is paid to Dr. Martin Luther King's 'dream,' but in the past tense...as if he only talked about blacks and whites lining up and singing "Kum Bah Yah" together. But that's the campy early '70s misinterpretation of what he stood for that was old for most of us by third grade.
- Stimulus can energize Asheville's green economy
- ASHEVILLE – In the green industry of tomorrow, electricians will wire solar panels with the aid of instructions loaded into an iPod.
- Kentucky's 'clean energy corps' to weatherize 10,000 homes
- State officials will launch a "clean energy corps" in Lexington today, seeking to provide "weatherization on steroids" to as many as 10,000 low-income households in Kentucky.
- Climate Equity Alliance's Walsh discusses consumer protection measures in Kerry-Boxer
- Does the Kerry-Boxer climate bill adequately protect low- and middle-income households from rising energy prices? During today's OnPoint, Jason Walsh, national policy director at Green for All, a founding member of the Climate Equity Alliance, discusses the consumer protection provisions of the bill and explains how the distribution of allowances will affect consumers.
- Clean-Energy Investment Could Boost Arkansas Economy, Reports Say
- Several environmental and energy groups released reports Thursday that detail what clean energy and climate legislation moving through Congress could mean for the state.
- Report: Las Vegas could be magnet for green jobs
- Clean energy emphasis could produce 5,000 new jobs, says report
- The Story Behind The Recovery Numbers.
- 640,329 That figure represents the number of jobs that have been created or saved so far through the Recovery Act, according to a report released by the Obama administration on Friday. But the true significance of this number lies in the people behind it.
- Environmental threats contaminate our health and prosperity
- Heart disease, cancer and respiratory illness are three of the top four deadliest health threats in America. They account for more than half of the deaths in the nation and all three have an overwhelming impact on black communities. Blacks visit the emergency room for asthma at three and a half times the average rate that whites do, and die from it twice as often.
- Helping the Earth can profit you, too
- Germanna holds conference on green jobs
- Frito-Lay's SunChips Brand and National Geographic Team With Eco Ambassadors to Celebrate People Taking Small Steps for Big Change
- SunChips, a brand of Frito-Lay North America, a division of PepsiCo, and National Geographic announced today that environmental experts and green champions, along with American consumers, will help determine the winners of its "Green Effect" national contest, now underway.
- MDC students, professors pick up garbage in Liberty City
- Walking with plastic bags in their hands, student and professors from Miami Dade College's Carrie P. Meek Entrepreneurial Education Center picked up garbage to celebrate Green the Block National Day of Service on Sept. 11.
- Green for All: Weatherize NYC - VIDEO
- We often think of pollution as something that comes from factories and large corporations, but in fact much of the greenhouse gases causing climate change come from everyday homes. Green for All is leading the charge for sustainable jobs that support working people; this video from Green for All and GOOD magazine takes a look at companies weatherizing homes in New York and the benefits to consumers, workers, and the world.
- Retirees become Isles unto others at nonprofit
- The Trenton nonprofit Isles manages a diverse portfolio of programs, from its YouthBuild alternative high school that guides at-risk teens into careers, to the home rehab program that’s housed hundreds of urban families and the financial self-reliance program that makes microloans to fledgling businesses.
- Green-Collar Jobs Task Force aims to help fix economy
- The high unemployment rate is even higher in distressed communities, but a task force being recommended by two Metro Council members may help relieve the economic stress by creating green jobs.
- This 9/11, Urban Communities Remember and Serve
- This September 11th, communities are honoring those who lost their lives eight years ago by participating in service activities. Churches, schools, and community groups are holding nearly one-hundred Green the Block service events in more than 24 states.
- Education & awareness: Key to building the foundation for a green community
- In response to the national program of greening the community, a group of educational and community-based organizations answered the call by launching the Green the Block campaign. Green the Block is a joint campaign of Green For All and the Hip Hop Caucus. Job Corps joined them in implementing the program by urging its 122 centers all over the country to participate.
- Douglass High students 'Green the block'
- It's hard to separate Douglass High School from Douglass the North Memphis neighborhood. On Friday, Sept. 11 -- a national day of service and remembrance -- they were one as students streamed down streets of single-family homes, rapped on barred and locked doors and watched as the looks on faces changed from worry to wonder in the first "Green the Block" campaign in Memphis.
- Residents out to Green the Block: Day of Service event celebrated Friday
- As part of President Obama’s National Day of Service, residents of the Renaissance Senior Community in Elizabeth City took part in Friday’s Green the Block, which also served as a memorial for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to event coordinator Erica Ramjohn.
- Expanded Coalitions Support U.S. Climate Bill
- In an effort to broaden support for sweeping climate legislation, environmentalists are forming atypical alliances with other progressive social organizations.
- Lessons from the coal industry: Using vs. Engaging communities of color
- This week revealed some of the best and worst moments in the role of people of color in the struggle over our nation’s energy and economic future. First, fraudulent attempts by coal lobbyists to defeat clean energy legislation, by faking support from communities of color, were uncovered.
- Green Jobs Movement Leaves Women Behind
- A report by the U.N. released last week found that women eat more vegetables, use less fuel for travel, and are more likely to buy eco-friendly products than men. Yet in the bio-fuel and energy sectors, women comprise only 18.7 and 7.6 percent, respectively, of the total workforce in those industries. Moreover, the numbers for minority women were even lower—only 4 percent of green jobs are held by African-American or Latino women, according to a study by the Women of Color Policy Network.
- Will a Greener World Be Fairer, Too?
- The impact of climate legislation stretches well beyond the environment. Climate policy will significantly impact jobs, energy prices, entrepreneurial opportunities, and more.
- Reflections on the Way to the Climate Change Summit
- The solution to our climate crisis and poverty are one in the same, says Green for All CEO
- Offshoots of Nonprofit Groups at Work in the Green Economy
- Mr. Casasnovas, an employee of SmartRoofs L.L.C., was doing routine maintenance on the vegetative roof, which his company installed in June 2003. The company, based in the Bronx, is one of the few green roofers in the New York metropolitan area. But what makes SmartRoofs even more unusual is that it is part of a tiny but growing trend among small businesses: for-profit ventures spun off by nonprofit groups that teach the job skills necessary to join the nascent green economy.
- The nexus of clean energy and green jobs
- John McCain and Barack Obama agree that global warming is man-made, and both want to find a way to reverse its course. McCain emphasizes nuclear energy — which does not emit any global warming carbon dioxide — as the solution, advocating a substantial number of new nuclear plants by 2030.
- We Can Build An Inclusive Green Economy
- This morning, Senate debate on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act came to an end. It was a missed opportunity to robustly debate a critical issue facing the country. The bill had the potential, particularly if strengthened during the amendment process, to affect profound and positive change for both the American people and the planet.
- SCENE & HEARD: Recycling can also help restore people
- What do you see when you look at an empty wine bottle? Is it an item to be cast aside, added to the piles of other discarded items removed from our view?
- Green industries offer job growth opportunity
- When a Republican candidate for president starts talking about limiting greenhouse gases during a speech at a wind turbine plant you know there’s an environmental wave going on. All the presidential candidates, including John McCain who spoke about climate change at a wind energy facility in Oregon this month, have green initiatives on their agendas, and states across the country are embarking on initiatives to cut pollution and a reliance on fossil fuels. Not to mention homeowners who don’t want to be at the mercy of electric and oil companies. Solar, wind and biofuels are all growing alternatives, and these fairly young industries will need people — people to produce, install and sell their products. That means a wave of employment opportunities — so-called green-collar jobs — could sweep the nation.
- Past and Present
- Forty and counting: the dubious merits of being America's civil rights city. At a University of Memphis forum last week commemorating the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, a young man in the audience asked the panelists if Memphis was forever stuck in 1968.
- Getting together for green jobs
- Yesterday in Memphis, a crowd stood outside the Lorraine Motel to quietly honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the place where he died 40 years ago. All day long, it rained.
- A dream reborn
- The following are my introductory remarks to the Dream Reborn conference, beginning today and running through the weekend in Memphis, Tenn. Forty years ago today, on April 4, 1968, a sniper assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King had come to Memphis, Tennessee, to aid striking sanitation workers. The preeminent civil rights leader of his time, he was only 39 years old.
- Green-collar jobs: latest studies
- Thanks to the recent presidential election where candidates U.S. Sen. John McCain and President-elect Barack Obama pegged some of their economic recovery plans on reducing independence on foreign oil and creating jobs in the renewable energy sector, the "green economy" movement has taken on new life.
- Green jobs coming to Albuquerque
- On Wednesday of last week Mayor Martin Chávez signed a “Green Jobs Pledge” at the ICLEI summit, held in Albuquerque, committing the city to invest in community-based jobs training to ensure a skilled local workforce for emerging green industries. The green jobs pledge signed by the mayor was developed in part by the folks at Green For All, who also provided help with the creation of the city council initiative. Such across the board agreement bodes well for the future of Albuquerque workers, as well as the companies who depend on them.
- Green Collar Job Training Program Focuses on At-risk Youth
- The city of Santa Fe has found that two of its problems, a high percentage of high school drop outs and a lack of green collar workers, have the same solution -- a green collar job training program that recruits from a pool of at risk youths.
- What Is a Green-Collar Job, Exactly?
- What do presidential candidates John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have in common — aside from the obvious? They all love green-collar jobs. Obama promises to spend $150 billion over 10 years to create 5 million new green collar jobs. Clinton references the term repeatedly on the trail, and says her energy plan will create millions of new green-collar jobs as well. McCain is less willing to cite numbers, but he too assures campaign audiences that action to decarbonize America's economy will produce "thousands, millions of new jobs in America."
- The “Green Gold Rush!” Here comes the green jobs!
- During mid-summer, our nation’s gas prices soared to $4 per-gallon which led to a wide-spread discussion about a “Green Gold Rush” through the creation of new green industries to combat our country’s reliance on foreign oil.
- Obama Embraces ‘Green Path’ in Stimulus Plan to Aid Environment
- President-elect Barack Obama is considering a stimulus package that will include a heavy dose of spending on environmentally friendly projects aimed at creating “green-collar jobs” and saving energy.
- Could Newark flower as eco-city?
- For Newark Mayor Cory Booker, promoting sustainable economic development in the city would not only reduce harm to the environment but would also address some of the city's major problems.
- Now For A Green Bailout: Twice The Bang, Half The Bucks
- Maybe the Wall Street bailout package is a good idea. But the only thing I know for sure is this: even if we avert a total economic meltdown, we will still be in a recession. Millions of Americans still will be without jobs -- or in real fear of losing their job. Worse, we will still be dependent on dirty fuels like oil and coal, which are draining our monetary resources and cooking the planet.
- A new runway model
- Hangar 25 at Bob Hope Airport features several environmentally friendly features that officials hope others will copy.
- Pink slip leads to green-collar job
- After getting pink-slipped a second time by an auto supplier thanks to the woeful economy, David Shaw shifted gears. "I'd had it with auto manufacturing," said Shaw, 48, a married father of two young children who lives in Harrison Township. "I wasn't sure what I would do next but knew I wanted to be in control of my own destiny for a change." Shaw spent months weighing options and kept coming back to one thing: alternative energy. With oil prices marching higher and society focused on being green, he figured that would be more recession-proof.
- 'Green jobs' a draw at Miami Dade College event
- Activists from Democracia USA gathered at MDC North Campus as part of a larger campaign to petition the federal government for new 'green jobs.'
- Going green
- Community learns how to make environmentally friendly home upgrades
- Growing green jobs: Scope of ‘green-collar’ work increases faster than other sectors
- “There’s an enormous amount of energy-efficiency work that needs to be done in our region,” Crawford said. “There’s a work force that just has to be developed for these projects.” The scope of so-called green-collar job opportunities stretches across industries, from labor positions to executive roles.
- The O Corps
- Obama is creating a new kind of public service. (With a little help from Roosevelt and Kennedy.)
- Cities Cultivate 2 Types Of Green
- Squatting on the roof of a row house with a panoramic view of the sewage plants and warehouses that surround the South Bronx, James Wells sounds like a tree-hugger. He photographs the progress of seedlings he planted on the roof, one of his first "green roof" installations, and explains how roofs covered by soil and plants, more trees on the ground and cleaner parks are key to fighting the pollution that overwhelms the neighborhood. As he speaks, a pungent rotting smell emanates from a sewage plant.
- House Energy Bill To Boost Green Job Training
- The House of Representatives passed a sweeping energy bill Saturday that included a provision directing millions of dollars toward training a "green" workforce The Green Jobs Act of 2007 would authorize as much as $125 million a year for the national and state program to train workers in areas such as biofuel development, energy efficient buildings, renewable power, solar panel installation and energy efficient cars.
- Oakland Gives Nod To 'Green Collar' Vision
- Oakland may become the nation's first city with a "Green Jobs Corps" of workers trained in such areas as bio-fuels manufacturing and solar panel installation in an anti-poverty program that won significant city approval Tuesday. After some 150 people from various nonprofits and government agencies rallied in front of City Hall for "green jobs" creation, the public works committee of the Oakland City Council voted to ask the full council to provide $250,000 to start the program.
- A Green Corps
- We usually talk about New Deal programs in terms of their effect on the mood of Americans--they restored hope, they gave people back their dignity and so on. . . For my money, that's the kind of work that needs doing now, as we face a crisis even greater than the Depression: the quick unraveling of the planet's climate system in the face of our endless emissions of carbon dioxide.
- Gov. Gregoire announces bill to fight climate change, create jobs
- SEATTLE -- Gov. Chris Gregoire on Monday proposed legislation to direct the state Department of Ecology to design a regional cap and trade market for carbon emissions, require annual emissions reporting by all major generators of greenhouse gases, and create training programs for "green collar jobs."
- The Evergreen State in more than name
- NO more good intentions. Washington state is committed to a purposeful response to climate change.
- Legislature: One serious hope
- Washington state is taking climate change much more seriously. That's a critical step to improve our environment, health and future. At least as much as any environmental control action we recall, it's also an immensely hopeful, optimistic action.
- Millions of Jobs of a Different Collar
- Everyone knows what blue-collar and white-collar jobs are, but now a job of another hue — green — has entered the lexicon.
- America's Green Policy Vacuum
- Without a fully funded, federal alternative energy policy, the U.S. risks squandering the potential of a powerful economic engine and will continue to depend on foreign energy resources.
- It's Not Easy Being Green-Collar
- It's been hard to miss the U.S. presidential candidates talking about it on the campaign trail, and you'll hear a lot more between now and November. With Earth Day coming up, the rhetoric from Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain--and, before he dropped out, John Edwards--on the need for a program of economic revival that embraces environmental sustainability has been striking to say the least.
- Let's not wait for the blooming of another Rose
- The anniversary last week of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis brought a sold-out convention of over a thousand students, community and environmental activists, planners and scientists who are looking at ways to create new jobs in a green economy that is coping with global warming and environmental challenges. What our basketball team can't do for this city, the Memphis Regional Chamber can do. For starters, it can build community pride and economic growth by leading this city's power structure into working alliances with the environmental jobs convention organizers, Green For All, and other such vanguard efforts.
- ‘Green’ grants coming to Brockton
- Clean energy companies, community-based nonprofit groups, educational institutions and labor organizations are among those eligible for the $1 million that will be allocated for new “green collar” job-training grants in MA.
- Up on the Roof, New Jobs in Solar Power
- Move over, Joe the Plumber. Spencer the Solar Panel Installer is here: “Sometimes I’m 50 feet up on a steep roof and it’s so hot the tar is melting onto the bottoms of my sneakers, but I’m excited because I’m helping the environment.”
- Green Jobs Will Require New Skills Among Workers
- Green is the new blue when it comes to job skills and job security. The blue-collar jobs that have long supported a strong American middle class -- jobs for electricians, plumbers and transportation and manufacturing workers of all kinds -- are getting a green update. It's a nationwide movement to refresh the traditional trades with training in 21st century knowledge and skills.
- In the new century: Energy Security IS National Security
- Tonight the contenders for the U.S. presidency are scheduled to debate U.S. foreign policy. Maybe they will show up; maybe they won’t. But if they do come, on their way to the debate site, they literally will drive past the biggest threat to our national security. To see the biggest gun aimed at the heads of the American people, Senators Obama and McCain need look no farther than the local gas station.
- Why S.F. should shelve 'peaker plants' idea
- We are facing a major decision - whether to spend a quarter of a billion dollars on new fossil-fuel burning power plants in our city, or to initiate a program that provides incentives to install solar on rooftops citywide. The juxtaposition of approving polluting power plants while stalling a modest solar program puts at risk San Francisco's reputation as an innovator and leader in climate change.
- Greening of the masses
- Though the term "green collar" might be applied to anyone employed in a job that benefits the environment, it has come to more specifically designate the masses of blue-collar workers who will be weatherizing homes, building hybrid cars and manufacturing and erecting wind turbines. Advocates expect the green-collar workforce to be an important part of the nation's economy as more homeowners and businesses move toward conservation and renewable energy. The green gigs could replace manufacturing jobs lost to overseas labor, advocates say, and they are likely to resist outsourcing, as someone in India can't very well install a solar panel on a building in Chicago.
- Environmentalists, unions call for green-jobs plan
- A new report by an unusual coalition of environmental and labor groups seeks to plant a seed for a national, $100 billion public and private investment in an environmentally friendly, low-carbon economy that would grow 2 million new jobs over two years.
- Global Green Jobs
- “Green-collar jobs” are a hot topic these days. This is good news, certainly, for those who seek to alter our present course toward climate catastrophe. Greater awareness of the promise of a green economy allows us to challenge the too-familiar framing of “jobs vs. the environment” that has defeated so many attempts at environmental protection.
- In Support of a New (Green) Deal
- Investing in clean energy could create four times as many jobs as investing in the oil industry, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the Sierra Club, United Steelworkers, the Blue Green Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council and Audubon New York. And clean energy investment would result in about three times the number of good-paying jobs, those that pay at least $16 an hour, according to the report, which was written by the Center for American Progress and the Political Economy Research Institute.
- A Splash of Green for the Rust Belt
- LIKE his uncle, his grandfather and many of their neighbors, Arie Versendaal spent decades working at the Maytag factory here, turning coils of steel into washing machines. When the plant closed last year, taking 1,800 jobs out of this town of 16,000 people, it seemed a familiar story of American industrial decline: another company town brought to its knees by the vagaries of global trade.
- We Can Prevent Energy Disaster
- Too often in our history, national transformations are born only of great calamities. The New Deal arose from the Great Depression, our manufacturing sector matured during World War II and the end of slavery required a Civil War. Fortunately, the situation today is reversed: We can transform our country and prevent a calamity by moving now toward a clean energy economy.
- Palm Beach Community College's 'green' degree offers hope to jobless
- It fell to Palm Beach Community College Associate Dean Sam Freas to explain the school's new Electrical Power Technology degree during a recent open house for prospective students. But what the booming Philadelphia native really peddled was hope.
- Green, clean and energized in Pa.
- The talk was of job opportunities, worker training programs, and a flourishing state economy. One manager from a Kennett Square firm said her clean-energy company was hiring - and expanding - throughout the United States.
- Doing the Recovery Right
- For most of the past generation, the aims of environmental sustainability and social justice were seen as equally worthy, yet painfully and unavoidably in conflict. Tree huggers and spotted owls were pitted against loggers and hard hats. Fighting global warming was held to inevitably worsen global poverty and vice versa. Indeed, the competing demands of the environmental and social justice agendas were frequently cited as a classic example of how public policy choices were fraught with trade-offs and unintended consequences--how you could end up doing harm while seeking only to do good.
- Tennessee goes green
- States eager to tap conservation, renewable energy
- Report states millions of U.S. workers to be in demand for green jobs
- Shifting from the "dirty fossil-fuel-based" economy to one of clean energy would be a boost for millions of American workers, according to a report released Tuesday by a coalition of conservation and labor groups. The report, "Job Opportunities for the Green Economy," studied employment conditions in 12 states including Indiana, looking at a range of occupations and income levels that would benefit from America's transition toward a clean energy economy.
- California shows 'green' emerging as contributor to growth, group says
- Eco-industry jobs are expanding faster than other areas, according to a report by Next 10.
- Sustaining The Dream
- The first weekend in April, I had a chance to make history. I don’t believe that most Emory students save the eleven that came along could say that. For the Emory dozen, the weekend began early, midnight on Thursday to be exact, at the Morehouse College campus with 91 other college students from five other Atlanta universities. There, we boarded two buses to Memphis — we were going to a conference to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and to introduce a new message.
- End Crab Fishery, Plant Trees
- Too many creeks on farms are still as they were from Colonial times - stripped of their arboreal canopies and degraded by runoff and cow manure. Create leafy buffers along streams, and you improve water quality there and, eventually, downstream in the bay. This kind of thing could be going on across the nation, if funds were available for the establishment of a green work force. That's what's being advocated by Green For All, a campaign to get local, state and federal governments to fund job training and new opportunities in an emerging "green economy," particularly for the nation's poor. They want to lift people out of poverty and fight pollution at the same time.
- Will either candidate admit we need a 2nd bailout?
- With our economic crises mounting, Americans are desperate for some bold, comprehensive and holistic solutions. Will either candidate propose them? Here are three questions that I hope both candidates are asked.
- The faces of green
- The hopeful skeptic in me was the part most drawn to The Dream Reborn conference hosted by Green For All last weekend in Memphis. So once I arrived, I stuck to what I deemed the practical path, sessions with titles like "Show Me the Money" and "Green-Collar Job Training Programs: Examples and Models" that would delineate exactly how to make this green economy happen.
- Crossroads in Copenhagen
- "The disaster is already in progress, but we have it in our power to end this injustice." -Desmond Tutu, COP15 I am writing from Copenhagen. It is 3 a.m. and I am filled with incredibly conflicting emotions.
- (No) Drill, Baby, Drill
- Liberia, Costa Rica. Sailing down Costa Rica’s Tempisque River on an eco-tour, I watched a crocodile devour a brown bass with one gulp. It took only a few seconds. The croc’s head emerged from the muddy waters near the bank with the footlong fish writhing in its jaws. He crunched it a couple of times with razor-sharp teeth and then, with just the slightest flip of his snout, swallowed the fish whole. Never saw that before.
- Retraining America's workforce
- With the national unemployment rate continuing to trudge upward and dismal economic news stealing the headlines daily, a record number of Americans are deciding to hit the books. Post-secondary education is luring thousands of laid-off workers with the promise of readying them for jobs in the highly touted “green” jobs sector.
- Denver's aquaponics project aims to turn "food desert" into an oasis of health
- A dilapidated greenhouse in Denver's Elyria-Swansea neighborhood could soon sprout one of the nation's newest trends: inner-city farming using state-of-the-art technology to grow crops and fish in a single symbiotic system that mimics nature's water cycle. One of the founders of Urban Organics became inspired to start the project after a year-long fellowship at Green For All.
- Music To Their Ears
- Wyclef Jean, the multi-platinum and Grammy award-winning artist, appeared at Saturday night's “Green the Block” launch party at Lux Lounge to push a campaign that aims to educate urban America in clean-energy opportunities.
- Opportunity, Fully Funded
- Yesterday, Green For All and Living Cities unveiled the Energy Efficiency Opportunity Fund alongside President Clinton, at the closing session of Clinton Global Initiative's Annual Meeting.
- Low-income communities and the clean energy bill
- In “Green Prosperity”, top economists further confirm what we already know: Investments in clean energy are good for low-income people and the U.S economy.
- Two reports see jobs boon in spending on clean energy
- Two reports released Thursday project that if $150 billion were spent annually on clean energy rather than fossil fuels, the United States would see a net gain of 1.7 million jobs each year.
- Green projects create extra benefits - jobs
- Reports cite value of investments
- How I became an environmentalist: A small-town story with global implications
- It’s not surprising that new, popular movements and organizations are emerging in response to the ecological crisis. Climate change is the most important challenge facing humanity – and the rest of the planet – today. My story is much smaller, about one family in one town on the west coast of the United States.
- Cindy Chavez likely to replace Ellis-Lamkins as South Bay Labor Council leader
- The South Bay AFL–CIO Labor Council said Tuesday that Executive Officer Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins has resigned and will likely be replaced by former San Jose City Councilmember and Vice-Mayor Cindy Chavez.
- Pelosi pitches green message in SF
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks going green is the key to helping California out of its spiraling unemployment. She met with local leaders Saturday to explain her plan.
- Social justice groups watching how $787B is distributed
- For decades, government researchers, scholars, foundations and nonprofits have documented racial disparities across income, educational attainment, homeownership, wealth accumulation, health status, incarceration and employment, a report released Tuesday notes.
- Green jobs are a way to aid the middle class
- Today, in Philadelphia, the White House Task Force on Middle Class Families is holding its inaugural meeting. Our charge is to assess current polices and develop new ones aimed at helping the middle class, the economic engine of this country.
- Moving on a 'clean energy corps'
- Group urges U.S. Rep. Tonko to help create federal program
- Green collar job creation 'outstripped traditional sectors in US'
- Report on US job figures up to 2007 also says wind and solar sectors resisting recession better than traditional manufacturing
- A Model for Clean Energy: Good for the Economy & the Environment
- Recently, Green For All partnered with the City of Portland on a clean-energy project. On September 30, 2009, the Portland City Council passed a resolution endorsing a groundbreaking Community Workforce Agreement that will lead to the creation of thousands of good jobs in the clean-energy economy for low-income workers.
- We Can’t Forget the Poor in the Climate Change Debate
- As international climate talks conclude in Copenhagen, it is clear that we are on the verge of a historic moment. Today, 130 heads of state seek to reach an agreement on clear steps forward to solve the climate crisis. The significance of this moment cannot be overstated, especially for historically disadvantaged communities.
- Imported Lies: Debunking the Spanish Green Jobs Smear
- Spain is a country known for its romance, wine and bullfighting. But when it comes to economics and green jobs, it seems we're getting more bull than much else.
- GM's Fall Can Become Green Economy's Rise
- "De-carbonizing" the US economy means slashing our reliance on fossil energy to drive job growth and wealth, and replacing it with naturally-replenished, clean energy sources and materials.
- Growing the Green Jobs Boom
- What clean-energy Recovery investments mean for America's communities
- Green for All’s green economy roadmap
- Green for All, a leading green jobs advocacy organization, has released the green economy roadmap, which highlights good green jobs news from around the country.
- Ohio coalition pushing for clean energy jobs plan
- About two months after plans were unveiled for a Clean Energy Park Alliance centered around a proposed new nuclear power plant in Piketon, a diverse coalition is strongly urging Congress to pass a comprehensive clean energy jobs plan.
- Audio: Green Patriot Radio with David Steinman - “Eco-Therapy, the World Water Crisis, and Building the Green Collar Economy”
- Audio: David Steinman interviews Craig Chalquist, PhD. co-author of “Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind”, Steven Starr, producer of “Flow” (a documentary about the world’s water supply), and Jason Walsh, national policy director at Green for All.
- More Studies Extol Virtues of Green Jobs
- Following on the heels of a study from the Pew Charitable Trusts last week, two more reports from a broad coalition of environmental groups and research institutes suggest that clean-energy investments have the potential to kick-start the economy and employ millions of workers — particularly those at the lower end of the economic scale.
- Biden takes stage to tout green economy
- Vice President Joe Biden was back in Denver Tuesday touting the middle class and the rise of “green collar” jobs for Americans hit hardest by the economic recession.
- First 100 Days: Green power energy initiatives may light up the L.A. job market
- Growing energy needs across the Southland are shaping the region’s future, and President Obama’s agenda is providing opportunities in several arenas.
- A mal tiempo, empleo verde
- Dan las doce en el reloj de Richmond (California) y los futuros currantes verdes hacen un alto en la jornada. Humberto Vázquez, que trabajaba como repartidor de DHL hasta que golpeó la crisis, aprende ahora a instalar placas fotovoltaicas. Lefario Hall, que mascaba el tiempo en una tienda de ultramarinos a nueve dólares la hora, aspira a convertirse en experto en eficiencia energética. Michelle Hayhurst, curtida en una fábrica de azulejos, reivindica el papel de las mujeres en la nueva economía verde.
