Sustainable South Bronx: Green Jobs, Not Jails
Sustainable South Bronx connects poverty alleviation with the environment in ways that benefit both concerns. Their Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training program has successfully moved people from welfare into living wage green-collar jobs for 4 years, while SSBx concurrently advocates policies that fuel demand for those jobs.
Sustainable South Bronx connects poverty alleviation with the environment in ways that benefit both concerns. Their Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training program has successfully moved people from welfare into living wage green-collar jobs for 4 years, while SSBx concurrently advocates policies that fuel demand for those jobs.
SSBx has launched a nationwide consulting service to help cities and other interested parties link the green-collar assets in their area with liabilities in storm-water management, public health, law enforcement, education, and quality of life. Balancing those real cost/benefit relationships produces surprising economic benefits, and improves the environment.
Excerpted from the forthcoming publication, Green-Collar Jobs: Guidance for Cities, by the Apollo Alliance, Green for All, Center for American Progress, and Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
