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Apr 20, 2010
Darhiana Mateo
Artists. Innovators. Advocates. Grassroots Warriors. These are the new brown faces of the green movement. During a time when environmental issues are still not viewed as a priority for people of color, this group of fearless Latino leaders from across the country and representing various sectors, are proof that we not only get the message, we're leading the way.
Feb 4, 2010
Twin Cities Daily Planet
Feb 3, 2010
Mother Nature Network
Green jobs training programs received a significant boost in funding thanks to the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The ARRA legislation provided funds for a variety of clean energy job training programs and also funded the Green Jobs Act of 2007. Although ARRA funding is still making its way to green jobs training programs across the nation, President Obama has set aside millions of dollars from the fiscal year 2011 budget to continue the trend.
Feb 1, 2010
www.statesman.com
As politicians wrestle with how to create jobs in a hobbled economy, an environmental group has come up with a guide to help people find renewable energy and energy efficiency work.
The Texas Green Jobs Guidebook , published by Environmental Defense Fund , profiles more than 200 types of green jobs , giving information on job training and placement programs and city-specific overviews of work force Web sites and community college program listings.
Jan 21, 2010
NY Times
SAN JOSE — At dawn, Maria Lupercio Alarcon wakens to the heady scent of onions and cilantro from her family’s first garden, outside her bedroom window.
The two-month-old vegetable garden, from which Mrs. Alarcon picks extravagant bursts of broccoli for breakfast with scrambled eggs, is both comforting and unfamiliar. It is one of 30 backyard vegetable gardens recently planted by a nonprofit group here called La Mesa Verde, or The Green Table, which makes house calls to help residents of the city’s low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhoods grow their own organic produce.
Dec 22, 2009
ABC
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In this down economy, a lot of college grads are struggling to find jobs. However, that may not be the case for the young people who received their diplomas on Monday. They have finished a training program designed to help them turn their lives around and to compete in a growing industry.
Dec 21, 2009
LA Times
Green businesses are blooming in California, creating jobs at a faster pace than the broader economy, a new study has found.
The report from Next 10, a nonprofit research group in Palo Alto, explores California's "core green economy," including areas such as research and advocacy, finance and investment, energy efficiency, recycling and building. The study, to be released today, determined that the number of green companies surged 45% from 1995 to 2008, and total jobs in areas such as energy efficiency, renewable fuels and clean tech grew 36%. During the same period general employment in the state expanded just 13%.
Dec 1, 2009
Philadelphia Inquirer
With a promise of $49 million in inducements from Gov. Rendell, a Greek solar-cell maker says it will break ground next year on a sprawling manufacturing facility in Philadelphia's Navy Yard.
Dec 1, 2009
Philly.com
Pennsylvania and New Jersey have been awarded more than $2.6 million in federal green jobs grants for workforce training and labor-market information programs.
Nov 17, 2009
The Niles Star
For some time now, the term “LEED” was the word on the street.
For those who may not be up to speed on the eco-conscious green building speak, LEED as defined by the United States Green Building Council is “an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.”
Nov 13, 2009
Reuters
This study, released at Greenbuild 2009, was conducted by the U.S. Green Building Council and Booz Allen Hamilton, and predicts that the green building industry will be responsible for the creation or support of 7.9 million jobs, contributing $554 billion to the U.S. GDP, in the next four years.
Nov 9, 2009
mnn.com
To help launch the Greenbuild 2009 festivities, the U.S. Green Building Council will be hosting a green building job fair tomorrow, November 10, 2009.
Nov 5, 2009
blog.aflcio.org
With more than 2 million U.S. manufacturing jobs lost since the beginning of this recession in December 2007, a new report says developing a clean energy economy in the United States could create some 850,000 new manufacturing jobs.
Nov 3, 2009
Poder 360
Investment in clean energy has clear benefits. Clean energy technologies reduce pollution, help the U.S. become more energy independent, and provide sustainable fuel sources. But there is an important and often overlooked benefit to investing in clean energy for low-income workers in general, and Hispanics in particular: the clean-energy sector could create millions of good jobs at all skill levels.
Oct 30, 2009
Mother Nature Network
The latest green jobs news from around the web including an extra benefit of green jobs training and a roadmap for green collar jobs in New York City.
Oct 21, 2009
rismedia.com/
RISMEDIA, October 21, 2009—Vice President Joe Biden recently unveiled Recovery Through Retrofit, a report that builds on the foundation laid in the Recovery Act to expand green job opportunities and boost energy savings by making homes more energy efficient. Joining the Vice President were Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality; Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy; Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor; Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and Karen Mills, Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
Oct 20, 2009
Post-Gazette
Clean energy and the "green jobs" attached to it enjoyed wide support in testimony at a U.S. Senate hearing in Pittsburgh yesterday, but differences remain about how and how quickly federal policies should push those goals.
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