Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/environment/page/4/)
Union leaders, elected officials, scientists and others speak out on the global environmental crisis and how we can and must change course in the documentary film “11th Hour,” created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
“Bring Home the Recovery Act: Creating Green Jobs for Minnesotans” will be the theme of a community forum Wednesday evening in Hastings.
With both the state and federal governments putting new emphasis on “green” economic development, Ray Zeran is one of many workers ready to fill the ranks of a new “green collar” workforce.
Unionists, environmentalists and several senators discussed a wide range of ideas of creating "good jobs green jobs" at a 3-day conference last week in Washington, but a report by a pro-union jobs organization warned that often green jobs aren\’t all that good – or unionized.
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., urged 2,000 delegates to the Good Jobs Green Jobs conference to build support in communities across the nation for a new, green economy.
From Feb. 4–6 in Washington, D.C. — just weeks after a new Congress and new administration take office — the 2009 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference will set the stage for stakeholders from across the country to forge an agenda for realizing the enormous opportunities to be achieved by investing in green jobs.
About 50 community leaders, office holders and activists gathered at the Urban League in Minneapolis last Saturday to declare themselves ready for the transition to a new economy driven by so-called "green-collar" jobs.
It wasn\’t many years ago that union members and environmentalists didn\’t mesh very well. Things have changed on many levels now and unionized construction and manufacturing workers are seeing the benefit of a "green economy" as job losses multiple in more traditional employment sectors.
As national unemployment passed 6 percent for the month of August, a new report shows the United States can create two million jobs nationwide by investing in renewable energy technologies that will strengthen the economy and fight global warming.
Union members, environmentalists and other citizens rallied Sunday to call on Governor Tim Pawlenty and other elected leaders to create and implement a plan for "green jobs."