Resources
There are a lot of great resources available about green collar jobs. Here are a few. Whether you want to learn more about what green jobs are, how you can get involved in the movement for green jobs, or how you can find a green job for yourself, these resources will point you in the right direction.
Coalition Evaluation: A Guide to Evaluating your Coalition (Benzaken and Gullery, 2011)
Online Resources:
www.greenforall.org – Check out Green For All’s website for a lot of really accessible, easy-to-understand information about what green jobs are, and where and when they will be coming to a location near you. Green For All is “a national organization dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through a clean energy economy.” The Green For All website is kind of like a Green Jobs 101 class online. Look at their “Resources” tab for lots of information about how to create green jobs, what’s going on on the national policy level, and what it means for your community.
http://www.urbanhabitat.org – Urban Habitat is a West Coast-based organization that “builds power in low-income communities and communities of color by combining education, advocacy, research and coalition building to advance environmental, economic and social justice in the Bay Area.” The site the link will take you to has some good posts about what green jobs are and details some of the really good green jobs stuff that’s going on in California.
http://www.ellabakercenter.org – The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights “is a strategy and action center working for justice, opportunity and peace in urban America.” Clicking on the link will point you to the Ella Baker Center’s Green Collar Jobs Campaign site. There, you can find out more about what the “green wave” is all about, different policy intiatives promoting green jobs, the Green Jobs Corps, and more.
Books and other off-line reading recommendations
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solutions Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones
Appollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy