   
Al Gore's Challenge: 100 Percent Carbon-Free in 10 Years
Former Vice President Al Gore challenged the nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and clean, carbon-free sources within 10 years. Watch the video here.
The Blue Green Alliance welcomed Vice President Gore's challenge. Read the release here.
What is a green job? The We Campaign highlights green workers from all over the country. Read more about them here.
BGA Executive Director Dave Foster said in a Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial that global-warming solutions can create green jobs here at home. Read it here.
Blue Green Teams with We Campaign
USW, BGA and the We Campaign held 13 town halls where hundreds of people discussed creating green jobs, combating global climate change and improving the economy. More info? Sign-up here.
Teamsters Advocate Green Economy
Teamsters General President James Hoffa advocated long-term solutions to the energy crisis. "If we are to prosper as a nation, our future lies in a green economy," he said. Read the release here.
Obama Praises Blue Green Alliance
Speaking to the United Steelworkers convention, Obama said change is building on the "path-breaking" Blue Green Alliance. Check out the video.
Up North
At the 25th National Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress May 26-30, two climate change resolutions and a policy paper addressing green jobs were passed. Read more.
The United Steelworkers (USW), the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Green for All and the Blue Green Alliance, a partnership of the USW and Sierra Club, have launched the national Green Jobs for America campaign. Running through the fall, the campaign will focus on a commitment to clean, renewable energy to make the U.S. more energy-independent, to help end our dependence on fossil fuels and to create hundreds of thousands of green jobs. Read our press release. Visit the campaign web site.
Report: Job Opportunities for the Green Economy
Job Opportunities for the Green Economy: A State-by-State Picture of Occupations that Gain from Green Investments is a new report from the Political Economy Research Institute, Universityof Massachusetts, Amherst. The report, sponsored by NRDC as part of the organization's involvement in the Green Jobs for America campaign, examines 12 states and the people employed in occupations affected by six green economic strategies: building retrofitting, mass transit, energy-efficient automobiles, wind power, solar power and cellulosic biofuels. It makes clear that millions of U.S. workers will benefit from a movement to defeat global warming and transform the United States into a green economy. Download the report, and read the press release, state fact sheets, news coverage (see right column, this page), and a blog posting by NRDC's Pete Altman.
Making it Green
On Earth Day in April, the Blue Green Alliance joined with the cities
of Minneapolis and Saint Paul to release "Making it Green in
Minneapolis Saint Paul," a report providing a blueprint for pursuing
green manufacturing and taking advantage of the expanding business
sectors related to green products and design.
Read the press release and report.
National Conference
HOLD THE DATE: The 2009 Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference
will be held February 4-6 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
in Washington,DC. Mark your calendars -- and look for more
information in the coming weeks. If you would like updates about
this important event, join our mailing list.
See a brief ABC News broadcast about the 2008 event.
Blue and Green in Bali
Read dispatches from climate talks in Indonesia sent by David
Foster, Blue Green Alliance Executive Director, and Roxanne
Brown, Steering Committee Member.
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