Green Economy Task Force

Jobs and Occupations 

Greener Pathways: Jobs and Workforce Development in the Clean Energy Economy

This report details economic and workforce development opportunities in three leading industries: energy efficiency, wind, and biofuels. It identifies examples of middle-skill occupations (requiring more than high school but less than a four- year degree) in each sector and whether each requires moderate or long-term on-the-job training.

Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States  

This report focuses on how a clean energy agenda will create job opportunities for low- income people. It shows the number and types of jobs estimated from spending in three clean energy investment areas-energy efficiency building retrofits, public transportation, and smart grid electrical transmission systems-and three renewable energy areas: solar power, wind power, and biomass fuels. It sorts occupations into three educational credential categories: jobs requiring a college degree, some college, and high school or less.

Philadelphia Factsheet

Career Pathways

Charting a Path: An Exploration of the Statewide Career Pathway Efforts in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin

This report encapsulates the journeys taken by Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin in establishing career pathways. It begins with an exploration of the vision and framework guiding career pathways in each state and then details who is being served (both students and employers), the support services available to aid with persistence and completion of pathways programs, and the outcomes being measured and achieved.

Curriculum

Professor Raquel Pinderhughes, San Francisco State University

Raquel Pinderhughes is Professor of Urban Studies at San Francisco State University. Her teaching, research and community activism focus on improving quality of life for people living and working in cities. Her areas of expertise include sustainable urban development, urban infrastructures, environmental justice, green collar jobs, appropriate technologies, urban agriculture, community food security, and local food systems. Email

Partnerships

Community of Practice Conference Call Series: Green Pathways Out of Poverty through Partnerships and Recovery,

All across the country, exciting partnerships are forming. Unlikely allies are coming together to create model green job training programs that successfully build pathways out of poverty. And the Recovery Act includes green job training grants to fund these programs, for which the Department of Labor will begin soliciting proposals in June.  On this call presenters: discussed the Department of Labor’s green jobs training grants; emphasized the importance of partnerships between community, labor, industry, higher education and workforce systems in order for programs to become successful and to qualify for the DOL green jobs training grants; and gave examples of successful partnerships among unlikely allies.

Sustaining Partnerships for Regional Economic Growth: A Compendium of Promising Practices and Tools

This publication is a collection of promising practice partnership examples from community colleges across the country and some tools useful for partnership planning, management, and evaluation from programs, policymakers, and intermediaries. 

Building Effective Partnerships Between the Public Workforce System and Faith-based and Community Organizations

This publication is a step-by-by step guide to developing and implementing a FBCO network. Each step draws on lessons from the PRO WIBs and Seedco’s experience.

Case Studies Laborers International Union of North America, Weatherization Training Program, Website; LIUNA Website

L.A. Trade-Technical College, Green College Initiative

This website provides information and resources about the Green College Initiative @ LATTC within the Division of Workforce Education and Economic Development. Los Angeles Trade-Technical College seeks to be a significant contributor in creating the new energy economy through green-related policy, education, and practices by (1) creating the demand side of the green economy through green building practices and by operating “Green Businesses Within a College” employing policies and practices that meet clean and green standards and (2) providing the supply side of the green economy by developing and implementing education training and degree programs for high growth, high-demand, and emerging green-related industries and occupations.

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