Green-Collar Job Training after Katrina

NEW ORLEANS - The shape of a national clean energy, good jobs training program for young people is gaining real definition here, where 800 young people are beginning full-time service as part of the Conservation Corps of Greater New Orleans, earning real money, educational stipends and preparing for careers in the new green economy while helping rebuild their hurricane and flood-damaged city from the ground up.
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A Good Jobs, Climate Change Law in Cascadia

Transportation is the state’s main source of air pollution, and Washington State’s new law sets goals for reducing driving. Read more

Boone Pickens’ Wind Statement

“Our dependence on imported oil is killing our economy. It is the single biggest problem facing America today,” says T. Bonne Pickens. Read more

Memphis Solar Plant Serves Hot National Market

Each year members of the IBEW at the Memphis Sharp plant produce enough solar panels to create about 64 megawatts, capable of powering 14,000 homes. Credit: IBEW for the Apollo Alliance Read more

Big Wind Lessons from a Little Missouri Town

Eric Chamberlain led the project to build four windmills to serve all of Rock Port’s electrical needs, the first time that has happened in the U.S. Credit:Lend Frison for the Apollo Alliance Read more

Waves of Clean Energy Production

Oregon is leveraging its labor, technological, and natural resources to produce clean energy from wave power and at the same time pump new economic promise into established industries. Credit: Oregon Iron Works Read more

Green Jobs Corps Graduates First Class

Menyui Leung, member of the first graduating class of Oakland’s green-collar training program, quickly landed a job installing solar panels in the San Francisco Bay Area. Credit: Lou Dematteis for the Apollo Alliance Read more

Newark’s Green Future

Newark Mayor Cory Booker teamed up with the Apollo Alliance to write a roadmap for a healthy sustainable city with economic opportunities for all citizens. Credit:Seth Sherman courtesy of The Trust for Public Land Read more

NYC Apollo helps write PlaNYC2030

New York City will add one million more people over the next two decades. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg responded with an ambitious program to make the city cleaner, greener, more prosperous, and a mecca for jobs. Read more

New Solar Plant in the American Desert

Nevada Solar One uses more than 180,000 curved mirrors arranged in parabolic troughs to concentrate the sun’s rays onto tubes filled with synthetic oil to boil water into steam. Credit: Ansco Machine Company Read more

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