http://apolloalliance.org Clean Energy, Good Jobs Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:25:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week, the Obama administration released its proposed Fiscal Year 2011 budget. It included several investments in the clean energy economy that Energy Secretary Steven Chu said would put Americans back to work, help build a clean energy economy, spur energy innovation, and reduce our dependence on oil. Chu’s comments were ... http://apolloalliance.org/apollo-productions/weekly-updates/obama%e2%80%99s-fyi-2011-budget-proposal-keeps-country-on-clean-energy-trajectory/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Sam Haswell: (415) 371-1700 x201                                                                                                     Authors Urge Matching of Manufacturing and Construction Skills to Demands of the Clean Energy Economy SAN FRANCISCO - The Apollo Alliance released a series of reports in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin ... http://apolloalliance.org/2010-press-releases/apollo-alliance-reports-identify-opportunities-to-retrain-workers-for-green-careers/ This week, the Apollo Alliance released a series of reports in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin that identify components of those states’ workforce development infrastructures that can be better integrated and scaled up to help fill jobs in the clean energy sector. As readers of the weekly update are well aware, ... http://apolloalliance.org/apollo-productions/weekly-updates/apollo-releases-new-reports-about-green-career-training-in-michigan-ohio-and-wisconsin/ Apollo Alliance Chairman Phil Angelides Announces Midwest Forums of Business, Labor and Environmental Leaders to Chart Course Toward Clean Energy Economy SAN FRANCISCO – In the wake of President Obama’s State of the Union call for creating clean energy jobs, Apollo Alliance Chairman Phil Angelides announced that the coalition of business, ... http://apolloalliance.org/2010-press-releases/in-state-of-the-union-president-sets-sites-on-creating-clean-energy-jobs/ DETROIT – Michigan-based Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ) is a nonprofit that has been working in the environmental and social justice space since 1994. In 2007, DWEJ launched its Green Jobs Workforce Training Program with the intent of creating a skilled workforce that will help Detroit become more attractive ... http://apolloalliance.org/green-collar-jobs/signature-stories-green-collar-jobs/detroiters-working-for-environmental-justice/ Green Affordable Housing in Indian Country is a “hands-on” green-construction training program involving Native American tribes in the upper Midwest, architects and landscape architects, builders and contractors, and students and faculty from the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Community College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The project is oriented toward community ... http://apolloalliance.org/rebuild-america/green-affordable-housing-in-indian-country/ The Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership (WRTP)/Building Industry Group Skilled Trades Employment Program (BIG STEP) is one of the nation’s preeminent labor-led sector partnerships. Working with unions, businesses, community groups and the public workforce system, WRTP/BIG STEP has helped thousands of Milwaukee-area workers – often low-income or unemployed women and people ... http://apolloalliance.org/green-collar-jobs/signature-stories-green-collar-jobs/wisconsin-models-workforce-development-partnerships/ On Wednesday night, President Obama will deliver the State of the Union speech amid rampant speculation over what issues he will choose to emphasize. Will he focus on health-care reform? The need to rein in Wall Street? His new proposal to freeze domestic spending? An issue that he will almost certainly ... http://apolloalliance.org/feature-articles/state-of-the-union-we-need-jobs-and-the-clean-energy-policies-that-will-create-them/ This week, people who care about climate and clean energy issues have been trying to comprehend what the election of Scott Brown of Massachusetts to the U.S. Senate means for the future of comprehensive U.S. climate and clean energy legislation. Although Brown voted in favor of a cap-and-trade bill when ... http://apolloalliance.org/apollo-productions/weekly-updates/scott-brown-and-the-future-of-our-national-clean-energy-policies/ Following on the heels of its announcement last week of $100 million in Energy Training Partnership green jobs training grants, the Department of Labor announced another set of green jobs training grants this week: the Pathways Out of Poverty Grants. These grants are especially meaningful to the Apollo Alliance, as ... http://apolloalliance.org/apollo-productions/weekly-updates/dol-announces-green-jobs-training-grants-to-create-pathways-out-of-poverty/