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Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice

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 to a new, but growing industry, according to DWEJ Green Jobs Director Roshani Dantas. The program, which originated with the Environmental Protection Agency-funded brownfield cleanup training that DWEJ has offered since 1995, is considered a model for combining soft- and hard-skills training. Read the story »

Green Affordable Housing in Indian Country

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 development on Indian reservations through technology transfer and job skills training in sustainable housing construction techniques based on natural systems, organic materials, local labor, and energy efficiency. Read the story »

Wisconsin Models Workforce Development Partnerships

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 of color – grow their skills and find good jobs while also helping dozens of local employers connect to the skills and workers they need. Read the story »

What’s New

State of the Union? We Need Jobs and the Clean Energy Policies That Will Create Them.
Read about how we can effectively address the American jobs crisis by implementing clean energy and climate measures that will re-establish the U.S. as a leader in the global clean energy marketplace.

Take Action! Write a Letter to the Editor of Your Local Newspaper
Support Sen. Brown’s Green Manufacturing Bill: IMPACT Act.

Press Releases

Apollo Alliance Reports Identify Opportunities to Retrain Workers for Green Careers

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 today that identify components of [...]

February 3, 2010 | Read the story »

In State of the Union, President Sets Sites on Creating Clean Energy Jobs

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, labor, environmental and community leaders [...]

January 28, 2010 | Read the story »