Report: U.S. Must Do More to Prevent Loss of Clean Energy Manufacturing Jobs
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The United States must commit to developing a domestic manufacturing sector capable of meeting heightened demand for the parts, systems and components of the growing clean energy economy, a strategy that is key to ensuring that federal clean energy investments create quality, high-paying jobs in the United States. Read the story »
Small Businesses Leading the Way in Clean Energy Innovation
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Internet giant Google is the poster child for demonstrating that revolutionary technologies can be developed by a small number of people on a limited budget. The company, whose name is now a household word and whose net profits exceeded $6 billion last year, was incorporated in a garage by Stanford Ph.D. students who were doing a dissertation on search engine development.
In the world of clean energy, no one knows yet which companies will be the equivalents of Google, creating the technological breakthroughs that will change the course of U.S. energy history. 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 »
What’s New
Endorse Sen. Brown’s IMPACT Act.
Your organization’s support will help put American manufacturing on the road to recovery.
Three Cheers for State and Local Apollo Alliance Victories.
Read about our state and local Apollo Alliance 2009 achievements, from the creation of new green jobs training programs to the passage of various types of clean energy legislation.
New Apollo Alliance Reports Identify Opportunities to Retrain Workers for Green Careers.
Read about how the workforce development infrastructures in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin can be better integrated and scaled up to help fill jobs in the clean energy sector.
Join Apollo at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference!
The Apollo Alliance is proud to announce that we are one of the conveners of this year’s Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference.
Press Releases
Apollo Alliance, Electrical Workers Announce Certification of State’s First ‘Green Technicians’Indiana’s surging clean-energy industry thrust new green jobs into the limelight today during a ceremony to certify the state’s first graduates of the Electrical Training Institute’s Indianapolis Electrical Apprenticeship program.
Picking a Winner: How to Make the U.S. a Leader in the Clean Energy EconomyWASHINGTON, D.C.-The Center for American Progress and the Apollo Alliance today co-hosted a conference, “Picking a Winner: How to Make the U.S. a Leader in the Clean Energy Economy,” in…
Report: U.S. Must Do More to Prevent Loss of Clean Energy Manufacturing JobsWASHINGTON, D.C.-The United States must commit to developing a domestic manufacturing sector capable of meeting heightened demand for the parts, systems and components of the growing clean energy economy, a strategy that is key to ensuring that federal clean energy investments create quality, high-paying jobs in the United States.
Weekly Update
Indiana Apprenticeship Program Graduates Its First Green Technicians
This Monday, the Apollo Alliance was proud to co-sponsor an event honoring the first “Green Technician”...
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